At over seven percent, inflation in Germany is currently as high as it was in the 1970s.
We asked the district: Do you have to save?
And if so, what?
District – Shopping without paying attention to price tags.
Sounds like a sentence from the past.
Almost everyone in the district is currently looking at the cost of petrol, butter or bread.
"Food prices are so high at the moment," says Batukan Gecgüner, a student at the TU in Garching, "that's why I try to eat in the canteen often because it's cheaper."
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Judith Kleeberg, Aschheim: "At the moment I'm asking myself the question: Do I really need it?"
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Even people who don't have to turn over every euro often ask themselves: "Do I really need that?" says Judith Kleeberg from Aschheim.
She is also currently looking more at offers and uses the free Rewe vegetables for her pets.
"The unnecessary in quotation marks is left out," says Hans Stegbauer from Garching.
He personally tries to cycle more to save fuel.
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Brigitte Bielike from Taufkirchen is currently primarily saving petrol.
The 9-euro ticket makes the train even more attractive than the car.
With her not too lavish pension, she is currently more aware of the increased prices in the supermarket, "but I have already compared the prices in the supermarket before".
However, you have to treat yourself to something from time to time.
That's why the pensioner doesn't skimp on the ice.
Even if she was surprised by the high price of 3.80 euros for two scoops of frozen food in Ottobrunn.
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Can inflation also be an opportunity to reduce general consumption?
Renunciation must be learned again.
"This whining is upsetting," says Angelika G. from Aschheim.
In any case, Ismael, also from Aschheim, has been buying a little less of everything since prices have been rising.
At the Gruber petrol station in Ottobrunn, employee Diana Schlierf observes something different: "Really, people don't fill up less." Whether it's existential worries or a loss of luxury - inflation affects everyone and changes the way consumers see themselves.
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Diana Schlierf has been working at the free gas station Gruber in Ottobrunn for eleven years.
"When prices used to be high, we were responsible for it," she says.
And she emphasizes: “It is the oil companies that set the prices.
So far, however, most customers have taken the prices with a certain gallows humor and scolded the government.
However, the development of petrol prices is frightening: "Every delivery is more expensive." Nevertheless, the independent petrol station tries not to participate in the daily "up and down" of prices
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