Price shock in the supermarket threatens: Expensive chocolate for Easter?. After rising in 2023, cocoa prices have risen another 50 percent this year.
Cocoa producers are experiencing lower crop yields due to climate change. Ivory Coast even “suspended trading of futures contracts for the next harvest’ in early February. Lidl “does not want to pass on all price increases to our customers’ customers”, says a spokeswoman for the discounter. “We have been experiencing significant price increases for cocoa on the raw material exchanges for many years”