Effective from today August 28 and until October 15 the “Student’s Basket”, measure aimed at keeping prices as low as possible. The Minister of Development, Takis Theodorikakos, asked the businesses in the sector, not only not to proceed with price increases, but to reduce the profit margin, so that school books are cheaper than last year.

What’s in the basket?

-School bags
– Cassettes
-Notebooks / pads (and notebook labels and covers)
-Wooden or mechanical pencils
– Colored markers / crayons
-Pen
– Erasers
– Scrapers
-Diabetes
-Rulers (set of geometrical instruments)
-Photographic paper

What doesn’t go in the cart

The school list is not limited to stationery and consumables, as it usually includes other items, such as school supplies, painting and craft supplies, foreign language books, gym uniforms and other complementary products and activities, the prices of which are not included in the basket, he emphasizes Mr. Korkidis.

The companies participating in the initiative include at least one product in the list they send to the Ministry of Development, if they have products of this category for sale to consumers. The debtors send the Ministry of Development a list of consumer products on a weekly basis, every Wednesday by 9:00.

Informing the consumer public about the products participating in the initiative is obligatory:
a) Through a special mark placed on the products or in their physical or electronic sales area or in any means by which the products are advertised to the consumer,
b) by posting, at the entrance of each store, a clear list/catalogue of the products that make up the household basket as well as the prices at which the products are offered and c) through at least one separate point of sale, in a prominent position of the store, where they are placed and the products are made available to the consumer public.

Businesses participating in the initiative can gain access to the special badge by sending a request to the email address [email protected].
Also, they must ensure that the products declared in the list of consumer products sent to the Ministry of Development are in their stores in sufficient quantity and are available to the consumer public.

If stocks of a participating product run out in one or more stores, businesses must temporarily replace the out-of-stock product with a similar product available at the same or lower price and in the same or greater quantity.

If there is no such product in the store, the obligees ensure the supply of the store in which the product sold out within two (2) days with a sufficient quantity of the product sold out or inform the Ministry of Development and Investments and the e-katanalotis digital platform about the definitive replacement of the product in all their stores.

The new product should also be in adequacy. Definitive product replacement is allowed only once until the new regular product catalog submission.