Will supermarket prices drop soon? “If we manage to reopen” trade negotiations, “it will take three to four months” for the price cuts to be visible on the shelves, System U CEO Dominique Schelcher said on BFMTV on Thursday night. “We are in May,” or “September-October” at the earliest “to see some signs,” he said.
Fuel, wages, energy
The prices of certain products will go down again, but “there is a backdrop in the dairy universe, in the fresh universe in general, in frozen foods, where electricity weighs heavily, either in manufacturing or keeping it cold” , stressed the chief. of U stores. If the power goes down, “but the companies have committed to year-round or even two-year contracts.”
“For raw materials that are falling, it will be necessary to go down”, but some “remain high, or even continue to rise” and “there are structuring elements that are more expensive than before the start of the war”, such as electricity, fuel or wages, he continued. “The economic balance of companies takes into account all these elements.”
Source: BFM TV
