These issues are investigated by the consumer protection authority in the shops

The violations mainly resulted from failure to comply with inventory and distribution obligations, violation of official pricing regulations, inadequate or incomplete information about official products, missing price listings, or misleading information, as we learned from a Portfolio article.

The affected stores were those where consumers most frequently purchase official products. The government plans to create an online price monitoring database to increase comparability of consumer prices, which could have a long-term moderating effect on prices.

The government frequently emphasizes that stores are partly responsible for the record inflation at the European level, as they raise their prices more than their procurement costs increase.