Over 60 percent in some cases

AK analysis: Prices for food have risen sharply

The prices from spring 2022 and spring 2024 were compared (symbolic image).(Bild: Drobot Dean - stock.adobe.com)

The experts at the Tyrolean Chamber of Labor are once again sounding the alarm. The reason for this is a recent price survey of everyday groceries. This time, prices from spring 2022 to this year's spring were compared.

Three retailers were put under the microscope. The result: over the entire period, shopping baskets became 24.1, 22.05 and 20.37 percent more expensive. AK also provides specific examples. Mazola corn oil rose by 48.33 percent for all three suppliers. The price of a kilogram of Vienna fine-crystal sugar rose by an impressive 60.61 percent for one supplier and 59 percent for the other.

Above all, the existing lack of transparency in price development must be urgently rectified before there are further blatant price increases, which particularly affect low-income earners.

Tirols AK-Präsident Erwin Zangerl

AK boss Zangerl calls for action
For Finis Feinstes Weizenmehl, customers have to pay 33.56 percent more for one supplier and 25.16 percent more for another. Bad Ischl table salt rose by 20.42 percent at all three retailers. AK boss Erwin Zangerl is once again calling for price transparency measures. "Above all, the existing lack of transparency in price development must be urgently remedied before there are further blatant price increases, which particularly affect low-income earners."

He is particularly interested in the costs and profits of the individual players.