Are the prices of fruit drastically higher everywhere this year? This is 20 euro per kilo. Apples are 1 euro per kilo. (Normally .25 euro)

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  1. Well, fruits really just have the in-season to cover high cost for the past year, and coushion the uncertainty of the next, so it makes sense the price grow according to the highest cost increase in the past year…

    However, 4x cost seem a bit much. I think here it have increased by 25%

  3. Cherries are more expensive than apples but even more when not in full season. Apples for €1 a kg? Which country of Europe are you in?

  6. Here in Italy the prices indeed rised up, but not so much.

    For example tomatoes were at 1€/kg, now they’re always at 2.5€.

    Cherries and strawberries has always been high in price, but it didn’t seem to me that they received big change. Strawberries remain at 5-9 € kg this year.
    Cherries don’t know, they didn’t arrive yet.

  9. Apples are around 1euro here, but it has always been like this in the past 10 years. Only tomatoes have still little higher prices than usual.

  10. It’s MAY, and this year’s season started IMHO late (at least in my region) so current fresh fruit are rare.

    Combine that with inflation, start of the season cost coverage etc and you get nice price hike. My bet is that by July prices for most in-season fruits should be normalized, but due to inflation there’s no chance of last year’s prices (that is unless the fruit yield will be huge this year outpacing demand, but I doubt that)

  15. 2 weeks ago I was buying strawberries from LIDL shop 2,70 euros per kilo.

    So I won’t complain THAT much, except for that fact that bilberries cost like 10-16 euros per kilo.

  16. 20€/kg is insane. Don’t buy that crap and let it rot at the crates. 1€/kg sounds reasonable although 4x your usual price is indeed a big increase

  17. Cherry Season hasn’t start yet. In Ro is 2 weeks late.

    Apples are low now in storage I guess. There are no fresh Apples now, the season start in late summer – early fall.

    Cherries here, from Greece/Turkey, range from 16 to 20 €/kg.

  18. Just checking an Irish online supermarket

    €2.99 to €3.09 per kg for tomatoes.

    €12.15 – €15.00 per kg for fresh cherries.

  19. Usually this time of year is called the hunger months but Climate change, aging farming population, rising costs of production, labour shortages, dominant supermarkets are certainly factors in higher fruit and vegetable prices this year.

  20. It is not just fruit, pretty much everything went up in price 1.5 – 2x as much within the last year.

    All supermarket chains shot up the prices, over a day, and added some extra “margins” just to be safe.
    A friend of mine went to his normal pet barber to get his dog a shave, and the shop suddenly charged double, “because everything went up in price” he managed to barter it down to 1.5x the amount instead

    Given that it is the new fruit season, after all the stupid price inflation, there is hope it will even out more in a few months time.
    Either wages will go up again, or prices will go down, since people will stop buying the produce

  21. You better get used to it. Your looking at a general trend. Fertilizer shortages, climate change, war, droughts. Take your pick. You better start a garden if you have the means.

  22. Wasn’t paying enough attention the other day and brought home a kilo of cherries that turned out to have been 90zł (almost 20 euro) in Warsaw. Made sure to savor every one of those things once I realized, I’m not sure how many more I’ll buy this season if it doesn’t come way down.

  23. 10 euro/ kg of cherries in Romania, as well. Most people don’t buy, because they can’t afford to. Those that buy, they get only small quantities for children or pregnant women.

    Apples are 1-2 euro/kg as well.

    The minimum salary before tax is about 500 euros, and total tax rate is about 45%.

    Greedflation.

  24. Apples about 3 euro in DK. Pretty normal. 0.25 sounds like eastern Europe. won’t even pay for the production, stock and transport.

  26. It says “Spain” in Ukrainian. We have good and dirty cheap cherries usually because they are made locally in Melitopol (not sure if it is fully controlled and demined at the moment). So they are both imported and not a seasonal fruit (which is always more expensive).

    Watermelons cost $50 at a shop in Odesa now, but it is for exactly same reason.

    (I understand that it may be a random pic, but my comment is to say that prices aren’t that crazy as 800 per 1 kilo of cherries)

  28. Everything is more expensive every year. That’s capitalism for you. Unless a recession comes over.

  30. I’ve been in large scale fruit and vegetable supply for different customers in the last ~20 years.

    Prices this year differ around 40% than usual levels according to our data.

    This is due to rising costs of fertilizers, transport and salaries mainly. Electricity also plays a role in some goods because of storage prices (apples come to mind).

    The current example is very bad tho. Cherries have just started in Europe. The price today in Eastern Europe is around 3€ on wholesale, so would be around 6-7€ for retail if they are available at all. Markets settle around 1€ for wholesale, so you can predict around 1.5€ for wholesale this year and 3€ in retail in high season (end of June til mid July).

    Also the label says that’s Spanish cherries. Usually they start first, are the highest quality and most expensive. Wholesalers import let’s say 1 pallet per truck and put high profit, due to the fact that there is very high risk involved. Cherries are not durable, hence – expensive.

  32. It’s yet not cherry season in Europe, on that box it says Gadalupa. You pay for their transoceanic trip.

  33. €1 per kg sounds *extremely* cheap to me for apples. Though apples are all imported here. €1 per kg sounds about right for watermelons or guavas.

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