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I've just found an 11 year old Asda groceries order email. The price of BUTTER!

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How11yearsfly · 08/01/2026 14:10

It's not the most detailed order because there's no volumes weights etc. But butter is butter. £1.76 for 2 packs.

Jeepers

4th August 2015

I've just found an 11 year old Asda groceries order email. The price of BUTTER!
I've just found an 11 year old Asda groceries order email. The price of BUTTER!
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FOJN · 08/01/2026 16:11

Thirstycarrot · 08/01/2026 14:25

Country life butter
£1.50 Asda. Today.

This inflation example doesn’t seem at all bad to me

No but the shrinkflation is appalling. That's 200g rather than 250g.

NotSmallButFunSize · 08/01/2026 16:08

I remember a couple of years ago I had a list on the go and was adding through the week - the 6 pint bottle of milk went up like 50p in 3 days!

Started at £1.29 or something, then was up to nearly £2 by the time I checked out. Is £2.65 these days!

SerendipityJane · 08/01/2026 16:07

How11yearsfly · 08/01/2026 15:11

How contentious was this thread? 😲

Odd. I'v seen fewer deletions on threads about Gaza ????

Mysa74 · 08/01/2026 16:05

Bjorkdidit · 08/01/2026 14:17

In August 2015, NMW was £6.50 an hour, it's now £12.21

Electricity is also nearly double what it was 10 years ago.

These costs will both heavily impact the price of groceries.

In contrast, my top of band 5 NHS rate was £14.41 in 2015 and is now £19.33...

Edited to add, in 2005 it was £12.40. Which is both fascinating and quite depressing...

Mymanyellow · 08/01/2026 16:04

Lurpak butter is £1.95 for 200g in Tesco with a club card. Definitely used to be 250g.

JohnBullshit · 08/01/2026 16:00

I refuse to buy any butter in 200g packs. Cheeky blighters. My Aldi butter comes in 250g denominations, as nature intended.

Bjorkdidit · 08/01/2026 16:00

Most butter still comes in 250 g packs.

It's only certain brands that are smaller but the actual product isn't really any different so you might as well just get whatever is cheapest.

cardibach · 08/01/2026 15:58

Bjorkdidit · 08/01/2026 14:17

In August 2015, NMW was £6.50 an hour, it's now £12.21

Electricity is also nearly double what it was 10 years ago.

These costs will both heavily impact the price of groceries.

In terms of minimum wage I think you have cause and effect the wrong way round. CoL goes up, minimum wage has to go up so people can, you know, eat. You’re right about power though. Time to renationalise and stop the profiteering I reckon…

LatteLady · 08/01/2026 15:52

CautiousVisitor · 08/01/2026 15:27

Except that's 200g, where I'm pretty sure until recently blocks of butter were 250g, so it's shrinkflation.

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You are absolutely right, I was about to post this, too... Butter used to be sold in 8oz packs, which converted to 226g so we did well initially until they started paring it down to 225g and then latterly 200g. I noticed this about 18 months ago.

FeliciaFancybottom · 08/01/2026 15:46

Blimey, what was so controversial about butter that so many posts got deleted?

rainforestalliance · 08/01/2026 15:45

10 years ago was 1999 or something, not 2015 😅

IwannaspendchristmasontheM5 · 08/01/2026 15:32

Bjorkdidit · 08/01/2026 14:50

500 g butter at Asda for 85 p? I don’t believe it.

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Some posters are visiting from Knob Central as usual and some are being deleted thankfully.
As you were OP...it's interesting but shocking how prices have changed.

Tiredofwhataboutery · 08/01/2026 15:27

I do remember Tesco own brand butter used to be 85p about 12 years ago I remember being shocked when it went over a quid. £1.99 now.

CautiousVisitor · 08/01/2026 15:27

Thirstycarrot · 08/01/2026 14:25

Country life butter
£1.50 Asda. Today.

This inflation example doesn’t seem at all bad to me

Except that's 200g, where I'm pretty sure until recently blocks of butter were 250g, so it's shrinkflation.

JingsMahBucket · 08/01/2026 15:24

@How11yearsfly I know! Sorry it got derailed but you’re totally right. The price increases are double over the past ten years.

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How11yearsfly · 08/01/2026 15:11

How contentious was this thread? 😲

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Gatekeeper · 08/01/2026 15:03

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Thats not butter though...its yellow man-made grease

JingsMahBucket · 08/01/2026 15:03

@Magnesiumtime nice moving of the goal posts there.

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JingsMahBucket · 08/01/2026 14:57

@Magnesiumtime that’s not butter. It’s just spread. Vegetable oil with some buttermilk. It’s the generic equivalent of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.

Bjorkdidit · 08/01/2026 14:56

That's not butter though.

We're talking about butter not crappy spread.

Magnesiumtime · 08/01/2026 14:54

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givemushypeasachance · 08/01/2026 14:51

I used to make Mars Bar Rice Krispies cake as a student, which was circa 2003-2006, and remember that butter used to be one of the cheaper elements. A 250g block of Tesco Value butter was 40p.

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500 g butter at Asda for 85 p? I don’t believe it.

NursieBernard · 08/01/2026 14:45

@Thirstycarrot Asda butter is £3.94 for 500g, Asda Brilliantly Buttery is £0.85p for 500g.