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?

Les Cornouaillais aiment

£3.89 for butter today. Only a medium sized tub of lurpak.

How can brexit be the reason why even uk produced foods (with no import costs) are going up at the same rate? e.g. Rachel's organic butter now £2.00 in Waitrose, it was £1.60 just a few months ago.

1. Because we import an awful lot in. The trade with other countries is still a business after all. They're protecting their own money by charging more for their own goofs whilst our £ is so weak. (FWIW I don't think the £ would worry people so much if the PM and her cronies weren't so bloody shit at their jobs).

1. Re the butter, google shrinkflation, there was an interesting segment on food unwrapped the other night where a former boss was talking about how they have to shrink the food /take something out as they can't afford x ingredient so replace it with y which is cheaper. (they used to do it all the time in ye olden days).

1. If you don't mind budget foods. Try your local corner shops. The Euroshopper range is rather cheap and hasn't changed too much, when I was in uni ten years ago, euroshopper baked beans were 25p. They're only 35p a decade on. Small butter = 50p etc etc.

Meant to say re shrinkflation, the boss mentioned no names but he said there's a chocolate cake on the market being sold which has zero chocolate in in. Just 'essence'.

Whilst I do believe Brexit will fuck us royally, isn't it a case of everything going up in price about 4-6 weeks before Christmas?

No. It'll still remain at a high price after.

BMW obesity and poverty are linked, because good quality food is more expensive. It is not a straightforward relationship but if people are buying products which are bulked out with sugar and fat, that will have an effect (and it won’t be to lose weight).

We can also look forward to a 7.33% rise in the minimum wage next year.

Which will have an effect across the board we are trying to push our prices up to combat it. But may mean reduced hours and staffing. Especially as our second highest cost is fuel.

And that’s not even thinking of the uncertainty that Brexit is bringing.

Happy Days.

I remember when we went from pounds, shillings and pence to the decimal system and prices were jacked up in the confusion. I wonder if Brexit is taking the blame for some of the price increases.

a couple of years ago, or even one year ago, i was doing online shopping, asda/tesco and i noticed a discernible difference in prices at this time of year. I call it Christmas. greedy bastards.

Virtually nothing made in the UK is completely free of imports, be that the fuel to transport, the plastic to contain it, the machinery to make it. Of course prices are going up with a very weak pound!! Only last night my European mates where I live now were discussing the fact that England looks like a good place to come and do some Christmas shopping right now with their Euros.

Might help curb the epidemic of obesity in the UK....... every cloud has a silver lining

BMW6 No it won't. Because it will put already higher priced healthy food items out of reach even further.

Also. That view is a staggeringly ignorant one, although not suprising. Do you feel the same way about the smoking and alcohol epidemic gripping the uk or is it just fat people that bother you?

However, other items are cheaper than they used to be.

Bleach crept up to 75p I think,in Tesco, and is now 50p.

Cucumber and lettuce also used to be 70p approx, but due to Aldi and Lidl effect, are approx 50p. I think bread prices also went down.

I have noticed that you don’t get so good wine reductions any more. Maybe £1 off, not half price.

Prices have been low recently, although I have noticed have crept up.

Eg Swedish glacé icecream - now £2.50, was £2.20, and goats milk has gone up 15p as well (dairy intolerant dc).

Emily where did you find your butter for £1.20?

This week I've tried Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Iceland, Home Bargains but cannot find any for under £1.60 yet it was always £1 until recently

Could the cost of staff wages be putting the prices up too? When you think minimum wage increased and is going to increase further in the next 2 years, the money to fund these rises has to come from somewhere.

When you think a supermarket has to find £2 or so more per hour per staff member all with a few short years, that’s going to be one factor in price rises.

£3.89 for butter today. Only a medium sized tub of lurpak.

500g Pack for £3 at Tescos.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/07/butter-price-all-time-high-dairy-production-curdles

Brexit is not just driving the cost of raw ingredients up but it also is making it more difficult to recruit staff to work in food manufacturing (already) and that’s just going to get worse.

Brexiters have gone extremely quiet on this front.

They're probably thinking the 350m will help.

Sainsburys butter in 500g blocks works out to £1.45.

This thread should be renamed "aibu to have an obsession with the price of butter!"

I keep telling dh and dd not to slather so much butter on their bread!

I paid £1.10 for a pack of potato scones yeasterday! - they where 70p two weeks ago.

My regular loaf of bread has gone up from 95p to £1.05.

I skipped the butter all together this week as the cheapest block was £1.80 and we don’t really like the taste of that brand anyway. I will try to source some cheaper through the week. I didn’t know about the butter shortages so I think I might just have to pay the extra by the looks of things.

I have enjoyed reading this thread - takes me right back to the days of sitting in my Economics classes discussing trade and market values.