Food prices start to become a big topic again before Christmas. While many promised that the hike would eventually pass and that prices would even return to normal, the opposite is true. Some items in your shopping carts are literally increasing in price at a frantic pace and no one knows where they will end up.
The price is amazing
Food producers stress that they still cannot be satisfied with the prices at which they currently deliver to retail chains and that higher prices for energy, wages and raw materials will force them to raise prices further. After all, the Kofola company has already raised the prices of its drinks three times this year, and that’s still not enough.
A person who has not been to a store for a long time may therefore be surprised by the prices on completely ordinary products. For example, visiting one of the stores of the Albert chain, we noticed an ordinary chicken at first glance. What was unusual, however, was the price tag, which almost suggested this was a mistake.
The trader charged almost 500 CZK for a chicken weighing just two kilograms. The price of one kilogram of this chicken reached 249 crowns. There are so many of them and the question is whether such a price will be justified by the fact that this chicken can boast the organic label.
Beware of cheap chicken
At the same time, it’s about who can afford such a chicken. If you make it a Sunday lunch for four, the price will come to the amount you would eat in a restaurant.
But not all chickens are that expensive. Ordinary ones are available at prices between 100 and 140 kroner per kilogram. But that’s not exactly enough, and there’s been a ten percent price increase since last year. Farmers therefore report that prices will have to be raised further. Soon we will probably find even more expensive chickens in Czech shops.
In such a situation, people can rejoice when they see a chicken in action, which costs, for example, 80 kroner per kilo. But be careful. It could be a Polish hen, where a very nasty issue was recently resolved, when it was discovered that the hens there were fed with technical oils.
Photo: Shutterstock
