Armenia’s Staples Prices Stable, Sliding In Jan 2009

ARMENIA’S STAPLES PRICES STABLE, SLIDING IN JAN 2009

ARKA
Jan 30, 2009

YEREVAN, January 30. /ARKA/. Prices of staple goods have been stable
in January and have slid, the RA State Committee for the Protection
of Economic Competition (SCPEC) cites its monthly monitoring.

Surveying prices of 10 staples in local markets, SCPEC aims at
preventing unreasonable price hikes.

"The January 2009 monitoring of 16 shops and markets in Yerevan has
shown prices of bread, butter, sunflower oil, cheese, rice, flour,
coffee and eggs were stable, with price reductions spotted in some
places," the SCPEC says.