Why is the chicken so god damn expensive?

[kwak250]

The answer is that CP had to close one of their main factories due to lots of the workers having covid infections.

Wait another couple of weeks it will be back down to  45/kl

[Excel]

19 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I think chicken is really cheap.

Its all relative though. Compared with duck, pork or beef ( imported and the home produced rubbery variety) yes it is if you are buying it from a shop.  Even cheaper than fish these days.  However after saying that Thais are an odd lot.  Chicken breast was 56 THB/kilo yesterday, yet tiny wings or legs are far more expensive. My wife can never give me a satisfactory answer as to why they are happy paying double for skin and bone rather than 100% all meat.

[Excel]

4 minutes ago, kwak250 said:

The answer is that CP had to close one of their main factories due to lots of the workers having covid infections.

Wait another couple of weeks it will be back down to  45/kl

As I said in my earlier post but the Saraburi plant has already resumed production a few days ago.

[asiam110]

10 minutes ago, kwak250 said:

The answer is that CP had to close one of their main factories due to lots of the workers having covid infections.

Wait another couple of weeks it will be back down to  45/kl

This is the most likely explanation.

 

Any chicken you buy is likely CP produced and CP feed and sometimes CP branded for the end buyer, they own the whole vertical and pretty near dominate.  Even if you buy from the little old lady at the end of the village road and is spread out on a table with CDs or coat hangers, it was probably in a 10kg sealed CP bag prior.

 

 

[domdom]

18 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Was in Big C recently, boneless chicken breast 45b/ kg

Tesco, same product, 46b/kg and Makro around the same.

 

May be its just a local price issue, where are you ?

Hello

 

I regularly buy (every week) boneless chicken breast and I cannot remember having that at 45 bahts per kilo for a LONGGG time.. it is always around 54/56/58 either in Makro or in Big C

In Big C what has increased A LOT recently are the imported products (french Casino sausages, parma ham etc... etc..) minimum 25 and very often 30 to 40% increase, same with the cheese but increase around 20%..

An italian shop on Sukhumvit (close to Jomtien) sells high level San Daniele ham they cut in front of you for less than 50% under Big C price !!

Prices of vegetables and fruits also go up

Have a nice day

[tgw]

32 minutes ago, Excel said:

Not in Thailand

 

Thailand is a chicken exporter, and thus part of the global chicken supply chain. export prices go up, so Thai domestic prices for chicken go up too.

[Excel]

Just now, tgw said:

 

Thailand is a chicken exporter, and thus part of the global chicken supply chain. export prices go up, so Thai domestic prices for chicken go up too.

Not so, totally erroneous to equate chicken flu in Japan and S Korea as the reason for increased local costs. . Thai domestic chicken prices are not affected by exchange rates, exports are and hence with the THB weakening the last month or so exported chicken prices are more cost to the importing countries. Totally irrelevant to the chicken price in Thailand which increased due to the CP factories closing as I already posted. Now that they are back to near normal production the price has reverted.

[philba]

19 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Not only Chicken but ....Eggs was in Makro last Friday

and the cheapest tray of eggs ,size 3 was 90 THB, 

before they were 70 odd Thb. a tray.

 

regards Worgeordie

 

The big question is....

 

Which price rise came first ?

[elgenon]

Maybe because the foreigners eat too much? 555

[impulse]

18 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Why don't you compare the wages in the UK or Europe? You just can't compare the prices.

 

Sure you can.  Chicken is an international commodity.  If they can't get their price in Thailand, they'll freeze it and send it to a country where they can get a better ex-works price. 

 

That's globalization...  And it's why Thai fruit went up so drastically when they started shipping so much of it to China.

 

BTW, I pay $2.00 per pound ($4.40 per kg) for chicken breasts in Texas, where I'm a Covid refugee until travel opens up.  61 baht per kg sounds pretty good.

 

 

Edited June 9, 2021 by impulse

[NCC1701A]

I was going to say something about this but I chickened out. 

[SiSePuede419]

Supply and demand.

 

Capitalism 101.

 

Where did you study economics?

[mickyr55]

BHATT getting weaker prices going up basic economics, also look at fuel costs, delivering goods costing more. 

[Excel]

35 minutes ago, philba said:

 

The big question is....

 

Which price rise came first ?

In answer to your question it is Macro comes first. As you quite rightly pointed egg price is an anomaly. Medium eggs size 2 were 89 baht in Tesco yet Macro 94. Both from CP !!

[Quack]

20 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Not only Chicken but ....Eggs was in Makro last Friday

and the cheapest tray of eggs ,size 3 was 90 THB, 

before they were 70 odd Thb. a tray.

 

regards Worgeordie

 

The chicken came first

[wicketkeeper]

Isn't goddamn one word?

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, Surelynot said:

CP strangle hold? 

Beef is off the menu at the moment, same as pork is now a bit iffy.

Chicken is going up along with the demand.

A tray of #1 chicken eggs last week cost me 94 baht locally, this week 106 baht.

Edited June 9, 2021 by hotchilli

[Disparate Dan]

Any farang residing here who reckons less than 2 euro/kg is expensive for chicken is a demonstration of why many Thais regard farang as cheap-charlies who contribute nothing to Thailand, the famous 'xenophobia' referred to by so many TV posters, some of whom, evidently, regard EUR2/kg as expensive……...

 

Which came first............?

[RocketDog]

20 hours ago, Surelynot said:

....it had to cross the road?

For sure. Crossing the road here is considered an act of Valor and deserves battle pay.

[RafPinto]

2 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

Tesco (now Lotus's) = Makro = CP = monopoly = current record profits .

Equals 7/11

Called "Monopoly"

 

This would never have gone through in Europe.

[RafPinto]

38 minutes ago, Excel said:

In answer to your question it is Macro comes first. As you quite rightly pointed egg price is an anomaly. Medium eggs size 2 were 89 baht in Tesco yet Macro 94. Both from CP !!

But Makro sources the eggs from "posh" chicken. They have see view accomodation.

[donmuang37]

I can't believe people are whining/whinging about a few baht increase in the price of chicken!  Amazing farangs!! ????

[faraday]

2 minutes ago, donmuang37 said:

I can't believe people are whining/whinging about a few baht increase in the price of chicken!  Amazing farangs!! ????

Yup, I grumble about the increase, & it's because I see how Thai people are getting fleeced, by those * deleted* from CP.

 

700 new 7/11's are coming which will completely dominate the market, & wipe out any competition. People will have no choice but to pay whatever CP decided.

 

 

[toofarnorth]

20 hours ago, AndyAndyAndy said:

I'm in Sakon Nakhon.

 

I was in Marko, but out of principle refused to buy their 61 Baht boneless chicken breast. So on the way home I stopped in Tesco. And price was the same. It's not just one shop.

 

Like 4 months ago it was 40 Baht.

 

Of course, price goes up over time. But 50% in 4 months... .

Just to have a moan on this wet gloomy morning , my pension doesn't go up .

[Lacessit]

I'm not going to worry about the price of chicken or pork here, compared to Australia it's peanuts. I'll whinge about the cost of a half-decent shiraz instead.

[brianthainess]

20 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Never made that comparison, good tip ! Ditch the canned give 'em cooked.

You can feed raw meat to dogs, it is a myth they get a lust for blood. just saying. 

[Peterphuket]

19 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Agreed, I wont buy Thai beef as in my experience its....not good, I prefer imported Australian cuts of Beef.

There is now Thai Wagyu beef , i think even a dog has trouble chewing it.

[brianthainess]

delicious whole BBQ chicken from big C is 120b   cut sliced breast 26baht still warm. save on fuel bill. why am i even reading this ?

[Peterphuket]

19 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Back then we were all too busy working to go shopping.

Now I don't have much else to do.

 

2 chicken breasts for 35bht from Tesco Lotus seems a good price to me.

2 pork steaks for 68bht isn't that bad either.

I'm even OK paying 335bht for a kilo of streaky bacon from Makro.

But the bacon, it is impossible to compare with the bacon in GB.

Here in LOS it tastes like nothing.

[nervona81732]

20 hours ago, EricTh said:

The price of a lot of products in Thailand have gone up recently. What used to be 30 baht for fried rice is now 40-45 baht for most shops.

 

I used to buy dish of 3 dishes with rice for just 40 baht, now it's 50 to 70 baht depending on what you choose.

It is called inflation. The Thai Baht is not strong only on payday when falangs transfer money here.