PRICE OF VEGETABLES
Sir, —One is not surprised at the reply by the president of the Fruitgrowers’ Association (Mr M. T. Beasley): perhaps Mr Beasley is afraid of incriminating the association members of “rooking” the consumer. The fruit and vegetable retailers, like the fish retailers, have an organised price ring through which individual retailers exploit the consumer, who. in turn, seeks a wage increase. I am neither a magician nor a skilled mathematician, but the exploita-. tion is obvious from your market reports, when a so-called sack of. say. four small cabbages retailed at Is each could return a handsome profit of 100 per cent. — Yours, etc., RIP VAN WINKLE. January 17, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28179, 18 January 1957, Page 9
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