What should I do if vegetable prices increase during the epidemic? Can I report the increase in vegetable prices during the epidemic?

During the epidemic, have you ever noticed that the prices of vegetables purchased in supermarkets are on the high side? This is a normal phenomenon and cannot be reported. The entire Hubei Province is currently under lockdown, and communities are also closed. No one can go out to buy food. They can only purchase set meals through online supermarket group buying or ask people in the community to help make unified purchases. At this time, labor costs will increase, so food prices will be a little more expensive than before.

What to do if vegetable prices increase during the epidemic

During the epidemic, vegetable prices will increase because labor costs increase during the epidemic.

Due to the pneumonia epidemic, many transportation companies have not started operations. We are now in a special period. There are fewer vegetables that can be transported, which naturally leads to a slight increase in vegetable prices. Moreover, many people are unwilling to work during this period, resulting in increased labor costs at this time.

Can I report the increase in vegetable prices during the epidemic?

During the epidemic, if you find that live poultry is still being slaughtered in the market, the price of masks has skyrocketed, or vendors are driving up vegetable prices, etc., please call the market supervision hotline: 12315.  

However, according to the current situation, the supply prices of vegetables in various places are within a reasonable range. Some merchants who have raised prices indiscriminately have been dealt with. I believe that major supermarkets will not raise prices again during the epidemic.

Reasons for the rise in vegetable prices during the epidemic

The skyrocketing price of vegetables is mainly caused by the imbalance between short-term supply and demand. Short-term purchase demand has skyrocketed, and short-term supply cannot keep up in time.

Based on the expectation of disaster, people have to stock up. Short-term grocery shopping is usually done once a day. Nowadays, they want to stock up on everything they buy for half a year. Vegetables cannot be stored for that long. It is not uncommon to buy enough for three to five days a week. In this way, purchasing demand has increased by 3-7 times ( Roughly speaking, I mainly want to describe the short-term surge in demand caused by panicked people)

On the supply side, I believe that even if traffic is blocked or even the city is closed, it will not affect the supply line of people's livelihood supplies, but it is impossible for the supply to cater to the exponentially increasing demand.

So it is inevitable that vegetable prices will rise. In the long run, as long as the epidemic has no impact on vegetable fields and the increase in transportation costs is controllable, vegetable prices will always go down slowly.

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