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  1. 5th February 2011, 05:26 PM #1
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    Banana prices up already!

    $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.
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  2. 5th February 2011, 05:29 PM #2
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    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.
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  3. 5th February 2011, 05:30 PM #3
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    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
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    Me thinks these are the only bananas I can afford for some time....

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

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  7. 5th February 2011, 05:45 PM #7
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    they charge a lot 'cause they're bent
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    Ours down here are almost always above $3.00/kg. Today I 'stockpiled' so i can freeze them for smoothy production
    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


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  9. 5th February 2011, 06:20 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by justinc View Post
    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
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  10. 5th February 2011, 07:05 PM #10
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    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?!!"

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