Going hard onto matbaroner “who serve the wealthy at Norwegian customers” – Fædrelandsvennen

Going hard onto matbaroner "who serve the wealthy at Norwegian customers" – Fædrelandsvennen

ARENDAL: No one will take the blame for that food prices from June to July rose a surprising amount – the entire 3.2 percent. It was expected a price increase for spring farming settlement, but Agriculture and Food Sylvi Listhaug (FRP) claims above Aftenposten that the settlement only implies a price increase of 0.25 percent. She has therefore called into grocery chains to a meeting where they are coming Friday must explain the price increase.

– We should go this in detail, for Norwegian consumers are paying too much for food. There is reason to question some of Norway’s wealthiest individuals engaged in the grocery industry. Not enough with that you are on top makes money, besides sitting there lots of merchants around that serve the wealthy at the Norwegian consumers, said Listhaug, addressing Rema CEO Ole Robert Reitan at that Wednesday was a rather heated debate on food prices and Norwegian agriculture under Arendalsuka.

Listhaug opened the way debate to highlight a suite of two marsupials to have cost 25 million, and then fire the following strongly worded:

– How much you sit back in your wallet after Norwegian consumers have paid the blood price for this product?

Reitan mean Rema can not be

Rema CEO Ole Robert Reitan, who cheerfully described the upcoming meeting Friday as a “questioning”, referring to the grocery giant’s price increase in 2014, which he claimed had been one percent. Reitan also claimed that the mark-chain takes on all goods have been exactly the same since the chain opened in 1979, and that the chain pretty much every year has had a profit of three percent.

Publicly available figures show the Group for the last three years have had a profit of between four and five percent.

The four major players in the Norwegian grocery industry, Norway Group, Reitan Group, Coop Norway and Ica group, are all called on the carpet at matministeren Friday.

The market’s biggest player, Norway Group, told Nationen today that it has only continued higher prices they had to pay for their meat suppliers. Meat and Poultry Association (KLF) argues, however, prices in stores has increased more than the price from the merchants would suggest.

Fruits and vegetables were much more expensive

The background figures from Statistics Norway show that the price of eggs increased the most, with the entire 7.3 percent. Also fresh berries, fresh fruit, chocolate and baby food increased by over five percent. Fresh vegetables have increased by 4.4 percent. These categories, however, constitute a much smaller portion of food prices overall than as meat, as SSB attach most weight in the calculation of food prices. The price of meat increased 3.4 percent from June to July.

The overall price level in July was 2.6 percent higher than the same month last year – much higher than forecasters had expected beforehand. This led to the crown immediately strengthened against the euro and the dollar.