Before the New Year, after the summer madness, the high prices in the black market, the country imported a batch of sugar and flour. This finally gave people something to be happy about.
With the market beginning to supply high-priced pastries and candies, quite a few high-priced restaurants were added. For a time, this helped many people with savings address their urgent needs.
Various department stores and grocery shops were crowded, with people squeezing together, and counters filled with citizens buying high-priced pastries and candies.
Unfortunately, they were high-priced items after all. Milk candy cost six yuan per pound, and pastries cost five yuan. To be honest, the prices were not much lower than those of the black market.
It didn't take long for these high expenses to become unmanageable even for those with high incomes, further barring many families struggling to make ends meet.
