Festive celebration is coming - it will mean just one thing. Visit you local grocer and you'll definitely notice it. Visit your friendly neighbourhood wet market and you'll find out that your RM50 budget cannot cover the perishable goods for your weekly consumption.
Flip any newspapers and you'll see that prices of this and that is now more expensive. It's the same ol' story - every time a celebration is around the corner. 'There is not much difference in the price of Mandarin oranges, one box is RM40, compared to RM38 last year. This is because of the extreme winter in China which affects harvest'. The year before that was ' Price is increased only slightly due to the hot weather which reduced production of the oranges'. Sounds familiar ? And this is played over and over again - like broken records - just change the mandarin orange to something else, say chicken or eggs or mushrooms! And then slightly tweak the background story!
Just blame the weather, it can be too cold, too hot, too humid...and surprisingly (or not) - this happens during festive season, when customer are bound (forced?) to buy anyway! I mean, for Hari Raya Muslims needs to buy chicken and beef for their rendang, right ?
One thing about prices in Malaysia is that 'what goes up, never goes down'! Up...up...and away.....Everything is up, except our salary. Most will have about 5% increment, which he/she has to offset with an increase of 20% in the household expenditure...
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