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Written by Riviera Reporter
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Argument still rages over the Sarko round of price reductions in
France’s supermarkets. As both manufacturers and retailers seek to
protect their margins a report from the Ministry of Trade predicts that
prices on some 3500 out of 5000 items on the target list will actually
go up this year by a minimum of 2%.
No surprise, then, that “hard discount” stores are booming,
especially with sales of food and household products, even if some
critics claim they often sell poor quality goods. In fact, many of
these outlets are owned by major conventional retailers such as Leader
Price (Carrefour), Ed (Casino) and Métro (Intermarché); Aldi and Lidl
have come from Germany. No doubt about it you can save money in these
places. Reader Gwen Barry who shops at Aldi tells us she’s saving
around €80 a month, “enough to pay for next year’s winter
holiday”.
From Reporter 109 - June/July 2005
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Consumerism 
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