AIBU to wonder how the co-op can justify increasing their 'value' loo roll from 69p to £1.09 in a few months.....

[lessthanfrugalshopper]

I just need to vent!! I mean, first it went from 69p to 89p then a few weeks (literally) later it went up another 20p, its value loo roll FGS is nothing immune to these crazy price rises........has the world supply of cheap recycles paper been used up overnight or is there another reason for this???

Lots of reasons. Fuel to transport it has gone up. Fuel to heat the stores has gone up. If they are paying rent, that might have gone up.

Everything is going up. Except salaries.

At this rate, we'll be back to using squares of newspaper soon.

But we won't be allowed to put them in the toilet. We'll have to put them into a bucket and then the bin outside.

Stamps are going up,petrol is going up, food is ridiculous, utilities rising...

Damnit why not just declare we are going back to the Vicotrian era and have it over and done with

Same as smart price pasta.

Everything has gone up except wages.

Mortgages are going up too despite bank of England low base rate.

S'OK though, because we won't be able to afford to buy food we'll poo less, so less toilet roll will be needed.

And eat less thus solving the obesity crisis

Because raw materials and transport costs have gone up. If Tesco could avoid putting their prices up in that obvious a manner they would have done.

They don't have to justify their prices.

and has anybody noticed that in my sainsburys (large store) they have stopped their basic baby wash and wipes and baby shampoo,i havent seen any of this for a couple of months,maybe its just my store

Zillion I know none of the shops have to justify anything, but it just gets me down that even absolute basic essentials (I mean, how much more basic a human right can there be than to wipe your own arse fgs!) have to go up and up. it also annoys me that other non esentials (which i am sure cost at least as much to transport etc) ie the 'cheap' wine and luxury items etc do not seem to have gone up nearly as much if at all over the same period.

Also annoys me that i live in a reasonable sized town (approx 7 thousand people here) but we have one yes one 'supermarket' ie no competition at all and no alternative specially for those that dont drive etc.

Simple economics and loss leaders. Its no longer a loss leader. How the hell do you expect manufacturers to keep costs down when we all know water rates, electricity, fuel has rocketted?

Wipe your arse on newspaper - I see the sun was on offfer for 20p at the weekend .... you should get a weeks worth out of that .... your grandparents wouldnt have been too proud to wipe their arses on it.

Sorry but i don't think electricity has gone upall that much in the last few months, in fact most medium to large businesses buy energy in bulk on fixed deals for two/three years at a time to allow for financial stability/planning.

Fuel, yes, but even so can't they charge an extra few pence of fags or gin and keep the loo roll price down?

ive noticed alot of the basic/value items have gone up

basic tuna chunks used to b 52p 4-5wks ago now 79p

the rate its going it will be cheaper to go up a brand,never thought id say that

If you don't beleive the costs have gone up, ask them to justify it to you. I'm sure they'll come up with some rationale. (whether you beleive it or not is another matter).

It might be that they have been keeping the cost artificially low for a while (probably at the expense of the supplier) but can't sustain it. Who knows? I just very very much doubt they are doing it on a whim. The last person in the supply chain they want to piss off is the end customer - the one with the money to spend!

The world politicians and central banks want to postpone the inevitable collapse of the debt based money system. They've expanded the money supply to ludicrous levels, and over here, the vested interests have decided that keeping house prices up at all costs is the most important thing - far more so than keeping the actual value of a pound. This is because it fools most people into thinking they are still rich if their pile of bricks has a high value marked to it.

This comes at a cost of everything else going up in price, apart from wages.

The packs of UHT milk have gone up 20p in a week too!

Dont really understand the economics of it...I am sure they stores would say increased overheads for them are the reason...I just know my gorcery bill is 30% higher than this time last year

Supermarket suppliers have been strong-armed into absorbing price-increases for several years now. Costs have been going up all that time because inflation is relatively high and things like raw materials and fuel are more expensive. Supermarkets have been forcing them to keep the prices artificially low but suppliers have eventually had to get more money or go out of business.

It would help, of course if the Co-op didn't demand 50%+ margins because of their own high inefficiently cost-structure. They are the most greedy of all the big supermarkets in that regard.

Shop around....

I thought that was Tesco...

Dammit- where should I shop?

They put the money up on things like loo roll because they know we will buy them. If they put treats up that much, if we can't afford them we won't buy them.

So the keep certain things down (loss leader) that draw you attention so you go to that shop and then make the money up on the rest of the items in yout trolly that are 'essentials'.

"Dammit- where should I shop?"

Shop around if you have the time and inclination. Special offers go in cycles. A lot of goods have not gone up in price and there is deflation in some sectors like fresh produce. However, there are some big corrections coming soon in other sectors. Anything in a can is being hit by the high price of metals (the same reason copper wiring is being pinched all over the place). Plastic packaging is a derivative of oil which costs more. Transport is fuelled by oil, ditto. The Co-op does a good PR job convincing the public that they are ethical but they're in the same marketplace and therefore have to be as aggressive as any of the others.

its true prices go up on 'essentials' like bread/milk/loo roll coz we need and use them

recently i have been buying from 99p shop - originally did it as had builders in and the pair of them would go through a loo roll a day and it was lovely quilted stuff

so got 6 for 99p and its actually quite nice so continue to buy

had wiping on tissue paper/rough stuff