charles: it s great that we may have hit a peak. but again, we ran into inflation that was a four decade high. people are grappling with other costs in their lives as well. is there a new normal or can we get back to prices that people come to expect? what we ve done is we ve seen a couple of baked in increases like labor. and stew leonards, we had to raise $2 an hour to attract great people. look at the feed prices with everything going on in the ukraine. that has a lasting effective. who knows what is happening with the energy prices right now. those are baked in prices. you see supply and demand issues can are relieving the price like on chicken. we had a problem with the flu over the last six months.
a lot of these big consumer companies, i don t know why they re raising their prices like they are but we re sort of squeezed a little bit, even though we have seven stores around the metro new york area, we re not considered that big. but we ve noticed increases in just about everything. and sometimes what can you say? you can t negotiate really that tough with a big company. and those are real necessities, especially if you got all that meat like that. you need your barbecue sauce and ketchup and all that good stuff that go with it. i think that s a decision everybody has, how much do you raise the price? obviously labor s gone up, a lot of feed prices have gone up, a lot of ingredients, packaging, transportation. a lot of costs have gone up but you just don t know how much of that they re passing ons to the consumer or even more. hey, do you need any go ahead. i was just saying what we
The livestock sector contributes around ₹14 trillion to the Indian economy, and dairy comprises around ₹9.5 trillion of this, Rupinder Singh Sodhi said
not as much but still pretty chunky rise and then if you are making a packed lunch a bag of crisps from a multi up by nearly a third, piece of fruit, that s up, wash it all down with only real own label colour and it is 7% higher year on year own label cola. why feed prices rising? food supply chain is really quite complex and it can take a long time for cost base for the business to come through the system of the milk is one exception as we have seen prices go down on the shelves. boss of pret a manger make 7 million sandwiches a year and lots of food on the go and his energy bills are still sky high because like a lot of firms he hedged his bets and locked into high energy rates which will continue vitally to the autumn. he has also given staff three pay rises and he reckons that if inflation really is stubbornly high he may