product prices and you just thought.....

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I was supermarket shopping today and went to pick up a product I always buy to discover it has increased in price by a ridiculous amount and I just thought.
Nah. It can stay there. This list is now growing. Anyone else deciding to just leave products on the shelf because they're not worth the money anymore?
I did it in Costa. I went in for a cappuccino and thought Nah! I'm not paying that anymore and walked out.

Pre covid I'd buy 1-3 coffees a day. I also used to go out to restaurants, cafes and pubs on an almost daily basis. Now I've cut down and will do it to meet friends. A couple of weeks agk i downgraded lunch out with my daughter to a pizza home delivery in the garden, made a fun change.

Reasonably quality chocolate price is through the roof. I’ve stopped buying (with great sadness).

All the time.
Can't really specify exactly what as there are so many changes now.
Used to pick coffee up on the way to work regularly now it's best part of a fiver just feels too much.
Definitely think the overly expensive pricing of everything has helped me diet!

Heinz soup in Co-Op today, £2.05 a can. Was gobsmacked. Haven’t bought it for a while, so price increase very noticeable. Bought own brand instead.

So many things, but last week dds and I went to a local cafe.
1 tap water, 1 coffee, 2 cupcakes and an iced tea - £16!

Everything is going up 🤦‍♀️

It’s not just the prices things are getting so much smaller!!!!! A snickers was never the size of a snickers today.

I think the recent years of high inflation has had a double impact.

Firstly some people simply can’t afford to buy the same goods and services they used to. But the big change this time is that the rapid rise in prices has resulted in many people who can afford to pay more deciding not to on perceived value basis.

People don’t like to feel as if they have been ripped off even if they can afford higher prices.

Going out for a drink has changed for me. Previously the prices in different pubs/bars wouldn’t have been anything I’d give a second thought to. Now I refuse to pay £8 for a drink I can get down the road for £4.

Not exactly what OP asked but had to say… Dubai chocolate! £10 for a piddley little bar, I couldn’t believe it. I then seen it on offer for £7.50 and intrigue and FOMO got the better of me so I justified it. Never again, basic chocolate with green food colouring mixed with crisped rice. Utter waste of money but genius gimmick!

Every time the Tesco delivery comes I seem to say “only three baskets - that’s £100 of shopping and only 5 days not 7”. I can’t understand how inflation is so low when my grocery bill is rocketing

Yep! I bought the Lindt Dubai bar on offer, still $$$

Some of the worst chocolate I’ve eaten. Honestly!

I have half the bar away. Last time I “treat” myself…

I don't understand how Heinz is still trading..... I haven't bought a single one of their products for a good few years now, in fact I hardly buy any brands anymore. Mince is my latest shocker, feels like that's doubled in price over night.

I went to buy a leg of lamb today in Sainsbury’s.

FORTY TWO POUNDS!!!!! £42!!!!!!!

I left it. The buggers can have chicken instead.

Yep. Could not bring myself to pay £2.50 for a pack of chocolate digestives today

Us pair of mugs for buying it 🫣 First and last time though eh. We live and learn! 🤣

There are cheeses that I can no longer afford and when the fuck did yoghurt go over a pound a pot?!

I rarely buy a Pret Coffee, with oat milk & syrup it’s nearly £5!!

I don't think some of these rises for products are inflation related. I think the price increase is extortionate and hiding behind inflation. This particular item had increased 90p since last week.
I can afford to pay the price but in principle I'm not going to. The product is either priced reasonably or it isn't. If it isn't then i'm leaving it on the shelf.
And I'm now buying my cappuccino at Greggs/local cafe for nearly half the price of starbucks/costa

Happily I found a very nice rolled shoulder of Lamb in Waitrose this evening for £21, reduced from £29.

Yep, Heinz main products are fine, but they're nowhere near as good as cheaper brands and own-brands.

Like so many companies, they're purely selling the brand and not actual better quality.

I can only manage to go to the supermarket very infrequently now (health issues), so really notice the difference when I go.

Morrisons fresh eggs went up 20pence in a week....put them back

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We get an Ocado delivery every Sunday with basics/household bits for the two of us. We spend up to the £75 min limit to avoid the service charge.

A few years ago it would be three to four full baskets of stuff, now it's barely two.

So much stuff. The only positive is I’ve lost weight.

i live next door to a shop and used to buy a bar of chocolate most days, can’t remember the last time I did. Turned round and left Five Guys last week as it was over £10 for a cheeseburger. No wonder it was empty.

loads of stuff in the supermarket I think no chance. Some small tray of flavoured chicken thighs was £9!

the coffee sachets I drink have been reduced in size by 15% per sachet. I drink two a day. Still buying them for now but that’s another 30 calories a day I’m saving. Have swapped from warburton bread to Aldi own brand. And to be honest only buy that sporadically, have stopped eating breakfast most of the time.