Fight against inflation. This is the objective of the supermarket giant Leclerc, which will block the prices of 120 products from May 4 to the end of July. At the microphone of our colleagues from franceinfo this morning, the president of the strategic committee of the Leclerc centers, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, assured that inflation was likely to increase sharply because of the war in Ukraine.
A tariff shield
“We have 4.8% before Ukraine and that will double by the summer or during the summer because there is the grain problem with Ukraine, the transport problem with Ukraine “says the Leclerc heir. “We propose to identify the 120 items most purchased by consumers and to create a kind of shield where we guarantee that these items do not move from May 4 until July”, explained the latter on franceinfo
“This inflation of 4.8% is already a drain between 150 and 500 euros per household depending on what they buy. There are products that are increasing between 6% and 20%, pasta has increased by 20%, some brands of coffee and chocolate are increasing at this level. A tariff shield therefore, on basic necessities, which will be put in place from May 4 on 120 products and which aims in the long term to compensate for inflation.