Sweden to hold talks on countering soaring food costs
Balazs Barabas
STOCKHOLM Sweden 's government said it will hold talks with food producers and distributers as a consumer movement over soaring costs in the Nordic country gains traction. Annual food price inflation in Sweden hit its highest rate in two years in February at 3.9 percent. Meanwhile, the independent watchdog site Matpriskollen (The Food Price Checker) found in January that prices in Swedish grocery stores had risen by 19.1 percent over two years. "In view of the rapid price developments in the
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