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.

Ohtoblazes
Hear hear re allotments.
I have a veg garden the size of a full allotment.
I grow a lot and freeze and preserve a lot
but as I cannot grow alliums or most root crops (white rot and stony soil) I could never be self sufficient

The UK has imported food from around the world for hundreds of years
it will not stop
but it will get a LOT more expensive if there is a hard Brexit

I avoid the big shops and usually use lidl instead as I am less likely to get tempted by extras in there.

We went to Spain this year, the prices seemed similar to UK prices for most things.

Food is getting really expensive everywhere. I'm expecting a massive rise when we leave the EU. Tighten your belts.

I still get more for my money in a British supermarket than I do in any of the local Belgian ones. The best value for money here is celeriac, they are huge and cheap, but there is only so much one can do with them.

I'm in London and live right next to a huge load of allotments.There is a 5 year wait to even get on the waiting list.

I was in Southern France this Summer. Supermarket prices were similar to UK, except fruit and veg was cheaper. Last Summer prices were more expensive in France.
Next year I expect prices to be far cheaper in France.

If anyone fucking calls me a 'remoaner' for worrying about what is happening to MY country they can fuck right off.

Anybody who thinks that allotments are going to replace the stuff we currently import from southern Europe needs to look at the maps of which parks were dug up for the Dig For Victory Campaign in WW2

• Hyde Park
• Kensington Gardens
• Southampton Common
• Crystal Palace
• Birmingham Botanic Garden

and even then the diet was what we'd now consider cripplingly dull

Not sure how an allotment will help with the rise in the price of Harpic tbh

Mrskeats you can brew all sorts of stuff up in the shed.

In my case that would result in a large bang
I'm crap at chemistry

DH is fab at Chemistry : it would definitely go bang

It's not just the headline price that is increasing. I've noticed that some products that I only used to buy 'on offer' such as prawns and teabags are no longer or far more rarely available at offer prices. We haven't had prawns for ages. It's hidden inflation.

Someone earlier said that the customs tariff would be 2 or 3% on food from the EU. I'd be interested to know where that figure came from

If we crash out without a deal, then the tariffs would be c.22% , as we would have to default to WTO tariffs.

uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-tariffs/uk-risks-22-percent-tariff-on-eu-food-imports-if-no-brexit-deal-retailers-idUKKBN17M1LM

This Telegraph article gives more details about the range of WTO tariffs: from 32 per cent on wine, to 4.1 per cent on liquefied natural gas, with items like cars (9.8 per cent) and wheat products (12.8 per cent) somewhere in between.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/what-would-brexit-mean-for-british-trade/

However, of more concern would be the non tariff barriers, which could result in perishable food have to wait beyond its sell-by date at the ports

prettybird
TBH having worked in customs clearance
(I think i could probably still remember how to fill out a C88 and a T2 or even a C5)
Non tariff barriers with the EU will not be relevant for the first year or two
as it will take a while to diverge
but a return to deferrments and demurrage and turn-out-and-tally
let alone the cessation of the Le Touquet agreement
will cause absolute havoc in supply chains.

The old holding areas have all been built on at Dover / Ramsgate.
The Tunnel never had them

I'm geeky about it, but I was there - none of the people wanting a hard Brexit have ever come close to addressing the logistics alone

I live in Canada and was shocked when I moved here about how much more expensive supermarkets are. For many staples like milk, cheese and bread, it's over double the price than in the UK.

MrsTwiddle
Brits clearly do not realise ( I was not born here BTW ) that the UK's ultra liberal employment rules, linked to a mind bogglingly lax attitude to offshore financing, bolted onto the edge of the EU
has resulted in a perfect storm of cheap food and services.

Break any link in that chain and it all falls apart.

Personally I'd have been happier (as a money grabbing accountant) for the offshore rule to get the chop rather than the other two.
But I voted wrong ....

That's it, Ta1kinPeece. It seems the government wants a hard Brexit (so the customs checks you mention above) but they are not building the infrastructure to go with it. Why? I don't get it! Food businesses must be looking at the government for guidance and to find out what to plan for and they are getting nothing

I don't think the government wants a hard Brexit. They just talk the talk because they think it keeps the electorate happy.

They don't care about the flavour of the Brexit, all they care is about staying in power for a few more months.

and I'm a Conservative Remain voter

chardonnay
define the government

Theresa May and her mates?

Interested that hummus is such a sticking point. A 14oz/400g tin of precooked chickpeas is about 90p, plus some tahini paste (£2 and you're being seen off, plus One TBSP is enough), the juice of one or two lemons, some olive oil, a clove of garlic, pulverise, and you have made hummus. Salt, pepper and cayenne pepper to taste. Add water to get it to the right consistency. A few minutes using cheap kitchen gadgets and you've cooked three times the amount for the price of a supermarket tub.

Value chickpeas are even cheaper. No need for a recipe book; you're all on the internet.

And, it will taste far better.

Hummus is so MN though. They take chopped peppers and carrots for the school run, I take Wotsits.