Iceberg lettuce sells for $12 in Queensland grocery store amid floods and inflation

Grocery costs are seeing big jumps in Queensland as floods, the pandemic and fertiliser shortages put rising stress on suppliers.

In a single south-east Queensland IGA, a punnet of blueberries will set you again $20 with a single iceberg lettuce costing $12.

"Sure there's a huge, huge challenge within the provide chain," director of Seasons IGA Greg Weiss stated.

"You may go to the markets every day and they're going to inform you of the struggles they're going through every day."

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Hours later, pre-planned catalogue pricing amended the lettuce again to $3.50 within the Redcliffe IGA.

"We're really making a loss on the lettuce as a result of we dictate our gross sales on costs that they're going to pay for," Weiss stated.

He stated the latest moist climate in Queensland was including prices to already inflated wholesale costs.

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A head of iceberg lettuce value $12 this morning at a Redcliffe IGA, earlier than costs went down once more.(Getty Photographs/iStockphoto)

Current CPI information exhibits a 6.6 per cent common value hike for greens within the final quarter.

Fruit has gone up by nearly 5 per cent whereas meat and seafood has gone up by 4.8 per cent.

At IGA shops throughout the state, prospects are restricted to 2 lettuce heads per go to for concern hospitality house owners will swoop on the lowered costs.

Supermarkets like Coles and Woolworths are additionally experiencing a scarcity of leafy greens.

Fruits and vegetable costs have risen by 6.6 per cent in Queensland.(Getty)

"Sure, if lettuce provide is low due to the floods, strive one thing else in your dinner," Martine Alpins from Coles stated.

"We learnt by COVID that when issues are briefly provide we tailored."

Alpins stated Coles was working to offset world value hikes in a bid to make their merchandise inexpensive for patrons.

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From at this time, Coles is capping costs on a few of its personal branded merchandise to a greenback or much less.

"We have nonetheless received our tuna, our pasta, canned tomatoes, beans, all types of issues you will get for underneath a greenback or a greenback or much less," Alpins stated.

"It is actually necessary we're maintaining these fundamental merchandise at a low value for our prospects."