I know prices are rising, but this is crazy

[Zenana]

I saw this post (paraphrased) below on a Facebook page of someone I know from a hobby group. I don't know what they ordered or where from, or the size of the order. Is this anyone's experience? I don't have a delivery or do a massive shop so can't compare. This price rise is in three weeks!

I've just ordered exactly the same food shop order that I ordered on the 21st April 2023 - the same food shop order has gone up £20 what a joke.

Need base figures really, £20 on a £250 shop or £20 on an £80 shop?

£20 rise by itself is difficult to get a percentage.

Yes it's the same for everyone as everyone has to buy food/household stuff.

Surely you had noticed price rises?

I haven’t really noticed my food shop rising at all. It’s about the same every week and has been for a while now, I’m not seeing these massive price hikes personally.

I do a big shop at Waitrose and it’s always around £300 - same stuff most weeks.

£300 a WEEK!? For food? How many are in your family?
We have a family of four and I spend about £150 on a weekly shop - we aren’t a “14 meals from a chicken” family either, we have beef most weeks, chicken stir fry, salmon fillets etc.

That statement on it's own is meaningless. As well as no percentage, there could have been something on offer during the first week, that's back up to full price now and a lot of that has caused the £20 rise.

£300 a week! Are you a huge family?
we are a family of 4 and I have noticed the price hikes. Used to be around £100-£120 and now I’m often around £130-£140 per week. That’s at tesco

Big shop at Waitrose...that should explain the price.

As pp, totally meaningless without the background. A % increase would be better, but how do you know that some big ticket items weren't on offer two weeks ago?

Supermarkets were doing 25% for 6 bottles of wine then. That would be a big increase if I bought the same bottles this week

Family of 5 - 2 adults and 3 very greedy teens!

We shop at Tesco, family of 3. We usually spend around £110-120 every two weeks on a big shop, then usually a top up shop or two until the next big shop which usually amounts to £60, this has now gone up to £130-140 and £70 for the top ups!

Family of 5 here and yes, we’ve definitely noticed the price rises. I never order exactly the same shop though so wouldn’t be able to put an exact % on it, but we’ve gone from spending approx £120 a week to approx £150 a week overall.

If you’re spending £300 a week at Waitrose then of course you’re not going to notice rising prices because you were never a cost conscious consumer in the first place.

Family of 3 used to spend £140ish every other week and £70-80 weeks in between. That's now £200+ and the top ups in between over £100 and we're not eating the same food eg can't remember the last time we had tuna steaks or sirloin it's now chicken, mince and the odd haddock/salmon, I don't buy fresh juice anymore amongst other things.
I also buy what's reduced/on offer rather than the exact same items each week.

I buy pretty much similar stuff online once a month. Spend £100 then top up woth fresh about £40 a week.
I fill the freezer on the online shop and all the bags of veg have gone up 25-50p.
Cereal is very expensive so now we have oats and we have more lentils and veg than meat now.

I do a weekly shop at Waitrose and spend about 150 for 2 adults, 2 kids and 1 very fussy preschooler, it isn't massively more expensive.

But back to the post, I'd be very surprised if this wasn't an exaggeration. But context percentage wise is important.

I think if it's a weekly shop then going up £20 in a few weeks for the same items is appalling, whatever the actual spend or percentage.

Sometimes you see prices go up week on week. There’s a type of natural yoghurt I get — was £1.40 a tub for a while, a few weeks ago it went up to £1.50, this week it’s £1.60.

Multiply that by most food items and it adds up. My food shop is ~50% more than it was two or three years ago for largely the same items. (Used to be £75ish for two of us for a week, now it’s around £105.) And that’s without factoring in shrinkflation etc.

If you buying laundry detergent on sale for £5 one month and at full price £10 the next you'll have a big jump.
Lots of things are 'on offer' less frequently than a year ago.
Loo roll, laundry stuff, bin bags.

I agree that it's a bit of a meaningless statement. If her total shop cost £75 and it used to be £55 then yes, absolutely shocking it's gone up so much. If she spent £200 and it used to be £180 then it's a rise, but not quite as 'whoa'

Yes it’s a huge leap. I used to do a shop for £80 and the exact same products are now £100. Funnily enough, my wages have not increased by the same amount! Cheese is particularly steep.. (but I probably need to eat less of that anyway)

Also meaningless without knowing what offers they had the first time around that weren't on the second time.

Food shopping is going up, no matter where you shop.

£20. Very much depends on what specials were on previously & %.

it's a pointless post from her & tbh a very strange thread to start 🤷🏻‍♀️

Well it might be an extortionate 100% rise, it might be a £20 rise on a £200 shop where the first one had lots of offers.

I keep reading on various places about how expensive food is in the UK...but when prices are given it seems so cheap! And there are so many offers and ways to save money.

mines gone up from £70-£90 a week to £120-£150.
aldi/lidl shopper.