WE are feeling the pinch as our food prices have been rising in recent weeks.
It has been reported that Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) increased by 2.2% in March, which is comparatively low to those in many other countries like the UK (7.0%) and US (8.5%). However, this is no consolation to many ordinary Malaysians who are seeing their grocery bills spiking, with some basic foodstuff in short supply and subject to rapidly soaring prices.
