Many groceries in supermarkets are sold to customers in jars.
However, the material is currently much more expensive to produce than it was a year ago.
Munich – From the pandemic to the Ukraine war, from supply bottlenecks to the energy crisis: there have recently been many reasons why prices have risen in this country and caused inflation.
There were price increases in almost every industry, whether for high-tech devices whose manufacturers are struggling with shortages of chips, or for consumer goods or food.
Now it also affects a raw material on which the price of many products in supermarkets or discounters such as Edeka, Rewe and Co: depends: glass.
Glass prices in Germany have risen massively: 50 percent above the previous year's level
As the
Lebensmittel Zeitung
reports, the prices for glass have risen massively.
The managing director of the glass manufacturer Wiegand, Nikolaus Wiegand, also explained this to the newspaper.
"Our price level in January was around 50 percent higher than in the same month last year." The reason for this is the increased raw material prices for sand, lime, soda and waste glass, which are required for the production of new glass.
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Expensive glass: The prices of pickled fruit and vegetables are also likely to rise.
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Honey, jam, pickles, alcohol: all of this will probably soon be more expensive in the supermarket
"The times are not easy for any of us at the moment, not for the consumers and not for us," agrees Christof Queisser, CEO of Rotkummel-Mumm.
What does this mean for consumers who buy the groceries in the supermarkets?
The high glass prices are passed on to them, which means that products such as jam, honey, pickles or alcohol become more expensive.
According to Queisser, for example, a price increase of 50 cents to one euro for sparkling wine is to be expected.
Wine should also increase in price by one to two euros.
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