Fuel and groceries are much cheaper in Bavaria
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Refueling, shopping for groceries – in Bavaria, which is close to the border, this is now significantly cheaper than in Salzburg and Austria. For many years, refueling in Austria was much cheaper. Different policies and inflation have reversed and widened the price differentials.
The price differences mean that more and more Salzburg customers are coming to Bavaria, says the spokeswoman for a large supermarket in Freilassing.
Example biscuits: 63 percent cheaper
In Salzburg, food is more than twelve percent more expensive on average, says the consumer advocate
Thomas Flöckner from the Salzburg Chamber of Labor: “A very popular type of biscuit is 63 percent cheaper in Germany than in Austria.”
Fuel trend now reversed after a century
There is also a petrol station at the supermarket in Freilassing already mentioned. Here, too, there are – as at all Bavarian gas stations in the border region – more and more customers from Austria.
The diesel costs “over there” on average ten cents less per liter, with premium petrol it is twelve cents, according to consumer advocate Flöckner: “In Germany, measures have already been taken by politicians to lower fuel prices. That’s why diesel and super are now cheaper there than in Austria.”
Beat Austria’s politics?
In active Bavaria, significantly more customers from Salzburg and Austria are expected in the coming days and weeks. If you ask Austrian passers-by on the German side of the border, then some are – literally – convinced that Austrian politicians have “long since overslept” taking the necessary steps in the interests of the population.