Fruit and vegetable prices continue to rise. After having already risen 11% in one year according to Rural Families, the rise in the prices of peaches, pears, carrots, lettuce and other tomatoes should continue in the coming weeks, this time due to successive heat waves affecting the crops.
Less numerous, fruits and vegetables are therefore more expensive. Manager of the “Delights of the Four Seasons” store in Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf, Cyril Berthin is forced to change his labels almost every time he arrives. While he has just received peaches from Spain, the blackboard is erased: the kilo must increase by 80 cents. The prices of Spanish products, however, are still more affordable than French prices, which “are 2 or 3 euros more expensive” with a kilo of peach that can reach “8 or 9 euros”, according to Cyril Berthin.
The storms “should partially correct the situation”
However, no miracle is to be expected: “The reality of the impact of the additional costs that everyone may have had will remain”, in particular due to sky-high energy prices, warns Laurent Grandin. Additional costs that have not “been compensated in the sector, far from it”.
Source: BFM TV
