By February, wheat flour may rise in retail prices by 3.7%, bread – by 2.1%, sunflower oil – by 2.2% compared to November, Izvestia writes with reference to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture to the government.
In the summer, Kommersant wrote that bread manufacturers had warned retailers about raising prices for their products by 7-12%.
Rosstat testifies that in the period from December 2020 to November 2021, almost all the most affordable and popular products among Russians went up in price. Analysts monitored prices for 114 items and found out that last year only four of them fell in price: cucumbers, apples, millet and grapes. According to polls, 60.4% of the population spend half their salary on food, another 16% give almost all their earnings on food.
As for bread (namely, it will be discussed below), one can judge how the price for it will change, for example, according to information from Fazer. It is one of the five largest producers of bread and bakery products in Russia. From February 1, prices for their baguettes will increase from 16.5 to 30% depending on the category, according to a letter signed by Fazer’s Sales Director Anatoly Brener.
In its letter, Fazer explains the need to revise selling prices by increased costs for raw materials, packaging, production and sales of products. Costs of production increased by 18.4%, including flour and cereals rose by 6.5%, while transport, labor costs and energy – by 5.3%, the letter says (for which period, the company did not clarifies).
“2021 was a difficult year for the bakery industry, the unprecedented growth of all components of the cost of bread is forcing us to raise selling prices in 2022,” Fazer’s representative in Russia explained to RBC.
Here it is important to compare the rise in prices with the real incomes of Russians. All over the world, something is constantly rising in price, the main thing is how people’s incomes keep up with it. In the Russian Federation, they have been steadily falling for almost the eighth year. Real disposable incomes of the population began to decline in 2014 (hello to everyone who “Crimea is ours”) – then the ruble against the dollar fell sharply against the backdrop of sanctions imposed against Russia due to the annexation of Crimea. In subsequent years, the growth rate of the Russian economy slowed down, and real disposable spending, according to independent experts, is still falling, but …
A recent article on Rosbalt says: “Real incomes of the population have fallen by 13.5% since 2014. This year they will try to draw growth, it does not matter if it is 3.5-4.5%. No one believes in these figures, because our inflation is not 8.5%, but at least 15-20%.”
The authorities solved this problem by changing the methodology for calculating this indicator and subordinating Rosstat (the source of data on the incomes of Russians) to the Ministry of Economy (which, among other things, is responsible for these incomes). Now on paper it’s not so bad. It’s like inflation at the Central Bank is still the same notorious 8%, and the price tags in stores literally scream about the craftiness of this figure.
In general, what the woman in the video below says is unlikely to apply to a single region and specifically to the price of bread. It’s pretty much the same all over the country. Yes, with some local specifics, but the trend is similar.
But she is from the Krasnodar Territory – the All-Russian granary, as the propagandists say. And that makes her statements on TikTok even more striking…
@rossiamatushka ♬ original sound – KK
Here is what the video says: “Now I went to the stall for a loaf of bread … In the Krasnodar Territory, a loaf of Tikhoretsky wheat white bread cost 30 rubles. And an announcement hangs: “We bring to your attention that from February 1, a loaf of white wheat bread will cost 36 rubles.”
This is no less than a 20% increase in price. For twenty! Not 5, not 3, but 20! Have we raised our salaries by 20%? Or have our pensions been increased by 20%?! I received a pension for a child, indexed already … You raised it by a penny, by a pittance! And bread rises in price by 20%! I just have no words!!”
In the comments under the video, “the indignant mind boils” (spelling and punctuation of the authors):
ioana1992: “It’s funny, all we can do is sit on the ????ope straight and resent.”
user5216088650241: “Sugar in that year 25 is now 50, potatoes 30 are now 60, well, what 8 percent, all 100.”
Alexander: “What do you want from this government? It will only get worse.”
Yuri Ivanovich: “So surprised, probably from America came …”.
user6385314452399: “We are all smart on the Internet.”
elenasergeevna139: “I’m from St. Petersburg, and for me a loaf of bread sounds so strange???? We have a loaf????????”.
mihalych04: “In St. Petersburg now, more or less black costs from 50.”
user8393458949070: “Somehow your region is lagging behind the whole mother????????????.”
nataliepo: “We have long had a loaf of bread 53 roubles, on average. I don’t know how much the terpils will endure.”
Efremov Alexey: “In Orel, the price has already risen from 29 to 36.”
user5388295052341: “We have been in Voronezh for a long time for 42 rubles. buy.”
user4158720972323: “In Primorye – gray, it is impossible to eat it! 52₽”.
dyt3ht7chrm0Lara: “Who are you yelling at?”
user1921498030898: “That’s right. Umnichka, there is no strength to remain silent, lawlessness.
Earlier, Rosbalt Like showed a specific example of how transgender people are killing women’s sports.
Source: Rosbalt
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