Food prices hike not only happening in Sarawak but whole Malaysia
This is what the Minister said during this interview,
Zakaria said the ministry did not have the power to stop price increases at food outlets unless it involved controlled items. He urged consumers to stop patronising shops and restaurants that continued to impose higher charges without reason.
He also said,
“The price of fuel has stabilised. There are no more increases in petrol or diesel prices, so transportation charges have stabilised. Therefore, prices of foodstuff should not keep increasing. However, it seems that some meat sellers, coffeeshops and restaurant operators continue to raise prices at will. They have no valid reason to keep charging higher and higher. This increase will encourage other businesses and service providers to raise charges,”
In the news, the food prices in Miri were multi-fold hiked.
MIRI: There has been a multi-fold increase in prices of foodstuff and drinks in Sarawak after the fuel price increase two months ago.
A random check showed that iced milo and iced lemon tea is now sold at RM2.30 a glass in some outlets compared to the previous price of RM1.50.
The price of a bowl of wantan mee had also shot up. In some outlets, dry wanton mee is sold at RM4 compared to RM2.50 previously.
A bowl of plain kolok mee is priced between RM2.50 to RM3 compared to RM1.70 before.
A plate of economy rice (with two vegetables and one meat) now costs between RM4 and RM5.
Only a handful of outlets are selling economy rice at RM3 to RM3.50, which is the old price.
Prices of wet market products have also shot up.
Pork costs RM15 per kg, an increase of RM3.
Restaurants and high-class coffeeshops selling food with pork as its main ingredient have raised prices as well.
A plate of char siew rice at a renowned coffeeshop near the city has increased from RM3.50 to RM5.
Dear Minister, you are really don’t know what happen at the grass root level. You are assuming everything is stabilised and then everything is OKAY. How about the list of goods price hike? The food prices not only tsunami hike in Sarawak but in whole nation. The chain reaction effect is affecting everyone. Minister, do you understand what chain reaction is? When the cost of raw material (fuel price hiked 41% in a night) multi-fold hiked, production cost will sky high too. In order to overcome this, manufactures have to increase the price of goods. Again Minister, do you know how many levels (people) goods need to go through before them reach to end user (consumer) or at shop/outlets/supermarkets? Price of goods will be increased when go through those levels. Don’t tell us people will not add more cost on those goods in order to make some profit. As the result, when goods reach to end user, the price already several times increased.
The 41% of fuel price hiked is one of the reasons. The hiked was too huge in a night, you should know the next wave is tsunami good price hike! Why you don’t know that? Minister said they can’t do anything, then, who cans? They are not Government? Can’t bring up in Cabinet meeting?
What we are concentrating now? Racist remarks, sodomy, DNA, liwat, Malay unity, what else? Solid solution for economy? Never mind, everything is okie-mah. Who suffer the most? Should all of us wake up and look at ourselves now?
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July 29th, 2008 at 6:00 am
maybe it is time they talk about the reduce price in crude oil and revise their policy