What's with the price of....

[eryn]

What's with the price of....

BROCCOLI????

I had to pay $8 a kilo for it today and that really sucks!! Especially as the reason I'm buying extra is for the bunny!

 

[karen perry]

omg i was gonna say cant say i like it enough to pay that for it

 

[cherryberry]

yikes! That IS expensive. Australia doesn't grow it I take it?

 

[eryn]

yes we do...fruit and veg is getting ridiculously overpriced lately. I've seen apples, bananas etc for that price too. And if you want grapes you pay between 10 and 20 and you can imagine the berries, cherries etc.

 

[karen perry]

omg im so glad i dont live there i buy tons of fruit and i thought me paying £20 a time was bad enough

 

[nockosh]

wowzer that seems expensive. I don't think we are that price over this end of oz, I will have to take notice next time I do the shopping

 

[amandajane]

I was going to say, I think you are living on the wrong side of the country.

just kidding, I love WA and have lived there myself. I think this year with all the extremes in weather a lot of fruit and vege areas are suffering.

 

[star74]

Geeezzz that really IS expensive!!!! Here we pay about $1,75 a kilo!

 

[eryn]

I've heard that WA is a very expensive place to live at the moment

 

[mrs2a50]

I have no idea how much that is!

 

[eryn]

lol!

 

[MandaKay]

I don't have a clue how much that is either, but usually when fruits and veggies go up around here it is because the growing season was hurt by some sort of weather or something - a supply and demand thing!

 

[eryn]

well 1kg is about 2.2pounds and our dollars are close-ish at the moment. so that would be about $4 a pound I guess.
It's more than double what I would like to pay!

 

[mrs2a50]

Yikes. That's very expensive! I get cranky when it's over $1.50 per pound!

 

[~Julie~]

Me too Julie. I couldn't buy it if it was that expensive.

 

[ShannaNoel]

lol I am glad you explained it! I had no idea either! LOL