Refueling, eating, heating: What is now how expensive and why
Whether it’s pasta, coffee, beer or toilet paper: there seems to be only one direction for prices in supermarkets and discounters at the moment – upwards. One of the reasons for this: the war in Ukraine, which gives prices an additional boost after the increases in the past few weeks and months. CHALLENGE FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FAMILIES “The increase in energy prices and logistics costs caused by the Ukraine war will make itself felt in people’s everyday lives – with every purchase in the supermarket or discounter,” predicted Boris Hedde, managing director of the Cologne Institute for Retail Research (IFH). Because the […]