Reports of price hikes at bars, restaurants and hairdressers around Italy.
Italy’s consumers are being charged €2 to €4 more than before the coronavirus emergency as bars, restaurants and hairdressers add a ‘covid tax’ to the bill, according to consumer watchdog Codacons.
“We are receiving dozens of reports on the increases in the price lists of hairdressers” said Codacons which – based on average costs in large cities – has calculated how the price of a cut has gone from an average of €20 to €25, an increase of 25 per cent, reports Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
Codacons also reports increases in the price of coffee at the bar, with cases of a coffee in Rome now costing €1.50 (instead of the usual €1 or €1.10), in Milan €2 (up from €1.30) and Florence €1.70 (up from the usual average of €1.40). But what about Trieste?
In Trieste businesses are operating amid reduced capacity due to social distancing as well as dealing with extra costs relating to sanification and protective equipment required under Italy’s in the covid-19 emergency. While some business kept their prices the way the were before the virus emergency, most added from 10 cents to one euro per merchandise or even your regular cappuccino in bicchiere, better know as capo-in-b.
By In Trieste
