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.

Yes. That hardly means Tesco will got out of business!

Maybe not completely, but job losses are inevitable when profits drop.

Someone mentioned Sainsbury's basics being brilliant, well yes they used to be, but they are getting to be in quite short supply now. A lot of the basic ranges don't seem to be available anymore.
I shop in Sainsbury's regularly (not through choice), I've got to say I haven't noticed a big increase recently, at least not like the one a couple of years ago.

a cauliflower was £1, up from 70p

The caulis have been a quid for ages.

Only on MN....'get an allotment'. Oh if only it was that easy. Some have waiting lists years long.

Cancel the cheque

Ach, it's all going to be grand! We'll just all have to dig up our gardens for crops (if you live in a flat, well, you're screwed) and the government could introduce a system of per capita distribution of appropriate quantities of approved foodstuffs. We could call it Digging for Victory and Rationing. After all, it was our finest hour!

Increasing prices are not just down to Brexit.

People saying Butter is increasing in prices, well most butter is made in the UK. Factors closer to home are pushing up prices eg. increased minimum wage, auto enrolment pensions, increasing oil prices impacting transportation costs and then yes pressures on inflation from the pound vs euro/dollar but its not just as simple as saying its Brexit related. Supermarkets operate on tiny margins all these factors are impacting their costs and they need to pass them on.

Remainers will use any old argument to say Brexit is to blame for everything! The sanctimoniousness of them really gets my goat! Its very tiresome.

Anyway many people who voted Brexit did it for political reasons not just economic ones e.g. about the price of pasta or what happens to 'our holiday home in France'? Something Remainers have never understood given some of the posts above. Put another way, if I sold my grandmother my income might be higher in relation to my costs, but I might have moral and personal objections to doing that ... comprendez?

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.

Where on earth are you shopping in Sweden? Organic farm shops?

• Strawberries - have had them this summer 2 punnets for £2 - this week in ICA a punnet was £2.50 as long as you are not buying around major holidays such as mid-summer or Studenten/skolavslutning
• crusty loaf from the local artisan sourdough baker who bakes in wood fired ovens costs £4-5 - ICA's instorebakery has one for £1.80
• beef in the organic farm shop is around £25 per kg - but I got a kg of roasting beef in Lidl for £8 this week
• chicken is £4-6 for 2½-3lb in ICA this week

If you are paying £5 for ordinary shampoo you are being robbed - try a cheap shop such as Lidl, Rusta, Dollar store or Överskottsbolaget

Who on Earth would buy your grandmother?

Went to my local farm shop today (supporting local businesses etc).
Wanted to buy a dozen Satsumas.
They were £3.69 a kilo, 12 Satsumas weighed 3.3 kilos. So over £12.00 for 12 Satsumas. We are having apples instead. :(

SPARKS
The biggest wage issue is the fact that the UK producers of food cannot get cheap labour.
(NMW does not affect the seasonal guys here under the vile "posted workers scheme)
Thousands and thousands of East Europeans have decided they are not welcome here and did not return to the UK after Christmas last year, Easter this year and after their summer holidays.
Brexit voting farmers deserve exactly what they will get.

People saying Butter is increasing in prices, well most butter is made in the UK.
Cheap butter is not - and that is what has driven the whole price pyramid upwards

Notreally
Anyway many people who voted Brexit did it for political reasons not just economic ones
Indeed, but almost all of the political gripes that such people list originate in Whitehall so have been made worse through Brexit, not better.

www.borderlex.eu/comment-its-time-to-face-up-to-the-prospect-of-brexit-armageddon/
This does not make for happy reading. To those of you saying 'Look on the bright side, perhaps we won't waste so much food', it's higher likely that Brexit will lead to thousands of tons of food rotting in ports.
But at least we took back control

notreallyyouknow, I am glad to see a Brexiteer give the honest amswer that they know Brexit will have negative impacts but still want it for ideological reasons. That is the only decent approach to take. It's a shame the impacts weren't explained more carefully to more people so they could weigh them against their own ideologies.

If you peel the satsumas before putting them in the bag you can get the price down. Pop them in the fridge they're okay for a few days and freeze any you want longer than that. I won't pay for the useless peel.

Thousands and thousands of East Europeans have decided they are not welcome here

The falling value of the pound makes it financially not viable for them to stay. No cheap labour, no cheap food or house extensions or indeed cleaners.

Anyway many people who voted Brexit did it for political reasons not just economic ones

I hope therefore to hear nothing but exclamations of joy and delight from the aforementioned voters then, on this trivial issue of affording food.

I've found the opposite. I buy shopping in Tesco and a lot of the food seems cheaper than previously - peaches 69p, mushrooms 69p, raspberries were £1 last week. I buy the value biscuits etc which are about 30p per packet. Depends where you shop and what you buy I suppose.

We have an allotment. Anyone who thinks an allotment is the way to self-sufficiency just has no idea about

how much land you would need to make any significant savings in your food expenditure,

or how the climate in most of the UK greatly limits what you can grow.

And yes we were on the waiting list for 6 years - we were very lucky.

Why do so many threads turn into a Brexit argument.....(I voted stay by the way). I don't get it.

comprendez?

Not in the fucking slightest. No clue what you are on about?

maddie because the rising prices are attributable to Brexit. However, a lot of people are still saying 'ignore experts'. So, a thread discussing rising prices is going to, inevitably, bring Brexit into the discussion.