Let’s have a looksy, at how thing are, hiked up, higher, higher, and higher still and eventually, we won’t even be able to afford what we need, to live off of, on the FIRST level of hierarchy of needs here! Off of the BACK page of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Relying on the Imports to Make the Noodles, the Price Hikes Became, Too Harsh
As the war between Ukraine and Russia happened, it’d, caused the hikes in costs in the raw materials, even though, the Department of Economic called out faithfully, that the costs of everything will not hike up, but in reality, the soy, the wheat, the corn, the costs of shipping, skyrocketed, and there’s, still no end in sight to the roofs, most of the stores that sold the noodles, can’t cover for the hikes of the costs of making the foods, they’d, announced the increases in the pricing, and even, the shops took an extra day off; the reason being, the country consumed equally the same amounts of rice, and, we’d, become, solely reliant on the imports to make these noodles, that’s why, “as the war is happening outside of the country, Taiwan’s prices also, hiked up too.”
The housewife, Tsai from Kaohsiung recently gone to the wholesales mart to buy the basic living needs, and found, that the family packs of instant noodles her families liked to eat rose up twenty dollars; and she’d wanted to buy the breads for the kids’ breakfasts, and found that each bread is five to ten dollars higher, and, the three meals cost a whole lot more than it had per day.
The Huwei, Yunlin Wang’s duck meat noodle had been operating for sixty years, and it’d opened up for business all year round, but recently, it’d, announced that it would be off on the weekends, the owner, Wang told, that because there’s a shortage of supplies in duck, and the costs of all the food items hiked and the prices they sold the foods at, couldn’t catch up to the rate of the cost of raw materials, which tightened up the earnings by a lot, so, they’re rather, have more days off now.
The bakery owner, Shen on March first received the notice from his provider, that a bag of 22-kilograms’ flour hiked up sixty dollars N.T., the highest rate in recent years, and just for the flours, it’d hiked up a total of $100N.T.s, since just last year to date, not to mention the cooking oils, the butter too. he said, that the cost to make the breads hiked up, but the shops can’t increase the pricing all at once, and only dared to increase the costs of each item by fifteen-percent, and the baking industries joked, “the only thing that’s not hiked up, is the salt!”
And so, the only thing that’s not hiked up, fast enough, in rates is our wages, and, because the costs of everything is getting higher, higher, and higher still, and the spending vouchers handed down to us by the government don’t nearly, cover it, and so, we’re all going to be, living, below the poverty lines here, thanks to the unrest in this world all around.