Price of food

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This has probably already been done and I'm not brave enough for AIBU although I know I'm not but I went to Asda earlier and whilst I know things have gone up I was shocked -£4.25 for 20 packets of crisps, £3.40 for mayo (all cheap own brand was gone), £1.80 for a tin of soup, £5.00 for oil and almost £5 for two packs of pukka tea. I found myself putting stuff back. I'm sure I saw the price of food globally was going down so aren't we just getting ripped off?

Probably the issues at Dover?
Petrol price increase

AND more than likely shops now reducing their own brands to rake in profits from not producing their own.

I thought the same going round Lidl today. Everything has gone up. We've stopped mainly having crisps in packed lunches as I begrudge paying £2 for six packs that are gone in a day ( 4 adult kids in the house ! ).

We're not "getting ripped off". We chose Brexit which means we chose to leave the single market. This was always going to be a consequence of that choice.

Well I didn't choose bloody brexit! 😩. But yes and I'm glad I can afford the basics but pukka tea was a treat for me but I can't justify it

And petrol has gone down a bit

Aldi sounds cheaper than that OP.

I have really started to notice it even in there. A lot of things that haven’t gone up have had their packets made smaller. I filled up our cereal container today with a box of own brand sheddies. A box used to fill it completely and now there’s a few spare inches at the top.

What's happening to supermarket food prices? - Which?

^^That link says: Which supermarket had the fastest rising prices?The latest figures show that products at Lidl have the highest levels of inflation – up 25.2% for the one month to 31 March. This is closely followed by Aldi at 23.7%.

I don't shop in either, because we live very near a small branch of one of the others. But that surprised me!

It's a combination of a wage spiral. The strikers were warned that their greed would lead to spiraling inflation and they cared only for themselves.

The environmental religion cult that worships the earth and animals are partly to blame. Yes there are environmental issues they are rediclious though, they said about 10 years ago the earth would end and here we are. I gather Greta ddleted that 10 year tweet and earned a theology degree for her climate religious beliefs.Those of us older saw it all before with melting ice caps, acid rain and the ozone layer.

It's also in part due to the war.

It's in part due to Brexit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage-price_spiral

Greedy selfish postal and dock workers didn't care about business suffering post CPP not sharing information so that we could cope with the pandemic.

Greedy selfish teachers didn't care about children missing school yet they fine families if they miss a day as apparently it's a castropogy, it also wasn't a castrophy according to teachers for then to sit at home on pay during the pandemic.

Greedy selfish HCPs were willing to save life (i know some departnents worked and I am not talking about them) during the pandemic and had plenty of time to dance on tic tock ehen they had feck all to do on full pay and when the chrinically ill, heart and cancer patients come back they fuck off on strike and make food more expensive for the people they ensure can't fucking work now because they induced more sickness with they Greedy strikes.

Asda & Lidl, have really increased their prices, I find Aldi & Tesco cheaper tbh.

This thread is going down the crazy route.

Prices are increasing as are supermarket profits.

It’s really worrying me how much things are going up by. I already buy only own brand stuff and cook mostly vegetarian stuff. I can just about manage now but I’ll definitely struggle if prices keep rising.

Didn't take long either did it? How dare striking workers not act as indentured servants and graciously starve so the rest of us don't suffer. I think maybe I'm coming towards a break from mumsnet. Chat is getting as bad as AIBU

You're not wrong and its store cupboard stuff I notice it on. I tend to buy that in bulk on decent offers and only stock up when I run low but the price of beans and soup is making me decide I maybe just don't need them thst much any more.

Bringing the thread back down to earth away from the crazy... Everyone deserves a decent wage for the work they do but the offset of this is rising prices and rising taxes to pay for it. It's why I'm opposed to the idea of an increased NMW because it will just forces prices up and people will again demand the NMW go up with it.

It's horrible. No one likes paying a fortune for necessities like food but perhaps we need a global movement away from supermarkets and global living and reduce back down to the old way of living? Live local, work local, buy local. I can't see how modern living is sustainable in all honesty, we are just going to wipe ourselves out.

I started to buy in bulk when prices started to rise. Items with long sell by dates like tinned goods. The Heinz baked beans i bought, cost less than 50 pence a tin from Costco when I bought them! Now they cost on average £1.40

@CoconutCurryNan GB News and their acolytes have really done a number on you. Your bull would almost be funny if people like you weren't so bloody dangerous. It's "catastrophe" by the way.

It’s rations by stealth. A lot of the food we see on the shelves now will have been stock piled in preparation for Brexit.

its hardly the fault of the strikes. More likely tax avoidance of the super rish… rich.

As has been said on the numerous other threads...yes, food prices are rising. Mainly because in the past, we've enjoyed very very low food prices. Often less than cost. The supermarkets undercut each other. An example often given is how was it ever possible for Italian pasta, Italian brand, produced in Italy to be sold at three times LESS in Asda than in Italy itself.

It's not just the UK. I'm currently on holiday in Portugal and food and general supermarket produce is eye-wateringly expensive.
€25 for a pack of washing powder that would be £10 at home. €5 for hand wash. €14 for a medium sized tray of strawberries.

€35 for a watermelon (albeit a large one).

I find ASDA to be very expensive at the moment. Morrisons, Tesco and Aldi are a bit better but it's all expensive and no it's not getting any better.

I have just had a count up of my tinned goods. I have 72 tins of tomatoes, 125 tins of baked beans, 18 tins of spam, 12 tins of red salmon, 50 tins of sardines, 50 tins of sweet corn, 72 tins of peas, 80 tins of soup. All have long shelf life and all cost a lot less than before prices started to rise. I also have 20 bottles of fairy, 10 boxes of dishwasher tablets. I think If I bought all this now it would be almost double what I paid.