The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, announced on Thursday August 31 that the price of 5,000 references in stores would not increase or decrease and that negotiations between manufacturers and supermarkets for 2024, which normally begin at the end of year, would be anticipated.
The government’s objective is to obtain “price reductions from January 2024”, the Minister of the Economy declared on France 2 after meetings with the actors of the French food chain on Wednesday and Thursday.
Bruno Le Maire also attacked industrialists who in his view “could do much more” against soaring prices, citing the giants Unilever, Nestlé or Pepsi.
