“The rush demand has gone in the consumer market, the data on the turnover of cash registers show that we are at a level slightly lower than the pre-crisis turnover in the consumer market,” TASS quoted him as saying at a meeting of the presidium of the government commission to increase the stability of the Russian economy in the conditions of sanctions.
Reshetnikov added that last week the demand for flour, sugar, vegetable oil and salt was "a quarter lower than in the pre-crisis week."
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that the economic situation in Russia is stabilizing, the ruble exchange rate has returned to the levels of the first half of February.