Bananas Getting Expensive?

Yes it is too bad and due to the rising gas prices all food not only fruit will be going up because it is trucked in therefore gas goes up so does everything else. I just don't know where this is leading but there's going to be a lot of people in a lot of trouble financially it's already starting for me and I know I'm not alone.

Banans here are .69 cents a pounds I used to pay about. 38 cents a pound for them. I hate to see them go up to $1.00 a pound I will not buy them very often if they do I already don't buy apples very often as they are $1.49 a pound!

I love bananas also. It is a sign of the times that prices on all goods are going up. Part of it is due to higher oil prices and part is due to so many natural disasters. I just saw on the news this morning where an Illinois farmer lost his whole crop because the levee near his land broke and flooded his farmland.

Wow, $1 a pound is kinda high for bananas. I've seen them range from about 35 cents a pound to 69 cents a pound. I also hear there is also some kind of disease that's affecting the type of bananas that most people want to eat, too. Well, I will have to switch to another fruit if bananas go bye-bye. I tend to buy more raisins when this happen. They have a little more potassium and about the same amount of calories per serving.

Yep, unfortunately prices are going up everywhere. Nothing is safe anymore. Economists are blaming it on the cost of fuel. Here in Ontario, we pay around $6.00 per gallon of gas (hard to say exactly as it is up and down daily, quicker than the toilet seat in our house), lol) I say it is a good time to go on that diet, I am always thinking about starting. Soon, I won't have much choice anyways, it seems! I have no idea how young people just starting out with little mouths to feed are gonna do it. Good lucj to them!

I don't think just bananas that is getting expensive. With the oil rise that makes the gas price rise, all transportation cost will be increasing. If the transport rise, the cost of goods will rise, too. The bad thing about oil rise, it will rise all production and transport cost. Not only in US that everything are rising, in Asia and Europe are also the same. The third world countries are the one hit the most. To make it bad, the global warming is also giving a bad weather for crops.

since the price of world oil being increased, everything becomes so expensive than previous time and about banana price in my country, it seems have some increasing too but i don't know how much the increasing of it since it seems variety depend on the area

A couple of weeks ago we were paying thirty nine cents a pound. Yesterday I bought some and they were at eighty nine cents a pound. And this was a one of those warehouse type stores where you have to bag the groceries yourself.

Hi jillmalitz, because of the boosting up of the gasoline hike. The price of everything does increase accordingly. Even the cheapest fruit in my place, banana has gone up. Luckily they increase slightly only as they are grown locally otherwise I would face the same problem as you to eat the rather expensive banana here. Among all the fruits, banana is a tasty and nutritious food and convenient to be taken. It contains high content of starch and could be taken as a staple food. I do take bananas as a meal sometimes, if I really couldn’t spare time to prepare my food.

They are up to like $.59 cents a pound here. That's expensive for bananas! I can remember when they were 10 cents a pound! I suppose with the price of gasoline going up, we can expect all food prices to soar. Time to start gardening!

I love eating bananas also. The bananas here are 69 cents a pound. The last time I bought some they were all bad in the inside.I even bouhgt them when they were still green. I payed $200 for 5 bananas. All the fruit here is so expensive and most of it dont even taste good. I wish we can have better fruit in our stores. The price of eggs went up also.

i'm not sure what the per pound is local,but i do know a small bunch is now $2.89,where it used to be $.69 a bunch,so that's a large raise no matter how you look at it.

At hannaford in maine I can buy banana's for 0.59 cents a lb I wasn't aware that they were going to be going up to over a dollar a lb I knew grapes were already above a dollar a lb.

bananas are still cheaper in our place because we are the producer of bananas for visayas, luzon and exporting also to some countries like japan. we are lucky enough here because we have lots of banana plantations that support other are maybe including you. if you want to buy a cheaper banana, you can visit us here in davao city.

I've noticed the price of bananas going up too. Last time we bought them, they were 69 cents a pound. I remember when we were getting them for 25 cents a pound in recent years. Probably not ever again? It seems like once the price goes up on something, it doesn't come back down.

hi there jillmalitz where i am Australia our bananas ar the moment is $1.59 a kg but last summer it was $3.95 a kg i know bananas can be very expensive i do like bananas they are nice to eat in vanilla yougart take care

Dear jillmalitz, that price rise of fruit also happens here in china. It really distrubs me ,for I am also a fruit lover. Sometimes, the money for two apples can affords me quite a full meal. Even so ,i often starve myself to buy some fruit,hehe!

It's not surprising that the cost of fruits has also risen. It's probably because the cost of gas is up which would push up the cost of fertilizer and other stuff. Even though bananas are more expensive, it still comes out cheaper than other fruits. It's one of my favorite fruits actually because of the price, taste, and nutritional value. With almost everything increasing in price, I think the best solution is to just buy fruits that are in season.

Yes, the once bananas which are ones the cheapest of all fruits will no longer be affordable to poor people soon. Here in the Philippines the once P20 per kilo has risen up to P40 for good bananas and I'm afraid it will even rise up.So, Sorry for banana lovers like me!

Nowadays,almost the price of everything is rising whiout our salary.Bananas is getting expense,of course,it is common,and we can only accept it whitout complain.The way for to me sovle this question is trunning to ohter cheap fruit.