A number of countries in the Balkans have announced a boycott of supermarkets. Next week, one has been announced in Bulgaria, and then in Greece. Where is it cheaper to fill the shopping cart - in Sofia, Zagreb or Asprovalta? The Nova TV team compared prices.
The shopping list:
- Deodorant
- Fresh milk - 1l.
- Eggs - 10 pcs.
- Pork leg - 1 kg.
- Butter - 250 g.
- Bread
- Toilet paper - 8 pcs.
The first rule is not to buy products on sale. Borna Šmer, a reporter for N1 in Zagreb, buys the same seven products in a local supermarket. We also get the same list from one of the large retail chains in Greece.
It's time to take stock. In Greece, we paid 37.18 leva for the products, in Croatia - 19.69 euros or 38.50 leva, and in Bulgaria - 40.25 leva.
In Bulgaria, it came out the most expensive. The most striking difference is in the price of eggs - almost 1 leva more expensive compared to those in Croatia. Pork ham is a little over 2 leva more expensive in Sofia. The market in Greece comes out the cheapest.
And while comparing the receipts, it strikes us that in front of the supermarket in Croatia, the people in front of the store can be counted on the fingers of one hand. In the huge parking lot of the shopping center, only the first two rows of cars are occupied.
Eleni is a pensioner from Greece who once worked in Kresna. “Today I went to the supermarket. "I bought very few things. I paid 25 euros for nothing," she says. She supports the boycotts of stores in the Balkans, although the event is not as popular in Greece. There it is scheduled for February 19.
"They don't say anything on the news here. Now I understand that on the 19th we have a boycott here," says Eleni. Her assessment is that her bills have doubled in a year. Eleni believes that this trend is also happening in Bulgaria. And she is waiting to see if there will be a reversal after the boycott.