Rising prices - Wow!

hollydolly said:
A wholesale greengrocer today... made a short video to explain to his customers that last Friday... a box of Broccoli cost him... £9.00 and change... the same box today cost his £24 from his supplier..£15.000 more in a week....... that's an increase in one week of 166%..... the same story with tomatoes, and the rest of his produce...

How on earth are customers going to afford this rise in fresh fruit and veggies... ? we can't...


have a look at what he says https://fb.watch/GiHwLw3Gyu/
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At the end of the video he attributed the price increases to horrendous weather in Spain and nearby regions. His video is a dramatic illustration of how something happening on one area can severely affect the pocketbooks of people living several hundred (or thousands) of miles away.

There's so much regret in his voice about having to increase his prices, especially to caterers and businesses. I feel for him. :cry:
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Definitely expensive. You said you were in "the city". Where I'm from, that's how we refer to New York City, which is more expensive, as are resort towns. So is the area you were in known to be more expensive, like big cities usually are?
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I'm talking about the city of Sydney, where prices are larger, but the way the economy is going even the little restaurants where
I live, some 20klms from Sydney, have doubled some of their items on the menus.
 
In addition to todays high cost of living the average person is also being squeezed by low wages. Like I mentioned in another thread, in the summer of '68 between my Junior and Senior year of college my uncle Bill hooked me up with a construction job in New Jersey at $2.75 an hour. I just ran the numbers and adjusted for inflation that's the equivalent of $25 an hour in today's money! This was bottom of the food chain labor in a non union shop. I wonder if it's possible to make anywhere near that today as a non skilled laborer? I kinda doubt it.
 
hollydolly said:
A wholesale greengrocer today... made a short video to explain to his customers that last Friday... a box of Broccoli cost him... £9.00 and change... the same box today cost his £24 from his supplier..£15.000 more in a week....... that's an increase in one week of 166%..... the same story with tomatoes, and the rest of his produce...

How on earth are customers going to afford this rise in fresh fruit and veggies... ? we can't...


have a look at what he says https://fb.watch/GiHwLw3Gyu/
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That's why I started to grow them myself.
 
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