Zongzi price hiking merchants simplified the packaging to push "civilian dumplings"
June 6th news (reporter Qiu Yi Intern Hu Guodong) "a common jujube zongzi is more than two!" The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and the people sigh that the zongzi is too expensive. On the 4 day, reporters visited the Ji'nan market and found that the price of zongzi in the provincial capital increased by nearly 30% this year due to the substantial increase in prices of raw materials such as glutinous rice, which produced zongzi.
in a supermarket in Jiji Road, the reporter found that the brand of zongzi is promoting, 480 grams of fresh fragrant pig dumplings price is 15.6 yuan, a brand of 400 grams of bean dumplings, eight treasure dumplings, red date dumplings are 17.9 yuan, the ordinary simple zongzi also sold to about two yuan. "Although the brand of the promotion is on sale, it is still up compared with last year." Ms. Wang, who is buying zongzi, said, Ms. Wang.
in a large supermarket on Lishan Road, the reporter saw that the simple corn, red bean, eight treasure and peanut dumplings were 5.28 yuan per Jin. The simplified letinous edodes meat dumplings, chestnut dumplings, fresh meat dumplings were 8.9 yuan / Jin, and the hardloaded brand of zongzi was 10.8 yuan... "In the past two years, supermarkets bought seven or eight dumplings, and today I bought four corn dumplings for 4.4 yuan. On average, I got three or four cents each." Ms. Li, who has just finished buying dumplings, told reporters.
"the retail price of zongzi this year is generally about 30% higher than that in 2009." The supermarket zongzi salesman disclosed that, in order to reduce the price, many businesses have launched a simple package of civilian rice dumplings this year. "According to the sales volume of this half month, the dumpling packaged dumplings are most popular among the public."
a person in charge of the Jinqiao food factory in Shandong said that since last year, almost all the raw materials related to the production of zongzi have been rising sharply. The glutinous rice, which accounts for more than 70% of the production cost of zongzi, last year's purchase price of 3.6 yuan / kg, this year exceeded 6 yuan / kg, or nearly 70%. The price of sugar rose to around 6000 yuan / ton from last year's 4000 yuan / ton. In addition, some of the lotus seeds, dates and mung beans have doubled.