Crisps 95p a bag...wot

[GabbyLoggon]

Bought crisps, normaal size, not ppular make, in a newsagents 95p a bag...any advance?

not particularly but I was reflecting only the other day that I can buy an entire school uniform for less than a tenner now but a loaf of bread costs 1.50!

I remember such things as school uniform costing a FORTUNE. It is the little things (made in England) that are screwing us all IMO

95p!

What do you mean 'not popular make' - maybe they thought they were gourmet or something.

A normal packet of walkers?
Tell us which make please...

I look in horror at the prices of chocolate bars. 69p for a regular twix which is smaller than it used to be. Even 5 years ago, they were less than 40p.

Yet the price of Fry's Turkish Delight bars has changed by only 7 pence in that time. They used to be our "luxury" chocolate bar, for special treats only.

The price of some stuff has sky-rocketed; I fully understand about harvests and so on, but it's getting to the "Furcoat and no knickers" state of the economy.

yes even as a child with only pocket money to spend I remember that bars of chocolate etc were reasonable price. Now I am an adult with a full time job, I can no longer afford them :o

Gabby, I didn't understand your female presenters thread...

When I was at university in 1997 the chocolate vending machine charged 50p per bar and that was extortionate. Now they're 50p in the supermarket when they're on offer!

I think it was called KETTLE

IIRC Kettle are supposed to be posh but it's delusions of grandeur to my mind. I thought they weren't nice at all, GL

Kettle are hand cooked 'gourmet' crisps.

I'm not a fan, but some gourmet crisps are the same price and to die for!

strewth!

I was bemoaning the cost of basics canned tomatoes in sainos this morning. I remember making meals with them when they were 9p (10 years ago tho!) and now they're 31p.

Lurpak has gone up 50p in 2 years.

Like many people, I now go past much of the food offerings instore as too expensive.

I am my aged granny!

I do, however, adore kettle cracked black pepper crisps.

No, they did not do it for me.

I like M and S squares or rileys. walkers are high standaed.

WHatever happened to penny chews? They are now 5p and up chews

Was the other day as a packet of normal walkers crisps in our local Tesco Metro were 70p - WTF? Not even 'greedy fucker grab bag' size.

Oh and about two years ago, those little round tins of vaseline were 99p, then a few people started carrying them round in their handbags and using as lip balm and suddenly they come in various flavours and cost £2.50

Yet I can go into Poundland and buy spare iphone speakers for £1.

I am a skinflint sensible mummy, and won't let the kids spend their £1 pocket money at the little shop near school anymore cos they have to spend 70p to get one bar of something or tube of sweets

I'd rather buy a 4 pack in tesco, then share them out (they pay the cost price to me) and they get to put most of the cash in their money box instead

i have not been in a motorway service station recently but I dread to think how much they charge for a mars/twix etc nowadays

Mmmmmm crisps

Twixes in France are 2cm longer than the ones in the UK...

I remember when a bag of crisps cost 4p. It would kill me to pay a £1 for a single regular bag.

Kettle crisps are posh apparently, also the bags are bigger than the standard 28g (I think) walkers, hence the price.
They are definitely treat crisps in our house!

Does anyone remember in the seventies that the price of a packet of crisps went down from 3p to 2.5p?

< sings > Oh Happeeee Day!

Denis Healy, I have loved you and your outrageous eyebrows ever since.

500ml bottle of fizzy drink in some newsagents here - £1.19

PerpetuallyAnnoyedByHeadlice I love your idea of a home-sponsored tuck shop and I'm going to be a franchisee when DD is old enough!

Lidl today- 6 pack Cheese n Onion 75p

I am addicted to love energy drinks (caffeine based) and paid £2.39 for a can this morning more fool me. In my defence I was on my way to work at 7:10 and nursing a semi hangover... but still.

It does amaze me that I can go and get clothes that cost less than a sandwich and a bottle of drink.

it does seem a bit extortionate, but kettle chips are expensive to buy in, in the first place. they are larger bags though (around 40g iirc), the last time i bought a retail box in the cash and carry it worked out about 60p per bag incl vat for 18 bags of crisps, that was over a year ago. for what its worth, i had trouble selling them at 70p a bag, and ended up eating most of them myself (yum!)

Gawd, I'm old, I just about remember when a bag of crisps was 6d (yes thats an old sixpence) same price as a mars bar!

ohhh how I love Kettle Chips!