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Our View: MPs should not back supermarkets over stretched shoppers | Cyprus Mail (cyprus-mail.com)
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The cabinet approved the proposal for the creation of a digital platform, known as the e-kalathi (e-basket), that would list prices of 300 consumer goods in different supermarkets in April. The idea was to inform people during this period of high prices what was being charged for similar products in different shops, with the main emphasis being on food, baby items and household products.This would enable people to buy the most competitively priced goods.

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[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

This is ultimately a minor story on a European level, but I am just astonished on how creating a price comparison tool has become the most hot-button topic in Cyprus right now.

Before I finally came across a piece that describes what the proposal is, I only saw the opposition statements which never clarified what they were against, just that those proposing it want to destroy their businesses. I was imagining then that this was attempt to set price caps. Nope, the huge scandal is a price comparison tool for groceries (something that Cyprus already has for fossil fuels)

[-] theCheek@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Cypriot here, and trust me.. not much happens on this island so quarrels like this are not uncommon.

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