Edeka store manager on skyrocketing food prices: "It has become incredibly expensive"

Created: 05/13/2022, 11:32 am

By: Max Wochinger

When the oil ran out, it was difficult to get more supplies for a long time.

(symbol photo) © Sascha Steinach/imago

A bottle of oil for 3.49 euros?

No rarity.

Food prices have skyrocketed.

Seam improvement?

We asked Edeka manager Ronny Orpel.

Neubiberg

– Food prices have risen rapidly in recent weeks.

The consumer price for cooking oil, for example, has risen from 99 cents to 3.49 euros, says Ronny Orpel.

He runs the Edeka Hertschek store in Neubiberg.

In the interview he talks about the price development.

Mr. Orpel, do you have any oil?

Yes, everything is back.

Flour and oil were often out.

But at the moment it's working again, only the prices have risen significantly.

The price of cooking oil has risen from 99 cents to 3.49 euros.

It doesn't matter whether it's oil from Greece or from somewhere else: it has become incredibly expensive.

Many retailers are still having delivery problems.

And your customers still buy it?

People talk about how expensive it is.

We also have to have more discussions about why the products are so expensive.

But I don't notice that the buying behavior has changed.

People have to buy it anyway, it's gotten more expensive in other stores too.

No more hamster purchases?

The customers have calmed down.

At first they had taken five or six bottles of oil with them.

Now it's back to normal.

Maybe it's the prices.

As a retailer, how much do you add to the suppliers' prices?

Of course, the merchant wants to earn something.

Unfortunately, we also have to ask for more.

Not only are our energy costs rising in the market, in principle everything has become more expensive: the supplier also demands more because he pays more for petrol to deliver the goods.

A big circle.

Can you buy the goods for your supermarket yourself or does the order go through Edeka?

We have to buy a certain part from Edeka, we can organize the rest ourselves.

We also got weird offers for oil.

What do you mean?

A trader wanted to sell us oil from Hungary.

But the price was utopian.

Are food prices falling again?

I do not think so.

It stays at the level.

This shows me my experience in the food trade

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