Petrol prices are going up at midnight tonight and with it so do the prices of everything else It’s a process, but there are people like Tiger Brands who cash in on these hikes. Considering that Tiger Brands was fined for fixing the price of bread last year, one question, were we all compensated? Did the price go down? ok two questions then.

Anyway my suggestion is that somebody should get rid of all branded bread, that it the Albany, Blue ribbons and Saskos. Branded bread is misleading, I don’t know when last i walked into a bakery and bought bakery baked bread at the supermarket.Many people, even the almost impoverished opt to buy the pre-sliced nicely packaged bread from the local spaza shop. Ok maybe bakery bread does come across as a bit dodgy cause one feels one doesn’t know whats in there but if regulated properly there could be an effort made to bake quality bread, at low prices for everybody and I’m sure they could slice it as well.

When we reach a point where we buy bread for almost 10 Rand a loaf, even when the option of buying it at 4.90Rand is available then we know there is a problem. We all want nice things but they don’t need to be unneccesarily expensive.