Overview
- Green Bundestag co-leader Katharina Dröge unveiled a plan to require large supermarket chains to feed real-time prices into a state-enabled comparison app, with smaller stores allowed to opt in.
- The package includes clear labeling when pack sizes are reduced to curb so‑called shrinkflation and to improve unit-price transparency for shoppers.
- The Greens also seek tools to cap supermarket profit margins during crises to prevent extra markups on already elevated prices.
- To protect producers, the plan would ban retailers from purchasing goods below farmers’ production costs and opposes further consolidation in the sector.
- The push follows a Monopolkommission finding that Edeka, Rewe, Aldi and the Schwarz Group control over 85% of the market and that German food prices have risen unusually fast since the Ukraine war.