Because of high procurement costs
Meat, sausage and butter: Shopping at Aldi will be more expensive again from Monday
Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord will probably increase their prices from Monday.
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Shopping in Germany is becoming more expensive again: Due to increased purchase prices, discounters will be increasing the prices for numerous items from next week, and there is no end in sight to the crisis for the time being.
Due to sharply increased costs, the discounter Aldi increased prices again on Monday. Meat, sausage and butter would then be “significantly more expensive,” said Aldi-Nord communications chief Florian Scholbeck of the dpa in Essen. The reason for this is the higher prices that Aldi has to pay its suppliers. “Since the start of the Ukraine war, there have been jumps in purchase prices that we have never seen before.”
Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord are equally affected
This is also due to the fact that feed, fertilizer and energy have become more expensive. This in turn would have felt the farmers in their livestock and the meat processing industry. The “WAZ” had previously reported. According to the newspaper, Aldi Süd also feels compelled to raise prices.
The increases vary depending on the product. The discounter is by no means alone in its approach – on the contrary. Because Germany’s consumers have to dig deeper into their pockets than before at other discounters and in supermarkets.
Aldi: butter price over 2 euros?
According to information from “WAZ”, among other things, the price of butter should rise to over 2 euros – a price increase of 30 percent compared to the current price. According to information from Funke, this is not the only hefty price jump: Apparently, the group assumes that the purchase prices for groceries could become between 20 and 50 percent more expensive in the next few weeks.
The managing director of Aldi Nord, Florian Scholbeck, is correspondingly drastic: “Due to the situation on the world markets, we will see jumps in sales prices that have never happened before.” Aldi-Süd purchasing manager Erik Döbele adds to “Funke”: “Wheat and animal feed are the number 1 price drivers at the moment.”
More and more companies are turning the price screw
Aldi already increased the prices for around 160 items two weeks ago, and a week later another 20 items became more expensive. Competitors followed suit. Due to the situation on the world markets, “rising sales prices in the entire industry […] can’t always be avoided,” said Edeka last week, for example. According to a recently published survey by the Ifo Institute, almost all companies in Germany’s food retail trade are planning price increases.