Oggi la Croazia boicotta i negozi a causa dell’inflazione

Today, Croatia is boycotting shops all over the country because of the highest inflation in the EU and the highest increase in food prices in the last 5 years. The picture is from one of the busiest LIDL stores in the country, in the capital Zagreb

Lidl suppose to be relative cheap for shopping daily goods

Limiting consumption will drive inflation down…

Which other stores do yall then use?

Is Lidl the cheapest store there or is it more in the middle price wise?

Here in Finland, Lidl is pretty much the best price to quality store

And Spar is probably coming back here which would be very nice as it would increase competition. I would love to have a bulk Aldi like stores here as those would probably be even cheaper than Lidl

Have the stores responded in any way so far?

We need to do it everywhere in whole EU and in the days of strike we should use only small local shops (like small turkish shops )

It’s crazy how much prices have changed in Croatia from when I went there in 2022 and then in 2023. The Euro came in between that. I wouldn’t know enough to know if it was linked but it was the one major change they had over the 2 years.

>Croatia is boycotting stores because of inflation

Not entirely, we are boycotting stores due to unfair price hikes. literally everything is more expensive in Croatia then the rest of the EU market. For months we had people post pictures of identical products being 10-50% cheaper in Germany, Austria, Italy, and even Slovenia (country right next to us), Bulgaria and Romania.

So it’s not just inflation, it’s also an unfair extra charge that is possible because there are just a few large store chains here, and they operate as a sort of ‘cartel’, where they set a higher price for all products that all stores agree on, so you have no cheaper alternative.

[Example](https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/1i6dlk9/talijanski_tjedan_u_lidlu_slovenija_vs_hrvatska/) 1 (slovenia on the left, croatia on the right)

[Example ](https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/1i5w1fh/jo%C5%A1_jedno_kme%C4%8Danje_o_bojkotu_2401/)2 (Code for Croatia is HR)

[Example ](https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/1hyvld2/nekako_mi_se_cini_kao_da_je_poskupilo_sve_jel_jos/)3 (this is 2 euros in Austria)

Welcome to Croatistan, the land of corruption.

Croats are fed up that Lidl, Kaufland, DM, and Muller are more expensive than in other or their home countries. Everyone can see it and knows that these stores are significantly cheaper elsewhere. The last time I was in Germany, I bought a cream at DM for 1.99 euros, which costs 4.99 euros in Croatia.This is just one example; our Croatian retailers are no exception. Prices are not European, and retailers justify it with silly reasons, like claiming that Croatia’s coastline is very rugged or that the country has a bad shape, making logistics more challenging. The real issue is that the standard of living is rising, consumption is increasing, the government takes 25% in taxes, and we end up with what we have. We want European, not Scandinavian prices.

**Finally** we unite on something meaningful, and not just sports.

For anyone thinking its because of increased logistical costs and not price gauging by the supermarkets: I am a croatian living in UK, where even after Brexit’s increased taxes and a sea separating Uk from all the imports the prices are still cheaper than in croatia.

And for anyone missing this part of context – Croatian wages are rougly 3x lower than UK, and other EU countries like Germany, Netherlands etc

We (Cro) have in avg a min pf 15% higher prices than IT or SI eg. for daily grocery shopping.

which is stupid, bcause you gotta eat, so what you did not buy today you will buy tomorrow.