The shelves with milk in the Jumbo stores have been sparsely stocked lately. According to the supermarket group, it concerns delivery problems. But according to the dairy farmers, something completely different is going on. “With empty shelves, it almost always involves price negotiations with the supplier,” says Jos Verstraten, farmer and manager at LTO.
Dairy farmers recently received about fifty cents for a liter of milk. At first it was 35 cents. “That is a nice increase, but it is not enough,” says dairy farmer Lisette van Oosterhout.
“Consumers are going to take a critical look at where they do their shopping.”
According to Jos Verstraten, there is currently a problem. “Across the board, products are becoming more expensive, so consumers are going to look critically at where they are going to do their shopping,” he explains. “In the past we have often had the milk being a lot more expensive. In those cases the supermarket took the temporary loss on the profit and made up for it by taking a little more profit on other products.”
The prices of most products in the supermarket are now rising. “Supermarkets are still trying to put products on the market at the lowest possible price.”
But according to Verstraten, the dairy farmers then get into a bind. They feel that they do not receive enough money for the milk. “That’s why there are empty shelves now. Just assume that if a shelf is empty or a certain product is not available, it almost always has to do with price negotiations with the supplier.”
“You get a higher milk price, what are the farmers complaining about?”
According to dairy farmers, these low prices lead to a lot of frustration. “It is soon said: you now get a higher milk price. What are the farmers complaining about? But we have needed the higher milk price that we get for years. We have had a higher cost price and a lower selling price for decades,” says dairy farmer Lisette from Oosterhout.
According to Van Oosterhout, farmers had been receiving 35 cents per liter of milk for decades. Nowadays that is 50 cents, but according to dairy farmers that is not enough. “Our costs have also risen, such as fuel, electricity, concentrates, gas and fertilizer. Fertilizer and gas in particular are the best. We can’t handle that. The rest of the Netherlands also feels that the contents of their wallets are no longer the same. is.”
Supermarket Jumbo sticks to delivery problems.
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