Lets try to control price increase in Qatar

skdkak closed 1708224867
By skdkak closed 1...

I wonder if this story is worth trying by all of us to have some control mechanism in place and arrest the ever increasing prices rise of daily consumable products
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A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the grocery store he pays 60 cents a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time. One day while buying eggs he
notices that the price has risen to 72 cents. The next time he buys groceries, eggs are 76 cents a dozen.

When asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, "The price has gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly". This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. He checked around for a better price and all the
distributors have raised their prices. The distributors have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been driven out of business. The huge egg farms sell 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors then have to raise their prices to t he grocery stores. And on and on and on.

As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there. He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs.

Then week before Thanksgiving the price of eggs shot up to $1.00 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "Cakes and baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking, baking, etc. happen.

This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a dozen. The man says, " There must be something we can do about the price of eggs".

He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs.

Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need. He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.

The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs. Maybe wouldn't need any all week.

The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not need any for at least two weeks.

At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price.

The distributor said, " I don't have the room for the %$&^*&% eggs even if they were free". T he distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the price of the eggs if the store would start buying again.

The grocery store owner said, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buying 2 or 3 eggs at a time. Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price, the customers would start buying by the dozen again".

The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers but the egg farmers liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, those chickens just kept on laying. Fin ally, the egg farmers lowered the price
of their eggs. But only a few cents.

The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They said, "when the price of eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen."

Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers.

The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs for. Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.

And those chickens kept on laying.

Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing away eggs they couldn't sell.

The distributors started buying again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price.

And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.

Now, transpose this analogy to the EVER INCREASING PRICE OF ALL & ANY COMMODITY IN QATAR.

Also, don't buy anything else except what you need & use; don't give them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on essential things, until the
prices come down..."

just think of this concept for a while.

By PhillyEagles2007• 9 Jul 2008 10:43
PhillyEagles2007

Ok. Do you.

"I don't think so. Homey don't play dat."

Homey Da Clown

By skdkak closed 1708224867• 9 Jul 2008 10:39
skdkak closed 1708224867

do what u have to do .... children or no children.. if one is interested to do something .. sure one can,.,.rest all is a BIG EXCUSE

By PhillyEagles2007• 9 Jul 2008 10:36
PhillyEagles2007

Skdkak, who has time to go to the store everyday? What if the family has a lot of children? Go idea but to impractical for our lives in Doha.

"I don't think so. Homey don't play dat."

Homey Da Clown

By skdkak closed 1708224867• 9 Jul 2008 10:30
skdkak closed 1708224867

No problem HappyDay.. I am no crusader. Will have pimmlets myself too :). wanna join ?

By HAPPYDAY• 9 Jul 2008 10:25
HAPPYDAY

maybe u right brandy!!! ready to get home and nip to pimmlets!!! SORRY skdkak

By skdkak closed 1708224867• 9 Jul 2008 10:18
skdkak closed 1708224867

guys.. forget the cake & think of price rise and how to try control it

By brandylady• 9 Jul 2008 10:16
brandylady

but dontya think you just pick up on the word so easily lol :)

By HAPPYDAY• 9 Jul 2008 09:57
HAPPYDAY

Brandy, why u always get me thinking of cake???

By skdkak closed 1708224867• 9 Jul 2008 09:48
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skdkak closed 1708224867

exactly guys.. lets all start buying what we actually need.

Remember: statics world over shows that what people buy from Malls & supermarkets is not 100% of our actual need. We tend to buy 25% - 30% more than what our actual need is.

Lets not connect it with salary..

By brandylady• 9 Jul 2008 09:45
Rating: 5/5
brandylady

in the UK syrup, flour, eggs etc are really cheap, but come shrove Tuesday when all people make pancakes the prices of these items sometimes triples, same at Christmas, the cost of ingredients for fruit cakes goes up by a phenonimal amount, its a sellers market, we buyers are forced to pay the higher prices, unfortunitely our salaries do not rise at the same rate of inflation.

By hrscorp• 9 Jul 2008 09:39
hrscorp

right now we control and buy only what we need. now the price of rice is unbelievable, the cheapest one before is the most expensive one now, who would believe, cuz everyone bought it when the jasmine rice prices increased.

((change the world))

By anonymous• 9 Jul 2008 08:52
anonymous

I am concerened about evr increasing Salaries :)

By skdkak closed 1708224867• 9 Jul 2008 08:48
Rating: 5/5
skdkak closed 1708224867

Price rise: No one is even least concerned about the issue.. Am I the only one to think of prices going up of

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