LILLESTRØM (VG) Prices increase for both groceries, fuel and electricity. Hasan Alhamid says he spends many thousands of dollars a month on diesel.
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At the pumps outside Circle K in Lillestrøm, VG Hasan meets Alhamid on Monday. 1000 kroner went to diesel this Monday – enough to fill a little over half a tank.
– The car can cost me 16,000–17,000 kroner a month. Last month I paid 7000 kroner in diesel alone. It’s almost a whole rent!
– It’s damn expensive. I do not know what to say, it is extremely loud.
In one year, the consumer price index (CPI) increased by 6.3 percent. The price of food in particular has skyrocketed, with a 5.6 per cent increase over the same period.
The price of fuel is also rising sharply, affected by high gas prices as a direct consequence of the war in Ukraine, according to NTB.
– In June, it was first and foremost increased prices for fuel and food that gave us a further increase in the twelve-month growth. Food prices increased unusually much, says Espen Kristiansen, section manager at Statistics Norway in a press release on Monday.
–Hasan Alhamid usually works at a child welfare institution about an hour’s drive from home, but he also takes shifts at various institutions. Many are located in places that can not be reached by public transport.
Today he is going all the way to Arendal, a drive of over three hours.
Fuel and tolls for the trip on Monday will cost him almost 2,000 kroner, he says.
The price of petrol at Circle K this Monday was over 26 kroner, but Alhamid had no choice but to refuel.
– I had to fill. I could only have driven 30 km further.
Food prices are rising
Outside Coop Obs in Lillestrøm, VG meets Sherzad Zriyan with the shopping cart full of bags.
– Is it wholesale?
– It’s just a small trade. We can not afford any wholesale, jokes the father of the child.
In the child seat on the shopping cart sits her daughter Ava, who is almost three years old, with two cuddly teddy bears in her hand.
– Everything has become more expensive, and you notice that. Especially with two children.
–Swedish trade
Zriyan is originally from Sweden and he admits that there will be some extra trips there as prices increase in Norway.
Up from one of the shopping bags he lifts a 500 gram packet of sugar, for which he paid 23 kroner. In Sweden, he paid 22 kroner for double.
– It has become a little more expensive in Sweden as well, but not like here in Norway.
The father of the child mentions items such as yoghurt and fruit when he is asked where he notices the price increase the most.
Bull for apps
Zriyan says that he has not been a frequent consumer of offer apps before, but lately he is often in and checks what offers are available.
– Before you went into the first and best store, but now you think more about where to shop, he says.
When Zriyan exchanged his electric car for a petrol car, the fuel price was around ten kroner a liter. Today you see prices that are more than twice as high.
– This is perhaps the worst, most significant increase we have seen. One feels that the prices of everything are going up. Interest, food, fuel … At the same time, income is the same old two-percent increase every year, while goods can increase by ten percent, says Zriyan.
– When they do not go hand in hand, you absolutely struggle. There are many other families who are worse off than us.
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