Cooking tomatoes

Cooking tomatoes

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will, this week, ask $50 for a pound of cooking tomatoes, and so will most rural retail markets.

In downtown Kingston, you will pay anything from $30 to $40 for a pound.

Pork chops

Markets and butcher shops across the island are, this week, asking $180 for a pound of porkchops. Supermarkets will, this week, ask $380 per pound.

Irish potatoes

Markets in May Pen and Spanish Town will ask $50 for a pound of Irish potoatoes this week, as will most rural retail markets.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will ask $50 to $60 for a pound, while in downtown Kingston, you can get one pound of Irish potatoes for $40 this week.

Carrots

Carrots are on good offer this week. Most retail markets are asking $50 for a pound and so is Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market. Outlets in downtown Kingston will ask $40 for a pound of carrots.

Green bananas

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will quote prices from $70 to $80 for a dozen fingers this week. Those same prices will be good in most rural retail markets.

Downtown Kingston's less-costly retail outlets are asking $50 to $60 at this time for a dozen green bananas.

Pineapples

Two varieties of pineapples are presently on good offer in retail markets acrooss the island. They are sugar loaf and cowboy. The sugar loaf sells at $50 per pound and the cowboy at $40.

PRICES AT A GLANCE

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