why does food cost so much??

Answer 1

Because food is a necessity, they know they can charge what they want because you have to buy it

Answer 2

Everyone asks the same question.....but if we had to grow or raise our own food and transport it to a place to sell it we would have an idea what it takes to get the food to the store and then why the price is what it is today.

First the farmer has to buy seeds.
Prepare the land for the seeds to be planted.
Buy fertilizer to spread on the soil.
Provide the water.
Tend to the crops to remove weeds..
Pick the crops using farm workers whom he has to pay.
Then bring his crops to a person who buys from him or ships the food to the stores.
So far it has traded hands two times....
Now the food store has it..they have to charge enough to mark up the price to take care of his costs....
By the time we see it on the shelf....we get to pay the store owner plus inside that cost all the hidden prices of his store employees ...and the farmer and middle man.
Another thing that makes food cost a lot is the weather if it's dry or too rainy it affects the amounts of food on the market.
Many factors control costs....
So when we go shopping we are not just paying the store owner it goes way back to the beginning..

See ya at the market....
Mama Jazzy Geri

Answer 3

One reason is because shops have got enormous expenses on coucil tax and bills which needs to be covered as well as salaries for employees. Then there are import charges as well. Besides all of these, the shops want to make a big amount of profit on the food they sell. That is how the prices are pushed out of scale.

Answer 4

What i want to know is, why does food in the grocery store that's good for you cost so darn much, but fatty fast food and junk food is so cheap? I think it is one of the main reasons people are getting so fat...

Answer 5

To supply people in the developing world with free/cheap food and medicine, the rest of the world foots the bill by paying more for their food and medicine!

Answer 6

One word: Ethanol.

Seriously. Farmers used to raise corn to sell or feed cattle. Now they're selling to not only places like ADM and Cargill, but they're converting more acres so they can sell it to ethanol plants. Practically everything you buy has some corn product in it in some form. Milk is going up because cows eat corn. Eggs are going up because chickens eat...corn. Meat is going up because the animals eat corn. About anything you eat has a corn by-product in it. So it's the quest for more ethanol which is driving prices of food up.

Answer 7

Cause they can charge you that much cause they know you'll buy it. All the big business people who run these supermarkets think about is money

Answer 8

i would have to agree with the last comment it would be alot cheap because i spend loads of money on food

Answer 9

Cuz too many people are trying to save the chickens from immoral slaughter. God bless the chickens!

Answer 10

Just like everything else we need, we will pay what we have to in order to get it.
Very sad.