With the price increase of many foods and beverages, Yokohama's specialty shumai lunch box was also raised from the 1st due to the cost of purchasing raw materials for side dishes and rising energy prices.

Prior to the price increase at a manufacturing and sales company such as Shumai in Yokohama City, employees spent about 3 hours after closing the store on September 30 to replace price tags and posters.



The company decided to raise the price of 179 products, which is about 90% of all products, by an average of 4%, and started selling at the new price from the 1st.



Of these, "Shiumai bento" was raised by 40 yen including tax to 900 yen, and Shumai with 15 pieces was raised by 20 yen to 640 yen.



As for the reasons for the price increase, the company said that in addition to the soaring prices of raw materials such as flour used for shumai skins and tuna and chicken for bento side dishes, the cost of packaging materials such as wooden lunch boxes has increased, and energy prices such as electricity and gas have risen. cites an increase in



However, the company said that about half of the cost increase has been passed on to prices, and the rest will be dealt with by increasing the production efficiency of the factory.



A 62-year-old woman from Ibaraki Prefecture said, "As a consumer, it's a problem for consumers to raise prices, but I can't help it because I want to eat delicious food and don't want it to disappear."

Hiroaki Nishimura, General Manager of Kiyoken's Public Relations Department, said, "It's unfortunate that the price increase is closely related to the lives of our customers, but we had no choice but to revise the price because we couldn't absorb it with our corporate efforts. The exchange rate trend is unclear, so it's a problem, but the purchase price. I would appreciate it if it stabilized."