Starting today in Greece, the “Basket of the Godfathers” comes into force, which mainly contains children’s toys, which godfathers traditionally give to their godchildren for Easter, reports the Greek state television ERT, quoted by BTA.
From Wednesday, the main “Easter basket” will be applied, which will include lamb and goat meat, couscous and Easter chocolate eggs.
In Greece, the so-called “Household basket“, under which the large supermarket chains are obliged to choose one specific product from each category and offer it for a certain period at the lowest price without changing it. This is part of the measures taken by the Greek government to combat to this basket before various holidays are added thematic “baskets” with products that are traditionally sought after in the respective period.
IN “The Godfathers’ Basket” includes toy candles and chocolate eggs, as well as all categories of toys that were included in the “New Year’s basket” such as board games, puzzles, dolls, baby toys, strollers, etc.
Purpose of “The Easter Basket” is to keep the price of lamb and goat meat at last year’s levels of around 10 euros per kilogram. However, the television commented that there are large deviations in neighborhood stores.
“In the local butchers, if we take last year’s data, when (lamb and kid) was sold at 14-15 euros, this year it will reach 16-17. It is not fair for the breeder to sell at 6, but at the butcher it goes for 16 euros” , says the chairman of the agricultural cooperatives of the island of Naxos, Dimitris Kapunis.
It comes into force on April 25 the holiday opening hours of shops. This means they will be open from 9am to 9pm, with the exception of Good Friday, when they will be open from 1pm to 7pm, and Holy Saturday, when they will again have reduced hours from 9 to 3 p.m. On Palm Sunday, April 28, the shops will be open between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
On Easter Sunday, as well as on the Monday and Tuesday after, shops in Greece will be closed. Tuesday is also a day off for them due to the shift of the holiday to May 1, which this year falls during Holy Week.
