The low purchasing power of the Ukrainian population no longer allows food prices to rise, which is why some products simply disappear from store shelves. Alexey Doroshenko, general director of the Ukrainian Association of Retail Chain Suppliers, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“Beef is disappearing from stores and markets. The price of over 100 UAH per kilogram is not only unaffordable for us. The psychological mark has been crossed, 110-120 UAH per kilogram - a price that people are not willing to pay.
Therefore, eggs continue to become cheaper this year, despite the pre-Easter period. Last week, oil producers began to give discounts to wholesalers - because the price of oil, which was 140 UAH, was an unaffordable price. There were simply no sales,” said a market expert.