PRICE OF VEGETABLES
Sir, —“Better Vegetables” may have paid £4O a ton for Australian potatoes, but he bought from the importer; and there remains after “Better Vegetable’s” 30s profit approximately £l4 10s, which must go to the retailer. “Better Vegetables” suggests that consumers could buy keeping vegetables early in the season and store them. If every housewife bought cheaper vegetables by the sack to store then growers would not need to worry so much about quitting their crops, as more vegetables would be eaten. .For cheaper buying the public should buy direct from the grower or the city’s auction rooms. “Rip Van Winkle” is correct when he says that the growers and consumers are being exploited by the high prices charged by retailers, because. when vegetables become dear the demand ceases and the grower has to plough in his crop because there is no sale.—Yours, etc., T. H. ROBERTS. November 11, 1952.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26886, 12 November 1952, Page 7
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