What’s happened to supermarket prices today?

[Happydoingitjusttheonce]

Went to Tesco and coop today and there’s a noticeable increase in prices on almost everything. What’s happened, or is it just my perception?

In the long run, reforesting a lot of uplands and removing livestock from them may be the most sensible thing to do

There are some ecological arguments for this yes, but the 'uplands' such as the fells of the Lake District draw millions of people into rural areas on an annual basis, and whole other industries in those areas rely on farmers keeping the fells and hills a certain way to attract tourism to the area, and others rely on the business generated by associated agricultural industries.

Farming in the uplands is about so so much more than food production. It's very naive of people to look at farming and agriculture as just another business sector in society.

Perhaps the one benefit of brexit will be that people become reconnected with the ins and outs of food production and land management. But at what cost?

But government policy is to increase domestic food production.
How is that going to happen with some farms closing?

More imported chemical inputs to run off and damage the environment?

Light bulbs have gone up astronomically use to be 50p now 4 pounds for one we will soon be back to candles lolx

Gladallover
(a) Government policy is ill thought out bilge
(b) The food production they are worrying about is market gardening - not what hill farms do.

Light bulbs have gone up astronomically use to be 50p now 4 pounds for one we will soon be back to candles lolx
But LED lamps will save you more than that £4 over their very long lifetime. We are now an all-LED household and our electricity bill has gone down noticeably.

Afraid that's the price we have to pay with Brexit 😡

Bugger Brexit.

hope the Economist isn't spying

Food is still cheap in UK though. It would be great if the producers saw any of the price rises.

How can brexit be the reason why even uk produced foods (with no import costs) are going up at the same rate?

Also, even for home-grown stuff, it has to be transported, and fuel prices are going up with everything else - oil is priced in Dollars.

Markets are global. If they can sell it for more outside the UK the price goes up in the UK. Else they would be selling it for less than they can get in the EU. In some sense the price in $ is more constant... does this help

Everything will go up with BREXIT. Fuel to move things around for a start. Why can't people see this?
This is what the majority voted for and it's not even really started yet.
Hope they are happy

Also competition rates. For home produced foods there is now a greater demand for what little there is which drives up rates.

Brexiteers are not going to be remembered fondly in the history books.

How can brexit be the reason why even uk produced foods (with no import costs) are going up at the same rate?

How can you vote for something you don't understand - the UK relies on fuel imports to move goods around. We could grow diesel (canola + sugar beet alcohol) but you dont want to support farmers. Or use diesel.

I had a discussion with a Brexiter face to face.
He assured me that the UK would be fine because the EU still have to sell to us
I disabused him of that delusion by pointing out that .....

Spanish lettuce grower currently sell to the UK at 30p (no duty, no clearance)
After Brexit he will sell to the UK for 20p (weaker pound, plus duty plus clearance)
or he will sell to France for 25p (cutting into a crowded market).
Its not hard to work out which he will choose .......

How can brexit be the reason why even uk produced foods (with no import costs) are going up at the same rate?
One example. The weakened pound means that farm machinery costs more. We import a lot of farm machinery. There are import costs even though food is grown here.
www.farminguk.com/News/Global-outlook-for-UK-farming-machinery-industry_46636.html

Drop in the value of the pound after the Brexit referendum is kicking in.

I can’t believe someone is seriously asking this question.
Sums up the madness of the last year.

Ummm.... the pound has been pretty steady since July really.

Why is a surprise? The Pound has fallen around 15% since the Brexit vote. In our business we import from the EU and are having to put prices up just to survive. There's more coming so start stockpiling.

Butter is a separate issue to Brexit. That's increased demand and a worldwide shortage due to low production esp in France. The price as DOUBLED in NZ in the past 12 months.

It's only going to get worse, I'm expecting the GBP to be worth about as much as tissue paper in the next couple of years.

Well done Brexit voters!

I'm a very long way away from the UK but my shopping has increased this week as well, including butter (why is it always butter that goes up??)

Oh, x post with Hiphopfrog

What's this obsession with butter! It is possible to exist without butter.

Butter is my treat.

I can give up chocolate or wine, but not rye bread, or sourdough with some butter.

What's this obsession with butter! It is possible to exist without butter.

Well technically yes, but what is the point? Life without butter would just be existing, not really living.

Recently visited the USA and the price of many grocery items was exortionate. Can’t blame Brexit for that.