Stockpiling stuff from Tesco to beat price rises

[FreeLatte]

Is anyone else doing this?

Now I do have a bit of a stockpile of tins, long life milk etc as a just in case kind of thing. (bad weather, civil war, me getting sick).

However I am starting to stock up on stuff that I know I will use on the assumption the price will be higher in 6 months or 3 months or probably next week.

So just things like toilet rolls, washing powder, dishwash tabs, anything on special that can be frozen. I'm also doing it with things like hair dye - buying 6 boxes rather than 1.

Since prices are just going one way I thought this couldn't hurt.

Now there is a cost of this of course - your house being more cluttered for one and two no point doing it if you end up paying credit card interest so cash only. Even then of course you are losing interest on your savings but I still reckon it's worth it.

I am just getting so mad seeing prices go up and up. So Lindt 90 chocolate. Used to be under £3. Now it's £3.5 but on special in Tesco for £2.75 so I have 9 bars in my cupboard which will last a while.

I just wondered if anyone else is doing similar?

Will your wages be higher in 6 months? I mean wages don't go up automatically do they.

Anyway even if your wage is higher why pay more for the stuff.

I don't have wages, just savings and investments and pensions eventually when old enough to take them.

I do buy extra on toothpaste etc when it's on sale but otherwise not really. I get your concerns and they are valid but if I have extra money I'd rather save it so god forbid we became a police state I'd have the money to get out! Awful that this is even a consideration but here we are.

You make a fair point about buying persil at £7 and then being able to get it for £6.75 now on a special 10% off deal.

However I bought the £7 persil about a year ago and have used most of it up. Meanwhile the price has been sitting at £7.5 for most of this time.

So when I started running low and I saw it on offer I bought another batch of them if that makes sense.

Yes I've got about £80K odds in cash at moment in savings. I do put some in the regular savings but they are such a pain only being able to put in small amounts each month. A chunk of it is in fixed bonds at 4.6%. Some of it is getting 4.8% but these are variable interest accounts and so subject to change. (currently trying to work out which way rates are going given we have low growth and increasing inflation). Obviously I know about putting money into pensions and get back the tax credit. I'm not holding any stocks etc at moment simply because all my pensions will be in the stock market and things are pretty volatile at the moment due to the UK debt, upcoming budget and political see sawing although I have wondered if I should wack some of it into S&S isas as it might jump after the budget but then again it might go the other way.

I have space to store it and I will run it down over the year and use up anything going near it's date. Then I will do it all again.

I don't work though so I have lots of time to do stuff like this and I appreciate not everyone does.

that's fine. It never lasts that long before it's used up and then replaced

What do you mean by police state? You mean like if reform get in?

Don't worry I keep a substantial bank of easy access cash too as well as all my tesco goodies.

but they won't have the barcode on so no longer useable?

Sorry Op, I was thinking major dystopian disaster there- it was your reference to a break down in law and order and a civil war that got me thinking really.

I think if law and order largely collapsed and a disaster lasted more than a few weeks, you'd probably see widespread looting and I guess over time people might notice if you were adequately nourished and they were starving. If you look at somewhere like the DRC where the central government has lost control of part of the country and there is a civil war, it ain't a pretty picture.

TBH though I am the kind of person who answers the question 'What would you do in a Zombie film?' with 'Probably be one of those nameless schmucks killed in the opening scene', so perhaps I just have the wrong attitude.

I find it false economics to be honest. Right now you need 1 box of hair dye, but you’ve spent the money on 6. You’re shelling out more money than you need to. Yeah prices of some things will go up, but not everything. It’s a mad logic to me. You could have another 40 quid in your pocket for this weekend but you’ve spent it on 500 teabags, 7 bottles of bleach and six boxes of hair dye. Live for now and free up some space in your house!

We did this. Just at the start of the cost of living crisis. Used Farmfoods vouchers to buy several (a trolley full) crates of baked beans. Think it worked out at 50p for a large can. We saved a fortune. Forget investing in gold. Baked beans is the way to go!

But the money does not impact me as I have 'plenty' of it.

As well as getting good prices and stocking up I am saving my future time because for 6 months I don't have to order hair dye cos I've done it already.

Okay it might be 5 mins to order it on Amazon but then I have to collect or wait in for it too.

This way I am saving my own time which is just as valuable as money if not more so.

I've two empty bedrooms in my house so again it is not impacting me negatively.

We are all different though and I know my way is not 'right' necessarily it's just 'right' for me (just now)

Good call and beans are versatile. How much is the big tin now?

Mind you with gold prices through the roof as investors flee to safe territory just now you probably would have made a fortune with that too.

Never mind if we have a civil war after the autumn budget you'll be fine for a few months (if not sick of beans)

lol - if there was zombies running about I think I would want to be one of the first to go as trying to hide from them and living in fear seems really scary. Might be best to go quickly before you really understand what is happening.

In the event of civil war/looting does that mean all the 'fat' people would have their houses looted as people would think they look like they have lots of food in stock. Jeez another reason to keep losing weight then.

All jokes aside though that would be terrifying. Did you ever watch 'Survivors' when the BBC made it around 2010. It was like everyone died from a bug and then what happens after as people start fighting over food/fuel left etc. I think Amazon might still have it or maybe IPlayer. I thought it was quite good.

No. But I bought a load of bashed tins of Heinz soup for between 6 and 36p the other day and was buzzing!

Did read thorough and thought I would might buy 2,000 packets of coffee (more on the civil war side than savings) and a pallet of wine. That would help otherwise we might have to resort to the Ouzo to blot out the horrors unfolding.

If civil war broke out the army would be called in. The police wouldn't stand alone if that helps. .

I bought 3 chocolate oranges at £1 clubcard price this morning, so I can give them away at xmas, does this count?

I don’t buy bashed tins as the food inside may be affected if the dent is on a side seam. There is a risk of botulism from bacteria.

That was In response to poster with a THREE year supply -sorry j should have atted

That’d be me then, I’ll take my chances , nothing in packaging to state shelf life , and remember buying a huge Ariel in Wilko Covid time , so 5 years ago that I’ve just finished ( don’t have many whites & am old fashioned so only use bio for whites ) and never noticed a problem 😂

@bugalugs45 up to you of course, I prefer to wash my clothes in a fresh product personally, and same for the food that I eat

Unless you drown in a tsunami of boxes when you open a cupboard I’d say not ?

@caravancapers co-op (lovely) baked beans 415g can are 40p a can with their card.

My first instinct was to say no - BUT upon reflection most people do this at some point or other don’t they? Maybe not stockpiling as such, but buying the turkey early and keeping it in the freezer for Christmas or Easter? Meat/ham/cheese on offer so bought more to take advantage of the offer - also falls into the category of saving a bit if we can?
But what made me stop going to post no was remembering I had 16 bottles of Pepsi Max stashed under my bed and around the house because our Tesco has had an offer buying 4 at a time for a certain price and buying it on offer like that is the only time I would buy it!
it’s only hidden because everyone would grab a bottle and it wouldn’t last - as a previous poster said re chocolate, they’d know it’s there so have to drink it!
Anyone else ready to say no, have you ever batch cooked to save money? Bought Christmas presents in the sales?
In short, do we not already ‘stockpile’ different things to save money - just for different reasons?
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😂😂 if I had the same as you @FreeLatte I'd have my own little shop in one of the bedrooms - it would also be a therapy room for my ocd keeping things organized and stock rotated - I think I’d probably even have a little clipboard 😂😂😂
But I live in a house with a DH and three adult DC so unless I had a secret bunker to hide everything, stockpiling don’t last - I am having to find new places to hide the Pepsi Max 😂

I always keep a decent buffer in. Parents did the same, I think it's because neither they nor I grew up with much. But not so much to beat price rises, albeit I suppose with inflation it does work out that way. Just I like to have things to hand.

Did us well during covid, we were able to space out supermarket visits more than we otherwise would've and go to the still open outdoor market for produce and meat.

Is it just me whose stockpiling is predicated on finding shopping utterly tedious and only wanting to do it a couple of times a year?

The fewer times you go shopping, the less you waste on unneeded purchases.

(This may stem from the fact my mum liked us to go to the fruit and veg markets, two supermarkets and various other stores every Saturday because she wanted the best price for every product and had memorised where the cheapest for everything was...)