Price rises in the shops - what are you seeing?

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What items have you seen go up in the shops? I went to my co-op to buy milk yesterday. The regular kind was £1.55 (same as always, I think?) but organic had gone up to £2.55 😧😧😧(was £1.85 a few weeks ago)!! Also a bag of three paprikas was £1.60, has always been £1 for the last few years. (I’m in Central London if that matters).

Non-food: internet was £25 and has gone up to £28 since the pandemic (under introductory contract) and now will be £38 when introductory contract ends.

I’m a nurse and won’t get an increment this year, plus our pay rise is meant to be published but they’re saying it’ll be 3%. I’m pregnant with baby number two and feeling panicked often on how we are going to make this work. We are lucky to have two incomes, I don’t know how others will survive. Anyone else in a similar situation?

Yes, I think more people will start doing whatever beauty treatments they can do for themselves at home. These sorts of things are a luxuary.

The Aldi version is £2.89

Anyone shop at a butchers and are able to report on whether their prices are up too?

@TwinklingFairyLights I do my own brows as well, I actually find it easier doing at home them going to a salon. Literally 3/4 minutes. I buy one from Superdrug that lasts about 10 months if I do them monthly.

What’s weird is my local wanky farm shop doesn’t seem that much more expensive that the supermarket nowadays! Perhaps it’s because the fuel cost must be negligible coming direct from local suppliers.
Perhaps this is the way to go?

I'm in Ireland, the prices increases are insane.
Own brand butter(454g) used to be €2.19, then €2.49 and now it's €2.99!
3litres own brand milk used to be €2, now it's €2.59
Yogurts that used to be 3 for €3 are now 2 for €3.50.
Orange juice that was €1.49 for 2L is now €1.79.
Every single item has increased, the smallest increase seems to be 30cent,
And as a side note I'm a hairdresser and I haven't increased my prices!

Who gives a crap toilet paper. I paid £36 for a box in early January and went to reorder it’s now £44! We still have a few rolls left, so lasts about 7 months. So it’s good value considering there are 4 of us. But still quite a jump in 6 months!

Nipped to sainsburys yesterday, was dying for a bottle of coke.. I mean the small individual ones .. £1.75!!

I saw this too, you'd be better off buying a 2 litre bottle looking at price per 100ml 🙊

Easy way - go to Poundland and see what proprtion of items can be bought for £1. £.150 and £2 are very common prices now even for things like kids' garden toys e.g. bag of balls to throw in the garden.

I actually keep a price book to keep track of the best prices. Since the start of May, many basics/staples for us have remained the same price (grapes, lettuce, apples, etc) but a lot of processed foods have jumped by between 4p and 20p. 6 pints of milk is up 19p.

I buy sacks of flour and they’re up £1 (4.6%) In 2 months.

it’s all smallish amounts but across a weekly shop it really does add up.

I'm on maternity leave with No.2 currently and feeling exactly the same. I think it would be easier to tell you what hasn't gone up!

We just got news that our Gas and Electricity bill is going up to £214 😭. Sky went up and we had to get virgin and sacrifice a few channels just to pay the same as we were paying before. Can't even get a cheap shop in Aldi anymore.

I remember being able to comfortably afford baby/toddler groups with my DC the first time around but it's getting really hard to justify them now.

Our car loan runs out next month and we've been looking forward to the extra income for ages, but I can honestly say it has been swallowed up with pay increases!

I'm scared about the news that it's going to get worse.

Yes. Minced beef 4kg jumped from £20 to £24. Chicken is still OK so long as you can afford big packs (2kg ones at Aldi). Cooked meats are ridiculous if you don’t want reformed stuff.

I've got a £70 asda delivery coming tomorrow, a massive shop for me because I have a lot of visitors coming to stay.

Every time I go to add something I've forgotten, the prices have gone up. I originally placed the order last week, nine items have now increased in price. I need to add a couple of other things today but I'm almost too scared to look.

Seabrook's crisps in Sainsbury's: normal price before was always £1. Now they are £1.35.

But really, every single thing has rocketed in price. And not just by 10%!

And yet everything around here it's still in demand. Hairdressers fully booked for weeks, dog kennel booked up a year in advance, restaurants packed and reservation only. We bought a (much needed, long saved for) new car on Sunday and I asked the lady at the dealership if sales were down. Nope. We're trying to get a builder or for quotes for a significant job. Only managed to get one to even quote, despite trying about ten and repeatedly chasing up. A lot of people haven't run out of money yet.

The biggest increases here are:

• cat food (gone from £3 to £4 a box)
• toilet paper (can no longer get the budget brand - cheapest is £3 for 9 rolls 😬)
• Pepsi (£9 for 24 cans, up from £7 or even £6 in the past).
• tinned food - especially soup, baked beans etc.
• meat in general, which is why we don't really buy it anymore.

Fish (not as in the frozen mank breaded/ battered stuff), cant get it, and what is available is a ridiculous price per kg, and is going up, up, up. I live by the sea, with a beach launched fleet, 95% of the fish caught is exported abroad, or to some (UK) gentrified bourgeois enclave.

Aldi baby wipes were 20p now 60p

Does Aldi do online shopping? I thought it was like Lidl, they don't offer online grocery shopping either. If you've switched to another supermarket in order to shop online, you'll notice more of an increase to your weekly food bill than if you had sucked up the Aldi price rise

Golden Cow butter up to £4.50, was £3.50 for ages (Tesco)
Tropicana orange has gone up but by stealth, pack size increased by 300ml, price by £1.10.
Cushelle toilet paper used to be £9 for 24 rolls, now £11.50 in Asda
48 Weetabix from £4.80 to £5

Honestly, everything just seems to be rising and it really hits weekly spend.

Random but loads of popular items on ikea have gone up in price significantly eg by £70.

Special offer sharing bag of doritos/ sensations is now £1.25. Up from 99p -£1.

Pasta is going up as well.

I am not buying salmon anymore.

Also more gaps on shelves- which are hidden with shelf blockers.

I think it will be a lot more expensive towards the end of the year. So I may stock up on pasta and some tins later. Plus I need to stock up the freezer. No point on running a half full freezer.

Greggs have put their breakfast deal up again I realised this morning, it’s now £2.50 it was £2:20 at the start of the year.
I shop in Aldi and lots of things have gone up over recent weeks. Agree salmon has increased was £2.65 for 2 fillets now £3.19.
Its actually cheaper to buy the budget wholemeal loaf in M&S than Asda!

Everything building related has shot up.its eye-watering

You can see it all laid out here - www.trolley.co.uk/grocery-price-index/

I find it hard to tell in our weekly shop, because teen dd has started eating like a HORSE and tween dd is also eating more and more. They're basically adults in terms of how much they cost to feed now, so they account for a lot of our food bill creeping up in addition to price inflation.