Tag "ársapka"
Price increases for products with previous price caps: an investigation may be launched against the store chains
Date: 2024-09-20 12:36:37
The Ministry of National Economy (NGM) recently expressed its concerns about the fact that large chain stores simultaneously raised the prices of products that were previously subject to price caps...
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Magyar Nemzeti Bank: Price caps did not help curb food inflation
Date: 2024-02-26 15:33:28
Based on a study by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), price caps did not reduce, but actually increased food inflation in the domestic market. During the period examined by the...
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Annus horribilis – ”1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure”.
Date: 2023-06-21 16:01:52
No, I didn’t mix up the years. 30 years ago Queen Elizabeth II said this in a famous speech. That year the glory of the institution of the monarchy suddenly...
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Small Retailers Struggle as Mandatory Discounts Benefit Large Supermarkets
Date: 2023-04-24 13:32:22
As the cost of living continues to increase, consumers are keeping a closer eye on their spending habits, particularly when it comes to food. This has led to a fierce...
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Orbán Viktor: “Although there have been price reductions in stores, it has only happened for a few products”
Date: 2023-04-14 10:41:55
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke on the morning program of Kossuth Radio, saying that it is not yet time to lift the price freeze. “What has happened so far is...
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The price caps must be maintained even after April 30
Date: 2023-04-12 11:33:32
On Wednesday, the vice president of the MSZP advocated maintaining the price caps after April 30. At a press conference broadcast on his Facebook page, Lajos Korózs said in response...
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The increase in food prices and the price cap were the main topics at Tuesday’s session of the Parliament
Date: 2023-04-11 11:38:02
The speeches before the agenda at Tuesday’s session of the Parliament also talked about the increase in food prices, energy prices and the state of emergency. Dániel Z. Kárpát (Jobbik)...
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If inflation disappears, will the food price freeze also go?
Date: 2023-04-04 12:57:29
It may depend on next Wednesday’s inflation statistics whether we will stay with the food price freeze or whether the government will cancel it. So you have to wait until...
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Viktor Orbán spoke about the future of the price cap
Date: 2023-03-31 11:59:32
In the case of foodstuffs, as inflation comes down, the price caps that still exist will be removed – the Prime Minister said on Kossuth Rádió Good morning, Hungary! in...
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The domestic dairy industry suffers greatly from limited prices
Date: 2023-03-23 23:46:02
The dairy industry is boiling over, after last year’s brutal price increase, the price drop has already started in recent months and may soon accelerate. Anyone who does not participate...
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400 food items received price caps in Slovakia
Date: 2023-03-21 11:10:57
Retailers are putting a price cap on more than 400 food items on the shelves of the eight largest chain stores in Slovakia in order to moderate inflation. The introduction...
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A food subsidy program after the price cap? This proposal was also raised
Date: 2023-03-16 09:45:43
Two politicians from the Jobbik-Conservatives demanded the end of the price cap system and the launch of a national food subsidy program to help people buy healthy, preferably domestic, products...
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The French government announces an “anti-inflation quarter” in supermarkets
Date: 2023-03-06 11:00:49
The French government agreed with the big supermarket chains to keep food prices “as low as possible” until June; within the framework of the “anti-inflation quarter”, supermarkets can freely choose...
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Márton Nagy also spoke about the extra profit tax and the price cap
Date: 2023-03-03 18:50:59
If energy prices had not fallen, no matter how high the central bank interest rate is, the exchange rate of the forint will probably not stabilize, which is why it...
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The supply of Hungarian-grown potatoes has run out
Date: 2023-02-14 10:30:04
The experts were not wrong when they said earlier that the stock of domestically grown potatoes would run out within the foreseeable future. At the beginning of February, the devastating...
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After the end of the price cap, a large increase in food prices is still expected this year
Date: 2023-02-13 12:42:10
The guests of ATV Start were Katalin Neubauer, Secretary General, Hungarian National Trade Association and András Máhr, Deputy Secretary General, National Association of Agricultural Cooperatives and Producers, and the topic...
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Csaba Héjja: the end of the price cap will affect food inflation for a while
Date: 2023-02-02 12:29:26
Csaba Héjja, senior analyst at MKB Bank and Takarékbank, spoke to InfoRádio about why food inflation was the highest in Hungary and what to expect after the price cap is...
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Can the strengthening of the forint be good for food prices?
Date: 2023-01-27 14:54:21
The forint is strengthening, it has not been in this form compared to the euro since May 2022. But will this affect food prices? Especially when the price caps will...
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György Raskó: trappist will be HUF 1,000 cheaper if the price cap on milk is lifted
Date: 2023-01-26 12:14:19
If the price cap on milk is introduced, a range of dairy products, including Trappist, would immediately be much cheaper. “If the price cap were to be abolished, prices would...
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Domestic supplier relations are already threatened by the price cap
Date: 2023-01-19 12:46:53
Retailers have started looking for cheap imports to reduce their losses on price-capped products. If this process continues, domestic food producers will suffer the greatest damage. “We have received more...
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György Raskó: The quality of potatoes with the price cap is the same as what we usually give to pigs
Date: 2023-01-11 12:40:39
According to agricultural entrepreneur and economist György Raskó, the government did not count on the fact that the price caps will indirectly help the large food chains, but they will...
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According to the GVH president, it is not illegal for a store to raise the price of some of its products to compensate for the loss due to the price cap
Date: 2022-12-20 12:00:11
Balázs Csaba Rigó spoke to Magyar Nemzet about how independent authorities also have a role to play in crisis situations. He believes that it is not illegal for a store...
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The prices of products that replace price-stopped foods have increased drastically
Date: 2022-12-16 14:58:54
Due to the wave of inflation that began in early 2021 and affected the entire world, the government felt it necessary to intervene in market processes, which then brought further...
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The government has extended the food price freeze until April 30
Date: 2022-12-13 14:23:48
The government has extended the food price freeze until the end of next April due the inflation caused by the sanctions caused by the failed measures in Brussels, said Minister...
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It’s official: the government lifted the gas price freeze last night
Date: 2022-12-06 23:17:37
Two days after the oil sanctions that came into force on Monday, the government – at the suggestion of Mol – will end the gas price freeze, announced Gergely Gulyás,...
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Matolcsy: the Hungarian economy is in a near-crisis situation, the price cap increases inflation
Date: 2022-12-05 11:59:51
According to the president of the MNB, “the economic policy coherence of the government and the central bank has broken down – this costs a lot.” Matolcsy said that “the...
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People stock up, which is why there is a shortage of products with a price cap, says István Nagy
Date: 2022-12-01 13:04:03
Sugar, milk, oil – there is an increasingly serious shortage of these products in domestic stores. However, shopkeepers and the Minister of Agriculture have different opinions about the reason for...
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Márton Nagy: security of supply is at risk, this could put an end to the price cap
Date: 2022-11-30 11:47:55
Security of supply issues arise due to the price cap, which, according to Minister of Economic Development Márton Nagy, may even lead to the premature termination of official prices. “The...
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Tesco leader: the price cap causes us a loss of 11 billion HUF a year
Date: 2022-11-21 13:27:24
Zsolt Pálinkás, the CEO of Tesco in Hungary, talked about the shortage of goods, a monthly utility bill of 2 billion, shopping with a scanner gun and home delivery by...
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This is what is cheaper at the Lidl in Párkán, and what is more worth buying here
Date: 2022-11-17 13:24:55
Many Hungarians visit the Lidl in Párkány regularly to shop, a 45,000 dollar purchase at home can easily turn into a 32,000 dollar purchase with a detour in Slovakia. Of...
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