Topic: I wonder if food prices in your country have also increased? - page 6. (Read 1756 times)

In every country in this world, Only the strong will survive. We have to work hard and work smart to achieve our prosperity, the prices of basic commodities are rising, we are confused about how else to buy them, prices are getting more expensive, even though we are also among people who cannot afford it because there is economic inequality in several areas.

I also come from the same country as you. This economic inequality must always be discussed, before it gets worse. The problem is that in developed countries now the situation is very bad, many people cannot buy a house, eat from donations, some even cannot eat for days because their basic necessities have increased. Actually, this theory is easy if the government wants to overcome it by increasing the income of the Indonesian population. The method is industrialization, increasing employment opportunities by making it easier for foreign and local investors to create businesses, creating local entrepreneurs, intensive vocational education. Maybe this is what we should focus on first, while the government improves the quality of agriculture from east-west, improves the quality of farmer labor, improves national food sovereignty.

More offers will give us the opportunity to buy more, or buy things we don't really need.
Since there are several discount offers, we take them and find ourselves spending more.

I live in Indonesia and all the basic necessities have gone up, At the mall or supermarket it's usually cheaper or just a little different from the local grocery store.
Those from the grocery store also buy from the mall for resale.

The salaries of employees in some parts of Indonesia remain unincreased, while the staples have all gone up.
This will lead to economic inequality because the minimum wage is not evenly distributed and adjusted to the increase in staples.

Here in India the prices are at all time high of some items, Buying from my local grocery store helped me to save money, because in mall we see big packets of things which are more than we need and buy 2 get 1 free like offers, which causes over spending so, I decided to buy only what i want from my local shop, most of the products in malls are expensive than my local grocery store.

It is difficult for small communities to reject the Government's decision to increase fuel costs, even though it is stated that there are wrong targets, deviations including gratification (corruption) must be sanctioned, and the Government must be responsible, not the people who are victims.

BLT is indeed good for helping small people, but BLT both adds to the burden on the APBN deficit, and many BLTs are also misdirected, the sanctions are not just being told to return them, that is Corruption, and is prone to Corruption. The lower class is resigned, even though they are given BLT, if subsidized fuel goes up, the price of everything goes up, it will still be a burden on the little people. I also agree that BLT is not effective in solving this problem. The government should increase labor wages and employee wages.

The only solution to overcome various economic problems such as rising prices or inflation and the like currently must be to have additional income. Although currently you can actually earn additional income from home, such as becoming a content creator or other online business. It's just that building an online business is not as easy as you imagine. This requires quite a long time and process. But it's worth fighting for. Meanwhile, finding additional work in physical work at this time I think is not easy. Due to current conditions, even the world of trading on the physical market is increasingly difficult. Because customers currently prefer shopping via online media.
And another condition is that the time we spend in our main job sometimes makes it difficult for us to find free time to use to find additional income.

But I have a feeling that the economy will at least recover a little from now on, even if it is slowly. At least that's my estimate in the country where I currently work. But I don't know the conditions in other countries which definitely have different situations and conditions.

That also happened in my country, but only in a few areas and it caused inflation of several percent nationally. Luckily in my area we don't experience drought, so food prices here are still maintained and people can still buy food affordably.
But the government's plan here is to distribute basic commodities from areas that are not affected by the drought to areas that are affected in order to reduce the effects of inflation, because with assistance from the government, distribution of basic commodities should be possible and that might help the people affected by the drought a little.

Right now, it's not just food that has gone up, but fuel per liter has gone up again here. It seems like it's not enough to tell drivers not to drive cars so that they won't be affected by expensive fuel. Then, when it comes to food, it's enough to say that we people don't eat because of the price of the goods. But it's true what some say here: we need to find another way to earn money, not just one that knows how to budget but also one that increases the source of income apart from the job that we have.

You and I have very similar situations, almost exactly the same. But in my country there are no subsidies for fuel. Prices still rise almost every week due to inflation risks. You don’t even have time to hold money in your hands, since so much is spent on food. I even had to look for an additional source of income in order to somehow improve my financial situation. If things continue like this, I don’t know how I’ll survive.

This really made me sad and pissed at that time. If the business is striving, the business owner should also compensate their employees and not just say that it is already a minimum wage because right now it is not enough. I have also seen many new stores opening in my area which is a sign that many investors and business owners want to build their businesses but still the average salary needs to be higher.

We can't blame anyone for this situation we just do our best to find another extra income to cope with inflation. No matter how we mock the government and other people it will still be the same and we are just wasting our efforts, it is better to put that effort into action so that we don't starve.

when I see BLT recipients they don't use it according to their needs, most of them actually use it for consumptive needs, and this clearly doesn't help much to reduce the suffering resulting from the economic crisis. I think that the government and society are not in sync in conveying their intentions, but currently society seems to be forced to be friendly with the increase in basic prices in particular, until now the concern is the increase in the price of rice which is our staple food, hopefully we will all always be given health so that we can work to fulfill our daily needs, because the long dry season has made many people sick at this time

I also live in Indonesia, I know we are in the economic crisis since the pandemic happening. Yes, our government already made some efforts, but I don't think they made effective solutions. BLT is the example of a useless effort, it is just an instant money given by the government. Since the number of money is rather small, it sometimes only last few days. Even in certain cases, some people who got the BLT program spend all the money in a day. I think it is much better if the government provide the jobs for the people. When the people get regular jobs, they can get the money themselves. They can get the foods with their own efforts.

It seems that in your country the conditions are much more worrying than in my country. I hope everything gets better soon. Although it is currently not visible to the naked eye in which direction the improvements will start. In my own country, currently the price of rice, which is the biggest staple food in this country, has again increased by more than around 5-10% in a month. Each region has different prices regarding the increase that occurs. But that's what happened in my area. This made everyone even more worried. And but the trigger for the increase in food prices in my country at the moment, apart from being triggered by the increase in fuel prices, is also influenced by the hot weather or the ongoing summer season.

The inflation that occurs has indeed disturbed the balance of people's income. Because the salary received does not follow the increase in market prices. So $10 dollars in the last month can get 10 specific products. But this month $10 dollars will only get you 8 specific products. That's the big picture. Fuel oil is indeed one of the main triggers for the increase. Because all of this is related to production and transportation costs.

Or simply which needs or everyday consumable and services or simply with the food you are putting on your table do keeps increasing but the salary that you do have in your job is really just that stabilize on which there's really no balance and if you do find yourself that relying into government actions then you would really be finding yourself later on on getting fucked up because you had been hoping that they will really be making up solutions into these problems. I do disagree into those points about blaming the government overall or they havent done something but we know that there are commodities which price cant really be that controlled specially if it would really be varying or basing up on market prices on which if it turns out to be the default price or value then government wont really be able to do such thing with those numbers. This is why i do really disagree sometimes on rants of people who do always pointing out on the government but we cant really be able to deny that controlling prices or having that kind of monitoring is really that part of their jobs or functions
knowing that there are certain areas which had been overlooked and been ignored which it did basically be the way that its getting abused on some common food prices which it should really be that be watched for the benefit of many.

The same problem is what we are facing down here in Nigeria, after the removal of fuel subsidy, which led to the hike of petroleum product. The cost of food price has never been stable,it increases evey week and it has made every other commodities to increase in price. Inflation is really a big problem to my country economy and the new government doesn't have any strategy that they can use to combat the situation. The poor are suffering more and the middle class, because those that are working for the government salaries is depreciating and no increment from the government, enable them coupe with it.

And here in my country work is being done to increase the excise duty for petroleum products! Of course, this will affect the prices of all products and services... Inflation is unstoppable for now, and many steps taken by the state are counterproductive. In the meantime, some chain stores and some companies are recording a growth of +150%... compared to last year, and a much higher growth compared to two years ago. While people still work for $2 per hour, min wage.

After the Covid-19 outbreak, the economic crisis has increased in my country, namely Indonesia, until now economic inflation cannot be avoided, where the price of food needs has increased so sharply that it has had a huge impact on the lower middle class, even though the government has made recovery efforts.  through community welfare assistance programs, namely BLT and other social assistance, but this seems to be in vain because food needs are increasing while monthly income or wages do not support it at all because they do not increase, perhaps this is the main cause of inflation, for example food prices  such as eggs increasing from 45 thousand to 55-58 thousand per kilogram, not to mention rice from 18 thousand to 22-25 thousand per kilogram, and many other types of food also increased,

This increase in food prices has certainly hit the middle and lower classes, especially those with low salaries, and this has made us all aware to be careful in spending money. It's very true as you said, just one income is not enough, we have to look for additional income, we have to be able to make money from other businesses, not just from salaries as employees.

Maybe one of them is that we can earn extra money by investing, if we have mastered it. That's where maybe we can be helped by starting to instill minimalist living. So you no longer buy things you don't need, and the funds you usually use for shopping don't need to be allocated to additional funds for daily needs. In conditions like these, we have to be smart and have to become more skilled in managing finances, especially we have to learn about investing.

Although the inflation rate has increased abnormally in some countries recently, we observe that there is an increase in prices in all countries of the world especially in food products. If I need to comment on the region I live in although the inflation rate announced here is shown as low but there are serious price increases in many food products. Basic food products have generally increased at an abnormal rate of 50% and this rate has reached much higher levels in some products. In the same way I wonder if this is the case in many other countries whose inflation rate is not declared as very high.

I wonder how long these increases will continue especially considering the fact that there has been a very serious increase in the last two years in the country where I live. As I see that I pay more for the same or similar products with each grocery purchase it becomes very difficult to predict how long this situation can continue.

If the price is already expensive outside of fast food, then the product inside fast food chains is even more expensive. Because the ingredients they buy outside or at the grocery store are already expensive. That's why now I don't eat much fast food because I know that the price has increased.

Even if we say that we are ready to adjust to the price increases, we will still have difficulties, and it will really hurt our pockets. It is still difficult to budget if our daily or weekly income is correct. this. So the only real solution in these situations is to find or add another source of income so that we can still have extra money somehow.

We are in the same situation as your country. Our country is a seasonal country, there are different types of crops in this country. However, due to excessive drought this year, crop production has not been good. Food prices have increased tremendously in the present time. Where I live a day laborer can earn $5 a day. 1 kg of onion is about $0.80, 2 kg of rice is about $2, 1 kg of fish is about $1.5, vegetables etc. are about $2. Even if a day laborer earns $5, it is very difficult to buy a day's worth of food with that money. Most of the middle class families live in our country. In the present time in our country the rising cost of goods has made it difficult for the middle class poor families to live.