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The purchasing power of the French is decreasing and prices are increasing. That of steak chopped is no exception to the rule and it cost much more expensive than a year ago.
With 6% increase in one month and 12.8% in one year, the prices of steak chopped flambé. While some continue to buy it, others change their habits and refuse to continue eating this increasingly expensive commodity. An increase that has several causes, such as the rise in the price of cattle feed and the rise in transport costs.
“The lamb would have taken 50 cents lately, the pork is the same, everything listed, filet mignon, the pork took too”this butcher draws a bitter observation of the increase in meat prices. Rather than passing on these increases to customers, he prefers to choose another solution: “Right now, I’m eating off my margin rather than raising rates and losing customers and losing merchandise. “ the worse could be to come as no declines are expected and prices are expected to continue to rise.