Price check on broccoli

Posted on August 15, 2008, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under Newspapers.

The price of broccoli: some readers have questioned the discrepancy between the picture of a piece of broccoli on page 3 yesterday (Food and fuel prices send inflation to new high as City fears interest rate increase) apparently showing a price rise of 11%, and that of another piece on page 2 of G2 (Beat rising food bills – follow the inflation-proof diet), which showed its price falling by 20%. The first piece of broccoli was there to represent price changes on vegetables overall, as monitored by the Office of National Statistics. The G2 broccoli price change was based on a shopping basket compiled by the Daily Mail – which in fact indicated a fall in price of 50%, not 20%. Link

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  • Charlene

    This is believable. The store I normally shop at has broccoli at three different prices, depending on whether you buy it with stems attached, stemless but unbagged, or stemless, washed, and bagged. Strangely, the second is the most expensive right now, but the third usually is. The first is cheapest but is about 50% stem.

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