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

The fact that you can buy a rice pudding ffor 25p is insane anyway, at 13p it's actually obscene.

I've started to have a fortnightly delivery from Sainsbury. They are becoming more expensive but the quality is good with very little waste.
I top this up with a couple of visits to Aldi and Lidl to keep costs down and for variety.

Try shopping in Aldi.

This is not about which supermarket. Inflation is 3% and will rise as we get closer to the bollocks that is Brexit.
Interest rates will be on the way up too so mortgages will be up too.
More and more people will be pushed into poverty over the next few years.

Did you vote for Brexit?

I think suppliers are just whacking their prices up.

I wonder if this will force us all to shop and eat differently 🤔

I was in Lidl today and I'm pretty sure the price of chicken has gone up.

Everything has gone up in lidl.

I am switching to online shopping this month and proper menu planning

I can't say I've noticed. I picked up the same loaf in Tesco 50p just like before, butter £1, 4pts of milk £1, apples £1.60, snack fruit bags 50p, oranges on two for £2.50 etc and that's all from a little metro version. Same prices I pay every week.

Local meat place prices are still the same we did around £100 for 26 chicken breasts, 4 whole chickens, 4 legs of lamb, two trays of sausages, 1 tray of steak, 2 trays of mince.

We have recently got our own allotment so we will start growing a lot of things we eat in the right seasons and getting chickens for both eggs and meat.

Purplemedler
And it's possible that the UK won't impose tariffs, to encourage other countries not to impose them on UK goods.
Not a chance
Sorry
There is not a hope in hell that the UK will have any new trade deals sorted by 2019
so it will be WTO rules - and tariffs are compulsory.

If there IS a hard Brexit, the price of food will rocket as farmers will not be able to get labour
and imported goods that have to clear customs have MUCH higher wastage rates
I used to work in Customs Clearance, I know of what I speak

Thing is if we shopped and ate like our grandparents our shopping would be inexpensive. They really knew how to make the most of food and eek it out, use up scraps etc. We've got used to shop bought hummus and all sorts of other luxury items and of course this is now going to become too expensive. So I think it might end up being back to lentils and pulses, soups and stews. Seasonal food home grown in this country, backed up with food grown in the garden.

Well then don't shop in Sainsbury's!!!!

And shocking I know ... despite the B word, I spend half of what I used to spend.

Try Aldi or Lidl.

You lot don't know how lucky you are! I live in the Falklands... .just pulled a receipt out of my bag:
2 limes - £1.92
I bag fresh spinach - £3.66
400g packet mushrooms - £6.78

To be fair diesel for my car is only 49p a litre but that hardly evens it out!

Another "Well, the good thing about Brexit is that it'll be good for us. We were all getting too soft."

I don't know about you but my grandmother walked to school barefoot. I'm bloody glad my standard of living is higher than that. I have no wish to impose that on myself or anyone else. But then, I'm not a people-hating sociopath.

Alternatively get an allotment and grow your own.

My God penguin. I don't like mushrooms enough to pay £6.78 for them!!!

A quid for a melon though... a tiny one is a fiver here. Also you just can't find stuff here. Swedes seem allergic to vegetables- things arrive in season, slightly elderly and horribly expensive.

Brexit = plummeting value of the pound = inflation (higher prices)

It was made quite clear before the referendum that this would happen. I don't understand how anybody can now express surprise.

This thread also reminds me why I shop at Iceland (on occasion). They have some brilliant offers on things like tea bags (branded), cat food, soap powder (yep really) and they do the best frozen pizzas ever.

Alternatively get an allotment and grow your own

Grow your own melons and hummus?

I'm not going to tell you about the price of lentils in the rest of Northern Europe.

Aldi and Lidl are not the panacea though.
Not everybody has access to them, they have a narrower range and their prices are going up as well.

Also, if Sainsbury's, Tesco's and Waitrose go tits up what about the job losses?

They aren't going to go tits up are they? No one is suggesting they are. There is no reason they should.

You did reads about JL's drop in profits?