Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

[shake d livin wake d dead]

ent allyuh does pay $800 for a bottle costing $220 on them boat ride ?
why allyuh complaining

Massy on a roll....and the extremely sad part is.....there are those who will buy

[Ben_spanna]

MArket or Aranguez for me! aint supportin the Supermarket mafia

[88sins]

MArket or Aranguez for me! aint supportin the Supermarket mafia

home garden crew checkin een

[timelapse]

MArket or Aranguez for me! aint supportin the Supermarket mafia

home garden crew checkin een

Wham now growmie?

[sMASH]

Well...

[S_2NR]

All this beat for an accidentally overpriced baigan

[sMASH]

All this beat for an accidentally overpriced baigan

Is who jump out to defend it, with which reason.


They don't have a straight story, but know they need to calm the place down.

[Dizzy28]

Massy holds a gun to anyone's head to compel them to buy?
JC ppl act like they have a monopoly on any of the items they sell. If they overpriced go somewhere else.
Why all the beatup??

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Lol at people who buy vegetables from a grocery

[Rovin]

main reason to buy fruits\veggies in a grocery is u already make market & only u ran out of something\forget 1 or 2 items & hard pressed for time , u will obviously pay more for d convenience of it

with all this beat up u might see ppl now posting more pricey stuff at hilo ... imagine if some ppl went by a quick shop in a gas station to buy something & see d even more higher pricing

[hover11]

Just dropping this here

[Chimera]

Massy prices have always been expensive

and their pricing structure is based on a sliding scale

i have a padna who does supply some of their stores with pumpkin

based on market price, massy will give them a figure above that that is valid for a week or two

so say market price is 50 cents per lb, massy might pay them $1 or $1.50 a lb...price valid for 7 or 14 days

they deliver pumpkin, massy cuts it up and packages it out and weighs out the seeds and guts, that they have to MINUS from the weight they are being paid for, massy doesn't pay for the seeds/guts that the supplier would have paid for

then massy supposedly discards their unsold produce(and meat) every 3 days, if it isnt sold within 3 days its thrown in a big bin and bleach and disinfectant poured over it so people wont take it to use or resell

so with the sliding scale above....its a contract you enter into with massy...when things good...things good

but last year when pumpkin hit $7 and a lb....and the massy price was still at $1.50 or $2
my padna had to find himself paying $7 a lb for pumpkin and selling it back to massy for $1.50 and $2
and thats based on the contract that they had over 20 or 30 years so spending 70 or 80k in pumpkin a week to get back 10-15k
until the price was adjusted to reflect market value


and nobody FORCING yuh to buy massy products
u cud go market or shop roadside and save

is the same thing when u wanna go residence or silhouettes and pay $1500 for moet and $600-$800 for johnnie
when yuh cud go in a bar and pay $400 450 for johnnie

or stay yuh ass home and drink johnnie for $250

instead of going the Brix or hilton for $2000 a night to jam, go double palm and jam for a $500

everybody have their choice.....

[Chimera]

Btw massy would pay them every two weeks or every month eh.
So as a grocery supplier you have to have the float to be able to supply.

[Dizzy28]

Btw massy would pay them every two weeks or every month eh.
So as a grocery supplier you have to have the float to be able to supply.

I had a pardner exit the Kale supply business due to something similar to what you explained above. B/c of the supply contract when he had shortfalls he ended up having to buy from other growers at a price greater than he was selling at to the supermarket (Wasn't Massy though)

Was his side hustle so no big loss to him.

[Chimera]

Btw massy would pay them every two weeks or every month eh.
So as a grocery supplier you have to have the float to be able to supply.

I had a pardner exit the Kale supply business due to something similar to what you explained above. B/c of the supply contract when he had shortfalls he ended up having to buy from other growers at a price greater than he was selling at to the supermarket (Wasn't Massy though)

Was his side hustle so no big loss to him.

yeah.....cuz remember with the terrible weather conditions these days.....
prices real random
when baigan was $5 a lb in the market.......and massy paying $6 or $7 to their suppliers
then boom, one weekend of flood, baigan in the market hit $20 a lb, if the supplier want to keep their contract they have to pay that $20 a lb and sell back to massy for $6 and $7 for the week or two before massy adjusts their pricing. and then you have to go around BEGGING people to sell you because when the price high the farmers will want to make the most out of it

chemical and fertilizer price is extremely high right now
urea that was 150 180 is 360 to 400
chemicals basically double in price in the last 2 years
plus the pests are becoming immune to the chemicals AS well as with the rains you have to spray much more than usual
as its not lasting
these african snails freaking up whole fields overnight as well.
you might tractor and prepare a piece of land andplant seedlings one day
and the next day you go back and all the seedlings eat out because you didnt even know you have a snail problem (they does hide in the day) and you didnt spray to prevent snails


plant allyuh home garden if yuh know what good for yuh

[dogg]

Unless its imported produce, why would anyone buy market goods at any supermarket?

Granted some of them - cosscutters, Bestdeal foods and others - do have loss leader specials where some produce are sold under wholesale prices. But still.

Folks just bumping their gums since they have nothing else to do.

Them worse than Maxpower/maxipad who does take selfies at supermarkets and foreign franchises to send back to family in Guyana.

[Chimera]

Unless its imported produce, why would anyone buy market goods at any supermarket?

convenience.

people who the price doesn't bother, know they could go massy and get quality fresh goods

yes i`m sure they know they could get it cheaper in the market or veggie stall but thats a whole different shopping experience

think about all the markets and how little parking or NO parking it have in some cases

[dogg]

Well lets hope the people benning and screwing over produce prices at supermarkets aren't actually shopping for those things at said supermarkets.

[DMan7]

Well at least Baigan prices returns to normal.

[Rovin]

well thats some new info to me on d buying\retailing process so no wonder hilo produce is not cheap ...

[st7]

why men who say they dont shop at massy beating up about massy prices?

panty man thing oui

[Chimera]

Well at least Baigan prices returns to normal.

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Thats photoshopped

[K74T]

Fitt St. Market

[matix]

Well at least Baigan prices returns to normal.

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It’s sad that most just share pics without looking properly at it themselves. The math ain’t adding up there.

[Chimera]

Well at least Baigan prices returns to normal.

Here's the original

[DMan7]

Yea I knew it was photoshopped, just wanted to see what you all thought of it.

[maj. tom]

I didn't understand this uproar at all. So many questions.

-Who buys baigan in Massy wrapped in a ton of plastic? (lol Massy saved the environment by charging you more for a plastic bag and did nothing but increase their own profits). Shrink wrapping fruits individually in plastic slows the ripening/spoilage rate, which is good for Massy profits, not good for the consumer.

-Who watching that price and picking it up?

-Anybody who buys baigan and any nightshade in fact knows that more seeds and bigger fruit is definitely not better. The sweetest baigan are the small ones with few seeds and picked before they being to swell on the tree.

-Does Massy employ pocket diggers in the aisle that come and take the money for your pocket to pay for this involuntarily?

-A LOT of fresh produce in Massy that can be easily found in the market is thrown away and written off. In the case of any idiot who pays these prices, that's calculated and compensated into their losses and profit ratio. You're basically paying their rent money when you see prices like that.

-Literally nobody was affected by any of this. The people who did, didn't bat an eyelash and could not care less, the people who thought this was outrageous couldn't afford it anyway.

- Is hover11 really Kandace Rattansingh?

[shake d livin wake d dead]

[Chimera]

They even sell sliced tomatoes and sliced watermelon

[dogg]

:drinking:

daiz 3 kg of pumpkin?

Ppl real gullible oui