Government price controls once again

Citing high food inflation, the government has introduced a new price control measure: from 17 March retailer’s margins on 30 basic foodstuffs can’t exceed 10%, calculated on the basis of the difference between the consumer price excluding taxes and the delivery price invoiced by the supplier.

This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2025/4.

Some of the foodstuffs concerned are chicken breast fillets, UHT and ESL milk (1.5% and 2.8% fat), cooking oil, margarine, flour, potatoes, granulated sugar, pork leg, eggs, sour cream, Trappista cheese, natural and fruit yogurt. Commenting on the measure, the National Trade Association (OKSZ) said: if a price margin limitation is introduced, it can only have an impact on inflation if it is applied to all actors in the food supply chain. //