$30 for bake and shark?

[admin]

While it may not be in our Constitution to mandate selling prices for vendors, surely we the people, the customers, can do something about overpriced products by simply not buying them.

One typical example is the bake and shark and pies being sold at Maracas Bay: $25 and $30 for a bake and shark and $15 for an aloo pie is ridiculous.

Granted, we don't know of the high "overheads" vendors have to pay, apart from the cost of the ingredients, labour, the million and one condiments (that could easily be cut in half) etc, etc, that constitute and justify these prices, but we have two choices: buy, or don't buy.

Why encourage this type of inflation? What next? Fifty dollars for bake and shark by Christmas? And you going to buy it-you, the same people who complain about the price of everything going up? You expect anybody to take you seriously? This is one area that we the people have to take the blame for.

W Dopson
Woodbrook

 

[San fernando]

Hmm I remember when Bake and Shark was $10

 

[LadyDeath]

Well due to this recession vendors have to raise their price so that they can get profits and we are so blind now that we pay for them and actually give them a sale

 

[TFM]

The reason for the inflation is simply, Maracas is a tourist destination in Trinidad and bake and shark is THE thing to get when you are there. It is a tourist commodity, and it is no coincidence that it is a flat rate for tourists - $30TT/$5US.

Buy it or don't buy it, but it will sell and just get more expensive as time goes by, just like everything else in demand.

And I don't agree W Dopson. You can't compare the price of bake and shark to the price of rice. People eat rice every day. It is a household item. People don't eat B&S everyday. It is a once in a while kinda thing and not as many people buy it as they buy rice. So to compare the two and assume that the price will inflate as quickly as the price of rice would be wrong and to imply that we can change the price of B&S by not purchasing it would also be wrong.

 

[andre]

$30 WTF!!!

 

[Wyspa]

Its been that price for a while now.. Its actually the flat rate for bake and shark now. It's no biggie. Like TFM said its a commodity associated with Tourists destinations locally. Any goods and services associated with tourism attracts a higher price. Simple economics. Tourists aren't here to stay. So paying a slightly exoberant price for a one-time meal is nothing to them. Hell i would pay for it if i was a tourists visting. Its just part of the experience.