From wood over sugar to oil: in the past six months almost all raw materials have become scarcer and therefore considerably more expensive. And yet the consumer does not always feel that in his portfolio. In the do-it-yourself store prices rise with peaks of up to fifty percent, but in the supermarket the price-conscious shopper pays even less. What is going on?
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Up, up, it’s all over. That seems to be the slogan on the world market these days. Wood? Hard to find. Sugar? Problematic. Chips – those for the computers? We go there for years too little…
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