Additional tools in the fight against precision and reinforcement of competition is planned by the Ministry of Development, upgrading the “e-Katanalotis” platform, with the aim of providing consumers more prices comparison.

According to ERT’s report, we will initially increased product codes included in the platform by their 3,000 at 5,000, While considering the possibility, in addition to current prices to be included and a price history per product and supermarket.

In this way, consumers will be able to control the evolution of prices over timeeither at a semester level or one year.

New categories of goods and services, such as insurance products, electricity and telecommunications invoices, as well as fuel prices per region and service station will also be added.

At the table of discussions to improve the platform there is another tool that will enable households to compare the prices of products sold in Greece, mainly multinational companies, with those of overseas supermarkets.

“The Greek consumer will know what price there is in various European countries. That is, if in France the product has 8 euros and in Greece it has 18 euros I will not buy them as a consumer » George Lechritis, president of INKA, typically said.

Interventions They are expected to be made on the platform complaints of the Ministry of Development For defective products or misleading discounts submitted to consumers in their complaint, accompanied by a photo of the product. The app will have a system geopenic so that the check is made immediately.

The first changes to the platforms are expected before the end of the year.