Whether it is cof­fee, milk, juice or sea­son­ing, pre­pare to pay more for some Nes­tle items.

On Wednes­day, Nes­tle, the world’s largest goods group con­firmed an in­crease in some of its brands. But at a time when oth­er ba­sic com­modi­ties are on the rise, the com­pa­ny as­sured that the ad­just­ments will have lit­tle im­pact on con­sumers.

Pri­or to re­leas­ing an of­fi­cial state­ment, lo­cal con­sumers got wind of the pro­posed bite in­to their pock­ets as a doc­u­ment out­lin­ing the pro­posed mark up of items in­clud­ing Car­na­tion Evap­o­rat­ed Milk, Mag­gi Sea­son Up, Nescafe and Nesquick be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia.

Head of cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions Siti Jones-Gor­don con­firmed Nes­tle will in­crease prices this month on some lo­cal and im­port­ed prod­ucts but did not iden­ti­fy which ones.

“The price in­crease per­cent­ages will av­er­age in sin­gle dig­its.”

Nes­tle blamed the price hike on glob­al in­creas­es in trans­port, sup­ply chain, raw and pack­ag­ing ma­te­ri­als which in­clude the well-known surge on com­modi­ties.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, Pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion, Ra­jiv Diptee warned con­sumers to brace for more in­creas­es as a re­sult of dis­rup­tions to the glob­al sup­ply chain.

“We ex­pect to see some of this con­tin­u­ing through­out 2022 as a num­ber of chal­lenges have fil­tered through 2021 in­to 2022 in­clud­ing the ele­phant in the room, the vac­ci­na­tion rate and how these co-re­late to trans­port and the con­tain­er cri­sis where freight and in­sur­ances are con­cerned. It is a sup­ply and de­mand is­sue, right, and we’ve seen de­mand go up sup­ply not be­ing able to keep up with that.”

The food pro­cess­ing con­glom­er­ate is the lat­est com­pa­ny to raise prices on food items. Last week Na­tion­al Flour Mills an­nounced an in­crease in whole­sale flour prices as a re­sult of in­creas­es in glob­al wheat prices and oth­er vari­ables.

The move trig­gered oth­er com­pa­nies to ad­just the price of their prod­ucts, in­clud­ing Nu­trim­ix as well.

Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny al­so an­nounced a hike in its bread prices. On Mon­day Carib Brew­ery al­so re­vealed that con­sumers will have to pay an ad­di­tion­al dol­lar for se­lect­ed bot­tled and canned bev­er­ages in­clud­ing Carib, Carib Pil­sner, Carib Blue, Stag and Heineken.