Flour prices drive pasta prices - our breakfast is more expensive

Evening reporter Li Lina reported that following the rebound of mung bean prices and the recovery of pork prices, flour prices have now quietly increased. Recently, the reporter visited the restaurants and supermarkets of grain and oil stores in Yibin and found that the purchase price per bag of flour (25kg) rose by an average of 5 yuan to 6 yuan. Affected by this, the most common bowls of rice noodles, steamed buns, steamed stuffed buns, and merchants also used price increases or “reductions” to absorb cost pressures.

Status: Noodle buns have gone up

In recent days, Aunt Peng, who lives in the Anjuli district on the south bank of Yibin City, has had a bit of trouble when buying breakfast: The bread shop she frequents is a lot smaller than before. Unable to apologize, Peng aunt finally could not help but give advice to the boss. The boss quickly explained: "No way, the price of flour has risen. I will use the previous 'head' to make a gimmick to lose money."

The original water noodles sold 1.50 yuan / kg, and now it is 1.80 yuan per catty. In the food market in the Phoenix area of ​​South Bank, Mr. Li discovered that the retail price of water noodles in a grain and oil store was RMB 0.30 more per kilogram than in the previous period.

Reporters found in several grain and oil shops and supermarkets in Yibin that prices of flours such as ordinary flour, medium-gluten flour, and high-gluten flour all rose across the board. “In the past two months, the wholesale price of high-gluten flour has risen by 10%, and that of ordinary flour has risen by 5%.” An owner of Shandong Beidaixiang in Yibin City told reporters that since July, 25kg of flour has been loaded From 74 yuan rose to 80 yuan.

Affected by the price increase of flour, Yibin's favorite burning surface has increased from RMB 2.00 to RMB 2.50 per bowl to RMB 2.5 to RMB 3.00 per bowl. “If the price of flour rises, our burning surface has to go up,” said the owner of a number of breakfast shops near the South Bank's central market.

Boss: Reduce the weight of customers

Flour prices, the first reaction is the operation of bread steamed bun industry. The owner of Caotou buns near the Central Bank of the South Coast Market said that since Shantou is a low-margin sale, each one only sells 0.5 yuan. If the price increase is very easy to lose customers, he would prefer to make the gimmick a little smaller. Truth tell the customer why the customer Generally understand.

Reporters visited a number of noodle shops and discovered that the prices of some noodle soups in some noodle restaurants remained basically unchanged, but their weight decreased. "I used to eat a big bowl of beef noodles. I went there again this week and found that the amount was one-third less than before." Ms. Yang told reporters that she recently went to a noodle restaurant near the company with her colleagues. The weight has "shrinked".

The pastry industry has been affected. According to Ms. Lu, a salesman at a bakery and pastry shop, the prices of cakes and breads were adjusted by the store in response to the price of raw materials such as flour and sugar. From the beginning of August, the meat bread rose by 0.2 yuan.

Department: Flour prices due to various reasons

On the 6th, Yibin Price Bureau's price monitoring on flour showed that on that day, the retail price of Yibin's flour was 3.65 yuan/kg, which was an increase of 1.67% from the previous month and an increase of 9.94% compared with the same period of last year; the retail price of the noodle was 2.89 yuan/kg, an increase of 30.77% over the same period of last year.

Why has the "low-key" flour kept quietly rising? Yibin City Price Bureau staff introduced Yibin's local wheat production is not large, mainly from Shandong, Henan and other places. This year, the price of flour in Yibin was higher than last year.

The staff member said that the reasons for the increase in flour prices were: First, the country raised the minimum purchase price for wheat in 2010; Reasonable rising factors brought about by the increase in planting costs; Second, the sustained low-temperature weather this spring led to Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, etc. Some grain varieties in large grain-producing provinces suffered a slight reduction in grain production, resulting in recent increases in corn and rice prices by 16.24% and 10.33% respectively over the same period of last year, which in turn affected the expected increase in wheat prices; followed by countries such as Russia, which reduced food production and restricted wheat exports, resulting in international Market prices of wheat have risen sharply, which has caused a certain conductive impact on the domestic market. In addition, farmers are reluctant to sell. The impact of the international market, domestic natural disasters and rising of some grain varieties, and the weak desire of farmers to realize grain yields have slowed down the sale and sales of wheat. , which in turn affects the balance between supply and demand leads to price increases.

“Although wheat has suffered a slight reduction in production this year due to disasters, the country’s Xiaochun grain has increased production for seven consecutive years, and the country’s grain warehouse has ample wheat stocks. Yibin’s consumption is dominated by rice. Overall, the pattern of wheat supply and demand in the grain market is basically balanced. Will change." Yibin Price Bureau staff analysis, according to current data forecast, this year, although the Yibin market's flour price showed steady trend of rising trend, but its fluctuation is not large; the market supply and demand for flour will not be interrupted, late The price will stabilize.