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?

Wait till Brexit really kicks in.....

Tesco has gone up loads, ASDA and Aldi seem the same to me though :/

Am buying organic fruit & veg boxes, and finding that the cost of my shop is remaining roughly stable despite an increase in home cooking (which often seemed to work out more pricey before). Local , seasonal produce (largely), with less plastics. What I am noticing is a huge decrease in ranges - items I normally buy are soimply vanishing, sometimes for a while, sometimes for good. When I've queried it, the answer is always the same - pricing issues due to falling currency/Brexit.

Indeed due to Brexit, and as Brexit 'officially' hasn't happened yet there is likely worse to come and for a sustained period.

Just raise bloody interest rates already!

Noticed milk has gone up 10p at Tesco

Just raise bloody interest rates already!
Why ?
That will make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I was abroad last weekend and the pound seems to be very very weak. Consequently All imported food will be more expensive

Definitely I have noticed the prices going up. It struck me a few weeks back. Packs are also shrinking e.g. four loo rolls whereas there were six for the same price. Fewer budget/value choices.
Yes, it's Brexit. And yes, it's going to get worse.

Food has been unsustainably cheap for years. The % of our income we now spend on food is far far lower than our grandparents would have spent - the massive rise in housing costs now eats up a much greater proportion of income.

Happens every year before Christmas so when they do all the sales and deals it looks like a bigger saving than it is. Same wth places like currys and SCS

I hadn't really noticed any price hikes.

Then I went into Tescos yesterday to stock up on cleaning stuff (purely because it's cheap) and at the hike in some of the prices!

I went to Waitrose yesterday, didn't buy that much and it was £140. More than i expected for what i bought

What gets be is it’s not a penny here or there gradually going up but 10p or 20p plus on the pound overnight. A 20% increase on lots of goods is quite a lot.

I had this conversation with my sister today, My groceries have massively increased in price here in Ireland, huge outgoing every week, I've started to break down toiletries, cleaning products so i can bulk buy over the weeks it's to expensive to pick up a bottles here and there each week.

Go to Aldi, it's so much cheaper and good quality too

But even Aldi are not as cheap as they were.

The guy heading Tesco was on a R4 programme yesterday saying Brexit was the worst thing to happen to us. The Sainsbury's chief has said so, too. I wish they'd been interviewed on prime time TV before the referendum.

Talkin, so I you shop at waitrose then? Because it's the only supermarket who doesn't get dragged into the endless food scandals.. Horse meat etc, chicken two sisters..

i bought two loaves of bread for 20p earlier. Straight in the freezer. Bargain!

The guy heading Tesco was on a R4 programme yesterday saying Brexit was the worst thing to happen to us. The Sainsbury's chief has said so, too. I wish they'd been interviewed on prime time TV before the referendum.
There were lots of warnings about price rises, and about the Irish border too.
They were all dismissed as 'Project Fear', remember?

Yes all people could see was the big red bus promising millions for the NHS. Those who warned about price increases were drowned out by the promise of unicorns and rainbows.

OCSockorphanage, you are right. Here in Dubai we pay 2-3× what you pay in the UK. The UK supermarkets are great, cheap and everything is available!

Food in the UK is extremely cheap. At some point, consumers need to start paying prices, which reflect the actual cost of production (I.e farmers having a reasonable standard of living).

Not cost of production less artificially low wages (due to underpaid EU workers) less subsidies.

Butter in Europe has always been more expensive than the UK. UK prices are catching up.