Cus­tomers will have to wait a lit­tle longer for re­duced prices on Nu­trim­ix flour prod­ucts, as sev­er­al ma­jor su­per­mar­kets have not yet ad­just­ed prices for the prod­ucts on their shelves.

The com­pa­ny an­nounced the price cuts a week ago. How­ev­er, the Pur­chas­ing Man­ag­er at Price Club Su­per­mar­ket, Kim Ma­haraj, said there was a rea­son why cus­tomers are not yet see­ing the low­er prices. “Nu­trim­ix doesn’t give a re­bate on the stock that we have. The on­ly time the price will be re­flect­ed on the shelf is when we buy new stock at the low­er price, and then we can pass it on to the cus­tomer,” she ex­plained.

Ma­haraj said al­though Nu­trim­ix an­nounced that the price ad­just­ment would take im­me­di­ate ef­fect, the time frame could vary for prices to be ad­just­ed on the shelves of ma­jor su­per­mar­kets. “You have to al­so re­mem­ber the su­per­mar­ket would have stock in store in their back store and on the shelf,” she said.

The re­duc­tion in flour prices is the re­sult of sev­er­al glob­al vari­ables, in­clud­ing re­duced wheat prices and ship­ping costs. Pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T Ra­jiv Diptee said he was op­ti­mistic about fur­ther ad­just­ments in the cost of im­port­ed food prod­ucts. 

He said, “We would like to see some prices com­ing down, but we are not yet see­ing that trans­lat­ing on the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket in terms of ma­jor sup­pli­ers, and that is some­thing we are hav­ing con­ver­sa­tions on with oth­er man­u­fac­tur­ers and im­porters to see what could be done.” Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed Nigel Ro­mano said while the state-owned com­pa­ny makes price ad­just­ments due to shift­ing glob­al pat­terns and in­ter­nal op­er­a­tions, it can sug­gest re­tail prices for the prod­ucts.