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?

The other point to remember about an NMW wages rise is that 2% increase to the employee converts into 4.5% for the employer (because of ERS NI and pension contributions)

Also even if there isn't a hard Brexit, the Posted Worker Directive is under the spotlight in France and Germany
so the bastard bosses who have been bringing in staff on short term contracts and paying Bulgarian rates of pay in England
are finding it harder to get away with

if there is a Hard Brexit, seasonal workers will be rarer than Ministerial morals.

Christmas is coming. Inflation levels have just been announced. So I expect the detailed analysis of the supermarkets indicated that raising prices would be worthwhile. Brexit will be blamed which is one but not the only cause.

It’s across the board all the supermarkets are more expensive

It’s the principal cause.

I think on top of Brexit there is a butter shortage, I am sure I read about it last month with the French expecting a croissant crisis. Combination of decreased output and increased consumption by china as the there is a rising demand for pastries there.

From The Guardian
"The reasons for the current shortage are complex. Falling levels of milk production, combined with a poor yield in 2016 and growing butter demand across the world, have resulted in a drop in supply and rising wholesale prices. The price of industrial butter has risen from €2,500 a tonne in April 2016 to €7,000 this summer."

linky

Tesco value range seems to be disappearing

Might be a good thing no?

We live in a consumerist (+convenience) society. Maybe some people will stop buying crap they dont need and plan their food consumption better.

Might be a good thing no? We live in a consumerist (+convenience) society. Maybe some people will stop buying crap they dont need and plan their food consumption better.

That would be fine if we were talking about luxuries but we are talking about staple food items here and it will mean more people relying on foodbanks.

Choco yes, it's just great that people already struggling on low incomes will find it even harder to feed their families.

TBH most of the poor people who shop at my local store (its in the middle of a high deprivation index estate) eat much more expensively than I do .....
ready meals / pre processed foods / take aways
if they switched to cooking from scratch they would save a lot of money
but seem unwilling to take the time.

Talk1n cooking from scratch costs money in terms of gas/electricity.

pointy
Indeed, but on the other hand buying grated cheese and sliced veg and ready meals costs a lot more.
As does buying nappies singly from the Chemist for £1 each rather than buying them in bulk from the supermarket.
Giving the kids "Subway" for breakfast has to cost more than buying boxes of cereal.

God how fucking immoral of the chemist to sell nappies for £1 each to poor people. That has to be blatant profiteering.

Why is it immoral?
He is meeting a market need.
A pack of 12 is £5, singly they are £1 each
if families cannot be arsed to buy nappies instead of cider which was the instance I saw why should he give them a discount?

Of course it is immoral to charge 20 times the cost of a Tesco value nappy for a product that is a baby essential, I don't care how feckless the parents are. Do you think it would be fine to charge 20 times the going rate for a scoop of formula to people who were poor financial planners? Some items are above profit and loss.

buying grated cheese

I have not checked recently but last time I checked it was the same/cheaper than blocks of cheese - presumably it's a good way of getting rid of the floor sweepings you can't make into a block.

Surely the off licence should have sold the cider cheap so there was enough money to buy a pack of nappies ......

And TBH shops DO charge many times more per 100g for very small containers of baby formula

Stop pearl clutching and recognise that the chemist is not the muppet here

My favourite wine in Aldi has gone by £1.20

I have noticed this happens every year in the run up to xmas. I wonder if it funds those Christmas saving schemes like where you save so much then get a bonus at xmas.

Get a grip with your snobby attitudes 😡

There is a rising drinking problem with the middle class

I think we should hike up the price of alcohol and lower the price of food.