> We only change our prices when our costs change, and after holding our price for bananas at 19 cents each for more than two decades, we’ve now reached a point where this change is necessary,
This seems unlikely. 19c is an extremely suspicious price, and costs exactly counterbalancing inflation for 20years, and then jumping 20% in one year is even more suspicious.
In fact, trader joe's was selling bananas at almost the same price as everyone else. Costco already was selling at a higher price. I noticed that at $0.59 per pound price which is usually the price at walmart or other places, it works almost to trader joe's $0.19 per banana. I am seeing the prices are going up everywhere, even my friendly neighborhood grocery store.
You can grow bananas in greenhouses in the US, and some people do. But if you tried to do it commercially you'd probably have to sell them for more than $10.
I think they were specifically addressing the single sentence they cited. And i'd have to agree that the people actually planting, growing, and harvesting the bananas fit the word "producer" much more than either a boss or a corporation or whatever boogeyman you want to imagine. I'd also agree that those planters and harvesters are probably underpaid in comparison to the corporations and bosses. I'd also like if people's hard labor were rewarded closer to the actual value they produce. Does this make me a communist?
If we want to be pedantic, the corporation is producing the export, coordinating _harvesters_ with transportation and final sale of the good — and paying the harvesters before they’ve made a cent.
Pedantry and calling something “propaganda” out of nowhere does.
If anything, by that line of thinking this “propaganda” enables us to pay the harvesters more money. Right? Hallelujah!
I agree with that, I live in a country very very far away from where bananas are produced and it is among the cheapest fruits you can find, very weird when you think about it
Distance is not the only parameter in the cost function of a food.
Weight, reliability, predictability, spoil-ability, ease of growing, etc. all lend themselves to bananas being an “easy” food item, hence the supply is sufficient to keep prices low.
I live in one of the most expensive cities in the country and just bought a full bunch of bananas (4-6 of them) for I think 80 cents. I'm surprised the price hasn't gone up yet, especially looking at how expensive every other fruit has become.
The severity of the rains brought by El Niño is related to climate change, and the rains themselves are the causal reason for the increase in black pod disease.
We've had plenty of El Niño in the past, but no such extreme spikes.
Once again, it seems that people who don't want to see climate change will not see it no matter how striking the evidence.
Climate change is everything and nothing, it's so insidious that you can't predict it accurately nor measure it at a short time-scale yet it uniquely explains recent and regular weather events and spikes in commodity prices. Might as well blame everything on witches.
My post has none of that, and your lazy clichés were completely off base in your previous post as well, though I didn't point that out in my own reply to give you the benefit of the doubt and avoid making it personal. It seems you feel differently, as you've said nothing of substance and persist with lazy smearing attempts instead of engaging in faithful discussion. Based on past experience with that attitude, I don't think you understand much of anything about climate.
In places like in the south of India they’re almost always free. The banana trees grow like weeds and in many cases self propagate and come back on their own every year.
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This seems unlikely. 19c is an extremely suspicious price, and costs exactly counterbalancing inflation for 20years, and then jumping 20% in one year is even more suspicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bm5NWCMlPo
https://hdoa.hawaii.gov/add/files/2020/07/Banana-Stats-2019_...
This is propaganda.
Labor is the producers. Paying them more is good for them, not suffering. People
Pedantry and calling something “propaganda” out of nowhere does.
If anything, by that line of thinking this “propaganda” enables us to pay the harvesters more money. Right? Hallelujah!
/s
Weight, reliability, predictability, spoil-ability, ease of growing, etc. all lend themselves to bananas being an “easy” food item, hence the supply is sufficient to keep prices low.
0. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa
We've had plenty of El Niño in the past, but no such extreme spikes.
Once again, it seems that people who don't want to see climate change will not see it no matter how striking the evidence.
Climate change is affected by multiple factors...
Honestly one of the worst arguments I've read this year. Might be the witches talking though.
Desperate times ahead boys
There is a lack of rice production due to drought and demands
France consider that food supply will be a military challenge in some years (the two other points are Russia, and islamic threat).
There is sever drought in Amazonia and the whole south america.
India stopped to export rice (or weat? I don't remember), due to aome China agression pretext.
so yes, banana price rise and the other food goods will follow.
france: https://www.defense.gouv.fr/ministere/politique-defense/stra...
wfp: https://www.wfp.org/
amazonia:https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-upda...
What is this even supposed to mean? Rice production continues to grow year on year and the prices are not anywhere as volatile as wheat.
and while you're correct for the price, it did increased by ~32% in 2023 compared to previous years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/255954/price-indices-for...