Megmilk Snow Brand to raise butter, cheese prices
TOKYO —
Megmilk Snow Brand said Tuesday that it will raise the prices of butter and cheese products in October due to a hike in milk production costs. The company said in a news release that the March 11 disaster caused a milk shortage and disrupted its supply chain.
Megmilk said the price of butter and six cheese items will go up by 3-10 yen from Oct 1. The company last raised prices in 2009.
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some14some
....also reduce quantity, size....? wait until Oct. 2011
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BlueWitch
@some14some
Unfortunately that's a phenomenon that I've been noticing recently. They don't only raise the prices but also REDUCE the quantity/size of the product as well....what the hell?!! o_O
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gaijintraveller
Is that plasticky stuff they sell actually cheese?
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TakahiroDomingo
with the super-powerful yen, japan should import what it don't have, and not stress more peoples pockets. megmilk is surely playing with the strong yen, and wants to make a double profit out of all this.
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Lunchbox
Snowbrand, or Megmilk as it is now called, was 10 years ago, what TEPCO is in 2011. After lies lies and lies, the Japanese people decided to give Snow brand one last chance. Then they mislabeled products and I truly thought it was the end for this company. But no, most people seemed to have forgotten, and the company is now back on top of the dairy market again.
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ExportExpert
Yeah snowbrand was the scum of the food industry, i have never knowingly bought anything they produce since the labeling scandal was uncovered, maybe snowbrand tepco and some other large corporations were schooled at deception by the same people.
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Foxie
Food prices are skyrocketing all across the globe not only Megmilk, and there's no end in sight. The United Nations says food inflation is currently at 30% a year, and the fast-eroding value of the dollar is causing food prices to appear even higher
Prediction #1) Food supplies will become more scarce.
Prediction #2) Food prices will double over the next 2-3 years, and then probably double again in another 2-3 years.
Prediction #3) When food prices are 400% of today's levels, backyard farming or gardening pays off big in terms of real dollar savings.
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2020hindsights
I wouldn't think so. Many farm nations out there selling food at the lowest cost possible.
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edojin
We'd better get used to what's going on in the food world. Prices keep going up and the products keep getting smaller in both packaging and size ... plus the manufacturers change the ingredients from regular ones to cheaper ones. It's been happening for several years already, and is continuing. I stopped buying my favorite cookies because not only did they get smaller, but the taste changed, too. I now am back to eating my old-time favorite Oreo cookies, but they too seem smaller in size as are the packages they come in. As for another brand of cookie, I remember taking two or three bites to eat one. Now it's just throw the shrunken cookie in your mouth and chew what's there ... in other words, no bites ... just the whole shrunken cookie inserted in the mouth at once. The supermarket where we buy our milk has regular sales on milk (quite a few brands are sold here), and we usually buy several cartons of it at one time so as to save money. And the milk stays fresh for several days ...
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saru_au
the cheese here is plastic indeed, to get the real thing in Japan you have to go to costco
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It"S ME
Costco is not an option for many, yet we still get good cheese locally.
Just hit a good import shop or a place like 'World Cheese"(sic) inside many JR stations, and they do stock a decent variety from across the globe.
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Nessie
They're producing it at the lowest cost possible and selling it at the highest price possible, just like everybody else.
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Asagao
Make sure you check where your milk comes from. The price increase could be due to transport costs. As milk is usually mixed, if I was Megmilk, I would move my milk from Fukushima to hokkaido or south, and label as from there. This will cost money of course...
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TumbleDry
If you consider the contamination of dairy cows just in Fukushima prefecture, kind of saw that coming.
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Oracle
Have not intentionally bought anything from them since the staph bacteria outbreak. And frankly, they should not have been allowed to change their name to Megmilk just to escape the reputation they made for themselves.
However, if I could be assured that the extra cost was going to safety, and hear that the extra money was going to test for radioactive isotope contamination, and that if it were detected that milk would be poured down the drain, I would happily shell out for the more expensive milk.
But we all know that this not what is happening.
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Pukey2
Yeah, I just love the tactic Snowbrand used after they poisoned some of their customers by changing their name. The Japanese sure are forgiving (as long as the company is Japanese).
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Nessie
Shoulda gone with Pyuki-jirushi
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