Pineapples are selling for record high prices in Australia, and these prices seem here to stay. A lack of supply has pushed prices to record highs with the fruit being sold for as much as $14 each and an average of $6 at most supermarkets.
According to Sunshine Coast fruit shop owner Colin Erbacher, finding pineapples to sell at affordable prices had been difficult since a premature flowering event over summer. He said he tried to keep prices at his fruit shop to about 50 per cent more than usual and avoided passing on "ridiculous" wholesale prices to the customer.
He said maintaining consumer consumption of the fruit was vital to future availability. "Prices need to stay up a little bit higher to pay for all the fertiliser and all the fuel," he said. "The next generation won't grow them if there's no money in it and there won't be any pineapples down the track if we don't pay a little bit more."
Source: abc.net.au
