Arriving in the fruit and vegetable section on July 2, a poster showing the price of a kilo of apricots caught Christine’s attention. The kilo is 2.99 euros, or 50 cents less than two weeks ago, in the same store. And these are not the only fruits and vegetables affected by price drops. On average, -5% for peaches, -9% for melon, -13% for cherries and up to -22% for a kilo of tomatoes, compared to 2023. Patience, the trend should continue in the coming weeks. How can these price drops be explained? Answer from Benjamin Simonot-De Vos, market gardener. Until now, the capricious weather had somewhat dissuaded his customers from eating summer products. To sell off his stocks, there was no other solution, he had to lower his prices. And that’s not all, the bad weather has also delayed the production of strawberries for example. “If we have, just after, a weather that changes completely, the fruits will go much faster (…) and therefore we will have much more picking, hence an overproduction”, explains the market gardener. And therefore there again prices are falling. TF1 | Report M. Beringer, S. Anson, M. Lopinski
