{"id":1232473,"date":"2022-10-24T06:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/vendors-lament-astronomical-rise-in-prices-of-food-items\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T06:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:50:31","slug":"vendors-lament-astronomical-rise-in-prices-of-food-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/vendors-lament-astronomical-rise-in-prices-of-food-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendors lament astronomical rise in prices of food items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Food vendors have lamented the frequent increases in the prices of food items on the market.<\/p>\n<p>The price of 25-litre cooking oil is said to have jumped from GH\u00a2380 to GH\u00a21000 within the last three months.<\/p>\n<p>The price of a 25 kg bag of rice has shot up from GH\u00a2195 last year to GH\u00a2390, while a carton of chicken has shot up from GH\u00a2125 per 10 kg in July to GH\u00a2300.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA carton of frozen chicken used to sell at GH\u00a2260 but now, it is going for GH\u00a2300. If I knew it was going to be increased, I would have bought a lot for storage, but there isn\u2019t money to even make that large purchase\u201d, one seller said.<\/p>\n<p>Some food vendors tell <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, they are only in business to keep their customers, as they are making no profits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am unable to increase prices, so it is only a small margin that I have added just to maintain my customers\u201d, another said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food vendors have lamented the frequent increases in the prices of food items on the market. The price of 25-litre cooking oil is said to have jumped from GH\u00a2380 to GH\u00a21000 within the last three months. The price of a 25 kg bag of rice has shot up from GH\u00a2195 last year to GH\u00a2390, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}