to want Tesco to explain 60% price increases?

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OK, Herta frankfurters, not the best food to give kids but mine love them. £1.79 usually, on offer for a few weeks at £1.60, this week .....£2.88????
Is there a world trotter shortage?

Problem is everyone wants a foot in the door because they are the companise that offer the big contracts. I sometimes feel like i work for Mr Tesco TBH....

Aldi's prices are creeping up though. Butter was £1.10 for literally years, then £1.26 before Christmas, now £1.36, same as Asda.
Still love it though - massive week's shop with inc. nappies and wine for £48 last week.

Tesco are despicable.

I've actually realised lately that I don't need my meat in a little special bag of its own, a range of variously-shaped trolleys of my choice, a brass band playing outside the store, someone employed actual cash money just to 'greet' me, 3 for 2s, buy 2 get 4 frees, buy one now and get 3 in a years time, Baby Events, Back 2 school (in June), stock up for the World Cup, Make Mums Day, jump through all these bastard hoops just to shame yourself into getting a penny off your fuel.......I just want to get in and out, talk to no-one, buy ingredients I can actually cook meals with, and have change from £50. Too much to ask?

Shop at a local supermarket if you are lucky enough to have one.

If you live near a Booths use it!
Great article on them was published in Guardian not long ago.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/13/supermarkets-big-competition-booths

The comments are worth a good read too.

Can be pricer for household goods and some pre-made sauces etc, but the fresh produce is locally grown and produced where ever possible and they have better buying partnerships with the farmers.

Even if I do end up spending a penny or two extra the quality is so much better AND LASTS LONGER, so I save in the end as its less likely to go off before I use it (Unlike Tesco where I got fed up of tomatoes etc going off before their sell by date).

For the household goods stuff we have taken to the likes of Home Bargins now...

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/13/supermarkets-big-competition-booths

The very liberating thing about Lidl is that you get the whole shop done and you are back in the car within 20 mins.

Agree Orm that I think for lots of suppliers become a tier 1 to Tesco is seen as the holy grail as it will be a continual high demand, however because there is so much competition to be a supplier, the supermarkets can sign you up to incredibly harsh contracts. Yes it is the law of supply and demand and free market economy in full swing but fuck that for a job, I would rather be able to sleep at night.

I think you're all in danger here of forgetting something! These supermarkets actually get their product FROM someone else...they are a middleman. Please don't whinge at price hikes without first taking into account that the minimum wage went up in October 2011 and you'd all be the first to criticise anyone for not paying a living wage...where do think the money comes from? We are NOT PAYING ENOUGH for food etc. These things have to be made, transported, packaged etc. THINK. You want your cheap food, great, but you can't have everything. Someone will be suffering for your not wanting to pay a fair price. Fair trade doesn't just mean Africa, it means here too. We are doomed in this country, for when the emerging countries decide that they would like meat etc, we will have to pay a proper price.

Yes all right just some of us do have a bit of knowledge about these matters, you don't have to explain.

aka read the thread

Yes agree about lidl, well 40 mins but I once went into sainsburys in the afternoon and when I came out it was dark. It was spring I assume as I was buying barbecue stuff. It was so disorientating

lol at lost in sainsbos.

I often run up to Lidl at about 3.40 on a sunday afternoon and get the whole week's shop before they close. If I went to sainsburys at that time I would come out with £20s worth of olives, sweets, a random DVD and the sunday times.

The supermarkets always seem to turn big profits though. They squeeze those suppliers. I'd much rather pay the producers more, to pay farm workers a living wage so they could employ people locally.

Yes, how do they do that! Then you have to nip out again because you didn't get milk, fruit, bread et

I think you'll notice ''getorf'' that we wrere both posting at the same time, therefore impossible to have read your thread.

agree TSC

I don't use them at all anymore. I stopped using them when I realised that I was surrounded by satellites of mini tescos when 3 years ago these were locally owned corner shops/garages/somerfield. Not that I am particularly mourning Somefields tbh. But you know what I mean.

all right then just.

I will let you off.

I have detested Morrisons since they refused - oh sorry "declined" - to pay the Anaphylaxis campaign for a mailshot alert when something in their supermarket turned out to be wrongly labelled and therefore potentially fatal for some of their customers.

All the other supermarkets and manufacturers apologise nicely and willingly pay the costs of these.

Our Morrisons had recently closed down and the nearest one is about 10 miles away. I may have considered moving house just so I could boycott it.

[Grudgeholder extraordinaire emoticon]

Laughing at the thought of moving for grudge extending purposes!

I don't like Morrisons either - just out of spiteful loathing for their pretend market place interior design. We know we are not in Borough Market you twats, just organise your shop in an adult way.

I went in Frankie and Bennies ONCE over 10 years ago, I still chunter about it and resent that wasted Saturday night.

Morrisons are the only place I can buy galangal and fresh turmeric, plus other non standard stuff.
And I'm partial to their sneezed on salad bar.

Loving this thread....very amusing too

Yes start and they switch labels (or stack things in the wrong places) so that products not on offer are placed directly above/below the offer label...

Tres misleading...

get orf can sooo relate. I often go into sainsbury's with a little list and come out with umpteen other items that winked at me along the aisles.