Are Spiralling Prices Inviting a Croatian Boycott?

Lauren Simmonds

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January the 20th, 2025 – Increasing prices remain a burning topic, but could it actually drive a Croatian boycott to happen?

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to price increases, with Croatia currently having the highest inflation rate in the entire Eurozone. The government is planning to freeze the prices of around twenty new products, but is that going to even touch the sides as far as the general public is concerned?

It seems that something of a “grassroots” movement might be brewing, as a message has been circulating on social media calling for a full blown Croatian boycott of retail chains and shopping in general on Friday, January the 24th, 2025. Here’s that message translated in its entirety:

“On January the 24th, there’s going to be a Croatian boycott against high food prices. People are being urged not to buy anything on that day, literally nothing. Insure yourself for that day [with regard to food and other necessary supplies] as if it were Sunday [when many shops are closed]. The same thing happened in the United Kingdom with fuel, the next day the price fell by 15 pence per litre, and they also raised wages by £100 per month. I know that the UK and Croatia aren’t the same, so there’s no need to comment on this, but [it shows that] if you want to do something, it can be done. If you look at it like you would a political election, then you won’t do anything. Only 10% of people doing it is a massive loss for retail chains, and you’ll lose out on absolutely nothing by not shopping on that day. But they will.”

Whether or not anyone will heed to this message that is quite briskly doing the rounds on social media is another thing entirely, but prices driving a Croatian boycott was almost inevitable. The public has put up with constant price hikes and having to see comparisons between Croatia’s prices and those of other countries, even for Croatian products, for much too long now.

It remains to be seen whether prices and the endless saga attached to them owing to inflationary woes will result in a January Croatian boycott, but it’s looking likely.

 

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