Learning to Save Money. Monitoring of Food Prices

Information on food prices in Astana will be useful to most citizens, because the correct choice of a shopping center to purchase food really can save your money. Somewhere in meat, somewhere in cereals, somewhere in dairy products… This is so that the trade sector has been long in the “market" and their owners determine the pricing policy. Moreover, since the State doesn’t have the authority to control over the pricing policy, it was difficult to Mayor's Office to influence on the growth of prices.

However, the last year's crisis crisis, caused by rising prices for buckwheat and vegetable oil that caused outrage among residents, resulted in the fact that representatives of the Mayor’s Office and employers sat to discuss and come to a consensus. The memorandum was signed “On definition and using the size of trade allowance (margin) to trading organizations, engaged in wholesale and retail sale of food in Astana”.

After all, it is often the trade allowance affects the price difference. Since then, the Mayor’s Office of Astana provides control and implementation of the terms of the Memorandum through monitoring of established trade margins for food products in trade organizations, the process of pricing, avoiding the facts of collusion, undue price increases.

Caravans and delicacies from the center, south, north, east and west come to the capital in the framework of Cultural Days of Kazakhstan’s regions in Astana, dedicated to the 20^th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s Independence. The low prices at the fair really can save your money.

The changes of prices on food will be controlled by the editing staff of the site together with Astana residents. The monitoring of prices of goods (27 items) in 22 markets of Astana will be published weekly on its home page. The information will be based on actual data directly from the trading rooms. If you find no matches, but this can be, and if you have questions, please contact the State Department of Agriculture by phones: 8 (717-2) 55-69-79, 8 ​​(7172) -55-69 80

Retail prices for socially important food products