Price comparisons in Varvakeio with those consumers found at the beginning of the Mitsotakis government cause despair
As recorded today by state television camerain the cheapest market in the country, pork skewers are sold at 7 euros per kilo, lambs and goats from 7 to 10 euros, mutton at 7 euros, livers at 7.99 euros, lamb-sygouri at 4.99 euros , while beef at 7.99 euros, minced meat at 8.49 euros and steaks at 9.99 euros.
Prices are significantly higher in large supermarkets and neighborhood butchers. The jump in prices is also recorded by the Hellenic Statistical Authority, as meat rose in price by 6.5% in 2023 and by an explosive 17.8% in 2022, while in 2021 the price increases were even worse, especially in lambs and goats, by 19.7 % in lambs and goats.
They are characteristic shots recorded by the SKAI camera during the first Thursday of the Mitsotakis administrationin 2020.
In the camera footage we see prices for beef at 4.99 to 6.49 euros, for lamb and goat that “starts at 5 euros” as the then president of Varvakiou Kleanthis Tsironis, “that which creates the egret”, as well as lamb-yzouri for 2.99 euros. The pork neck was sold at 3.49 euros and the skewers at 4.99 euros. For those who chose chicken, it was sold for 2.29 euros, legs for 1.99 euros, breasts for 3.99 euros, while wings and livers for 0.99 euros…
