The chairman of the Histadrut, Arnon Bar David, in an unusual and firm speech, calls for a consumer boycott of the importers Diplomat, Shastovitz and Kimberly Clark who recently announced a price increase of about 10-15%. .
A company that gets back at the Israelis will have to deal with the consequences of its actions through the consumer boycott that we will apply to it starting today."
Bar David also said: "Shatovitz Kimberly diplomat, the celebration is over. Any company that takes advantage of the situation and raises prices disproportionately, we will go on their heads. I call on the citizens of Israel to stop buying their products, buy replacements. Buy wisely. I appeal to the committees that these products They won't be in the packages, let's buy blue and white. Stop the oshak."
As I recall, last Thursday the aforementioned importers informed the marketing chains that they would increase the prices of their products by an average rate of about 10%.
In the flood of announcements about the price increases that are published every day, it is not surprising that this is received with relative silence and may even appear to be legitimate against the background of the increase in electricity, water and property taxes.
Minister of Economy and Industry Orna Barbiei (Yesh Atid) and Minister of Finance Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu), who resolutely led the war against the wave of price increases at the beginning of the year, did not intervene this time.
Beyond that, even basic food products that are under state supervision are becoming more expensive: bread, dairy products and eggs.
When the government also increases the price of the products it is responsible for, this creates a feeling that the dam has broken, and the importers also run to increase the price of the imported products - the tuna, the shampoo and the deodorant.
How legit?
On the one hand, the inputs become more expensive for them as well, but on the other hand, the profitability of the major importers in Israel is unusual in international comparison, which, among other things, makes living in Israel tens of percent more expensive than the average of the OECD countries.
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