To be shocked at the rising price of food?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I do a fair bit of my grocery shopping at Aldi and Lidl, but dip into all the big stores very regularly as well for certain items I like when they are on offer to stock up, and also for yellow sticker bargains.

My bill has gone up by about a quarter in the last six months or so for the same products. Aldi and Lidl don't seem all that cheap anymore - although to be fair I don't know what doing my 'main' shop at Sainsbury's or Tesco or Morrisons.

I'm a little shocked at just how quickly the prices are going up. I knew they were going to rise but kind of expected a much more gradual increase. Silly me.

Has anyone else felt like this? Or does anyone else feel alarmed at not knowing when prices will level out and slow down?

Maybe some of you should do some of your own research Into how the single market currency has messed up Europe the stop harping on about it. Greece for example were in find shape before the euro, Spain were fine, Portugal we're fine.
A single market currency isn't viable and that's fact . The strength is in the different currency and taxation rates. One system doesn't work for everyone

Actually, inflation had been going down for several years prior to Brexit.

Blahblah / karate
The trouble with your argument is that developed world inflation is at record low levels with no inclination of rising anywhere
linked to crashingly low interest and investment return rates
the whole developed world is pretty stagnant
except the UK which had a 15% devaluation last year
which was not offset by anything other than a speculative stock market rise

there is no overall inflation
just devaluation

and it will happen again if there is a hard brexit

blah
Greece for example were in find shape before the euro
yup, they devalued their currency by 10% a year
just fine

Pot noodles are abit pricey now too.

I was disagreeing with Blahblah.

How will your farming friends find competing with factory farms in the states, frouby? Or Canada, New Zealand, Australia, china, India? Do they think they'll suddenly be farming in isolation? They won't. They'll be competing just as they were before but without the support of subsidies. What do you think your average uk shopper would pick up at the supermarket- increasingly expensive uk produced meat, or cheap as chips, mass produced American meat?

when I asked for rectal paracetamol tablets in the UK, Boots wanted £24 for a small packet that would have cost £3.50 in France.

Get the 30p ones and eat them.

This plan appears to have no downside.

We don’t really do butt drugs in Britain, that’s why they’re expensive

Greece, Spain and Portugal, certainly before joining the EU, and to some extent before becoming part of the Eurozone, were also economies where there was still a definite rural "peasant poverty" of a sort that we don't see here.

They also all had massive problems with tax evasion and corruption. They were not "fine". Those nicely kept villages you go to on holidays? Probably restored with EU money.

The majority of the British people voted for this

NO, they f*ing well didn't. 48% of those who bothered to vote and 100% of the 30% or so who abstained didn't vote for higher prices! And even if you ignore the abstaineers, 52% is NOT a majority, it's just a little bit over half.

Magazine are very expensive now- most glossies about £4.50.

I want a book for that!

Don't know if that's Brexit?

That might be because not so many people buy them anymore, rather than Brexit

I'm quite enjoying the information on the price of suppositories- who knew

I've seen threads like this every year and I've been on mumsnet for many years. I don't thinks it's anything new tbh.
Pre xmas there will be a price war and we will have a few months restbite.
Then it will begin again.

Where I live the cheapest shop is waitrose

Welcome to jersey.

Some of you should try and do a weekly shop almost anywhere else in western Europe, you won't be moaning about prices then.
Even in glorious socialist Norway most people have to drive to Sweden for their food shopping as prices are so high.
Food is still cheaper than almost any point in history. Buy basic ingredients and learn to bloody cook.

Who cares about rising prices and job security? We're going to get blue passports and holidays in Ramsgate. I for one cannot wait for our chlorine chicken overlords.

People can whine about what they like

I don't understand the mindset of some people on here

Poster A 'gosh food has really gone up this year...my food shopping is twenty pounds more expensive'

Poster B ITS MORE EXPENSIVE IN SPAIN

well so fucking what

I bet people in spain bitch about prices going up

I don’t mind paying more for food that is produced in this country. About time the farmers got a decent price instead of eu subsidies

Madeyemoodysmum

Pre xmas there will be a price war and we will have a few months restbite.

(It's respite)

I bought a free range chicken for 3 pounds in lidl today which I thought was bloody cheap.

52% is NOT a majority, it's just a little bit over half.

What is the smallest percentage that qualifies as a majority in your view?

Anchor butter comes from NZ, but in NZ we are importing butter from France?

"About time the farmers got a decent price instead of eu subsidies"
Oh dear. The ignorance. Brexiters have no idea of how economy in the 21 century works and have romantic notions of us all to going back to the middle ages.