As of today, the prices of about 80 food items are in supermarkets across Serbia lower than stock ones.
The action called "Best price" will last until the end of October, and the products will be marked with a special sticker.
The action includes: milk, yogurt, white cheese, apples, potatoes, pasta, chicken meat, salami, soft drinks, coffee, baby food, diapers, shampoos and baths for adults, toilet paper, laundry detergent and other products.
At the presentation of the action, Prime Minister Miloš Vučević said that households will be able to save from 8.000 to 22.000 dinars per month by purchasing products that will be included in the action.
The products will be labeled "Best price" in stores, and we are talking about food products, as well as products for personal hygiene and household chemicals.
Discounts will range from seven percent, by which the price of sour milk will be reduced, to 58 percent, by which laundry detergent will be cheaper.
For example, pressed ham will be cheaper from 1.199,99 dinars to 799,99 dinars, ham in the casing from 829,99 to 599,99 dinars, potatoes from 84,99 to 59,99 dinars, cheese from 899,99 to 689,99, XNUMX dinars.
The price of a kilogram of chicken will be reduced by 15,22 percent, pork by 11,57 percent, eggs by 13,41 percent, potatoes by 27,65 percent.
Experts are not optimistic about the results of this economic action by the Government of Serbia.
Photo: Tanjug / Strahinja Aćimović/TanjugAction "Better price" in domestic stores
Savić: The government admitted that a number of people do not live so well
Professor of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade Ljubodrag Savić told N1 that the Government, considering that it speaks widely and at length about this action, is still aware of the reality and that it has acknowledged the fact that a number of people do not live so well.
Commenting on the government's move to limit the prices of certain products, Professor Savić told N1 that from time to time certain governments of countries around the world take such measures, and that it does not make much economic sense and economic effect, and that it was not even intended that way.
"It lasts a short time. It will refer to a smaller number of products - 81 products. We have experience from the previous year, we know how it was, we know very well. Now, I would say that the Government, considering the fact that it talks about this action at length and at length, is still aware of the reality and has acknowledged the fact that a number of people do not live so well. And this is one of the possible ways to help those people, where, after all, this is only 81 products, this is something that lasts for two months. So, it is still a measure of a very limited nature, and a small number of people will benefit from that measure," he explains.
According to him, it is difficult to expect that it is possible to regulate the relations between the actors of the market economy with some administrative measures, but, as he points out, the state cannot sit idly by.
"It seems to me that this is more of a political action, in the sense that it still sends a message to the people - we understand the problems you are in, this is something we can do." "Realistically, the government can't do much more," says Savić.
So, this is still a political action, to send a message, to think about the ordinary world, about a world that is in big trouble. Well, we hear from our president very often, he is quite a realistic person. Of course, he talks about things that are not always like that, but that is politics. But we hear that the state is aware, in fact, that there is a category of people who live very hard, who receive social assistance. You have agricultural pensions, I don't know exactly how much they are at the moment, I think, the year before last they were 10.000 dinars. Well, it's a little different to live in a village, but when you consider the fact that this is a people who are over 60 years old, that they are engaged in some kind of animal husbandry or some sub-farming that is not prosperous, they can't earn anything from it, and people work out of habit, for him, that 10.000 is something, but basically for us who live in the city, it's ridiculous. But these are all the measures taken by the countries of the world. So this measure should also be understood that way," he says.
Photo: Tanjug / Strahinja Aćimović/TanjugReduced prices on around 700 products
Ognjanov: Clearly mark reduced prices
Professor of the Faculty of Economics, Galjina Ognjanov, said regarding the price reduction action in retail that was announced by the Government of Serbia, that she is afraid of whether everything will be crystal clear and visible and clear to consumers and whether they will be able to notice the announced price differences.
She added that she is not sure that it is something significantly more compared to what they have been able to get at retail outlets.
"Retail trade chains have had promotional offers and discounts for consumers and that the state has already had such an action once under the slogan "Bolja cena", she reminded.
"This is not the first time, and before that there was a 'Bolja cena' action, and during the duration of that action, I did notice products with that label in retail stores, but not essentially much cheaper compared to what would normally be at a retail action," she noted. Ognainov.
She states that, in any case, it is better for citizens to have greater opportunities, especially at a time when many of them still have low purchasing power.
Source: RTS / N1
