Jiangmen: Fruit price rose up to 20% during Mid-Autumn Festival

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, on the fruit market, apples, longan, pomelo, grapes, pomegranate and other fruits have already been on the market. At the same time, there are "new faces" of fruit with foreign origin. Recently, the reporter visited the Jianghui Fruit Wholesale Market and a number of farmers’ markets in the city. It was discovered that due to the substantial increase in fruit sales, the price of fruit has risen slightly. Fruit wholesalers expect that the fruit sales and prices will reach the peak during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the people want to buy it. Cheap fruit, now is a good time.

Wholesale market sales increase by 50%

Kyoho grape 55 yuan / box, Crystal Fuji apple 80 yuan / box, black buckwheat 65 yuan / box, domestic kiwi 35 yuan / box, September 25, the reporter visited the Jianghui fruit wholesale market when learned that due to Mid-Autumn Festival, the wholesale price of various types of fruit has shown a slight increase.

Ms. Li of the Yingji Fruit Wholesale Store told the reporter that the wholesale price of homemade fruits has generally risen by 3 to 5 yuan per box, of which domestically produced kiwifruit has risen by 3 yuan per box, and domestic crystal Fuji apple has gained 5 yuan per box. "The increase in domestic fruit is not large. Imported fruit is affected by transportation costs and market factors, and there has been a large increase." Miss Li, for example, imports blackcurrants is usually more than 200 yuan per box, is now up nearly 100 yuan.

“At present, our daily fruit sales are 50% more than normal. In order to ensure supply, we have increased our purchase volume by 40%.” The owner of Yongxing Fruit Wholesale Store believes that based on past experience, the fruit sales peak of Mid-Autumn Festival will appear at 9 Around the 29th of the month, sales will be higher than it is now, and prices will also rise by more than 15%.

Mid-Autumn people buy imported fruit greedy self <br> <br> Subsequently, the reporter went to the market and will be east of the city center market, I saw most of the fruit shop section should have a large number of fresh fruit on the market, more varieties, attracted Many citizens come to buy.

"Apples, cantaloupes, grapes and grapefruit are all essential fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's not too expensive nowadays. It should be bought earlier." Chen Yun, who is buying fruit at a fruit store in the Chengdong Market, told reporters.

Chen Hao believes that if you wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival to buy fruit, not only the price is not worthwhile, and there are fewer varieties to choose from. "Now to buy home fruit, I usually put it in the refrigerator and come out to eat it near the Mid-Autumn Festival," said Chen Yu.

In addition, the reporter also found that imported fruits such as New Zealand kiwifruit, Vietnamese dragon fruit, and American blackcurrant were highly sought after by the public. "Usually, we usually eat homemade fruit, but I think Mid-Autumn Festival should eat high-grade foreign fruit to solve the problem." The public thinks Mr. Zhang.

“Starting from last week, the sales of fruit stores were nearly 40% higher than in the off-season. Every day, more than 10 fruit baskets sold for a unit price of 200 yuan were sold.” said a fruit store owner in the central market of the city. Many citizens bought more than 500 yuan of imported fruit at a time. His single-day profit was nearly 30% more than usual.

“Normally, the retail sales of fruit on the Mid-Autumn Festival will be doubled, and the price will also increase, or the increase will be as high as 20%. Therefore, it is very early for the public to buy cheap fruit,” said the boss.