Consumer alert on price increases. The stop of more than two months now also weighs on the price lists of several bars and hairdressers, where in some cases the coffee has come to cost even 53% more while the haircut and the styling have increased by 25%.
"We are receiving dozens of reports," explains Codacons. At the top of the list of increases are bars, with many exhibitors who have raised the price of coffee and cappuccino upwards: in the center of Milan, where the average price of an espresso is 1.30 euros, it reaches up to 2 euros (+ 53.8%). In Rome (1.10) up to 1.5 euros (+ 36.3%). In Florence (1.40) up to 1.7 euros (+ 21.5%). Even hairdressers, according to reports, have increased their price lists, with price increases for shampoo, styling, cutting, and other treatments. Based on average costs in large cities, the price of a cut goes from an average 20 to 25 euros (+ 25%), but with peaks that reach + 66%, where according to a report in Milan, the women's cut in a salon it went from 15 to 25 euros.