値崩れ

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 値崩れ is read as ねくずれ and is a noun for a substantial weakening or collapse in a product’s price or market level.
• Basic usage: Use 値崩れが起きる for occurrence and 値崩れを心配する for concern about the decline.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Different from a temporary discount
  • It concerns a broader deterioration in market price, not merely a small discount deliberately offered by one shop.
• Supply in the given context
  • 供給が急に増えて supplies the cause of the vegetable-price collapse here without claiming that supply causes every decline.