Bruno Le Maire announces an “anti-inflation quarter” in supermarkets until June to guarantee “the lowest possible prices” on a selection of products

Bruno Le Maire announced, on Monday March 6, A “anti-inflation quarter” in supermarkets until June. “This agreement will allow for the lowest possible prices on a number of daily prices for a period of one quarter”, explains the Minister of the Economy. The affected products will be “freely chosen by distributors”. “This lowest possible price level will be taken from distributors’ margins”, he specifies. This operation will cost them “several hundred million euros”, according to the tenant of Bercy. “At the end of this quarter, we will review a point with the distributors and we will ask the large manufacturers to renegotiate their prices with the large distributors”.

The government also intends to deploy in the coming months a “food voucher” for the poorest households. “The Experiment” will “in the coming months” To “territorial scale”.

The inflation of the franceinfo / France Bleu shopping basket increased over one month to reach 16.58% over one year, between February 2022 and February 2023.