Retail prices are growing strongly in Italy, even more so in Sardinia where inflation in June recorded a rate higher than the national average ( + 8.8%, against + 8% in Italy ).

Adiconsum Sardegna denounces this by commenting on the final data released today by Istat.

Sardinia is "third among the Italian regions where prices are rising the most", explains the regional president of Adiconsum Giorgio Vargiu, who calculates a sting for consumers equal to +2,340 euros per year per family . Worse than the island are only Trentino Alto Adige (+ 9.3%) and Sicily (+ 9.2%).

“Istat data fully confirm the alarms launched in recent weeks by our association and relating to the sustained growth of retail prices in Sardinia, with price lists increasing at a faster rate than in the rest of Italy - continues Vargiu -. Local and national institutions must take action both to stop speculation on prices, especially those on energy and fuels, and to calm down the retail price lists because such high inflation will produce an erosion of incomes and a strong loss of purchasing power of the families, causing a new dangerous wave of poverty in Sardinia in 2022 ”.

Increases, concludes Vargiu, which are "the result of unjustifiable speculative phenomena ", for this reason "we ask the government to return to administered prices for a period strictly necessary to combat speculation, because the alternative scenario is dramatic".

(Unioneonline / L)