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.

Someone always trots out the Buy local malarkey.

Because the millions of us within the M25 are spoiled for miles of orchards and cannot move for cows and sheep.

It's the bloody Brexit and the pound nosediving. No amour of buying local will fix that. Bloody farmer is buying petrol and whatnot as well, how are they going to manage?

Fuck brexit.

^ What CharbonnaysPrettySister said, in spades

Sains is very expensive anyway.
I do my shopping between Asda and Tesco.
Then home bargains for things like washing powder, cleaning products, bin bags etc

We do a weekly online shop with Tesco, and I have really noticed the prices going up.

My DH started to complain to me a good few months ago, that I'm routinely going over the weekly budget I try and adhere to. I sat him down and showed him some online receipts, and he was shocked (and apologetic!).

The salmon that I buy every week has gone up by 50p, as have many other items. They are also having less offers, or less good offers too on their goods, and this is having a noticeable affect on our bill.

Agreed totally chardonnay
And the article directly quotes the head of John Lewis talking about the Brexit effect
My daughter works for them and they are extremely worried.
I love how some people will deny deny deny even though it's bloody obvious what's happening

Buying local these days generally means farm shops which are really not cheaper at all, quite the opposite.
Asda is cheaper than the farm shops.

Sign the petition on the HoCs website...

I popped into our 'local' farm shop yesterday for a nose.

Butter - £1.80
2 pint of milk - £1.70
Pack of 8 'posh' sausages - wait for it, £3.50
A free range chicken - about 3kgs - £11.70
A (very) large cauliflower - £1.25
A crusty loaf - £1.40

I left (after getting a loaf and the cauliflower) and went to ASDA.

If the above constitutes buying local, I can't afford it. A free range chicken in ASDA cost me £8.00.

The days of cheap food are over I'm afraid. Welcome to the Brexit induced cheap pound, putting imports up in price. The value of the pound has just increased a little, but that's because of the expected bank rate increase. When that hits inflation will soar, mortgages and rentals will go up as well as food prices.
Fuck Brexshit!

Some increases are ridiculous though, not just food.

Gap jeans, some are £70+.

Fuck that.

I don't shop in Sainsbury's very often as not nearby but popped in for a few bits as I was going to homebase next door. Almost everything I picked up cost 20p more than tesco which would add up to £5-£10 on a big shop. Even on things like own brand paracetamol (probably from same supplier)

I get a lot of non fresh stuff from homebargains now. Plus loo roll etc.
B+M can be cheap but a pain when they are not near carpark.

Asda still not too bad.

I went to Tesco the other night & noticed things were more expensive eg value tinned rice pudding up from 13p to 25p

I went around 7pm though so got lots & lots of fresh stuff at reduced prices - a whole extra large chicken for 34p, a pot of houmous for 12p, loaves of bread for 8p & much more. I am fortunate that DH was home so I could shop at that time (although not fortunate because the reason he was home is because he's out of work). I also regularly check the local Co-op for bargains.

When I shop at Aldi, my basket costs me a huge amount more than my Tesco shop. Because they trick me into buying lots of things I don't need in those central aisles Oops!

Sainsbury's do have rep of being a bit dearer than the other there's. However, food quality and service wise, they wipe the floor with the rest of the supermarkets.

*the other ones

We've got local butter. It's gone up from £1.40 to £1.80 in the last fortnight.

Hopefully the prices continue to rise so people will stop being so gluttonous and wasteful with food.
I for one can't wait to see the price of food post brexit. We will crash out of the EU with no more subsidies for our farmers, no migrant workers to pick our produce for a pittance, no trade deal and with the pound on parity with the the dollar.

However in the UK we also have very high costs re housing, utilities, public transport, fuel & childcare, etc. compared to other European countries.

It's not higher than Ireland on these measures. And we pay a lot more for food. But then we are perennially fleeced in this country.

When the Brexit shitstorm hits, then you'll really know all about it. I predict big things for Lidl and Aldi in the UK over the next few years.

It's only going to get worse

Food prices in this country are kept artificially low through a combination of supermarket price wars and these costs being passed on to farmers who currently receive EU subsidies to prop up an otherwise unsustainable business.

It is highly likely that Farm subsidies are not going to be anywhere near as generous post brexit (if they exist at all) and farmers/ government will no longer be in a position to essentially subsidise food for the general public.

That combined with probably less favourable trade deals for some time for food from other countries and well... food is going to get expensive.

It could be argued that it should always have been wrong to get a whole chicken for less than the price of a happy meal, or a 4 pints of milk for less than a bottle of water, but that is a whole different thread.

I for one can't wait to see the price of food post brexit

And for those who are struggling just as it is? Is it just tough shit for them?

If food prices rise and further benefits/the NMW will need to rise in line with them or a there's gonna be a lot of children going to bed hungry. That's what Brexit is doing for us.

Although I do agree that farmers have had a raw deal and things need to change there. It's just that a significant number of consumers cannot afford to pay more than they already are.

Butter in Aldi not so long ago was 85p and now it's 1.33. It seems to be going up each week!

Pricing are going up all over. But buying things out of season is always more expensive even without the recent price increases.

UK prices are still pretty cheap compared to most other places.
Not true. I go all over Europe regularly and live in an European city, the UK is by far the most expensive. I'm always shocked when I go into a supermarket there.

Food inflation is affecting all the supermarkets, a combination of the weaker pound and poor harvests in various countries. Even the cost of packaging is going up. You mentioned melons increasing and that is due to seasonality, source has moved from Europe to the Southern Hemisphere in the last week or so.

Food in the uk is so cheap - honestly the prices above given as extortionate are fractions of what we pay.

Punnet of strawberries in season - up to seven quid
Crusty loaf - 4-7 quid. No cheap alternative plastic bread.
Meat? Stuff like even the cheaper cuts costs a fortune. Decent beef is 30-60 quid a kg. A chicken is a tenner for a small one.
There are no cheap shops, no wilko equivalent. No places to get cheap shampoo - a generic crap supermarket one costs 4-5 quid. If you go out for a drink it's 8 quid for a small glass of wine or beer. The uk is phenomenally cheap.