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To ask what price increase have you seen in you daily life in the last few months?

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Valentine2 · 30/01/2017 22:21

I am trying to come up with a list of these. I have noticed three in my own grocery/everyday expenses: Flour bag (nearly 6%), fare (5%) and bread (25-30% fr what i remember just a few days ago).
I suppose they were supposed to increase considering the loss of value for £ after Brexit vote. But I was too busy to take notice and only noticed these three.
Can we please try to document it somehow?

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Valentine2 · 30/01/2017 23:47

I have cut off things like Pepsi from my lists ages ago. It's months before we taste it. My grocery shop is usually very healthy as I am hoping for the DCs eat more fresh and raw fruit and veg.
And still it's shooting up non stop Confused

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MixedGrill · 30/01/2017 23:49

Butter
Coffee (Sainsbury's ground Colombian)
Red Leicester (£1.40 to £1.70)

AmberNectarine · 30/01/2017 23:50

Not noticed much really, I'm the sort of idiot who has no idea what a pint of milk costs, but DH told me our Sky package is going up £4.89 a month which I thought was quite a big hike, really!

AmberNectarine · 30/01/2017 23:52

Ooh actually, Cineworld movies for juniors showings used to be £1 when we started going a few years ago, now £2.50 I noticed this weekend.

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Valentine2 · 30/01/2017 23:54

Ah Sainsbury's ground Colombian! I did notice it too and actually didn't buy it then.

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caroldecker · 30/01/2017 23:56

shopping is 3% cheaper than 12 months ago.

ScarletSienna · 30/01/2017 23:58

Iceberg lettuce-now £1.40 in Sainsbury and diesel is 124.99!

statetrooperstacey · 31/01/2017 00:04

A lot of the recent hike in prices for fruit and veg are caused by the weather in Spain. Morrisons emailed me and told me.
also chocolate has gone up because something freaky weathery happened where they grow the cocoa beans a few months ago. It was in the news at the time.

noeffingidea · 31/01/2017 00:12

Just about everything in Sainsburys has gone up, by at least 10p, often 20p. I try and use other shops now.

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 31/01/2017 00:16

Ocado has definitely gone up.

itsawonderfulworld · 31/01/2017 00:17

Closing my small retail business down (online, clothing, all imported). For now, UK consumer prices are generally held at an acceptable level, i.e. increases of 5% or less, year on year. Retail prices are going up by up to 30% for next year though, meaning that there is no profit at all left for us (it was already very tight), so I'm closing down and cashing in (no more stock to pay for for next season, yay!).

IF I had decided to keep going, we'd have had to put our prices up considerably (a child's coat at £45 would be £60 next winter). Larger retailers will probably absorb part of the cost themselves for a season or two but you can be sure that the prices of everything manufactured outside the UK (so pretty much everything!) will be about 30% more expensive in a couple of years' time as retailers aren't charities. Most UK consumers won't notice as the price increases will be gradual, over several years, but pretty much everything is going up by about 30% in the next few years.

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 31/01/2017 00:24

I am completely sure that the price of corriander has gone up far more than it did last year at this time. The bunch got smaller too.

This is known as shrinkflation - it is usually just shrinking the package size and keeping the price the same.

notangelinajolie · 31/01/2017 00:30

Not really noticed and I do keep a very careful eye on the budget. Strawberries and soft fruit are quite expensive at the moment but I think that is more if a seasonal thing.

SwedishEdith · 31/01/2017 00:38

Pasta. The offers in Sainsbury's used to be £1, I'm sure. Now £1.20. In line with drop in value of £.

HungryHorace · 31/01/2017 05:31

noeffingidea I get a weekly delivery from Sainsbury's, and I've noticed that too. Eggs, cucumbers, grapes, nappy sacks etc have all been creeping up.

But...I put a comparator shop into a Tesco 'basket' online and there wasn't much in it (and the packs of veg from Tesco were smaller, so I'd have needed more to last a week). So I've just resigned myself to the increases (and will try to visit the shop to buy reduced meat to freeze etc to balance it out).

nannynick · 31/01/2017 06:25

Scotch Eggs 2 pack, up 5%.

melj1213 · 31/01/2017 06:56

Obviously there's the usual seasonal fluctuations with fresh stuff, but I work in a supermarket so I see stuff going up all the time. The one good thing with working in a supermarket is knowing when the offer cycles come around, and so I always try to bulk buy any non-perishables and/or anything that can be frozen when they're on offer, and there are very few things I am brand-loyal to and there are very few brands I dislike ... so if there's an offer on Heinz beans this week I will buy Heinz, if Branston beans are on offer next time, I buy them instead etc.

Stores rely on brand loyalty - if you always buy Heinz, a lot of people won't even consider swapping to another brand if they have an offer so they can get away with putting stuff on offer rarely because they know people will buy them anyway - and on people not always checking the value of offers and different pack sizes. The amount of people who see an offer and think they are automatically getting a better deal because "it's on offer" instead of checking whether a different sized pack or combo of others is better is phenomenal. So there'll be 500g Lurpack butter on offer £3 each or 2 for £5 ... the 1kg Lurpack is at £4.90 standard price yet people still think they're getting a deal because they're buying the two smaller ones for cheaper. Yes it's only 10p difference but that's just one example and there are lots of others with bigger differences.

SleepFreeZone · 31/01/2017 07:09

I know petrol has gone up.

ItsNiceItsDifferentItsUnusual · 31/01/2017 07:16

Meat in Sainsbury's has increased. My usual pack of mince was £3.50 before Christmas, and spent most of last year at that price, it's now £4. A big increase when you think about it. In general I'm finding my weekly shop at least £5 more than last year, and I control it very tightly so this is purely down to increased costs.

Fuel is also hideous. Dh has a decent commute each day and it is his big bone of contention at the moment. He maintains there's been a 20% increase recently, not sure if that's right although he does monitor prices on an app [obsessed]

thecolonelbumminganugget · 31/01/2017 07:26

Admittedly not an everyday purchase but when wedding dress shopping in August last year, I was looking at Maggie sottero dresses and the price went up 20% overnight due to the $:£ exchange rate.

Needless to say, I didn't bother with a Maggie sottero!

FannyDeFuzz · 31/01/2017 07:35

I have noticed this too. A few years ago we were really skint, and I meal planned to the last carrot and the last penny. This was when Tesco did £25 minimum spend baskets, and we were able to get a week's worth of shopping for around £35- two adults and a child

We've been trying to save money so decided to go back to the extreme meal planning - I found all my old shopping lists, recipes etc. Made up some shopping baskets on line and the cheapest weekly plan ended up at £52! I spent ages tweaking it and it just didn't get any cheaper.

Tesco have stopped loads of their every day value stuff, and have instead slapped the fancy label of "Redmere farms" on things, then jacked the price up 10p. Or else they have just stopped doing it- no more Tesco value butter for instance

I'm also getting a lot less back on my clubcard. I used to get vouchers for money off things, pasta etc, a lot of clubcard points etc. Now I seem to get a fiver in clubcard points despite spending more at Tesco than I ever did!

I'm going to Lidl starting this week

DameVanillaSugar · 31/01/2017 09:36

That's so depressing wonderfulworld 30%?? And you can bet that salaries won't go up accordingly Sad

sobeyondthehills · 31/01/2017 09:40

Sounds small, but I use to get Dishwasher cleaner, 2 for £2.50 at tesco's, now its 1 for £2.50

Also meat, I get mine at the butchers to last us a month, its gone up from just over £100 to £120 for roughly the same order

Camomila · 31/01/2017 09:57

I have noticed our food shop go from £50ish pw to £60 pw over the last few months but in that time DS has gone from being EBF to eating 3 meals a day so it might just be that (food plus the associated beakers, bibs, vanish to get the blueberry of his clothes...)

I bake and I keep thinking 'ooh butter is expensive'.

Katy07 · 31/01/2017 10:17

shopping is 3% cheaper than 12 months ago.
Shame on you, don't you realise that this is supposed to be a thread bashing Brexit, the government etc.!! Grin
I take it that people have realised that some things (petrol for instance) always go up, regardless. Any excuse for a price rise. And shops will similarly use any excuse to raise their prices (so that you all think 'wow, great value' when they "slash prices" down to above what they were before). They're in business, they want to make a profit from the consumer for their shareholders. It's simple supply and demand. If they offer something at a high price and people pay it then they'll carry on supplying at that price. If everyone says 'sod that, I'm buying courgettes instead' then they'll have to lower their prices or go into courgette-growing (and meanwhile courgettes get snapped leading to a shortage!). Brexit is a great excuse for businesses to stick their prices up, but it's not a reason for it.