Michał Kołodziejczak, deputy minister of agriculture, said that retail chains have “excess profits” from the sale of eggs and butter. At a press conference organized on Wednesday, he announced that he wanted to meet the president of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in this matter.
Kołodziejczak announced that the price of butter at the turn of November and December last year. “It was at the level of about 860 euros for 100 kg of butter in cubes”, and now it is “over 100 euros less”, or about 730-740 euros.
– I blame the fact that stores do not leave prices, use their dominance, which they have built over the years – said Kołodziejczak. According to him, we can talk “about excess profits for large -scale stores that earn fabulous sums on Poles.”
“This is pathology”
In the case of eggs, he noticed that their price “began to stabilize very much”, and now reached the level of 73-74 groszy in wholesale and “for 3 weeks she began to fall clearly”.
– I want to say loudly that if prices in stores remain at a high level, it means that stores do not leave prices, when the price of butter and eggs in producers and wholesalers clearly dropped. This is pathology – he assessed.
He said that the Ministry of Agriculture is considering reporting the price policy of the food network to the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, and he himself wants to meet the president UOKiK Tomasz Chróstny, that he would “take appropriate action”.
– Saying that there is no price collusion does not mean that there are no pathologies on the market that UOKiK should take care of – said Kołodziejczak.
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