#supermarket

Supermarkets will remain open on Saturday despite the day being declared a public holiday for the funeral of former president George Vassiliou, its association said on Friday. Head of the ...

A minimarket in Paphos was ordered on Friday to suspend operations for two days after inspectors uncovered serious breaches of food safety rules. The closure followed intensive inspections that began ...

The e-kalathi online tool, launched in June, has largely failed to achieve its goals, the Cyprus consumers association said on Tuesday. The tool was introduced to help consumers compare prices ...

Several Cypriot supermarkets have recently proceeded with the introduction of electronic shelf labels (ESL’s), replacing paper price tags as most of us know them. The supermarkets say the move ...

The latest Eurobarometer survey on food safety shows that 95 per cent of Cypriots are interested in food-safety issues and other factors influencing food choices – far above the EU average of 72 ...

Police on Thursday arrested a 44-year-old man as part of an investigation into a case involving theft by an employee. According to a complaint made to police by a supermarket ...

Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, George Papanastasiou is expected to announce the official launch of the e-Kalathi electronic platform on Wednesday. But it won’t be online for the ...

The government’s ‘e-Kalathi’ application is “fully ready”, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Monday. “The application is full ready, as the consumer protection service, which is the competent agency ...

Consumer spending during the Easter period showed encouraging signs, particularly in essential goods, according to the head of the small shopkeepers’ association (Povek) Stefanos Koursaris and supermarkets’ association director Andreas ...

The launch of the digital ‘e-Kalathi’ platform, which was designed to inform consumers about the prices of essential goods and allow them to compare the prices thereof, has been delayed ...

Supermarkets across the island are wrapping up their participation in a test run of the e-kalathi application, whose goal is to benefit shoppers by increasing competitiveness and transparency. The app’...

The Turkish Cypriot police have initiated legal action against a 69-year-old man who stole meat from a supermarket in Morphou on New Year’s Eve, before returning it the following ...

The consumer protection service is working full throttle on making e-kalathi available before the Christmas holidays voluntarily on a pilot basis, with the application expected to be fully operational in ...

Supermarkets large and small are scrambling to send information to the commerce ministry in time for a pilot e-kalathi application to go into operation before Christmas, it emerged on Friday. ...

The digital ‘e-Kalathi’ platform, which was designed to inform consumers about the prices of essential goods and allow them to compare the prices thereof, will be put into operation on ...

Sklavenitis Cyprus has agreed with Papantoniou supermarkets on a buyout of the latter’s supermarkets, on Thursday. With the integration of the new stores, Sklavenitis Cyprus is strengthening its network ...

Supermarkets that mislead the public over special offers should be named and shamed, the Cyprus Consumers Association said on Friday. President of the association Marios Drousiotis said they were asking ...

Supermarkets experienced increased activity during the final days of Holy Week in Cyprus, with consumers mainly focusing on buying food and Easter table essentials, according to the head of the ...

A 76-year-old woman from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday evening, accused of having stolen alcoholic beverages and other items from a supermarket in the town. The woman was initially noticed ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari on Friday sought to reassure consumers regarding the safety of products found in supermarkets. During a visit to a supermarket in Nicosia, she stressed the ongoing ...

After months of debate in parliament, MPs on Tuesday wrapped up discussion on the e-basket legislation and decided to take it to the plenum for a vote later this week. ...

A Greek Cypriot woman received a 1,200TL (€38) fine on Wednesday after being found guilty of stealing from a supermarket in the north. Police sergeant Huseyin Ergulec explained the sequence of ...

A number of retailers are operating illegally as supermarkets, while authorities are failing to clamp down on the phenomenon, the supermarket association charged during Tuesday’s House commerce committee. Speaking ...

The cabinet approved the proposal for the creation of a digital platform, known as the e-kalathi (e-basket), that would list prices of 300 consumer goods in different supermarkets in April. The ...