The sprinkler watered.
Michel-Édouard Leclerc, the boss of the brand of the same name, strongly denounced a month ago "suspicious"
price increases by
food manufacturers.
He had gone so far as to ask for the opening of a commission of inquiry on the subject.
Due to the galloping inflation in the linear supermarkets - it is now close to 5% - questions had then swelled at the end of June, on the side of Bercy as well as the general public, on the legitimacy of the price increases.
A possible "cheat"
However, if there are deviations in food prices, we should rather look at the distributors.
This is in any case what emerges from the report of the “flash mission” carried out by the Senate on the origin of the inflation of certain consumer goods, the detailed conclusions of which are made on Wednesday.
The senators took up the subject at the beginning of July.
With the aim of answering this question: had the manufacturers indulged in a possible "cheating"...
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