From wood over sugar to oil: in the past six months almost all raw materials have become scarcer and therefore considerably more expensive. And yet the consumer does not always feel that in his portfolio. In the DIY store prices rise with peaks of up to 50 percent, but in the supermarket the price-conscious consumer pays even less. What is going on?
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Up, up, it’s all over. The sentence from one of the Samson & Gert songs seems to be the slogan on the world market these days. Wood? Hard to find. Sugar? Problematic. Chips, those for the computers? to that…
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