{"id":148084,"date":"2025-09-19T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148084\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:56:08","slug":"food-prices-could-differ-between-islands-because-of-ferry-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/148084\/","title":{"rendered":"Food prices &#8216;could differ&#8217; between islands because of ferry costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Cox said increases to the national living wage and National Insurance payments in the UK are also affecting firms which employ large numbers of people, including food manufacturers and those working in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re doing our best to offset those increases,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The society has to import fresh food daily, including bread, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Coop reported a &#8220;resilient&#8221; half-year performance at its special members&#8217; meeting on both islands, with turnover reaching \u00a3119 million, up 4.6% year-on-year, with a net surplus of \u00a3685,000, up \u00a31 million from the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Cox said increases to the national living wage and National Insurance payments in the UK are also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-148084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}