Due to the restrictions due to the Corona of a pandemic, the manufacturing increased costs for products such as noodles in the past weeks and months - a significant price markets and disco increase in the super stores, you could not find, so far. Image: CHIP CHIP Corona

Now Aldi Süd as one of the first markets will increase the price of its own brand of Cucina Fusilli (500 grams) of 45 to 49 cents, as compared to the food newspaper has been confirmed. Many industry observers had expected the price increases are already much earlier - so far, the price level had remained stable for the most part.

Although the supply of raw materials delivery in the past few months relatively smoothly, have increased their prices as well as the cost of the packaging, such as the managing Director of the Association of cereals, flour and starch economy VGM's, Peter's hair, Beck, the food, the newspaper said. Add to this that "weekend - and multi-layer [...] is for rising personnel costs" have taken care of.

another factor: Due to the logistical restrictions, such as in the case of border controls, the purchase prices for pasta of Italian suppliers also increased. It is not excluded that this will increase in the next few weeks and months, despite any loosening of the restrictions even further.

the consumer noticed the increased cost for dealers, vendors, and co. hardly, due to the fact that you do not want to burden the buyer in view of the plight of price increases.

The head of the range management Food Dry in the globe, Steffen Schmidt, can imagine, however, that further increases in the price of Pasta products could follow. "Detached from the Corona-crisis announced by the supplier also in the first quarter of price increases and also by set. This will. in the future, possibly also in the sales prices reflect that," said Schmidt

*The contribution of "Aldi makes the beginning: Why noodles soon become more expensive" is published by chip.de. Contact with the executives here.