To ask the most insanely priced supermarket item you’ve seen lately? Bet you can’t beat this

I bought 2 loaves braces bread and 2 x 4 pint bottles of milk today, local corner shop ( no supermarkets for about 16 miles ) barely pennies change from ten pounds :-( We're soooo screwed. Our electricity ( smart meter pay as you go, no choice was here when started rental) has more than doubled despite us using as little as possible. Rent, council tax water all went up by quite a significant amount and food has pretty much quadrupled, even in the distant supermarket. Income went up by mere pennies per week in comparison. Already only eat once per day, any more rises we're going to have to have one or two fasting days at this rate.
It feels like the less you use or eat the more it keeps costing, and I strongly believe we are all being conned by the ones at the top of the food chain.

@LakieLady not seen a dupe but it's £2 in Asda and Tesco at the min

Just fill the frigging bin with paper and throw your trash on the floor. No plastic waste!

Seven pounds for lurpak butter

What kind of Lurpak and what size?

Sainsbury's web site shows:

• £2.15 for 200 g Lurpak butter (£1.70 with Nectar)
• £4.00 for 400 g Lurpak spreadable
• £7.25 for 750 g Lurpak spreadable

My grumble about butter is how branded butter all switched from 250 g packs to 200 g packs, while unbranded remains in 250 g packs. This makes it difficult to compare prices unless you have good eyesight to read the microscopic price per 100 g or kg text. I usually have to kneel down and take my glasses off to read it. I completely fail to understand why Trading Standards allow supermarkets to display different unit pricing (per 100 g or per kg) for different brands of the same product, apart from the obvious explanation that Trading Standards no longer do anything because they have no staff.

Seven pounds for lurpak butter

Hope they have some left! Ours was in one of the special offer baskets near the butchers’ counters.

Thank you for this, might pop down to Morrisons :)

How do you line a tall 30 litre bin with newspaper? Do you have to stick it on somehow?

Leg of lamb is offer in our local Morrisons now for £10 per Kg so I’ve bought some to freeze for family roast meals. £10 seems cheap at the moment but it really isn’t that cheap, just cheaper than the last price - £22ish per joint. The problem is that we simply get used to the ridiculous new price.

My dad used to use that phrase a lot when I was a kid. We never understood it but it made us laugh.

We go through olive oil at a rate of notts (is that the phrase? And the spelling of notts?!) but we buy direct from a place in Tuscany and get it delivered once a month, 5 litres (we share some with mil) so I’m used to it being more expensive but we use it loads and it’s a really good quality oil with a fair price for those involved in harvesting and providing the olives for the oil.
But i just saw in an airport a crappy tin of olive oil - 1litre - for 32 euros 😂 and that’s with a ‘discount’ too!

I always think butter costs a lot but the price has come down a little again.

Not being a parent, I had no idea how expensive baby stuff was until a few years ago, when I did some budgeting work with a client who'd just had her first baby and couldn't breastfeed. The amount she was spending on nappies and formula was just breathtaking.

Every now and again, I grab a pack of nappies and/or tin of formula and take them to the local food bank.

That's worth knowing, so thank you! I can tolerate own brands of most soups, but have never found a tomato soup that tastes as good as Heinz.

Does anyone know of an own-brand dupe of Baxter's Carrot and Butter Bean soup? It was £2.75 a can last time I really fancied some, so it stayed on the shelf.

I now buy a roll of washable kitchen roll. It’s made from microfibre (I think). You tear them off as sheets like the paper towels but they’re reusable and washable cloths. My favourite buy this year (Poundland, I think £2.50 a roll).

I need a friend who lives in Croydon then. That's our nearest Costco and it's about 35 miles away.

You'd have to do a hell of a lot of shopping to make the savings outweigh the cost of getting there and back.

Same here. I work in the third sector, but delivering services that are funded by NHS or Adult Social Care money. We got a 3% pay increase this year.

We've had below inflation pay rises for so long that the same job in other sectors now pays 25% more than we get. We can't recruit experienced staff, so it's effectively become a training role. People come to us to get the experience, then fuck off and get more money elsewhere.

I'm not unduly bothered personally, I'm over retirement age, only do 17 hours pw and am sort of semi-retired, plus I have pension income, but it's shit for my colleagues, especially the younger ones. And it's going to have a real impact on the work we do as the more experienced staff leave.

Everything in the South of France is over priced, except eating out and their wine. You don't have to pay very much for a good bottle of wine or champagne, unlike the UK. We get send all the rubbish and it's over priced.

My husband often has to buy tools or parts, we won't use French engineers, we fly out people from the UK, put them.up, feed them get them to do the work and fly them home, it's cheaper and safer than employing french people.

You can get toilet brushes for much cheaper than that, they don't have that shop where I am but so I don't know what type it is but supermarkets, home bargains type shops etc wouldn't cost that much.

I think the issue is the shop rather than toilet brushes being expensive.

It was the first time I’ve ever bought one (hate them but cleaner wanted it) and was expecting it to be 99p. It was from Robert Dyas. It was literally just a basic plastic loo brush, no stand (not that that would have justified the price even so). Insane!

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · Today 07:55

Greek, French available tho'

Greece, Spain and Tunisia have all had two years of bad harvests, too, because of drought and high temperatures.

Lex345 · Today 07:35

Legs of Lamb, £35 in Asda.

Holy shit! Sainsbury had them 1/3 off on Nectar, at Easter. I got two and put one in the freezer - I think they were 12 Quid.

Where.from? Have you choosen to pay twice as much as you need to or is it special in some way?

Greek, French available tho'

A replacement toilet brush - plastic - £9.99. Speechless.

Nicked.

The supermarket where my friend works, there're a group of shoplifters - not sure if they are in the same gang or some may do it independently. Usual things to get nicked are steaks, beef joints, the odd half leg of lamb. The store is a small one (not a Sainsburys Local, Tesco Express) and only sell legs of lamb if the whole supermarket chain has them on offer. So this is why they restrict in the number of these lines available in the chillers on shop floor.

I am a member of our local litter wombling group and on their FB page, a fellow womble litter picked a small layby in a by pass. She found about two dozen supermarket baskets from 3 supermarkets. One of these supermarket baskets come from my friend's work as its the only one in the area that use this style of basket. This is about 4 miles away from the supermarket. Guessing this is the shoplifters gang's meeting up point where they exchange their stolen stuff for drugs or other things.

Shoplifters steal to order, not because they can afford food as that would be a normal shop worth of purchases nicked, not 24 steaks. The CoL has not increased this type of stealing.

It's not just meat. Bottles of spirits (usually Smirnoff, JD), razor blades and dishwasher tablets.

Also lamb has a long shelf life - about 16 days.