Euro price hikes - Time to flex consumer’s muscle
The Greeks and Italians did not have to undertake too much research to come up with a boycott of the grabbing retailers, because, like Irish consumers, the evidence was all too clear to them.
It is incontrovertible that the cost of living in Ireland is now the second highest in the Euro zone. Even for items like soft drinks and mineral waters, it now emerges that with a VAT rate of 21%, we are second only to Denmark in the prices of those items.
