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?

I've noticed price increases in supermarkets coming up to Christmas.
It's not just Brexit, it happens every year. It all falls again in January. Gready supermarkets!!!!!!

on the rightpath.... cost of Rachel's butter gone from £1.60 to £2
Butter has gone up significantly but that is because last year there was an absolute overload of milk production in the eu so it put prices right down on the value of milk ( cost of producing milk about 35p ish a litre to produce but British farmers only getting 17p a litre)
Hence why butter so cheap previoisly-obviously prices have gone back up and tbh it's the one of things I am happy to pay a reasonable price to British farmers for the sake of their livelihood and that of their animals esp with small organic farms that tend to have smaller hopefully better cared for herds. (Same with meat as well so another waitrosr user as they are more animal friendly-other than veganism i do realise ) Although it is only butter that I buy unless somebody staying and not all the time as my son and I have a (genuine) milk allergy we use plant based milks, spreads etc

I haven't noticed in Sainsbury's today.

feels great, doesn’t it, all that sovereignty in your wallet instead.

Bunsy girl- that’s because your pound is worth less. That is to do with brexit.

I feel so sad today. This is just the start.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42050742

Bunsygirl a lot depends on where you are in the USA.
But the pound is weak against but the dollar, due to Brexit.

gunther73 No it’s not because the pound is less. Even with a better exchange rate food items would have still been expensive.

Butter at Aldi has gone up 67p in three months - that's a 75% increase. The butter is a specific issue due to the import/export of British butter being made from European milk or something but the prices overall are going up. We have started making our own from double cream in the food processor!

I've really noticed butter, and it wasn't just three last year where it was cheaper, it has been cheap for a good few years now.

I'm curious to know if it's cheaper to make your own from double cream!!

Prices often go up just before Christmas because shops know we have to buy food and can't scrimp at this time of year.

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They send a weekly email telling you where your cheapest nearby garage is

There's also an app which is a bit easier to use & lets you search for other towns (max 5 searches a day)

eg where I live cheapest diesel is currently 123.9, but in one of the bigger towns locally the best is 116.9. For a tankful it's worth driving there instead if I combine it with a visit to eg TKMaxx or Matalan

Definitely Brexit and the resultant decline in the buying power of the £ (it only improves exporting if you dont have to import to produce.) Please don't just complain to each other. Complain to your MPs, particularly any who are pro-Brexit. Complain to Teresa May. Write to the newspapers, particularly the pro Brexit ones: the Mail, The Sun, the Daily Telegraph and the Times. Complain, complain complain. When MPs and the Tory party get worried that their jobs may be on the line then we may see that rare commodity common sense creeping back in

I've certainly noticed with things such as exotic fruits. I only get one melon a week now as a treat, I used to buy up to three, along with mangoes and others like persimmon if I could find them.

I admitted defeat and paid £1.75 for a 250g block of Anchor butter today - and that was it on special offer! (Sainsburys)

Lurpack was £3 a block and the own brand stuff was £1.80 - £2.00.

I did try Iceland but own brand was £1.70 and it’s not the nicest. They did have a big empty space where the £1.50 block of lurpack should have been so I imagine they’ve sold out.

Local Market: 8 avocadoes £1, 6 beefsteak tomatoes £1, 5 Persimmons £1, Cauli as big as my head £1, Broccoli 2 for £1, Courgettes 3 for £1, Carrots 2 kg 50p, Pineapple £1, Juicing oranges 5 for £1, Clementines 1.50 a kilo.

All fresh and lovely. They had tons of bargains. Supermarkets are ripping us off.

Whoever said your supermarket shop would be twice as much in France, Germany or Italy can’t live over this side of the water. Belgium is significantly more expensive than France and the Netherlands but the Netherlands is more expensive than Germany so you can’t lump those countries together. We know people living in border towns who go over the border to do their shopping.

Of course the fall in the pound will make all European countries more expensive for anyone coming from the UK.

There's a really interesting article about this by Jay Rayner: it's a paper sent to Government that looks at the long term predictions for food prices. Brexit plays a huge part, but so do the structure of EU farming subsidies, and the economic changes across Asia. It doesn't make very cheerful reading, but it's extremely interesting. (It's also long, and there's no need to read the long introduction about his invitation to meet with Michael Gove).

www.jayrayner.co.uk/news/michael-gove-asked-me-to-a-meeting-to-share-my-expertise-i-declined-instead-ive-given-him-a-piece-of-my-mind/

The other thing is that expensive stuff will not move in price by much : as it has a wider profit margin
but today I had to go to a mega discount type shop - they used to be great for bargains but today it was REALLY cheap stuff at not that cheap prices

• when the profit margin on an item is a matter of pence, shifts in exchange rates or fuel shipping costs have a disproportionate effect.

First spotted on butter, literally day after Brexit, it went from around £1.20 for supermarket own brand to £1.40 and is now at £1.60!!

Local Market: 8 avocadoes £1, 6 beefsteak tomatoes £1, 5 Persimmons £1, Cauli as big as my head £1, Broccoli 2 for £1, Courgettes 3 for £1, Carrots 2 kg 50p, Pineapple £1, Juicing oranges 5 for £1, Clementines 1.50 a kilo.

All fresh and lovely. They had tons of bargains. Supermarkets are ripping us off.

That's not a fair comparison. I don't disagree with you that markets are wonderful (and I wish I still lived in a town with a really good fruit and veg market) but the market trader is selling what s/he has got for a good price from the wholesaler. When you go back next week there might not be pineapples but there might be mangoes instead.

When you pay the higher price at the supermarket you're also paying not only for the premises, your parking space and the staff but also for a supply chain which means that there will pretty much always be pineapples for you to buy.

also, what is the provenance on the vegetables ?

Its a bit like the fish vans that drive around - they guys have no idea what the stuff really is and where its from
so I'll pay more for something I can trust the supply chain

Brexit.
Although to be fair butter isn't just brexit.
By the way it's likely to get worse. Passporting decision re banks is now likely to have an impact on £ as will the European meds agency. We're just not that interesting a prospect to invest in. We were previously the gateway to Europe.

I'm still obsessed with price of butter

500g tub of lurpak in Sainsbury earlier £4...

4 pints of milk has jumped from £1 about a month ago, £1.05 a couple of weeks ago and now £1.10.

Its only little bits here and there but it certainly adds up at the till. I usually budget around £80 a week for the 4 of us- including toilet paper, cleaning things etc. but now its edging towards £95. We are in the very fortunate postion of having some financial surplus but anyone on a low income must be starting to really feel it and I think it will get worse.

We're just not that interesting a prospect to invest in.
Wait till the car factories make their move ... then the squealing will REALLY start ....