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There is more expensive!
Three weeks before the elections to the State Duma, food prices are rapidly increasing: Monitoring Sobikov "New"
The Russian authorities announced a week of “socialists”: money in the format of one -time payments is distributed to pensioners, families with children, even teachers. And they do this with undisguised pleasure, realizing the whole breadth of the election gesture.
But the point here is not only that United Russia needs to strengthen its electoral positions in order to remain a party in the new parliament. In a row, inflation has been raging in the country for many months in a row. According to the latter, August, data - the increase in prices in annual terms has amounted to record 6.6%record since 2016. Moreover, the consumer basket of Rosstat is formed, mildly, not from premium products, but the share of Russians who are forced to save on food reached a third. That is, the inflation observed by people in grocery stores has long been not 5% or even 10%. Since all the government’s attempts to stabilize the situation with prices have failed, numerous “frosts” from the arsenal of the Soviet state plan were doomed from the very beginning, and it was too difficult and politically unsafe to develop competition - it was necessary to plug holes in the budgets of citizens from the budget. They killed two birds with one stone, compensating for the losses from inflation and strengthening the loyalty of voters? This is unlikely: that they can change 10 thousand rubles, when everything rides at such a speed. The Sobriks of the New Monitoring of prices in their regions and compiled a hit parade of the most “elongated” products.
Saratov
“Go to Doshirak. Vegetables on the counter are valued, and farmers are forced to reduce crops
In recent months, the price of carrots has become the topic of memes and performances of officials. In June, President Vladimir Putin explained on a straight line why the insidious root crop was more expensive than bananas (110 rubles per kilogram against 78). In July, the Saratov governor Valery Radaev was forced to answer a similar question of residents of the St. Petersburg region. By that time, carrots in a rural store cost 150 rubles.
"Is it a lot or a little?" - asked the head of the region, demonstrating an amazing proximity to the people. “This is a terrible price,” the residents explained.
The wallets of the Saratovites attacked not only carrots. According to the official information of the Saratovstat, in the middle of summer, the average price of potatoes was 95.6 rubles per kilogram, onions - 101.5 rubles, cabbage - 101.9 rubles. Now local vegetables began to arrive on the shelves, and the vegetable set has become more accessible. In chain stores, potatoes costs 28–32 rubles, carrots - 45-50 rubles.
“The crop is not excellent, but good,” says Anatoly Moiseev, a farmer from the Bazaar-Karabulak district. In his opinion, "the wholesale price of potatoes will be within 20 rubles, at the level of last year."
The costs of manufacturers have grown this season. “Diesel fuel has risen in price by 15 percent. Spare parts for some positions - twice. There is nothing to talk about fertilizers! In addition to potatoes, we grow cereals. This year we first sow winter out without fertilizers, ”says Anatoly Viktorovich.
The main problem of the vegetable breeder is called personnel. “The potato has a very large share of manual labor, more than on sunflower and grain. I have been working for thirty years. We always attracted schoolchildren. The teenagers earned, the school stored for the winter. Now the situation has reached Mazhmus: it is almost impossible to accept a minor for temporary work - there are too many pieces of paper and checks, ”the farmer explains.
“I doubled the salary of a handy of vegetables, but I can’t find people.
One state program after another. Then 5 thousand will be given, then 10 thousand. Many of this social layer now do not go to work at all, they have enough.
I can’t increase the salary further - you won’t beat off such expenses on vegetables. It’s easier to sow sunflower and pay 50 thousand three machine operators, ”says farmer Vladimir Gferberg from the Lysogorsky district. - In the Volgograd region, farmers, to whom migrant workers came from Uzbekistan before, did not sow at all, even sold seeds. ”
High retail prices for vegetables are not so profitable for manufacturers. “We have shops through which we sell our products. The average check remains the same: for the same money, the buyer takes less goods. The mood is bad. We move to Doshirak, ”the farmer notes.
“There were three farms in our village. Two closed. I am holding on. How much is enough for me - for two years, for three? - the interlocutor shrugs. - What help from the state is needed? If only they did not interfere. The buyer went to the store without a mask - we were a fine of 50 thousand. Now the ecology has gone with checks. I understand that they want to put things in order, but for some reason they always start with us. ”
Vegetables are grown in eight of 38 regions of the Saratov region. This year, it is planned to produce 164 thousand tons of onions, cabbage, carrots and beets. The Saratov Ministry of Agriculture assures that this "completely covers the needs of the region." To bring down prices, local authorities intend to increase the number of fairs (now about 1.8 thousand seats are allocated on the streets of the cities of the region for vegetable trading). Governor Valery Radaev, as in previous crises, personally walks with the retinue of officials and television cameras, checking the price tags.
Official statistics in the region describe a change in food prices with restrained optimism. Saratovstat reports that from January to July, food products went up by 4.3%, but already in July prices went down - 0.83% by June. Now a conditional minimum set of food products costs 4.3 thousand rubles.
Studies conducted by non -state structures give a different picture. The network of research companies “Polstars.rf”, which leads the monitoring of retail prices for food “Cutiles with purees”, found out that in the Saratov region a conditional diet of 31 products has risen in price over the year, compared to June 2020, by 32.3% (even worse things are only in Omsk). The audit and consulting network "FinExpertiza", which calculated the "potato index", found out,
that the average Saratov salary over the year increased by 9.8%, and a kilogram of potatoes rose by 50.6%.
Nadezhda Andreeva , "New"
SAINT PETERSBURG
And "homeless packets" do not always stand the same. In the northern capital, almost everything has risen in price over the past three months: from seeds and simple pencils to building materials
In general, this year, according to Rosstat, inflation in St. Petersburg reached 4.8% and was higher than in Moscow - by 0.8%. However, Petersburgers, constantly monitoring prices, argue that statistics underestimate the percentage of inflation, at least twice.
But Rosstat ignores the discrepancy with reality. According to Statdas, in St. Petersburg in July, compared with June, inflation even reduced almost double due to the reduction of fruit and vegetable products:
potatoes - according to official information - allegedly fell by 20.3%in a month,
Cucumbers - by 19.5%,
tomatoes - by 17.9%,
bananas - by 5.7%,
Carrots - by 4.6%.
In reality, neither in the markets or in stores, the townspeople never ran into a fall in prices over the summer, at best - in July they kept at the same level as a month earlier. And in August, again, slowly crawled up. Since September, according to retail sellers, wholesalers again plan to increase selling prices for vegetables and fruits by 5-7%.
Unusually expensive natural vitamins in the season, when they are traditionally cheaper, last summer they surprised Petersburgers no less than abnormal heat. Suppliers explain the high cost of several reasons at once: drought, crop failure, rising prices for fuel and lubricants, a lack of refrigerated transport, the decline of drivers from the CIS countries due to coronavirus pandemia and the accompanying increase in the cost of transportation in Russia.
It is not as noticeable as vegetables and fruits, but from May to August, to varying degrees, all food products have risen in price with rare exceptions.
So, for example, have not changed in price :
sugar (from 46 to 50 rubles per kg),
flour (from 60 to 70 rubles per kg),
potatoes (from 60 to 80 rubles per kg)
Carrots (as she jumped in June up to 70–90 rubles per kg, so, having received the attention of even Putin, she froze at this mark).
Slightly rose :
eggs (from 80–115 rubles. For a dozen to 90–120 rubles),
Milk with a fat content of 3.2% (instead of 70 rubles per liter, it became 80 rubles),
Low -fat cottage cheese (from 330–360 rubles per kg increased to 340–370 rubles).
The rest of the price tags underwent more significant adjustment.
Absolute record holders in terms of cost - butter, meat and fish.
Oil , which in May sold 800 rubles each. For kg, today in St. Petersburg they sell 920–950 rubles.
Pork with 300-320 rub. For kg, it has grown up to 360–380 rubles.
Beef - from 560 to 590 rubles. for kg,
Kura - from 240 to 260 rubles. for kg.
The fish and completely turned into “gold” from simple: an average of 100 rubles. The white one has risen in price (instead of 299 rubles, for kg, now it costs 399 rubles, cod instead of 399 rubles per kg - 499 rubles) and about 200 rubles. - Red (for a kilogram of trout today you need to pay 1890 rubles. Instead of the previous 1690 rubles, per kilogram of salmon - 1990 rubles instead of 1790 rubles).
Sausages manufactured at meat processing enterprises of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region were “overestimated” for the third time in a year (each margin was 5–7%). Manufacturers refer to the increase in raw materials and manufacturing, and also complain of a sharp decrease in sales, which also reflects on the price of the product. According to suppliers, the consumption of meat and meat products by the inhabitants of the Northern capital in 2021 decreased by 30–40%.
In St. Petersburg (possibly, in other cities of Russia) this summer, even the statement of the Minister of Labor of the Saratov Region Natalia Sokolova that "pasta always stand the same was the same. Not always. In May, pasta , the cheapest of edible ones, could be found in a store at 49 rubles. For 450 g, now the same packs are sold at 69 rubles. The rapidly discriminate noodles (popularly called “homeless packages”) also could not resist inflation: she also rose 5-7 rubles from spring to stores in stores.
According to the parents of schoolchildren, prices for the school office and other accessories for study (notebooks, pens, pencils, felt -tip pens, albums for drawing and training aids) rose by 1-3%. Last year, collecting a student to school with the necessary margin for the first quarter, it was possible to meet 5 thousand rubles. This year, parents take from 7 to 10 thousand for parents for the same fees.
Nina Petlyanova , "New"
Rostov-on-Don
The hit parade leads cabbage. Prices for other products also do not please the buyer
In mid -July, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council and Secretary of the United Russia General Council Andrei Turchak announced the development of decisions aimed at holding the prices of the so -called “borscht set”.
- Over this weekend, we conducted systemic monitoring in all regions, the regions gave their proposals to stabilize the situation and reduce prices. I want to emphasize that the task is precisely a decrease, ”he said during a thematic meeting on July 19.
Two weeks later, in the south, a massive new harvest arrived in time, and the prices really decreased for something.
The same notorious carrots, which in July went up to the unthinkable 88 rubles per kilo, in August “came to my senses”, in a month fell in price by 36.8% and now on average trading at 57 rubles per kilo.
And the area of price growth this year belongs to cabbage: compared to the beginning of the year, it has risen in price by 77% - 37 rubles per kilogram.
For the Rostov grocery market, this situation is atypical. If you believe the reports of the regional department of the consumer market, all previous years, the white -legged one has never valued in August, but rather, on the contrary: in 2019 it fell into 20% of the price of the year, in 2020 - by 23%.
The behavior in the department atypical for southern vegetable prices was explained by mixing on the shelves of the products of the old and new crops.
“The cost of fruit and vegetable products traditionally demonstrates growth in connection with the influence of the seasonal factor (the rise in cost of the cost of goods of a new crop),” the department announced in June, although their statistics show that southern vegetables have no such “traditions”.
In June last year, carrots cost 35 rubles, having risen in price by 4 rubles, compared with the May price, and in June 2021, for some reason, she went up for a month by 12 rubles.
One of the common unofficial versions is the mass exodus of seasonal workers who, due to pandemia, were forced to return to their countries, and the owners of vegetable plantations had to be hired for higher salaries from among the local population.
The overclock of the largest wholesale fruit and vegetable market in the Aksai district in the south of Russia was added to the Rostov market. His work was partially restored, but interruptions in supplies could not but affect prices in the region.
By the fall, prices were stabilized, but “negative growth”, so beloved by the hostesses, this August was shown only eggs - 63 rubles per ten, “minus” 21% since the beginning of the year; Yes millet (49.8 rubles, –1.8%). Sunflower oil has fallen in price on a percentage of percent (125.4 rubles/liter, -0.7%) and sugar (48.5 rubles/kg, -0.1%).
Last year, in the midst of harvesting, prices decreased much more willingly: pork was cheaper by 4.3%, and chickens by 6.8%; And the cabbage was cheaper, and onions ...
Now, chicken has shown a record - since the beginning of the year it has risen in price by 14%.
Statistics show optimistic 156 rubles per kilogram, but, comparing prices on the popular Russian resource for the delivery of products from supermarkets, you can make sure that at this price, mainly soup sets are sold in Rostov stores. Beef (383 rubles/kg) and pork (299 rubles/kg) also showed inflation in 10% and 12% since January.
Prices for milk practically did not increase: its liter now costs 57.6 rubles, two years ago it cost 54.6 rubles. However, industry experts warn that in September the country is tightened by the rules for the purchase of milk in personal subsidiary farms, this can lead to a shortage of raw materials and, as a result, to rise in price of the final product.
Buckwheat in Rostov costs 91 rubles per kilogram, but this cereal seems to have just exhausted its rise in price.
Last August, she headed the hit parade of the most “elongated” products, having risen in price against the background of the pandemic for a year by 210%.
Elena Romanova , "New"
Yekaterinburg
"The government should be ashamed." Everything has risen in price: building materials, food, ritual services
In the store
Nina Zimina, pensioner:
- Prices are not by the day, but by the hour they are rising. It happens that the price manages to change during the day. I had a situation more than once when I took the goods, brought it to the cashier, and they call me above the cost, explaining that the price has already changed in the cashier’s program, and the employees did not physically replace the price tags on the shelves. All pensioners are outraged. My pension is still not bad - 24 thousand, but now I do not have enough money until the next pension. Recently, we sat without bread for a week - there was nothing to buy for. It is good that there are still stocks of cereals and pasta. And how to live for those who receive a living wage?
I used to help children and grandchildren, but now I can’t help, since I myself am not enough. About a third of pensions in the elderly go to medicine. I buy medicines for pressure, since the beginning of the year their price has doubled. Drops for the eyes - one and a half times. There was a situation in the pharmacy recently: my grandmother came, for a long time she counted her penny, then she realized that she was not enough, and she was at a loss. I asked what medicine there was not enough, she answered: from pressure. I understand that this is a vital drug, without it, the granny will be very bad. I offered to add to the required amount - there were not enough 80 rubles. I barely persuaded to take it, she repeated: “Oh, how embarrassed I am! How ashamed ... I have worked all my life, but now I can’t even buy pills. ” We are not ashamed of the government, but why should we be ashamed?
Another third of my pension goes to a communal apartment, the cost of which is also growing stably. Now is summer, there is no heating fee. And what will happen to our meager income when it gets colder and turn on hot water and batteries?
My friend, receiving a pension of 12 thousand, complained that she gives half the money for a communal apartment, divides the remaining six thousand into medicines and food. If there is no exacerbation or cold, which increases expenses on the pharmacy, then it eats for the remaining three thousand-a little less than 100 rubles per day for food. There is no money left for clothes and household items.
At the construction site
Alexey Koryakin, construction contractor:
- All building material has grown in price by an average of 20 percent. Especially metal and lumber. Two months ago, the cube of the board cost 8,500 rubles, and now - 16 thousand. A ton of metal was purchased for 28-30 thousand, today - 45-50 thousand. The reinforcement could be agreed and bought for 30 thousand, now for less than 60, no one is selling. Plaster and putty grew in price by about 15 percent.
Now there is such chaos in prices that it is completely incomprehensible how to plan and calculate something. I can’t make adequate preliminary calculation and cost estimates for any object.
In the cemetery
Viktor Dzhupin, owner of the funeral services agency in the district center (Sysert):
-Two or three months ago, a tangible increase in prices began. For example, polished coffins until recently we purchased 11 thousand rubles from the supplier, and now their purchase price is 14 thousand. Metal fences cost 800 rubles per linear meter, now - 1,500. The wreaths rose and the Chinese raised the price plus payment for the customs fee. Little wreaths cost 300 rubles, today - more than 400.
In our company, we thought how to make this increase in prices less tangible to the consumer, we came up with a package of economy option services (about 15 thousand it turned out), where some products were a little worse, but cheaper. Однако он не пользуется большой популярностью. Люди предпочитают занять или отдать последние сбережения, но проводить человека в последний путь достойно, купив товары лучшего качества.
Officially
По официальным данным Свердловскстата, средние розничные цены на кур охлажденных и мороженых выросли на 0,4% и по состоянию на 23.08.2021 составили 169,74 руб./кг. В январе цена за килограмм составляла 150,3 руб.
Средняя розничная цена на молоко питьевое цельное пастеризованное 2,5–3,2% жирности выросла на 1,2% и по состоянию на 23.08.2021 составила 51,86 руб./л. В январе это молоко стоило 51,19 руб.
Пшеничная мука 23 августа стоила 67,84 за кг, в начале года — 45,18 руб. Цена на хлеб и булочные изделия из пшеничной муки 1-го и 2-го сорта выросла на 1,3% и на 23.08.2021 составила 59,76 руб./кг. В январе — 59,64.
Росстат отчитывается, что немного снизилась средняя цена на куриные яйца: в конце августа — 68,51 руб. For a dozen. В январе их цена составляла 69,83 руб. Выросла цена и на картофель — 37,45 руб. за кг. Зимой он стоил 30,45 руб.
Isolde of the Drine , "New"
Murmansk
В Арктике морковка не водится. В Заполярье цены растут всегда — новый скачок никого не удивил
Летом Мурманск вымирает — даже в ковидные годы люди стремятся вывезти детей из Заполярья. Поэтому сентенции властей в связи с подорожанием «борщевого набора» (после июльского указания президента снизить цены на составляющие борща) прошли незамеченными для широкой публики.
Между тем, коль скоро глава государства дал указание справиться с ростом цен губернаторам, те в свою очередь делегировали это дело главам муниципалитетов. Хотя непонятно, как именно должен был условный мэр Североморска, жители которого пожаловались губернатору Чибису на дороговизну картошки, повлиять на политику федеральных ритейлеров (а других сетевиков в регионе нет). Однако уже через пару недель после президентского окрика Чибис заявил на оперативке, что цены снизились, правда, не на всё, а на свеклу, морковь и картошку. И как-то ловко увязал это с тем, что чиновники, по его указанию, провели аж 115 рейдов по магазинам.
Ловкость эта, впрочем, несколько нивелируется очевидным фактом: к августу в Мурманске овощи всегда теряли в цене. Не относительно среднероссийской, конечно, стоимости той же картошки, а относительно диких цен начала лета. Просто потому, что к августу рынок насыщается отечественной продукцией, а она дешевле завозной. Местного производства в регионе нет — в Арктике морковка не растет.
До кучи цены упали на лук, пшено и поваренную соль.
Правда, одновременно продолжалось подорожание всего остального — свинины, говядины, баранины, сахара, яблок, капусты, риса.
Но и это неудивительно. Каждый год главная эмоция возвратившихся из отпусков северян — печальное недоумение от новых цифр на ценниках.
И хоть статистики периодически сообщают, будто бы тот или иной продукт взял и подешевел — огурцы, скажем, или, условно говоря, помидоры, на среднем чеке это никак не сказывается за счет подорожания других позиций. На сей раз, правда, оно уж очень заметное: выросли в цене даже макароны, не говоря о гречке. Особенно вздорожало мясо: в регионе его теперь тоже практически не производят, соответственно в себестоимость входит доставка с Большой земли.
Кило говядины сейчас отпускают за 484–500 рублей.
Свинины — за 330,
баранины — 645 рублей.
Курица уходит по 178–200 рублей за килограмм.
Кило сливочного масла стоит 865 рублей,
литр подсолнечного самых простых марок — от 135.
Литр молока — от 70 до 92 рублей.
Десяток яиц — от 78 и до 95 рублей,
килограмм сахара — 52,
риса — 115,
гречки — 139.
Вермишель — от 126 за килограмм.
Завершают список подешевевшие до 50–60 рублей картошка, капуста и морковь. Для сравнения — в июле отпускная цена моркови, по данным Мурманскстата доходила до 80 рублей за килограмм.
Tatyana Britskaya , "New"
Primorye
Смешная история с картошкой. Приморскстат сообщил, что «в июле индекс потребительских цен на товары и услуги в крае составил 100,7% к предыдущему месяцу»
Дорожают даже пакеты. Три месяца назад большой в супермаркете «Реми» стоил 5,99 — сейчас 6,99.
Росли в цене творог, сгущенка, баранки, мороженый кальмар, печень говяжья, констатировала приморская статистика.
Молочка дорожала нещадно. Поллитра кефира 1% «Гринго» в одном и том же сетевом супермаркете «Реми» 29 июня и 25 июля — 59,95 руб, а 28 августа уже — 62,78 руб. С другой стороны, варенец с пенкой «Арсеньевский» подешевел (59,95 руб. в мае–июле — 54,88 руб. в августе), но на него цена «скачет».
В другом супермаркете, «Самбери», биокефир 1% стоил 16 июля 74,99 руб. — сейчас 77,99. Сливочное масло 82,5%: было 149,98 руб. — стало 155,99 руб. For a pack.
В том же «Самбери» колбаса говяжья стоила 545,95 руб. за кило — стала стоить 579,95 руб.
Сосиски «Пятачок», очень любимые детьми, еще 9 августа в чеке значились по цене в 167,99 руб. — сейчас 189,99 за упаковку 480 г. Вот уж откуда не ждали — в конце концов, громадные свинокомплексы, которые в Приморье построены в ТОР «Михайловская» (и, по признанию местных жителей сильно отравляют водоемы и воздух около сел Вишневка, Прохоры, Красный Кут в Спасском районе) должны были уже оклематься от позапрошлогодней вспышки африканской чумы свиней…
Кошачий корм Sheba стоил в мае 30,99 руб. В августе — уже 32,88 руб. Но ценообразование на пищу для моего хвостатого друга — это отдельная тема. Потому что в июне и июле цены колебались: 23,90 и 24,90 руб. respectively.
Смешная история с картошкой — своей в крае долго не хватало, поэтому везли из-за рубежа. Откуда угодно —
из Китая (216 тонн за первые полгода, по данным Россельхознадзора),
Египта (2 тысячи тонн),
Пакистана (это вообще у нас в 2021-м основной импортер картофеля — 13,7 тысячи тонн за первые полгода).
Не то чтобы египетская картошка чем-то отличалась от китайской, но стоила совсем невкусно, рублей по 70–100, а то и по 130. В июле азербайджанский картофель продавали по 100–170 рублей за кило.
А вот из братской Беларуси в Приморский край хоть и приезжают выставки продовольствия и студенты в ДВФУ, но картофель не импортируют. Даже несмотря на то, что губернатор края Олег Кожемяко часто бывает в Минске, в 2019-м получал орден Почета от Лукашенко и, по словам диктатора, «большой друг» страны.
Сейчас пошел молодой приморский картофель по 25–50 рублей за кило (нефасованный) в супермаркетах, по 40–50 — на рынках. Когда он закончится, цены снова взлетят, поскольку Китай вряд ли ослабит ограничительные меры на сухопутной границе. А закончится он довольно скоро, потому что в Приморье в этом году случилась затяжная жара на 4–7 градусов выше многолетней нормы и, по сообщению пресс-службы региона, потери урожая картофеля и кормовых культур составили до 40%.
По данным Приморскстата, цены на свежие помидоры и огурцы снизились на 11% и 24%, соответственно. И это неудивительно — сейчас самый урожай. Зато «подорожали лук репчатый на 6% и свекла столовая на 19%. Из фруктов бананы стали дороже на 3%, груши и апельсины — дешевле на 3% и 6%, соответственно. Рыба лососевых пород подорожала на 4%». Кстати, летом и стоимость красной икры выросла. На сахалинских рынках (а оттуда, как правило, везут даже во Владивосток с оказией) цена доходила до 3000 рублей за полкило, это всего лишь на горбушу! Продавцы объясняли это тем, что «путина еще не началась» — икра браконьерская или наполовину браконьерская (когда документы есть лишь на часть продукции), на Дальнем Востоке этого не стеснялись никогда.
Валерия Федоренко , «Новая»