Loot in rates of mithai
All mithai prices are exhorbitant. Here is an example of a mid-price-range mithai. I purchased a normal malai peda for Rs.850/- per kg containing about 65 to 70 pcs and laced with just about 2 gms of dryfruit shavings per kg of peda. That means price of each marble sized peda, rougly an inch spherical peda, is Rs.12/- for each. How is this justified ? I challege the makers to sit with me and do a cost study. The manufacturing cost will not come to Rs.250/- to Rs.300/- per kg. The government is not interested in controlling this loot just because the seller is a private entity. But surely, the income tax and GST authotities can look into their earnings and sale. The other option is people should boycott and instead rely on fruits and dry fruits, which are healthier, better and overall turnout to be cheaper
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Chunnilal Ji those who have diabetes will say: Grapes are Sour so please don't mind. Also we have business people who can give a price break up as they would want to justify that the prices of Haldimaar & Bikanerwala & Aggarwal are in line with rising prices. My suggestion is: Go to rural areas - Villages where the purity of sweets along with the correct prices still exist. I had a colleague from Uttra Khand who used to bring Khoya Barfi - the taste would still be there for half an hour after you consume it. We urban class undervalue the Rural brethren and spend and splurge money on Brands who exploit the rural manufacturers. For Example in Agra: you will find over 2 dozen: Panchi Petha shops...but the manufacturing is done in rural area and the tempo brings the orders of the sweet shops daily to replenish their stocks. You pay Rs.600 - 800 for this while the rural manufacturers charge them Rs.200/- the GST 18% 0r 25% is bypassed by these Brands who ensure that Purchasers pay it on their behalf at higher prices to keep the Government coffer overflowing.
Oct 04
I am neither justifying sale price of sweets of Brands nor asking you to travel to Dimapur or Chinchpokli or Murabba. My suggestion was that lesser known sweet shops in our own area may be selling the same sweets at lower price. It is the hype created by these Brands that encourage them to blatantly loot people and those who have paying capacity and love to flaunt these Brands( unpaid Brand ambassadors)are also in a way contributing to this loot. I had given an example of Panchi Petha of Agra...difference in Price of same Sold in Panchi Petha Shops which lines up on both sides of highway and the city, get their supplies from a nearby village where the manufacturing is done. Similarly the Rosogulla's sold in Branded Outlets and even known Sweet shops of Kolkotta & nearby cities come from a small village called: Chandan Nagar. Ofcourse the Branded ones will use Ghee(Pure) & best ingredients but if you see the making of foods in 5-Star Hotel Kitchen, you will never go there. So don't panic, just enjoy the sweet wherever you find, whenever you find.
Oct 07
People stay all over India, some in cities, towns, or villages. Each one will buy sweets in his place of residence. Person staying in Mumbai will not normally go for buying sweets to Dimapur or Murbe I really do not understand if you are telling people to go and buy their sweets in villages or whether you are justifying the sale price of sweets in cities and elsewhere.
Oct 07
The cost of 800gms khoya Rs.400, sugar 200 gms Rs.10. Dry fruit Rs.40. Processing cost Rs.50, process loss Rs.30, packing Rs.5.00, cost of infrastructure Rs.50, margin @ 15% Rs.75.00. + GST. I don't think the halwai is really looting.
Oct 01
Reputed halwais use good quality dry fruits and spread the same on burfi fairly. Even on peda one badam or pista is fixed. Your case might be some what different.
Oct 01
Figures you give are all random. You have to start from milk as raw material not khoya. Dry fruits for 2 gms cost is maximum Rs.2 @ averrage dry fruit cost Rs.1000 per kg. Let us try to justify how can malai peda cost the same as cost of a kilo of dry fruit ? Kaju and badam are average 750 to 2000 per kg. What is used in mithais is rhe tukda dry fruit of lowest quality.
Oct 01
yes true govt should be controlling essential food items and not luxury items
Oct 01
u r misleading the public. It is not looting, It is business. Looting is there where things are most essential and related to life. Nobody has compelled you to buy sweets from market. you can make it at your home very easily. Prices are depend upon demand supply in the market. You can call it looting if they selling more than MRP.
Sep 30
There is a system of fair business and unfair business. Unfair business by forming a cartel is loot. I hope next you will not ask me to make my own medicines if complaint is about its abnormal price.
Oct 01
One kilo mithai does not need 1 kg khoya. There is atleast 15 % milk balance in malai pedha and about 20 to 25 % sugar which is 45 per kg, but mixed in the mithai become 850 per kg.
Sep 30
