Food Prices
Nothing hits a family’s weekly budget harder than increases in the costs of daily essentials like food. Price hikes at the supermarket make consumers angry and politicians nervous.
And all shoppers know that the price of many staples have increased over recent years.
This was highlighted by the latest OECD figures showing the cost of feeding an average family has risen about 40 per cent in Australia over the past decade. So who is to blame – major supermarkets, manufacturers, the government?
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Everybody loves to complain when the price of bread, milk, cheese and other household staples creep up.
Like rising interest rates and the price of petrol, increasing food prices provoke anger and frustration among many struggling Australians families.
So it is not surprising that fluctuating food prices are regularly blamed on food and grocery companies and supermarkets.
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cat says:
Even the Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke recently suggested that farmers are being treated unfairly as they’re told what they will be paid for their product, regardless of how much it has cost them to produce it. eg dairy farmers in sa getting about 26c per litre, down about 30%… Read more »
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