Food prices up
Consumers keep waiting for prices to go down, but all they seem to get are price increases. Producers, millers, traders and importers have left the Dominican people waiting and have not kept their promise to lower prices. A month and a half ago these sectors promised President Fernandez that they would not increase their prices on basic foodstuffs, yet that is just what they have done. Mass-market products like eggs and vegetables have gone up, sometimes by as much as 25% and even 30%. A carton of 30 eggs is sold at RD$180 and consumers are paying as much as RD$6 and RD$6.50 per unit, when they used to cost RD$5. Reporters from El Caribe took to the streets yesterday and visited public markets and supermarkets run by the National Price Stabilization Institute (Inespre) and found the same product being sold at different prices. In the case of eggs, in [...]
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