La Gomera continues, although we don't quite believe it, being the most expensive island in the entire Archipelago in terms of the shopping basket; and according to the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics, Lanzarote continues to occupy a ...
La Gomera continues, although we don't quite believe it, being the most expensive island in the entire Archipelago in terms of the shopping basket; and according to the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics, Lanzarote continues to occupy an "honorable" second place, also having the sad "ranking" of the most expensive products in three groups: Deli meats, meat, fish and canned goods and their preparations, and also vegetables and fruits - which in the statistical data appear last when we estimate that they are the first in scarcity, amply demonstrated by previous data -. The fact that we are a "peripheral" island and that we suffer from the disease of double or triple freight, does not explain the brutal differences in prices of the shopping basket with respect to the "capital" islands, among other reasons because La Palma, which suffers from the same "disease" as us, does not reach, even remotely, the exorbitant prices that we suffer here, there is something that causes curious and regrettable circumstances to occur along the way that cause this impact on our prices, there must be something, and that "something" urgently needs to be analyzed by the political leaders of the Island, in order not to continue allowing the current price nonsense and the consumer fraud situation that we suffer. Specifically, with regard to fruits and vegetables, the price differences are even higher and more brutal, something that cannot be understood by the influence of a simple freight of the ships that operate with us from Gran Canaria or Tenerife, and much less in the fruit and vegetables that come to us directly from the peninsula - as in the remaining islands - in direct shipments to the Arrecife dock. Some black hand fiddles along the way, someone, some, must be benefiting from this marginalizing situation, but we had already been warned by a person very introduced in this world of markets, supermarkets, hypermarkets, etc., he told us that we were going to find an authentic wall of silence when trying to find out the contents of original invoices, sale prices, margins that are applied, etc. Nobody knows anything, nobody wants to know anything! And this, gentlemen, is highly suspicious. Although there is talk - and in practice there is - freedom of market prices, the differences that are being paid in Lanzarote and other islands are inadmissible, the Consumer department of the Cabildo should investigate thoroughly, because it is causing serious damage to the island economy, and this is intolerable. And if the reason originates outside or during the journey of the goods, let subsidies be applied to those, for example, that the Canarian Government grants to some shipping companies!, or whatever!, going through regulatory provisions in this regard. The economy of the island consumers and also our own dignity is at stake, isn't it?
