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

[A580Hojas]

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?

£1.89 for a small evian at wh smith at the train station.

There's a new place near me. It's £6 for a bacon butty and £9 for a bit of toast with green shit on "smashed avocado" an egg and a slice of bacon... Fuck. That.

I foolishly bought a snickers at the work canteen the other day. £1.50. Jaw dropping.

Most things in WHSmith

Affectionately known as Costalot and its rival Megabucks in our house

There is always a lot of talk about wages having to go up but hardly ever conversation about the ridiculous cost of living. I don’t know why everyone pays these ridiculous prices.

I saw a chocolate brownie (quite small, maybe 5cms sq x 2.5cms high) with a small scoop of ice cream offered at £5.30. Go twiddle, I thought.

I met a former colleague for a catch-up in a coffee bar in Clerkenwell today (admittedly an uber-hipster, pretentious place - but they do excellent coffee) and they were charging between £5.50 and £8.50 for ONE cup of filter coffee (price varied depending on the beans selected).

Now I live in wankery-hipster central (Shoreditch to be precise) so I'm used to micro-sized coffee cups and lots of discussion about how ansd when the beans were roasted but this was a whole new level of taking the mickey. £5.50-£8.50?????!!!! For one cup?????!!!!

Where I live there are loads of these rip-off places.

But more fool me - I end up in them multiple times daily! The lure of a takeaway hot drink...

If cinemas charged a semi reasonable price I’d fill my boots in there. But there is no way I’m spending £28 on a bag of skittles so I’ll stick to smuggling in my Poundland goodies.

On the flip side, my recent discovery (trying to wean myself off high calorie breakfast of yummy Nero flat whites and croissants) is the bargain of a Greggs breakfast roll. Maybe not classy, but a very decent bacon roll and a nice Americano for £2. Not the best coffee ever, but perfectly drinkable. My twice a week treat.

Back to pricey. There's some kind of artisan caravan coffee place on the station I commute to for work. Captive audience, if I was waiting for a delayed train on a cold day I'd buy a drink, but the prices are insane. £1.70 for a bag of crisps, not a big bag either. I think I bought a coffee once before I noticed the price, never again.

National Trust coffee shop prices are terrible. 5 drinks, 3 slices of cake and 1 "cookie"? £32.
It's seldom I get stung but I still can't get over that!

I bought a takeaway cup of tea in a Holiday Inn - Starbucks franchise. Handed over £2.20 as I thought she’d said. She held her hand out. “The 20p is there” I helpfully pointed out.

“Yes but it’s £3.20”

THREE POUNDS AND TWENTY PENCE FOR A CUP OF TEA!!!

The queue behind me all started mumbling about it being a complete rip off whilst I begrudgingly handed over the extra £1 as I had nowhere else to go for my tea.

I’m with you on that A580Hojas I too normally will only have a drink as the price for a small cake or biscuit is ridiculous. In fact I’d rather go to McDonalds for one as it’s good coffee and I like their apple pie. I’m really upset they aren’t doing their festive pie (mincemeat & custard) again this year. Absolute travesty, what are they thinking!

Fruit Salad sweets 5p each in my local petrol station... 5P!!!

I’m really upset they aren’t doing their festive pie (mincemeat & custard) again this year. Absolute travesty, what are they thinking!

Seriously?? That's just put a dampener on my Christmas - MaccyD's pies are something I really look forward to.

Husband and I went to a sweet shop in a tourist trap twin nearby. Two 99’s and a small bar of tablet (no prices up-devious)....£14.80 I just held out a tenner not comprehending why that wasn’t enough then had to dig out my card.

Pret, I love Pret but £8ish for lunch is just too much.

I saw a chocolate brownie (quite small, maybe 5cms sq x 2.5cms high) with a small scoop of ice cream offered at £5.30. Go twiddle, I thought.

I’ve noticed the price of desserts in most restaurants are getting silly. Even chain places and pubs seem to charge £7.99 for the worlds smallest piece of cheesecake. It’s no wonder places like Wetherspoons do so well.

Just say no to cakes/coffees/snacks when you are out. There are so many great reasons not to consume them!

It’s £3.85 for a piece of cake in Costa in our shopping centre, and it’s not even an actual shop, it’s an ‘open’ seating area with a counter in the middle. To be honest it makes it so easy to just say no, I’d never pay that much for a slice of cake!

I hate being ripped off....luckily i dont drink coffee so easily avoid Costa etc....
I work in a supermarket so can make hot drinks for free in the canteen....i'm constantly shocked at the amount of staff who buy their drinks from the Costa cafe instore...even with a staff discount they are still expensive.

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

Many true a word said in jest. Friend handed over a tenner for a pint and a single G&T at a naice hotel wedding some years ago, expecting change. Barman kept his hand out, expecting just a little bit more than a tenner [Smile].

Mumsnet would have had a field day with that wedding. I was DPs plus one as it was his mate getting married to a bride who was a total princess bridezilla and then some.

Massive shiny wedding and the brides father speech included a joke, that also was nothing of the sort that paying for the wedding had forced him to see delay retirement by some years. There was a dress code that no-one told me about so I ruined all the photos I appeared in because my one nice dress was the 'wrong' colour. The bridezilla made it clear how much she hated me for this. And they separated in less than 2 years.

I went into an M&S food hall recently and there was a sandwich for £4. I thought that was expensive. £2.20 for a mince pie is laughable but I suppose there must be people out there who are stupid enough to pay for it.

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Thank god! I was gonna cancel my Christmas flight home to Manchester!