The Italian government is trying to reach an agreement with supermarkets and food manufacturers to limit the prices of basic products - both food and non-food products.
Italy's Industry Minister Adolfo Urso is negotiating an agreement with major market players and wants them to offer a range of everyday food and non-food products from October to December, according to a draft Memorandum of Understanding seen by Reuters.
As part of a proposal supported by the Italian government, supermarket chains should define a basket of basic food and non-food products for which reduced prices would apply, reports Nezavisne novine.
In addition to food, this category would also include products for children and personal hygiene.
Distributors of the mentioned products should inform the Italian government of their plans to participate in this initiative by September 15.
According to the ideas of the government in Rome, retail stores participating in the mentioned campaign would be marked with special stickers on their windows, in the colors of the Italian flag - green, white and red - with the inscription anti-inflation quarter.
The annual inflation rate in Italy slowed to 6,7 percent in June, as did the growth of food prices - by 10,5 percent, but it is still at a high level, according to the British agency.
Rome is not the only one that is concerned about the rise in the prices of basic foodstuffs, and similar measures are being considered by other countries, such as Great Britain or France.
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