Supermarket

Members of the Red Cross delivered food packages on Wednesday to the Corinth cathedral for distribution to poor Greeks over the Orthodox Easter holiday. The goods were donated by local supermarkets, stores and butchers and were delivered by Red Cross members and volunteers. [Vassilis Psomas/ANA-MPA]

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a law banning shops to work on Sunday, Dnevnik reported.

Amazon has officially launched the world's first automated supermarket where neither cashiers nor sellers are available, the BBC said.

The store is located in Seattle. To enter it, you need a free Amazon mobile application that is recognized by a scanner at the entrance. The buyer enters the store, takes everything he wants, and leaves.

Greece's supermarket sector posted an increase in turnover in 2017, albeit small, marking the first annual rise since 2010, according to a survey conducted by Nielsen.

Shoppers walk along Ermou Street, central Athens's main retail district, on Wednesday, as the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) dampened overoptimistic projections regarding the market's performance over the Christmas holidays.

Overtaxation has forced Greeks to cut down on grocery spending, as IRI Hellas researchers have found that supermarket sales in the January-September 2017 period were 6.7 percent below the level recorded two years earlier and 7.4 percent below the 2014 level.

The supermarket sector is showing signs of stagnation, as the avalanche of offers in the battle for market share eats into the small benefits from the relative increase in sales volume.

Researchers Nielsen expect the year to end in the black, but only just, as in the first 10 months of 2017 the sector saw sales grow by just 0.4 percent on the previous year.

The sale of cheaper red meat to two supermarket chains under the coordination of authorities will continue until the market becomes steady and stable, a top Turkish official has announced.

The Apostoli charity, which is run by the Archbishopric of Athens, said on Friday that it has provided 2,764 members of low-income households with food packages so far this month as part of its joint campaign with the Masoutis supermarket chain.

German supermarket chain Lidl is being criticized for editing a photo showing a Greek church by removing the Orthodox cross on top of it.

The photograph is used in packaging of the Eridanous range of Greek products, and the company has responded by saying that they did this wishing to be "religiously neutral."