Supermarkets continue to employ tricks in the presentation of offers that mislead consumers in a way that the “offers function as a conveyor belt for price increases,” as a senior official at the Development Ministry pointed out to Kathimerini.
The redesign of the investment incentives law, both in terms of the business sectors that are strengthened and in terms of incentives, as well as the redistribution of resources, is at the heart of the interventions the government announced on Monday in its effort to transform Greece’s production model.
Laws exist but are not enforced – or at least not implemented efficiently and quickly. That is a prevailing perception in Greece for many aspects of daily life, but also a dominant perception in the business world.
New businesses registering with the General Commercial Register (GEMH) showed an increase of 9.37% in the first nine months of the year compared to the corresponding period of 2023, with those deleted at the same time showing a marginal increase, of 0.12%.
The time when eating ice cream was one of the main forms of an afternoon out at a pastry shop and later at specialized ice cream parlors seems to have passed forever.