If you want to get into my wallet, it's important to know that at the Wolf family home - which includes two adults and one child, who eats like a bird - they burn an average of NIS 5,200 a month.
Almost half of the aforementioned disturbed amount was invested in Volt, and when we realized the depth of the trouble we made a decision on an economic diet, and reduced our monthly Volt expenses to NIS 400, but it did not really help - because the supermarket expenses inflated respectively. 11 and a half thousand shekels a month for Walt deliveries, and about 15,000 shekels for shopping in the supermarket and delicacies - excessive or unrealistic?
About three months ago, a trendy challenge ran on social media, in which people checked and posted how much money they had spent on Volt so far: Someone, who apparently holds the record for the app, presented a total bill of NIS 318,000 over a period of about three years.
Another showed off NIS 146,000, another guy poured NIS 89,000, and the masses publicly revealed that they spent tens of thousands of shekels through the shipping app.
This is a trend that stems from several reasons, including the rise in the price of raw materials, transportation and other related effects that restaurateurs have been digging for a long time.
And there is also the fault of Walt, an app that is almost a monopoly on the market, which allows it to deduct an excessive commission of about 27% before VAT from the price of each order. Updated pricing and price increases in the shipping menu.
And so, suddenly you can order children's spaghetti (that is, noodles without sauce) from a restaurant in Bat Yam for NIS 53, "Hudson" sells a 200-gram hamburger for NIS 119, Eyal Shani markets an omelet in a pita for NIS 27, Omar Miller has toast (Yellow cheese with white bread) For NIS 32, at Shemesh you get a plate of shawarma without toppings for NIS 97, and it is very easy to find restaurants that sell even potatoes for tens of shekels.
To moisten the throat - we will add a small drinking bottle for 15 shekels.
This is annoying, because not all of us were born Shay-Schindler.
Another mine on the way to the plate is hidden in limiting the order to a minimum of NIS 50, which caused many dishes to settle in the 40 and something NIS range, so we will have to add another product to close the order.
Then add at least ten shekels shipping, and sometimes a courier tip.
If, for example, you only want a plate of chickpeas, it will be impossible to close a meal for less than NIS 70 per order.
There is no arguing that 11,000 shekels a month for deliveries from Walt is an exaggeration that should not leave the state coffers, but still, in light of the situation on the ground, in order to feed six high-class people in 2022 - the amount in question is not so unfounded.
Even reasonable.
This is the reality of the State of Israel, a reality in which a visit to a supermarket for ten basic products cannot amount to less than NIS 150.
Blame inflation and complain about the greed of business owners, but in the meantime prices continue to rise, and to eat neatly - every person needs thousands of shekels every month.
Although food is an essential product for our existence - it is slowly becoming difficult to obtain.
The current situation was supposed to make Israelis scream, shout, boycott, look for alternatives, organize protests.
But instead of taking the Bennett family as a collective example, we were troubled by comparisons to five-year-olds' predecessors in office.
The public criticism this week surrounding the Walt affair was crooked and self-interested, stemming from the fact that the story was leaked to the media for political reasons in the first place to portray Prime Minister Bennett as a spendthrift who lives at the expense of the taxpayer.
This is how we dealt with Bibi-Bennett-Gilat-Sarah again, when the important story of Walt melted away without discussing the real problem: the national distress that is the rise in food prices, and the failure of governments, which are directly responsible for stopping the rising cost of living.
nirw@israelhayom.co.il
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