Buying your wand could soon cost you a little more. “You have to expect between five and ten cents more”, specifies Emmanuel Gripon president of the Federation of Bakers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, also at the head of that of Deux-Sèvres. An increase in the price of bread which can be explained by “the increase in raw materials, between 7 and 10% for flour for example, and the increase in the price of energy. We are obliged to pass on these charges to make our businesses sustainable”.
After the bread, probably the pastries and pastries
At “La carte”, a bakery in Châtillon-sur-Thouet near Parthenay, the price increase should take place in early November. The tradition will go from € 1 to € 1.05. “We have no choice. It will initially be the bread and secondly the pastry and viennoiserie. All the raw materials take a little bit. There is the butter, the eggs, the packaging too. increase “, explains Laurent Defaye, the baker.
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An increase announced which makes the customers of Deux-Sèvres react. “It’s a basic product. It impacts the daily budget, especially when families buy two or three baguettes. The purchasing power does not increase”, regrets Peggy. “I still find that it’s still correct compared to the cost of gasoline. The baguette if it’s too expensive we don’t buy it. Gasoline, everyone needs it to go to work”, says Sophie.
According to the Federation of Bakers of Deux-Sèvres that was “minimum seven years” that the price of the baguette had not changed.