2023-08-24 14:29:15
The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire and the Minister Delegate Olivia Grégoire want to take stock “on the fight against the high cost of living”. The date of the meeting is not yet known.
«We will bring together distributors and manufacturers next week to take a new look at the fight against the high cost of living.“, announced the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire Thursday, while prices are far from falling in supermarkets. “I had indicated that inflation would start to slow in the summer of 2023. Here we are“Assured the minister during a back-to-school speech to Alex in Haute-Savoie. “INSEE figures confirm that inflation started to slow this summer”. “However, there is a long way from the truth of the figures to the reality of the wallet and daily life. With Minister Olivia Grégoire, we will bring together distributors and manufacturers next week to take a new look at the fight against the high cost of living.“, he said. The date of the meeting is not yet known.
11.3% increase in the price of school supplies
The National Institute of Statistics measured the soaring prices in food at 12.7% over one year in July, a sharp increase, however less than in June (+13.7% over one year). A reduction in the level of inflation is not a fall in price but a lesser rise. In total over two years, inflation in supermarkets is greater than 21%, recalled Thursday the specialized media LSA associated with the panelist Circana. INSEE is to publish its statistics for August next week, Thursday morning. “In this back-to-school period, we will also make public in the coming days the figures from the DGCCRF survey on the prices of school supplies.“As the start of the new school year approaches, Bruno Le Maire said again on Thursday.
The consumer protection association Confédération Syndicale des Familles (CSF), which publishes an annual study on the cost of school supplies, has observed that the increase in their price amounts to an average of 11.3% in 2023 for pupils elementary, middle and high school. Faced with this surge in prices, Olivia Grégoire, Minister Delegate in particular for Trade, had seized the General Directorate for Consumption and the repression of fraud, the DGCCRF, a service of Bercy, to investigate “school supply price hikes».
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