To think weekly shop prices are outrageous?

[meadowlark3]

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.

Agreed. I have been self employed most of my life, there is no pension waiting for me. I'm currently raising my children at home until they are both at school/preschool and then I will resume work and expect to work until I die. No exciting adventures for me in 'retirement'.

And before anyone trots out the very tired bingo line 'it's not a race to the bottom'. We know (except it probably actually is).

I think people saying UK people won't pick fruit don't understand the enormous change in the economy that's about to take place. Nobody wants to pick fruit, but if it's the only way to feed your kids or pay your rent, people do. That is going to be British people soon.

Sleep I wonder if it's because they weather better now( rust less due to better design?)and back then you could fix them yourself. Certainly where I live people have cars for a good amount of time, chunks don't fall off when you slam doors.

Garage bills are horrendous. You really need to weigh up the cost v car finance. Are MOTs more stringent now?

Our car is well over 20 years old,doesn't look that bad. When the bills get to £1000 just to get it through its MOT you start looking at alternatives.

I don't have an Aldi or a Lidl near me, and they don't deliver so how exactly do I shop there? Plus paying for getting there, etc.

We are vegetarians but I've noticed the food bill climb up and up recently. It's sad

Sandsnake
The problem is that the native born British population is old and declining
young fit people who can do backbreaking agricultural work will have to be imported from somewhere
and 2nd generation Poles who work hard at school will not be willing to do it after they graduate from RG Unis

I think we'll probably start having a lot of young people AT university doing fruit picking. They'll make student loans conditional on working twenty hours a week, like some US ones. And we will also see people who aren't suited to hard physical work forced into it.

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.
Because you effectively are leasing the car for three years and paying for depreciation, rather than buying it. So you aren't paying towards the full value of the car.
Clearly it's not cheaper than buying a much older second hand car but it is cost effective for many people and much cheaper than buying a new/nearly new outright.

And I apologise for sounding like all pensioners think one way last night. I know they don't. Just struggle with all the narrative that we are too used to cheap food/cheap hols eye eye while watching a section of pensioners who retired at 55-60 eating out and taking multiple foreign hols a year.
These are often the same people who voted Brexit from pub convos I heard at the time of the referendum and it strikes me as a bit dog in the mangerish.
But I definitely don't mean all or even most pensioners.
Sorry for any offence

You mean pensioners like my in-laws, who bought their house on one income, retired early with a full pension, currently on their fifth foreign holiday of the year (one of which is part paid for by their Winter Fuel Allowance) who voted Brexit and are already complaining about more expensive holidays and having to wait longer than the Germans at passport control. And who live in a deprived area and think that the likely huge job losses when manufacturing moves are worth taking back control and voted 'for our children's sake' even though one of them begged them not to because he will almost certainly lose his job.

Feel free to find them irritating. I do!

My father found it massively irritating in the 90s when that Thatcher brought in 'right to buy' and my neighbours were able to buy a £290k house for 4K when my dad was about to lose our house due to redundancy and cancer and him having had a mortgage for donkeys years.

So some people are just lucky bastards and some people aren't. Some people are born at the right time in the right place. Btw that house is now worth 3/4 of a million. So those neighbours are probably on their fifth holiday of the year right now.

Pretty much every car I see is a couple of years old or brand new. Where are all the old cars?

My son buys them all (or so it seems) and runs them into the ground, and then borrows my newer car until he can afford the next one.

Ironinmountain how old is your DHbefore you say that. My family all went to grammar school but no one could afford university. A friends brother went to Oxford and in 1973 his father had to pay £60 per week plus his accommodation costs. It was not available to all for economic and social reasons and because our families needed and expected us to work and contribute. Remember there was no social security or benefits, just the Labour Exchange.

sand
They'll make student loans conditional on working twenty hours a week, like some US ones.
Utter bilge.
DD has 26 hours of contact time on her degree and works in the holidays.
There is absolutely no way she could do an extra 20 hours hard labour.

Farmers will import workers from overseas as they have done for decades

Co-op used to sell value Oats. IDK if they do now, our Co-op has been taken over by McColls. McColls don't sell value oats.

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a reduced bag of Duchy Organic oats in the supermarket, 35p for 1kg. Couldn't for the life of me work out why it had been reduced. When I got home, I realised the expiry date was August 2018 so it looks like the staff had mistakenly thought it had expired this year.

^^

US students have been managing to balance full-time studying with twenty hours work for a long time.

How many people here grow your own vegetables?

SandSnakeOfDorne
I fully expect my kids to work and study,

Hard to grow your own vegetables without an appropriate garden, or indeed a garden at all. Allotments are at an absolute premium.

I have no garden and there's a six year waiting list for allotments. You need to pay £80 just to get on the waiting list. Someone struggling to feed their kids is not gonna manage that.

There are less and less Allotments because people pay the yearly rent (mine in Bromley was something like twenty quid) but do nothing.

I do kursk and if that was all the veg available food would be very tedious in winter.

Well, and allotment land is used for building on. Our nearest allotments were halved in size as they were needed for a new cemetery.

QuentinSummers

What we grow is limited in selection too, but we only eat what we grow, it can get tedious but it is what it is, we just roll with it.

US students have been managing to balance full-time studying with twenty hours work for a long time.

I call rubbish on this. Not in Harvard they don't.

Sixth former's in the school my son goes to have advised, as have their parents, not to let them work more than 5 hours a week as this will impact on their studies, up to 20 hours has a severe detrimental effect.

Perhaps they should all go up the chimney's to sweep?

During term time the detriment of working long hours is well documented.

Not so during summer, but again, it's advised no more than 20 hours a week, for those two months. And they do need down time. Studying is hard work!