To have already noticed prices rising?

[Destinysdaughter]

It's just a few things but since Xmas I've started to notice certain things costing more, some examples, I was given a nice bottle of wine from M&S which was £13, it's now £14. Also Body shop Chamomile cleansing oil was £10, is now £12 ( tho got it with a 40%off code)

Is this the start of the cost of living rising or are these isolated incidents?

Little grab n go pot of pineapple used to be £1 in local shop, now £1.05.

First they shrunk bottles of coke from 2 litres to 1.75 litres. Now they've changed the offers from 2 for £2 to 2 for £2.50. Perhaps they hope we won't notice the difference.

And the pp is right - mini egg packets are tiny this year. I picked one up to buy it, felt the few eggs inside it and promptly put it back again.

I've noticed my food shop increasing. I can't pinpoint where but a year ago I could do a whole weekly shop for £70 and now it's not far off £100 each week. I'm scratching my head on how to reduce it back down (family of 7 though so it will always be higher then average)
Glad I'm not the only one seeing it. Shame the house prices aren't crashing as predicted too though bitter generation rent

The "cheap" butter I buy for baking has gone up from £1.20 to £1.40. Which is odd because th expensive stuff for inhaling spreading on bread and toast has stayed at £1.70.

April and October are traditional price hike months, mind. They're the months that I tend to shop with this look, the most

I suggested having salmon for dinner the other night. DH said no, as it has gone up to £4 for each individual measly slice. Not long ago a pack of four was in the 3 for £10 section. It would be £16 just for the fish alone.

My go to pre pay day £2.99 wine from Aldi is now £3.09

Bloody Hell can you imagine what it will be like when we actually leave the EU? For those of you still moaning blaming Brexit for inflation (which happens every year, especially post budget) here's a grip =

See ya next year penny

Yes. Since 1989 prices have dropped in 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and in 2014 according to the ONS.

Good point jumping

So, geordie, you mean it used to be possible to get 12 pieces of salmon for £10, now that would be £48? That's 480% inflation. Are you absolutely sure?

Jellybeanz so you are saying that in 2010,11,12,13 and 2014 prices didn't rise at all.

Do you mean that everything cost the same at the end of 2014 as it did five years earlier?

I don't think so - not in my supermarket anyway.

It was always the 2-packs of salmon that were in the 3 for £10 offers in all of the supermarkets.

I've noticed prices jumping too. Hello recession: Brexit will eventually royally shaft the very people who voted for it (primarily the over-60s who are going to be absolutely stuffed by it in the end, bless); but they have made sure that the rest of us will suffer on the way. At least working-age people have some time left. I sure wouldn't want to be on a fixed income when it all kicks off! Just think what it's going to do to pensions in the next 10 years.

Freddos aren't exactly a good frame I'd reference fgs. It's like using wagon wheels as a unit of measurement.

Of course things are getting more expensive. That'll happen when the value of the pound falls off a fucking cliff.

Fucking Brexit...

Yes, it'll work out, eventually. It'll take a generation though, and mine will be FUCKED

You can still get 6 good (115g) pieces of skinless, boneless salmon in M&S for a tenner. Been the same for years. Can't really blame brexit for scottish farmed salmon prices, anyhow.

2007 -2010 www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8035543/Food-prices-risen-twice-as-fast-in-UK-compared-with-Europe-Defra-says.html

Aww no, Way and Pick... I was going to dig a pond in the garden and start a salmon farm. Bugger.

Call me cynical if you will, but I suspect it wouldn't be beyond the supermarkets to decide to put their prices up now, even though they don't need to, because they think we will assume it is because of Brexit and just accept it.

That's what I think get- a few p on fresh fruit/veggies, I think fair enough, especially given the Spanish weather. More that 10%, they're at it.

I've noticed this too. Even double checked my receipt the other day as I thought it looked more expensive and thought there may be an error. It seems to be the old 5p extra here and 10p extra there which is soon mounting up to extra pounds on a shop

Average house prices across the UK fell by 0.3% in the month of March, according to the Nationwide, the first fall since June 2015.

Supermarkets and shops will take advantage of the Brexit thing. Look what some are now doing with carrier bags. Two of my local shops have increased carrier bag charges to 6p. Not a lot I know, but the introduction of these charges was meant to be an incentive to not use as many to protect our environment, and not supposed to be money making exercises for the stores.

get and happy part of my job has to do wih the wholesale food industry and I can tell you that the price rises have only just started. A lot of our contracts ran from April to March so we have been protected from most increases... until now.

I have said it before on similar threads... when I go to Aldi / Lidl / home bargains what I'm thinking is "this isn't cheap anymore".

Agree re. Lidl. I do a big shop there every couple of weeks. Usually spend around £80 for a couple of weeks worth of food.

Went yesterday and shopping was £125. The most I have ever spent in there. Granted I did buy a pan for £15, but still would have been more than I ever spent.

Salmon prices have rocketed because of bugs and problems with farmed fish. It used to be a nice treat but can't afford it now. Rarely buy fish because it's too expensive.

Well maybe we should stop importing goods that we would be able to produce here. It's such a shame that we've had the ability and pride in making our own products kicked out of us and needlessly outsourcing them. We need to get our mojo back. I for one would like to eat more British meat than we have on offer now.