The rise in prices now seems endless.
The perceived average increase is close to 5%: pasta is growing in double digits (+ 10%), also vegetables (+ 13.5%), without considering the energy sector, where tariffs have risen on average by 43% (with peaks of 55%).
"A worrying trend, above all because pensions and salaries are at a standstill. We always pay. My fear is that many producers, given the rise in the price of raw materials, resort to poor supplies and lower quality", explains Giuliano Frau, regional president of the Adoc, Association for the defense of consumers' orientation.
Another acronym, Assoutenti, has calculated the repercussions on the pockets of citizens on the basis of the increases recorded by Istat: 38.5 billion throughout Italy. A sting that in Sardinia has the net contour of 1 billion euros, about 1,500 euros per family. Among the widely consumed food products, bread underwent an increase of + 3.9% in January compared to last year, which for the typical family is equivalent to 36 euros more per year. For the vegetables it will be necessary to add another 60 euros. But the prices of mineral water (+ 3%), ice cream (+ 4%) and fruit juices (+ 4.8%) are also increasing.
THE PROTESTS - It is no better in the countryside, on the contrary. And for this the Sardinian shepherds movement has decided to make itself heard again, three years after the sensational protests that crossed the island from one end to the other.
This morning the breeders will find themselves on the Carlo Felice, at the Codrongianos crossroads. In the evening another appointment, on the 131 Dcn, at the bridge between Bitti and Sologo, one of the symbolic places of the 2019 protest.
PETROL - The full tank of petrol also ends up in the grip of price increases. A dizzying increase in the price, which rose by 5.8% in less than a month and a half. And in these days it is Sardinia that is dealing with it: even here, by now, the threshold of 2 euros per liter is often exceeded. An escalation that takes us back in time.
"Never so expensive in the last ten years", is the alarm raised by consumer associations. "The two euros are exceeded only in the systems served while in the self-service the price stops around 1.9, however high - says Andrea Pusceddu , regional president of Federconsumatori -. These are increases that fall within the general phenomenon of the increase in energy products, due to increases in raw materials, a situation aggravated in recent days by geopolitical conditions. In any case, through the Mise website it is possible to identify the closest distributor with the lowest price ".
(Unioneonline)
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