To think weekly shop prices are outrageous?

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I was in Sainsbury's yesterday and was a bit surprised by the prices. We buy nearly the same items every week and whilst I expect some variation, some of the prices had me Own brand hummous is usually £1, this week was £1.50. Gallia melon always £1 each, now also £1.50. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it Brexit now impacting the retailer and theyre no longer absorbing the change?

I was yesterday but read today that John Lewis has had profits halve due to Brexit and not yet passing the change on to customers.

I hear you, Quentin .

There is something quite cruel about it.

For what it's worth, my parents and my parents in law are as mystified by it all as we are. They certainly didn't vote for Brexit, are delighted that standards of living have risen for the majority in their lifetime, and would wholeheartedly wish for that to continue for all.

Hey Peace - I haven't asked the farmers I know how they voted, presumably you have asked the one's you know how they voted in both General Elections and the EU Referendum. I'm not sure that voting Tory=Brexit and that Labour=Remain, Mr Corbyn demonstrates that. I do recall that Thatcher broke and shafted farmers as much as she did the Miners, but who would know....

Maybe the farmers you know are Big Farm owners, the ones I know are small farm, passed down, inherited through family. Yes they infuriate me for not understanding the rest of existence but really with so much middle-class focus on artisan, you would hope some of that would trickle back to the source. So, ignorance infuriatingly abounds on all fronts.

I mostly shop at Lidl and the average shop is about £100 for four adults and two children. It costs a third to 50% more at Sainsbury's, Tesco or Waitrose.

One item I noticed was Mexican tuna salad. £2.20 in Sainsbury's, 65p in Lidl!

Quentin you are incredibly angry with one maybe two generations who had it good. In your family anyway. My family come from south east London on both sides and there was no wealthy generation. There was definitely social housing. There were a hell of a lot of children lost to childhood illness and grinding poverty so yep, I am terrified of going back to those days. But no one owned their own houses in my family until my parents.

Anyway, I was simply trying to say that times are changing and maybe things are going to have to give to afford nice food. Yes it's crap, but there's been a population explosion since the Second World War and jobs don't pay the same abdvthete are more mouths to feed. Plus all those developing countries that we used to just let eat dirt, now want to eat proper food and to live in decent houses. The world expects a decent standard of living so our standard of living will be going down.

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Tesco butter is now £1.40 (99p last year)!!

I get irritated by the generation that blame older generations for current world financial problems. If you want to blame anyone, blame the subprime lending industry in America!

Back to oats I don't live near a Lidl, sadly. Our local Aldi is rubbish and doesn't seem to stock oats (or much of anything other than cheap crisps and biscuits). I don't shop in Tesco because the quality of their fresh produce was poor when I had to shop there in the past, and it's further away than Morrisons. Maybe I'll detour there next time I'm nearby to pick up a mass load of oats

The point is though, that many of us are restricted to shopping in the supermarkets that are locally available to us, so saying "get it in lidl" isn't very helpful.

To the poster saying we want cars and holidays without spending money on food,you are talking bilge.

We have a battered very old car( paid for without credit), we have very few holidays. We get to France camping now and again if lucky.

Housing is expensive,very expensive. We both work full time. The bulk of our money goes on mortgage,bills and state school expenses( which are rising hugely due to lack of funding).

I was born in the 60s believe me in the 70s and 80s my parents fed us better,had a newer car and we went on more pricier holidays- on one salary and early retirement at 50!!!!!

I do most of my shopping in Lidl. We eat very little meat. The add ons I get in Sainsbury which we can't get in Lidl equals a basket full. It costs the same amount as an overflowing Lidl trolley containing everything else. Insane.

I will simply have to ditch Sainsbury's completely if prices go up much more. Ecover products and healthier packed lunch/ yog products etc.

I'm just too angry about Brexit. I get so cross with this affluent generation who had free uni, cheap houses, final salary pensions etc. acting like we are spendthrifts and wanting to send the UK back to the 50s. I need to take a break from the internet I think. Fucking Brexit.

I am of that generation although I voted Remain. I went to university, DH didn't. We both had final salary pensions being public sector, but may of my female friends are very badly provided for in that respect, having worked part time and in non - pensionable jobs. E.g. I worked for Maxwell's Pergamon Press in the mid seventies - only men on a certain pay grade were allowed to join the pension scheme (not allowed now.) I later worked p/t for a county council - part timers weren't initially allowed to join the pension scheme but that later changed.

So, it's quite a mixed bag, and I would say that older women especially probably didn't see all of the benefits.

But I digress, F* Brexit I agree.

Quentin My mum, who is in her early 90s voted to remain as she believed it was the best thing to do regarding future generations. Had a chat with her yesterday and she too noticed the increase in the weekly shop, she was incredibly shocked actually. She also said that the price of filling the oil tank (she lives in Northern Ireland), was a shock too.

She is fortunate, she readily agrees to this, but she simply voted remain so that her grandchildren wouldn't suffer what she believed would be awful consequences. And she's right!

I am not clear how a finance deal on a new car can be cheaper than buying second hand, even if you spend £4k or so on it.

Also we spend much of our weekend racing round doing chores as it is. I cook a lot from scratch already. I guess we'll simply have to devote the whole weekend after 2 x full time working weeks to chores and preparing food for the week ahead. Fun times.

If it's any consolation the price of butter has increased in Lidl too. Their 1kg caster sugar has gone up by 10p, still 55p cheaper than Sainsburys though.

We might have had free uni but a lot of us could not afford to go. I am the eldest of 3 and no way could my parents afford for me not to go out to work at 17 and bring some money into the house (which was a council one.)

Yes houses on the whole were cheap. Me and DH managed to buy one on our salaries and then watched as the interest rate climbed and climbed and we had to live on beans on toast for ages.

We also furnished our house with everything second hand. Not many are willing to do that today. No holiday abroad until I was in my 30's. Wedding that cost about £100. No honeymoon.

Now 63 I have to wait until I am almost 66 before getting my pension, my age having been raised twice, first to 63 and then to almost 66. I have worked full time for over 40 years paying full stamp.

Oh yes we have had it so cushy haven't we?

I buy Tescos online and I haven't noticed.

I top up at Asda though which probably helps.

If anyone is on any form of medication, it is now time to start stockpiling.

MulderitsmeX, my Sainsburys still has the basics loo paper

Not sure how 2 full time workers and a council house( v low housing costs)meant you couldn't go to uni.

My dh came from a very poor family in a similar situation but with one parent working and he went.

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how do you stockpile when you are on prescription only meds?

Lidl basics loo paper is cheaper.

Attitudes not necessarily cost. Quite a lot of parents back in the seventies would happily send a son off to university, but think it a waste of money for a girl, because she would only get married! Times have changed!

I knew quite a number at my school who weren't allowed to stay on to sixth form, never mind consider college/university. Of those I kept in touch with, some of them managed to get degrees later in life.

When I was growing up it was rare to see new cars on the road where I lived, now I never see an old car. Pretty much every car I see is a couple of years old or brand new. Where are all the old cars?

I have worked full time for over 40 years paying full stamp

Yes, absolutely, but all the rest of us are also going to have to do that. 46 years, in my case, since I can't draw my occupational pension until state pension age which is currently 68 - and will no doubt increase further until it's abolished entirely. And I'm in the privileged position of being in a decent occupational pension that I've been paying significant contributions into since I was 22. Most my age aren't.

I don't think cushy pensions are necessarily a stick to beat the older generation with, but the older generation also really can't use their pension situation as a woe is me tale because whichever way you look at it the position is still far superior to the vast majority of people born later than you.

I buy cleaning materials/toiletries, etc. when they are on a good offer at any of the supermarkets and stockpile them in my garage 'shop'. Never pay full price for them.

Our local farm shop produce is definitely cheaper than the supermarket and great quality.

And who wants to eat hummus anyway - disgusting stuff!!