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.
 
Like Hollydolly, I've been there, done that, and now just have my groceries delivered, LOL. This thread did remind me of one of the classic 'real life' stories of good food. Mind you, this book is from 2007, so you can figure out the inflationary costs if he was writing this now:

The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
Paperback – March 2, 2007
by William Alexander (Author)
Amazon readers rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars

Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme; and skirmishes with neighbors who feed the vermin (i.e., deer).

Not to mention the vacations that had to be planned around the harvest, the near electrocution of the tree man, the limitations of his own middle-aged body, and the pity of his wife and kids.

When Alexander runs (just for fun!) a cost-benefit analysis, adding up everything from the live animal trap to the Velcro tomato wraps and then amortizing it over the life of his garden, it comes as quite a shock to learn that it cost him a staggering $64 to grow each one of his beloved Brandywine tomatoes.

But as any gardener will tell you, you can't put a price on the unparalleled pleasures of providing fresh food for your family.
 
DaveA said:
Before "suffering" through the high food prices, folks might consider giving up the booze and cigs for a start. I know, I know, no smokers and drinkers on this site but the non-stop ads for the above mentioned stuff must be directed at someone??
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Generally speaking, you would be the target of those ads, as that is how most of those algorithms work. Each individual on this site, without ad blockers will receive a different ad.
I can't go to Lowe's website, without being bombarded with ads for tools, home improvement along with stuff the algorithm thinks I might be slightly or even remotely interested in. I can google something like a boat, and receive ads for summer vacation ideas, etc. Which is why I don't use adblocker on this site.
 
The one thing I buy consistently every month is my cat's canned food. It has gone up 20 cents a can since the beginning of last year.

Edit: Jeeze, I can't math anymore. The cans were .63 the beginning of last year. Now they're .93. That's 30 cents, not 20.
 
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