The price of flour, rice flour, and pancake flour has doubled in Vietnam

Published 2021년 8월 31일

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A woman in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has observed a significant price increase for essential goods such as flour, rice flour, and performance powder, with prices doubling or tripling. She noted that these items are out of stock in convenience stores and marketplaces, despite still being used in bread production. However, an online retailer, Ab., continues to sell these items at their previous prices. The woman, who buys these items to donate to the needy, understands the need for price increases due to supply chain issues but laments the arbitrary pricing and the unavailability of these items in local markets.

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Ms. Thuc Anh (Phu Nhuan District) said, before the increased distance of Ho Chi Minh City, on August 21, she bought a series of goods in a grocery store near her house to give to poor people in Binh Tan district. The total bill for 15 items (rice, cooking oil, fish sauce, vitamin C, eggs, flour, washing powder, instant noodles, vegetables, etc.) is 5.2 million VND (including 200,000 VND shipping fee). In which, the retail price of flour and rice flour at the grocery store is 25,000 VND/kg, the same type, in the Bach Hoa Xanh store is 23,000 VND/kg. However, on August 29, when there was a need to buy some types of flour to eat at home and give to friends, Ms. Thuc Anh was shocked because the price of flour increased "unbelievably". Specifically, with the same brand Meizan a pack of flour costs 25,000 VND/kg (weekday price is only 21,000 VND/kg), now many places are reporting from 40,000 to 45,000 VND/kg; rice flour from 32,000 VND/kg to 66,000 - 70,000 VND/kg; Meizan performance ...

Source: Vietstock