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.

I started taking a jar of instant coffee into work and that Coffee Mate dried milk - I’m just not spending £5 on a cup of coffee. DH and I went for a rare drink in the pub a few weeks ago, when we realised how much a glass of wine and a pint cost us these days, we went home via the off licence. There was a guy in Sainsburys yesterday trying to justify buying Heinz salad cream to his mate, he obviously really wanted to buy it, but left it on the shelf in the end. Makes me both sad and angry that people can’t justify buying the salad cream they like in the summer.

Oh yes the yoghurts. I like the cadburys chocolate deserts, the ones with a few buttons in one side you shake in. Obviously they are smaller these days but the price has shot up in multiple steps. They were 60p, then 80p, then 90p….but you could normally buy 2 for £1.50. That offer seems to have stopped.

Sainsburys had a 4 pack which had a nectar price of I think £2.50, maybe £2.70. It’s off the nectar offer as of this week and £3.75 for 4. First time in years I haven’t got any.

gone up by more than 33% in a week!

And I’ve been offered a 1.2% pay rise! We can’t keep going like this with a low wage economy if the prices rise like this. I feel like rioting over the price of yogurt.

£2.60 the other day for a single cornetto

I’ve cut back on a holiday this year so am having a staycation this week. I thought as I’m saving a couple of £k I’ll eat out, go to theatre, splash out.
Was £100 for a midweek (London) theatre ticket in a cheaper seat. Today’s take away for 4 was £75. I bought a kilo of lamb too to make a curry tomorrow and that was £21. To top it off I got some paint to do the kitchen. Dulux trade diamond as recommended by decorators. 5l of paint. £113!!!
I think I’ll have a few days in the free museums and the Vue £5.99 cinema and some walks and picnics. Everything is silly money.

I'm still reeling from fillet steak £100 a kilo in my local M&S a couple of weeks ago. Wagyu £126.

Aldi had a copy of the pots of joy? Not with the buttons but I guess you could add your own
I got some after a wisdom tooth extraction and they were very nice

Thanks, I’ve just bought actual cadburys pots of joy as they were cheaper than the buttons ones but will check Aldi version out.

Asda now actively do lots of completely unannounced 'roll forwards' - just so they can deliberately deceive customers in a few weeks' time that the price has been 'rolled back', to great fanfare.

Utterly pointless, and intensely annoying when you discover that the product you wanted to buy has been selected for the roll forwards, but you want it now - not to have to wait until the price is back down to the normal price again.

At the risk of sounding like a dick, I never really used to check prices. Now I am and what used to be a £15 basket is now over £25. I've pretty much stopped buying chocolate.

Cereal and Diet Coke have been off my list for ages now. Just ridiculous prices. Pantene shampoo and conditioner are nearly doubled in price. It’s crazy.

If you have a Heron near you, the chocolate button pots are often on offer in there.

I work with many different businesses across all different sectors as part of my job. Some have increased prices because everyone else has even if they didn't need to. If their own customers are paying higher prices for everything else in their life then increasing the price or your own product or service by stealth doesn't necessarily stand out.

Some businessess are only increasing prices because their own costs have genuinely gone up but from my limited experience, and talking to other people at work, not as many needed to and there is an element of greed there. Probably more than people think, so good on everyone for voting with your feet.

£3.50 for six Cornettos was my recent shock. Haven't had one for a few years so I'm sure they will have got smaller in that time too, ore-Covid I'm sure you'd get them on offer in one of the big supermarkets at any given time at 4 for £1 - maybe £1.50 at a push?

Bags of chocolate, ie wispa bits used to be £1 then 1.20 , and crept up were 1.95 yesterday , I put them back especially as there's much less jn them now. I was going to get us all a bag each but couldn't justify it. Got a pack of donuts as a treat instead.

But there's many things now , dh takes crisps as part of his lunch to work 6 pack of walkers were £2.25 . Got Tesco own in the end I think they were £1 ish. Not as nice but things need to change.

I used to get a couple of drinks and pastries a week from a coffee shop. Not anymore which makes me sad.

On the other hand, I'd stopped seeing it as a treat, now it is a bit special again which is a good thing?

Obviously not for the shop and the staff though if everyone is cutting back.

Bought two burgers instead of four the other day. Dh said ‘eh, how are we all dividing these up?’ Also toothpaste. The only affordable toothpaste was the disgusting one. I bought it. Now I am sad brushing my teeth😅

The ONS says that food price inflation is 4,5% p.a. but I don't believe them. It doesn't seem to reflect my grocery shop.

I'm the same. Obviously you know that buying lobster of champagne will be expensive, if those are your choice; but I never used to really stop and look or think about the prices of the 'ordinary' everyday items that we routinely bought. I certainly do now.

Yeo Valley spreadable butter was a particular shock, when they quietly reduced the tub size by 20% and then put the price up to £4.75!!! It's by far our favourite, but it's just so much money, we tend to buy other cheaper brands now instead (can't abide the ultra cheap own-brand stuff that isn't actually made with butter, though).

Yes they're smaller.
Aldi are £1.25 for 4 and quite nice

This ^^

I wonder if supermarkets - and manufacturers - have noticed a huge downturn in the amount of treat/optional/more premium products that they're selling?

Surely they must be seeing significantly reduced sales of products that people can't afford/justify and can do without? So many product prices have now gone over the tipping point for the average consumer between 'yeah, go on, then - put it in the trolley' and 'no way I can/am willing to pay that much for that - put it back'.

Starbucks- normally buy a frappachino at the station before a train journey, walked in the other day, saw it was 5.25 for the one I normally get and just walked out again! Just felt like more than it was worth and I didn't regret not buying!

It was weird seeing an offer price for something that used to be the pre-offer price.

4.5 % doesn’t seem reflective of my reality either. As I said, I go so rarely that the difference is noticeable. I don’t think I’d have really noticed to spending an average of 4.5 %
more.

Husband brought a multipack of twixes. I haven’t had a twix for ages, but had to check the main packet as couldn’t believe it wasn’t a fun or reduced-size one. Maybe the celebration size is the new fun size!

@edwinbear not the point of your post I realise but I did have a wry smile about the 2 guys with their salad cream.

The one that really pisses me off and someone else has mentioned it already but it’s crisps! They’re not a necessity, I can afford to buy them but I just refuse now. £3 for a multipack of 6 with about 3 grams in each. Absolutely bloody not on my watch! I will waste money on all kinds of things but this is just a step too far for me. We don’t need them and if the dc want them they can spend their own money at the local corner shop on them. Which they do occasionally.