Cauliflower £3 each?!

[Subtle_badger]

Local greengrocer didn't have any cauliflower, but just as I was leaving his colleague walked in with a box. The price? £3! Apparently the price at market jumped up to £15/box. Lemons have similarly gone from £16 to £25 a box wholesale.

I wonder if low-carb panic buyers have created this demand?

I imagine the supermarkets may try to underwrite the price for a while, but the corner stores will have to pass it on to us.

(He's not ripping us off; he volunteered the price straight after saying they were available, as a warning)

[lea57-49r Maintainer 3st 7lbs]

I don't think I would pay £3 for a cauliflower. I would tend to look for other vegetables at a more reasonable price. This reminds me of what is happening to some of Amazon's prices. I support a Cat Rescue and regularly order items for the Rescue from Amazon. The 30 litre bag of wood pellet litter ranges in price from about £11.49 (normal price) to about £17.49. I always wait for it to drop back to the normal price and I think this is what others are doing. I don't think people are buying when it goes up to £17.49 and it then drops back to £11.49.

[Lavender54]

Gracious that's really rather a lot for a cauli.

Wish I could send you some lemons from my tree, they need picking & using. L

[Subtle_badger]

I just visited a supermarket. They had no cauliflower (or zucchini/courgette). I wonder if the absence was sold out, or if they aren't stocking it because they would have to bump the price so high?

[Hidden]

They aren’t replenishing in the daytime do social distancing reasons & more food is being bought for home consumption.

[Subtle_badger in reply to Hidden]

That's a good point. 🤔, how to know...

tesco.com

-> aubergine in stock in the store, in stock on tesco.com.

->cauliflower - oh! See picture about to be added to this discussion.

Yup, there is a national cauliflower shortage. Don't panic!!

(especially as it seems to be still available at Waitrose)

[lucigret in reply to Subtle_badger]

They weren’t available in Waitrose last week!

[Subtle_badger in reply to lucigret]

OK, now you can panic!

😂

[lucigret in reply to Subtle_badger]

😂. It’s the one veg I really miss, I use so much off it!

[Hidden in reply to Subtle_badger]

There was an issue with availability & size of cauliflowers over the winter due to the cauliflower harvest but that was fixed by early March. A very large cauli could well be £2.50 in Tesco. Plenty of caulis in our local Tesco’s & Waitrose in the mornings but not by the afternoon - the displays are not designed to hold a whole day of all veg & not where people are buying 30% more food in the supermarket (now cafes & restaurants are closed). Go early is the answer.