Residents of Shijiazhuang neighborhood spouted off about soaring prices. (Video screenshot)
After the outbreak of the epidemic, Shijiazhuang closed the city and neighborhoods in an emergency, limiting the channels for people to shop for food, but businesses are accused of taking advantage of the opportunity to inflate prices. Despite authorities’ claims of stable prices and announcements of a crackdown on price gouging, a large number of residents tweeted on Weibo that vegetable prices had risen wildly and even doubled.
Hebei official media reported on January 8, “During the epidemic prevention and control period, 70 supermarket chains such as Northland Supermarket, Yonghui Supermarket, Suning Carrefour Supermarket and other supermarket stores jointly promised that from January 8 to the end of January, cabbage, potatoes and onions three kinds of storage resistant vegetables to implement the price of the people, set up special counters, and on the basis of the price does not increase, while achieving an adequate supply. “
On January 9, Shijiazhuang officials declared to crack down on “market violations”, rewards “report price gouging” and so on.
January 10 held in Hebei Province, the epidemic prevention and control conference, the Hebei Provincial Market Supervision Administration Director Jin Hongjun also declared that the main necessities of life prices are stable.
The public felt a different reality, but on January 10, the net exposure Shijiazhuang Tongxiangcheng district around the stores sitting on the price. Some people said that 2 pounds of leeks, 2 pounds of cucumbers, 1 bag of shredded pancakes, 1 bag of noodles to sell 105 yuan. Cited many people’s resonance. In this regard, the community property said that the price of food is the personal behavior of stores, not related to the property.
Netizen “of course …” posting: “It is indeed so ah. A few pounds of eggs a cabbage, a cauliflower, a few potatoes zucchini less than 200 yuan.”
Urhalo: “Now all seem to be price gouging, today colleagues bought a cauliflower weighed themselves 2.2 pounds, spent 18 yuan, accounting for 8 yuan a catty!”
Flower burning mountain …: Hebei we here green pepper 12 a catty, pepper 15 …. Lettuce are sold to ten a catty! Cilantro 15 a catty! Ginger 18 a catty! Onion five dollars a pound, eggs five dollars five, garlic yolk or something more can not afford to eat.
Will not start …: But now prices are really not generally high, commemorate it, just buy fruit on 200 pieces. The price of vegetables and eggs has also doubled.
Ala small …. “You say that the courier resumes receiving and sending it, but businesses simply do not sell and do not take orders. You also say that supermarket vegetables do not rise in price, but people simply can not go out how to buy, near only the community vegetable supply, all kinds of vegetable prices doubled.”
“@ Gong Lima 736494946” posted: “I Shijiazhuang, vegetables do not rise in price is wrong, one than the other up hard, there are packages, want to buy two pounds of vegetables and fruits also have to come with a large bag of flour, rice, oil, but also a community enough to send a hundred copies, I just want vegetables, eggs What? To the official comment was also deleted, do this kind of face-saving efforts have strength?”
“Gundy CP” also questioned the authorities’ claim of “stable prices of essential goods”, saying “vegetables and eggs have gone up a lot, so why are they still saying it’s stable? Who is deceiving?” Another person said, “held a conference to say this word “vegetable prices do not rise” people useless, said the price of food is not the same useless, this is not the words of the people, you look at the comments underneath, everyone is commenting on the price of vegetables rose, this is not an individual case. This is obvious bragging it, or say this word has been blinded by the illusion.”
Cooling many vegetable prices skyrocketed
In addition to Shijiazhuang vegetable prices skyrocketing in the human factor, at the same time because of the national cooling, many areas into the “freezing” mode. Vegetable transportation and preservation costs increased, resulting in the retail price of some vegetables also rose.
Beijing netizen “Feifei…”: just a week, the price of vegetables rose like crazy, during the New Year’s Day 3 yuan to buy 3 cabbage, yesterday 3 yuan to buy a, the price doubled more than. I do not know whether it is the impact of the cold wave or the impact of the epidemic?
Beijing netizen “Za Za Xiao” in microblogging message: “vegetable prices drifted up, next to the old lady said: the price of potatoes have doubled!” He also posted the price of vegetables in local supermarkets, including a cabbage, 12.39 yuan, a white radish also costs 8.32 yuan.
In Shandong, the price of onions, peppers and other vegetables rose more. A Qingdao City, agricultural products wholesale market merchants revealed that sharp peppers usually more than 3 yuan a catty, now a catty more than 9 yuan. And the wholesale price of scallions was 2-3 yuan a month ago, but now it has risen to 6-6.5 yuan.
According to mainland media reports, a citizen in downtown Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, when buying vegetables in the market, also encountered a “doubling of vegetable prices”: “vegetable prices are indeed rising, look at my bag of greens, the same weight, more than twice as expensive as two days ago.”
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