Food going up by 35%!!!

Beelzebub

Jesus, but will wages go up too???

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=210101364&p=zyxyxzx7x&n=210102124

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0212/IBEC.html

Prices seem to be going up without regulation and now they want carte blanche!

Hagar

It won't be long before Concern is running ads on Ethiopian TV asking for just €2 a month to feed a starving Irish child, or €3 a month to buy a goat for a family in Ballymun.

Compak

Hagar wrote:

It won't be long before Concern is running ads on Ethiopian TV asking for just €200 a month to feed a starving Irish child, or €3000 a month to buy a goat for a family in Ballymun.

corrected in bold!

galah

What I find interesting is that this was not reported in any of the newspapers on the continent (at least not in the ones I checked).
So it seems to be an Irish phenomenon (even though one would think that, for example, increasing wheat prices would affect markets everywhere, right?). Interesting that other countries can somehow cope with problems like that without passing the buck straight back to the consumer. And I also bet that once costs go down again, the higher prices will remain...

Ah well, one more thing to add to my Rip-off Ireland list...

One really does start to wonder if our wages will go up in line with all these increasing costs...oh, wait, aren't we one of the richest nations on earth???

Hobbes

It is pretty much linked to the total gouging by the Gas company in Ireland who got an insane price hike in the last few months. All those costs shuffle down until finally we end up paying more again.

This is really a main fault of the government tbh.

netwhizkid

Hobbes wrote:

This is really a main fault of the government tbh.

Ditto ↓↓↓

Attol

Ehh.... The citrus crops failed in California, wheat crops partially failed, bread and brekkie cereals contain wheat, chicken eat wheat, fish stocks are depleted due to overfishing? Not everything is going up.

Guy:Incognito

galah wrote:

What I find interesting is that this was not reported in any of the newspapers on the continent (at least not in the ones I checked).
So it seems to be an Irish phenomenon (even though one would think that, for example, increasing wheat prices would affect markets everywhere, right?). Interesting that other countries can somehow cope with problems like that without passing the buck straight back to the consumer. And I also bet that once costs go down again, the higher prices will remain...

Maybe they dont all have scaremongering media's?

Ardent

We were promised that food prices would go down as a result of the abolition of the Groceries Order last year, and instead they've gone up dramatically? Something seriously wrong in the state of Ireland, folks...

dudara

Hobbes wrote:

It is pretty much linked to the total gouging by the Gas company in Ireland who got an insane price hike in the last few months. All those costs shuffle down until finally we end up paying more again.

This is really a main fault of the government tbh.

Whereas in England, gas prices were recently cut. Go figure

Alun

dudara wrote:

Whereas in England, gas prices were recently cut. Go figure

Errm, they're coming down here too .. see the Bord Gais website. Reducing by 10% from February 2007, and there are strong rumours they'll further reduce prices later in the year.

dudara

Didn't know that, that's good at least

is_that_so

Beelzebub wrote:

Jesus, but will wages go up too???

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=210101364&p=zyxyxzx7x&n=210102124

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0212/IBEC.html

Prices seem to be going up without regulation and now they want carte blanche!

The price increase in bread is due to increases in wheat prices, caused by a long term drought in Australia. This was actually flagged quite some time ago.

MOH

Alun wrote:

Errm, they're coming down here too .. see the Bord Gais website. Reducing by 10% from February 2007, and there are strong rumours they'll further reduce prices later in the year.

But still over 20% higher than they were four months ago.