Butter for 4.29 euros!

Rewe customer perplexed: "Every cheese sandwich is an investment"

Created: 05/14/2022, 16:04

By: Armin T. Linder

Prices in Germany are rising inexorably.

A Rewe customer was now surprised by an expensive butter cup on the supermarket shelf.

Munich – Consumer prices in Germany are rising – customers are feeling this on the supermarket shelves.

And it's by no means just about cooking oil, which is sold at handsome prices.

Tomatoes and cucumbers have also been spotted at horrendous prices.

Rewe customer discovers butter cups for 4.29 euros

You also have to dig deep into your pockets for butter in many places.

A Rewe customer has now discovered a cup for 4.29 euros in the refrigerated section - and is perplexed on Twitter: "Just at Rewe: large Kerrygold butter 4.29 euros.

I don't have a good memory (also) of food prices, but that seems intense to me.

They used to be cheaper?"

Another user promptly points out that it is a 400 gram storage pack (according to the website, the normal one is only 250 grams).

But the Rewe customer already knows that.

"I had already 'empathised'," he replies.

And comments: "Every cheese sandwich is an investment." Unless you don't put the butter under the topping...

And what about the butter price?

Is the 400 gram cup for 4.29 euros (the discovery has not been confirmed by the way, but it doesn't look like a fake either) an exception?

No, as we recently reported.

It is therefore not uncommon for a normal packet of butter to exceed the 3 euro mark.

"Prices are rising to an extent that we have not experienced in the past 40 years," Eckhard Heuser, general manager of the dairy industry association, recently told the

.

Producer prices in Germany rose sharply in March

This is underpinned by the producer price statistics: the already strong price increases among producers in Germany accelerated further in March.

According to the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden on April 20, producer prices rose by 30.9 percent compared to the same month last year.

This is a record since the survey began in 1949. Compared to February, the prices that manufacturers receive for their goods rose by 4.9 percent.

According to the Federal Office, the data already reflects the first effects of the war in Ukraine.

The development in energy continues to be primarily responsible for the price surge.

This was 84 percent more expensive in March than a year earlier.

Producer prices for food were twelve percent higher in March than a year earlier.

The prices for untreated vegetable oils (plus 72 percent), butter (56 percent), beef (31 percent) and coffee (21 percent) rose particularly sharply.

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