The price of a Costa Coffee mince pie (and other eyebrow raising prices) !

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Because I am fat and don't have a sweet tooth I never have anything to eat in a coffee shop so perhaps I'm very behind the times - but aibu to be shocked that they wanted £2.20 for a mince pie in Costa yesterday? They were flogging them at the till. I'm afraid I snorted at the idea I might want to pay that for 1 mince pie (and yes I know I'm sounding like my mother).

Any prices/charges that have made you do a double-take recently?

@blamethecat that doorbell costs almost as much as our house!

Annie The parking in the private contracted out treatment centre is cheaper, and right next door to the hospital. You actually have to show your appointment letter if you are parking in the treatment centre car park because of that. There is also plenty of free parking about 10-15 minutes walk away. Fine for healthy fit people, which most people visiting the hospital for appointments are not.

Oh yes I second Paw Patrol toys. My daughter would LOVE a set of the pups and vehicles, maybe the tower or bus as well. Best part of £200. Even second hand you'd pay £80+

Paw Patrol? Wait to you see the price for Power Rangers. Or big lego kits

Buying alcohol in bars always shocks me, I mean I still buy it obviously but can hear my granny saying “How much flower” in her outraged voice. Me and dh went out for my birthday last weekend and went in a few bars before our dinner booking, 1 pint of beer and 1 single gin and tonic £17.50!

The restaurant and micro pub in our village charges £7.50 for a small glass of red, it’s just the house red so no expensive bottle or anything.

Sweets in the cinema, my dc are a bit small for the cinema so I haven’t been in years but I took my nephew. He asked for a pick and mix, yes I said having not thought to check the prices. You need to sell a kidney to pay for pick and mix at the cinema!

Just been watching old episodes of coronation street from 1991 and half a pint was 44p
Carluccio's do a good offer during the week a coffee and croissant (the almond one is delicious and huge) for £2.95 my treat if I go into town

Totally shocking.

What are they in greggs?

The restaurant and micro pub in our village charges £7.50 for a small glass of red, it’s just the house red so no expensive bottle or anything.

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Please tell me this is down south.

Yes Halfwitpicker I am down south

A while ago l called into a motorway services near me for petrol. Had a quick look round WH Smith while l was there.
They were selling 'large' bags of Cadbury's Giant Buttons for £2.60. The same size bags that my local newsagent and small Asda sell for £1 or 99p.

Highway robbery.

Cinema sweets are the ones that always get me.
They sell bags that are usually on offer in Tesco at 99p for about £3.87.

Last time I went with teen DD even she said that's too much. (Glad to see she has picked up my sensible gene.)

Was it Jason Manford who did the service station skit, about going in and getting sandwiches and a coke; and handed over the cash saying "sorry, only got a twenty" to which the answer was "no problem, just put the coke back".

Agree with everything on here. I think we have to vote with our purses and refuse to buy outrageously expensive things then they'll have to put the prices down

It's called Costa-lot coffee in our house.

It's not just the chains though. I went to a local independent café for lunch today as a rare treat. It was £6.75 for a panini with a few tortilla chips and salad leaves on the side. And another £2 for a cup of tea. So the best part of £9 for a simple lunch. And they forgot my order so I had to wait like 25 minutes for it Ouch.

I actually refuse to buy snacks from the cinema now. It's like £6 for a tub of popcorn at the local Cineworld. There's a friggin' Asdas next door where you can buy a big bag of popcorn for £1, so I just sneak that in instead.

Ooh now I sell my mince pies for £2.50, but they are homemade and pretty deep, I sell lots...my scones are only £1.50 tho!

Took my child to Winter Wonderland last year and let them get some pick and mix....NEVER AGAIN! We're going again this year and I've already prewarned them that we will not be buying pick and mix from there.

20% VAT is a big reason for prices at cafes, takeaways etc. 30p of your £1.80 coffee goes straight to the treasury.

Then employers NIC at 13.8% on wages, plus a few percent workplace pension also inflates their wages bills.

A small hot chocolate (babycinnoo) in Costa is only 55p!

Very expensive food shop called Whole Foods. We call it Whole Salary.

Oh I love the whole foods shop .. it’s just so pretty 😁

We got charged £7 for two small cokes in the Vue at the weekend. Next time I'll be nipping in Poundland first!

It was £5.40!! for a Cornish pasty in Leeds Train station, upstairs on the concourse. I was so shocked I went back to look again because I thought I was having a hallucination of some sort.
Why would anyone pay this when they can get 2 pasties for about a pound at The Pound Bakery or one for a quidish at Greggs?.

Anything that has the label 'special needs' slapped on it.

Swing seat your bigger than a toddler can sit in. £130 quid for a bit of plastic and some rope

Car seat. That'll be upwards of £650

Bed. Like an overgrown cot type thing. That'll be anything between 4-6k

Adapted buggy. Looks like a buggy, pushes like a buggy but instead adjusts in all the right places so your child doesn't end up with a spinal curvature. That'll be 3k.

And if you plan on staying warm, dry and carrying shopping in said buggy that'll be £180 for the hood, £89 for the rain cover and £110 for the basket.

Plate that you can eat your dinner off independently: £10. And the cutlery £15 for a set of 3 items that are crap and fall apart if you dishwash them.

I picked up a “special Shopkin” while I was paying for petrol and some other bits and pieces.
DD opened it and it was a plastic carrot about 1cm long.
Looked at receipt and it was £3.10!

Such a rip off

WH Smith’s anywhere outside the high street. I paid £4.99 for some paracetamol because I had a banging headache and was halfway through a long drive. They were the generic kind that cost about 20p in a supermarket. They were in the news a while ago because a hospital branch was selling toothpaste for £7.99 which cost 80p in a normal shop.

It also annoys me that some shops sell normal sized chocolate bars for 80p or so, then the giant ones or multipacks for £1. It just encourages you to buy way too much chocolate.