“A chicken for 400 rubles is a genocide of the population”: in Volgograd, large retail chains raised the price of chicken eggs to 120 rubles

In Volgograd, by November 29, the prices for chicken eggs in chain stores rose to 120 rubles, and for a chicken you already have to pay under 400 rubles. And even seasonally cheap bananas have risen in price.

“Today I went to the Magnit near the house,” pensioner Irina Rebrina turned to the editorial office of the Volgograd Notebook, sending a photo of the prices from the Magnit counters. - Prices for everything jumped up: milk , buckwheat, flour, sugar. And chicken eggs are generally offered to buy a dozen and a half for 120 rubles. A chicken costs under 160 rubles per kilo, only it is sold as a carcass, which cost me 400. You can forget about fruits altogether, rotting bananas cost 60 rubles.

Do we have anyone watching the price increase in stores? I have a pension of 13 thousand rubles. Pay for a communal apartment, medicines, and there is nothing left for life at all. So now to go to the same "Magnet" and buy groceries for a few days goes under 2000 rubles. It's just genocide! You just can't live like that, you have to survive.

The journalist of the publication tried to find out in the Magnit network what the high prices for the product needed by the population are connected with, but there were no intelligible comments.

In another federal trade network, Pyaterochka, food prices are almost the same. Red price tags, suggesting solid discounts, gave out 78 and 85 rubles for one dozen eggs without a psychologically difficult one penny, not to mention non-discount price tags.

The manager of one of the Pyaterochka stores explained that it was “still cheap” and predicted a rise in prices by the New Year.

Volgogradstat manages to find lower prices for products somewhere. So, according to the latest data, a dozen eggs in the region cost an average of 73.9 rubles, and chilled and frozen chickens at 163.9 rubles per kilogram. But statistics do not follow the prices of bananas at all.

It should be noted that last Friday, the FAS Russia accused Magnit and Pyaterochka of deliberately inflating prices for chicken, butter, eggs, carrots, flour, millet, onions, potatoes, millet, cabbage and other products in seven settlements of the Kursk region, where these networks actually have no competitors. At the same time, in Kursk itself, where local retail chains were still preserved, the prices for the above products were much lower.

Currently, the FAS is conducting an inspection and has already issued a warning to Pyaterochka and Magnit.