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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Warmer ocean temperatures around Hokkaido have led to a sharp decline in autumn salmon populations, significantly tightening supply and pushing prices for the fish and its roe to record highs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/japan/hokkaido-autumn-salmon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #fish #food #supermarkets

The Japan Times

Prices for Hokkaido’s autumn salmon roe jump as catch numbers fall

As of early October, 100 grams of autumn salmon roe in central Sapporo was selling for just under ¥2,000.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through Sunday fell ¥6 from the previous week to ¥4,205 per 5 kilograms, agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/japan/rice-price-fall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rice #shinjirokoizumi #agriculture #supermarkets

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

An agitated bear roamed the aisles of a supermarket in central Japan, injuring two men and frightening shoppers, while separately a man was found dead in a suspected mauling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/08/japan/bear-attack-in-supermarket/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #bears #iwate #gifu #gunma #supermarkets

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"While the supermarket cartel is absolutely part of the problem, National's 'work programme' is basically 'hope a third party joins the oligopoly and gets in on the gouging'. So they have no real solutions there. And they're certainly not going to do what is necessary: legislate to forcibly break up the cartel and forbid mergers in the sector or its underlying logistics to prevent such accumulation of market power."

@norightturnnz, 2025

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/07/willis-says-let-them-eat-butter.html

#competition #supermarkets

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