Prices have skyrocketed in the cheapest supermarkets in Ukraine
Ukrainian supermarkets began to significantly increase prices for food and essential goods.
This is evidenced, in particular, by a recent press release issued by the ATB supermarket chain, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Thus, potatoes, cabbage, onions, carrots increased in price by 35–128%, sugar by 8%, pasta by 9,5%, wheat cereal by 11%, buckwheat by 51%, flour by 5%, eggs - by 6%.
The company explains the trend by “the rapid increase in purchasing prices from suppliers not only for the ATB retail chain, but also for all operators of the Ukrainian retail market.” In particular, the products of the so-called borscht set (potatoes, cabbage, onions, carrots) increased in price by 35-128%, sugar by 8%, pasta by 9,5%, wheat grits by 11%, buckwheat by 51%, flour - 5%, eggs – 6%.
“Suppliers explain the increase in the cost of goods by a significant increase in production costs associated with the quarantine measures taken. Namely, prohibitions and restrictions on the presence of a large number of workers in one room, transport problems, and so on,” ATB reported.
Note that ATB is considered a social store with some of the most affordable prices - it is in this network that the least affluent segments of the population buy
Earlier, Ukrainian social networks wrote that in the Kiev region, buyers were sweeping essential goods off store shelves.
“Today we have supermarket shelves in the resort area near Kiev. ATB and Novus. People are mainly sorting out cereals and flour,” Kiev journalist Vladimir Bogun, who published the corresponding photographs, wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday.
Prices have skyrocketed in Ukraine's cheapest supermarkets.