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Corona “sham packs” in the supermarket: Trick causes price increases for these products

2021-03-24T10:31:56.312Z


The single pack of a product does not seem to have become more expensive, but customers still pay on the inside: with a trick, prices are increased even in the pandemic.


The single pack of a product does not seem to have become more expensive, but customers still pay on the inside: with a trick, prices are increased even in the pandemic.

Hamburg - Time and again, food manufacturers come up with changes to make their products inconspicuously expensive.

That this also happens during the corona pandemic is shown by cases that, for example, the Hamburg consumer center uncovered as so-called “sham packages”.

“Sham packaging”: 33 percent additional costs for cleaning agents from Henkel

A large part of the population currently spends a lot of time in their own four walls - but anyone who is thinking about spring cleaning at home should be vigilant when shopping for cleaning products, among other things.

In the bathroom cleaning sector, consumer

advocates

point to a price increase of 33 percent for the

Bref Power toilet power gel

in Kaufland stores.

The price of the single pack of 1.95 euros remains the same, but the content has been reduced from the original 1000 milliliters to now only 750 milliliters.

The manufacturer Henkel has already used a similar strategy in the past few weeks for one of its washing-up liquids in Rewe stores - the same price with less content.

Corona hype article toilet paper: manufacturer increases price by 20 percent

Toilet paper is also a popular item for Corona hamster purchases.

Here the consumer

advice center

denounces a price increase at Penny: In the packs of moist toilet paper of the brand

Happy End

from the manufacturer Hyga GmbH & Co.KG there are now only 50 wipes instead of the previous 60. If the pack price remains the same, this means for the consumer overall a price increase of 20 percent.

Consumer protection: pandemic products particularly in your sights?

Cleaning agents, toilet paper - is there a corona strategy behind the price increases?

Armin Valet (55) from the Hamburg consumer center explains to

Bild.de

: “It does indeed appear that there are hidden price increases in supermarkets for products that are in greater demand due to the corona pandemic.

We currently have many consumer complaints about this.

Manufacturers and retail chains usually justify the price increase to us with higher costs. "

At least there is good news at the discounter Aldi Nord: Here the toilet paper rolls of the own brand

Kokett Recycling

have also become more compact, but according to the

picture

, the market chain states that it has not made any compromises in the number of sheets.

The contents of the eight packs were merely “optimized for the pallet load, wrapped more tightly.

Number of sheets, layers, quality has not changed ”.

Overall, however, it is definitely worth paying attention to product changes when shopping in pandemic times.

(eu)

Source: merkur

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