Every year, families welcome another guest to their Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve dinners: food. At the beginning of December, Cordoba residents go to supermarkets to buy meat and seafood before inflation takes its toll. without … However, others choose local companies, such as those in Sanchez Pena Market In La Corredera Square warns of “prices that will start to rise next week.”
“Fish prices are always very volatile, they go up and down a lot depending on the exact holidays. Today, dates have little effect on fish. Yes, it is true that it rises a little, but that is due to bad weather conditions at sea.” says David, from Pescadria Morales. However, he stresses that “the price will rise a little more when the holidays approach.”
Although there is not much movement in the market today, loyal customers always come every year to replenish supplies in their trusted shops, with the fishmongers or the “old-fashioned” butcher. “Customers do Very early orders. “Most of them are old customers who remind me that they want certain items and that I have them,” David says.
In this sense, confirms Paco from Tony Adamoz fish market, “the fish come in very little because there is a very bad storm and they do so at a normal price.” In his opinion, “in principle, fresh fish is not particularly expensive.” He also confirms that “It will start to rise next week Or almost Christmas. Regarding the seafood, he explains that “it doesn’t look very fresh, and there are almost no varieties, and this may raise the price a little, but other than that it’s all natural.”
Shrimp are one of the most expensive products this year, according to forecasts by fish traders in the Sanchez Peña market. “People don’t ask, they look at you but they don’t ask you. They might ask you Regular customers throughout the year“There may be one or two at most, but in principle there is no Christmas movement to be seen,” explains Paco.
Shrimp, shrimp, hake, monkfish or bream are the most in-demand products in the first week of December.
With a large number of customers waiting for service, José Luis de la Pescadriya García Sánchez also commented to ABC that “on these dates Prices of all seafood are rising And big fish. They will continue to do so, especially in the last days before Christmas Eve because there is more demand. Shrimp, prawns, carcasses, hake, monkfish and sea bream are the most sought-after products at the start of the Christmas campaign, according to the professional.
Jose Luis also notes that people are more forward-thinking than in other years. “I noticed that customers They are moving forward a little Because the television constantly repeats that prices will rise and people do not want to run out of seafood or buy it at a higher price than necessary.
“The price of cheese is expensive and eggs seem to come with an accompaniment.”
Rafael, who runs a delicatessen in the Sanchez Peña market, warns: “Iberian products increase at Christmas; in other years they do not increase, but this year their production was lower.” Oak-fed ones that have maintained the price». He also points out that cheese prices are “expensive” and that eggs “come with an accompaniment.” As for the rest, the price “remains the same.” Rafael is trying to “consolidate things so that things don’t come together later, but for now we are organizing ourselves well with the flow of people.”
For his part, Moisés Martin, who is in charge of the butchery that bears his name, explains, “Lamb has risen more by two euros per kilo. Veal has been rising for a year and has risen by about three euros per kilo.” In short, “prices have varied greatly, from last year to this year there is a very big difference. Especially with beef and lamb.
Moisés explained that their stuffed products do not differ in price “because we will not raise their price more, if they already have an interesting value and price and we will gain nothing by raising them more.”Excited about the campaign Christmas and we look forward to people stopping by to see us. This year, looking forward, we went on sale for a week to save money.