Banana prices up already!

[pfillery]

$6 a kilo in a well known major retailer on Friday, the day after the cyclone. Theysay they have upped the prices so they can pay the growers more and help them recover - but they would have grown/picked/sold this stock months ago, so how is this fair?

I'm betting the growers don't see much of this. I for one will stop buying bananas at that price.

[Homestar]

Agreed - last weekend I bought some for 98c per kilo - same place - looks like the same stock - over ripe - nearly ready for the bin - $4.98 per kilo... They are just profiteering while they can.

[UncleHo]

It's called profiteering or opportunism :( probably a major retailer too and one of the ones to be pushing for "Imports" to fill the need

[MickS]

Me thinks these are the only bananas I can afford for some time....:(

http://www.moolollybar.com.au/shop/images/lollies9.JPG

[UncleHo]

:D:D:D:D:banana::clap2::Rolling:

[The ho har's]

I paid just over $3.00kg today at the supermarket :) the one giving the big boys a run for their money;)

Mrs hh:angel:

[Hoges]

they charge a lot 'cause they're bent:wasntme:

[justinc]

Ours down here are almost always above $3.00/kg. Today I 'stockpiled' so i can freeze them for smoothy production:D
My thoughts are with the growers though, they had no choice as to how to avoid this calamity, they are at the complete mercy of the forces of nature:(


JC

[grover7488]

My thoughts are with the growers though, they had no choice as to how to avoid this calamity, they are at the complete mercy of the forces of nature:(

exactly. I dont think anyone would mind if the price increases went directly to the growers but we all know that doesn't happen :mad:

[B92 8NW]

I saw them at $16 a kilo - sister reckons they were $15 a kilo at her local yesterday.

A Japanese friend of mine during the previous shortage saw [half] a banana in a rubbish bin, pulled it out and started eating it, remarking "who the **** would through a banana out, have they no idea how expensive they are?!!":eek:

Funny thing he's a med student and their family could probably afford to outright purchase total banana production in this country:D.

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

ACCC should investigate this rort. No way are those fresh bananas , doesn't matter what they say, if the floods have caused so much havoc, then how can these be fresh bananas?
Cool store stock and supply and demand is what these rip off merchants are doing.To get the price down, simple BOYCOTT don't buy them and refuse imported ones.

[LandyAndy]

You monkeys that love your banannas are in for a tough time!!!!
When the last cyclone wiped out Queenslands bannana barrons crops there was still a supply from WA via Carnarvon.
People are forgetting they had 2 floods in Carnarvon recently whilst QLD was drowning.
There is no back up Banannas in WA this time around,Carnarvon was quietly wiped out whilst the rest of the country was watching QLDs problems.
Andrew

[MickS]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/1192.jpg

Won't be singing for a while...

YouTube - Make Those Bodies Sing

[Vern]

last time we had the banana crisis and they were over $10kg, we went for a ski trip to NZ, nana's over there were just over $1 a kg, i'd never eaten so many banana's in 9 days:)


oh and washed down with beer;)

[CraigE]

Same over here $2-99 on Wednesday, $6-98 on Friday.
Wont be buying narnies for a while.

[richard4u2]

i think people will survive okay with out bananas

[Bundalene]

We were talking to the owner of a Vietnamese restaurant the other day and he told us that ginger had gone from $60 to $300 per box in a matter of few days. There are all sorts of fruit & veg in short supply.

Erich

[mickashay]

i worked for a farm at mission beach and when they have a cyclone like yasi that pushes all the trees over they userly get out there a day later and gather as many bunches as possible,,being the time of the year there would have been quite a lot of bunches almost ready to go,,because the they are picked green then packed and sent to suppliers they dont get to the shops till a month later so there should be no change felt straight away,,if every farm gets out and grabs there fallen bunches there should even be a influx as these farm dont have insurance and need to save every bunch they can,,,its the supermarkets again trying to rip everybody off as the price shouldnt change for a month or two

[JDNSW]

i worked for a farm at mission beach and when they have a cyclone like yasi that pushes all the trees over they userly get out there a day later and gather as many bunches as possible,,being the time of the year there would have been quite a lot of bunches almost ready to go,,because the they are picked green then packed and sent to suppliers they dont get to the shops till a month later so there should be no change felt straight away,,if every farm gets out and grabs there fallen bunches there should even be a influx as these farm dont have insurance and need to save every bunch they can,,,its the supermarkets again trying to rip everybody off as the price shouldnt change for a month or two

Question is whether a significant quantity can be salvaged, what with closed roads, no power etc. I imagine they have to get into controlled atmosphere storage within a day or two? But as you point out, there should not be a shortage - yet!

John

[Disco44]

You monkeys that love your banannas are in for a tough time!!!!
When the last cyclone wiped out Queenslands bannana barrons crops there was still a supply from WA via Carnarvon.
People are forgetting they had 2 floods in Carnarvon recently whilst QLD was drowning.
There is no back up Banannas in WA this time around,Carnarvon was quietly wiped out whilst the rest of the country was watching QLDs problems.
Andrew

I was over there then and they were still charging up to $14.95 a kilo at and around Quinns Rocks where I was.
John

[mickashay]

Question is whether a significant quantity can be salvaged, what with closed roads, no power etc. I imagine they have to get into controlled atmosphere storage within a day or two? But as you point out, there should not be a shortage - yet!

John

true,but alot of farms prepare for these storms and will work like crazy before the storm and be back out there right after it,the one i worked on had underground storage with genarators for back up and shipping containors to store stuff in, the banannas only go to a cold room to delay them going ripe but will be ok for a little while,,i think the supermarkets should have to wait to raise there price not take advantage of a bad situation

[Blknight.aus]

at our local they have little signs up under the nanas.

we've pushed our prices up already as we have paid double to going rate for our last batch of banana to help the growers into a speedy recovery (or something like that)

near on $6 when they're normaly $3.something

[d@rk51d3]

Listened to a spokesman for the banana co-op, on the radio the other day. He said SA storehouses were packed to the gills with bananas, and there were literally truckloads still on their way in. No shortage for a while yet.

Yet prices have doubled overnight in the big stores. (probably compensating for their $1 per litre "milk wars").

Many growers estimate to be back in production in 4 months, as the bulk of the growing season is still ahead.

[DiscoMick]

According to today's Australian before the cyclone growers were getting $3 a kilo from the supermarkets which then sold them for $7-9 a kilo. Predicted after the cyclone the growers will get $9-10 a kilo and supermarkets will charge $14 a kilo.