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Brexit Orange Juice (and everything else) a complete rip off

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user1488581876 · 12/03/2017 12:53

I notice in the supermarket this morning that the 1 litre cartons of Tropicana juice are now either 950ml or 850mls. Of course, the price has remained the same.

Looking at the aisles in the supermarket this morning, I can see that products have been shrinking at a very dramatic rate in the last few months.

This surreptitious inflation (shrinkflation) seems to have got really out of hand at the moment.I get the impression the major retailers seem to have decided the Great British Public are complete fools and won't notice.

OP posts:
Ta1kinPeace · 12/03/2017 21:05

Caroldecker

I'm waiting.
Name the foods that will be cheaper after a hard Brexit.

fridayrain · 12/03/2017 21:09

Not sure if it's anything to do with Brexit but Tunnocks teacakes have gone up in Tesco from 81p to £1.00. I am genuinely interested as to why the massive increase.

Ta1kinPeace · 12/03/2017 21:11

Imported ingredients basically
18% drop in currency = 18% rise in price in the long run

wait till the staff shortages kick in 'cos the Poles are going home Grin

megletthesecond · 12/03/2017 21:13

I don't think it's just impending Brexit. Climate fluctuations and conflict pushes prices up too.

caroldecker · 12/03/2017 21:35

ta1king Apologies for the delay, I was having a life.
The average EU tariffs on agricultural products are 22% (according to the Lib Dems), with 35% on chocolate, 11% on cereals and 14% on wine (to give three examples).

IvyLeagueUnderTheSea · 12/03/2017 21:37

Oh yes, once the immigrant labour has left or can't come here to work then the price of vegetables etc will go up.

londonrach · 12/03/2017 21:46

Ladies...head to ldll.. 88p for orange juice. Taste nice and reduced in price but not size in the time of me buying it. Sadly cant say tge same for cream eggs and mini eggs...no point buying them now and theres nothing left to buy!!!

Tanith · 12/03/2017 21:52

You've answered a different question to the one you were asked, Caroldecker.

Do you think chocolate, cereal and wine will be cheaper after a hard Brexit?

Mrskeats · 12/03/2017 22:09

I can't believe people are denying this is because of Brexit. It's the fall in the pound and also the weakness against the dollar as even the Americans can see this will all be a disaster.
Oil is priced in dollars and everything has to travel so that pushes prices up
If the triggering is done this week the pound will fall further.
Well done Brexit numpties.
Still I suppose the 350 million a week to the NHS will make up for it. As if.

MrsPeterDoherty · 12/03/2017 22:19

Why are Brexiteers still in denial? We're up shit creek already, and the A50 shit is about to hit the fan.
We're all going to be poorer, the country's fucked

CountMagnus · 12/03/2017 22:20

I'm sure we can be self sufficient in turnips and whisky, what's not to like?

IvyLeagueUnderTheSea · 12/03/2017 22:22

But who will pick the turnips?

GraceGrape · 12/03/2017 22:42

Feckless benefits scroungers will be forced off their lazy backsides into workfare programmes in the turnip fields of course Ivy.

caroldecker · 13/03/2017 00:38

Tanith they could be cheaper if we reduce agricultural tariffs - that is up to the govt. I would expect them to and would vote for a govt that would.

Assuming farmers pay the minimum wage, I do not see why UK workers are more expensive then EU migrants. Unless you approve of farmers paying slave wages and appalling worker conditions to foreigners/illegal migrants as long as you get cheap food? Surely these are either decent jobs for workers, in which case British workers will happily take them, or they are exploitative, so you are happy with these conditions being in place for foreigners.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 13/03/2017 00:59

www.gov.uk/agricultural-workers-rights/pay-and-overtime

IvyLeagueUnderTheSea · 13/03/2017 08:05

English people won't do the job for minimum wage Carol.
It's seasonal and people won't do it for just 1 month or whatever. However people are willing to travel over, live in caravans for a month to earn minimum wage for a season and send it back home. It's worth a lot more in Poland than it is here.

coffeetasteslikeshit · 13/03/2017 08:35

I think farmers will need to pay more than minimum wage to British workers to get them to spend hours in the rain doing back breaking work.

Dumbstrucked · 13/03/2017 08:56

coffee

Not that I'm a supporter of the practice in anyway but most farmers can't afford to pay more than minimum wage. They barely get fair trade on the produce they sell.

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 13/03/2017 09:45

The supermarkets arent going to reduce prices

Brexit or not they will use it as an excuse

But pre referendum economists said that food prices would go up and they are

Someone told the truth about brexit

Yay???? Confused

CountMagnus · 13/03/2017 10:01

It can't be true - economists are experts and we all know that we can't trust experts.

Ta1kinPeace · 13/03/2017 12:20

caroldecker
Which three foods will be cheaper after a hard brexit?

Its a really simple question.
It entirely depends on what you think the pound will do and what import tariffs the UK will set.

Chocolate - imported .....
Wine - mostly imported
Cereal - mostly imported

how will they get cheaper if we are no longer importing them from a free trade area ?

emsler · 13/03/2017 15:00

A friend of mine is a baker and her costs - which had been fairly steady for 5 years - have risen by almost a third since the referendum. That#s what will bump up prices. Even food which is manufactured in the UK sources the raw ingredients from outside of the UK (to say nothing of the cheap labour, as discussed). Everything is getting, and will continue to get, more expensive.

coffeetasteslikeshit · 13/03/2017 15:08

Dumbstrucked

Yes, I agree with you. Farmers will have to pay more than minimum wage and we'll have to pay more for our food, there's no way farmers can adsorb the increase.

FarAwayHills · 13/03/2017 15:30

Not sure if Brexit related but the price of coffee is crazy.

Dumbstrucked · 13/03/2017 16:31

I think it's frustrating because the main argument I've heard from brexiteer relatives is that as a country we need to start farming and fishing and mining etc and growing our industry because it would be cheaper and give British jobs and yadda yadda yadda. But it just isn't feasible.

Firstly the fishing argument I've heard so much, that we don't have permits to fish in our waters yadda yadda yadda. But then our fisherman sold those rights because they got more for that then they could earn through actually fishing.

Secondly I don't see us becoming a country of agriculture any time soon.

1)crap labour laws abroad mean we can exploit non western countries for cheap crops and produce. Farmers can't afford to pay decent wages without being paid more for their produce meaning prices would have to rocket. Also how many young people actually aspire for traditional working class jobs any more? With the thundering footsteps of automation a decade away there is not 'career' in manual work.
2) our diets have become much more global and many of the staples we now eat have to be grown abroad anyway.
3) (and this is probably the most contentious) we kind of need ex-farming land for housing more than we need it for farming.