Study: Over quarter of Czechs can only afford basic foods

Some 28 percent of Czech households can only afford basic foodstuffs, suggests a study by the company KRUK, which administers debt claims for financial institutions and corporate clients, cited by the Czech News Agency.

Over half of families are only able to pay for discounted foods, the report states. Rising prices led to nearly one-fifth of Czech households switching to inferior foods and around 15 percent have changed their diets to save money, it says.