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?

Milk went from 45p to 50p overnight too! Sod that Sainsburys! Even waitrose is cheaper now!

Milk went from 45p to 50p overnight too! Sod that Sainsburys

Which is still far too cheap. It can cost more for famers to produce milk than they get for it.
Your milk should cost double what it does.

Of course the chemist is the muppet Ta1kin. He has the opportunity to do the right thing or the wrong thing. It is the moral equivalent of something like Brighthouse. Disgusting greed and profiteering from other, less fortunate, people.

Milk went from 45p to 50p overnight too! Sod that Sainsburys! Even waitrose is cheaper now!

Still cheaper than water!

Tinkly that's such a naive attitude, he's a shopkeeper. He is not running a charity. He's probably on his feet 7 am to 8 pm and looking forward to a retirement at some point. He can't afford to give his goods away.

Which is still far too cheap. It can cost more for farmers to produce milk than they get for it.
Your milk should cost double what it does
Exactly.

Tinkly
So should he refuse to sell single nappies at all ?
And should the offie stop splitting 4 packs of beer and cider?
And the pub stop buying lemonade at Lidl and selling it on at huge mark up ?
And the chip shop stop selling pies warmed up at a huge mark up?

Sorry but is people are too disorganised and dumb to plan ahead even by 24 hours, why should those running businesses subsidise them ?

The owners of our corner shop is a family, they own a chain and have done quite well for themselves. Struggling, is something they are not.

So should he refuse to sell single nappies at all ? Yes - it's profiteering.
And should the offie stop splitting 4 packs of beer and cider? Yes - it's profiteering.
And the pub stop buying lemonade at Lidl and selling it on at huge mark up ? Yes - it's profiteering.
And the chip shop stop selling pies warmed up at a huge mark up? Yes - it's profiteering.

A reasonable profit is fine. Massive markups are not. I'm surprised you do not see a moral problem with these practices.

We've noticed this too. I do Ocado every week, and it used to be about £100, more if we had washing powder etc. and now it's £125 every single week, and I'm buying the same stuff as ever. It's frustrating, because my income hasn't gone up by a corresponding 25%!!!

Exactly, I've never met a struggling corner shopkeeper. Charging high prices for luxuries is one thing. Charging ridiculous prices for essentials like nappies and formula is just wrong. Especially when you are obviously targeting the most vulnerable section of society by selling small amounts.

And if that makes me a naive pearl clutcher so be it. Running a business is not a licence to be an utter bastard. If you have to do that to make a living then you should be selling something else.

I shop at Tesco and noticed about a month or 2 ago that my shopping was about £10 more a week

That's because they're not tinkly. It's just easier to take advantage of peoples gullibility by letting them think its okay.

And that selling nappies out of a multipack at £1 a pop is perfectly legitimate

Exactly, I've never met a struggling corner shopkeeper.
They soon would be if they sold everything at cost.

There is a huge supermarket a ten minute walk from that Chemist.
If people CBA to walk up there, sorry but - more fool them

'You could try going to a cheaper store (eg, Aldi or Lidl!) '

Yeah, because there are loads of them all over the UK, doncha know. Our nearest one, for example, costs a tenner to access - one person, on foot, walking the 6 miles return from the ferry terminal. That price goes up if they use the bus or train. And we're relatively close to it. Others on this side of the country, a massive geographical area don't have one . . . at all. For hundreds of miles.

Talk1n not everyone has a supermarket 10 minutes' walk up the road. OK, so you have seen some truly feckless people. Doesn't mean you can extrapolate their situation to everyone else who is struggling. May I suggest you look up the words 'empathy' and 'compassion' in the dictionary?

pointy
I was not aware that I had extrapolated to anywhere outside my narrow area of council estate poverty.
We are in a big city.
SOME People buy nappies singly because they are lazy and disorganised.
Then they moan in the chip shop queue that stuff is expensive.

Go to a cheaper shop utterly ignores the logistics of rural poverty
but plan more than an hour ahead should be within the whit of all but the very poorest.

Interestingly the food bank in this city is a few miles away - where the real poverty is.

Folks round here are not poor, but they are in the highest level in the MID maps of deprivation.

Look Ta1kin no one chooses to be so utterly feckless that you spend a pound on a nappy rather than walk ten minutes and buy a value pack. Something has gone seriously wrong in your life before you are like that. Depression, addiction, mental health issues.

You are only seeing a snapshot and thinking "waster". Come on, you know there is obviously more to it than that.

they soon would be id they sold everything at cost

Selling something at the RRP is not selling 'at cost'. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. Selling it at a huge markup is something trading standards will definitely take up, despite your impression that it is 'legal' to do so. If you're so sure it is, then report them yourself (given I have no idea of the location so can't myself) I'm sure if everything is totally legit, the chemist will do just fine.

Excusing such blatant markups because you saw one couple buy cider once is naive at best, but I don't believe that nonsense anyway, and this is coming from someone who rarely has empathy with alcoholics.

I'm all for paying a fair price for the food producers (milk etc) but let's not kid ourselves that any of this extra money we're paying for groceries now is going in the pockets of dairy farmers or other workers.

jonsnow
They are not alcoholics. They just wanted cider on a Friday evening.
And they - and their extended families - are regularly in the chip shop.
which is a remarkably good one, hence why I am there about once a month

If selling stuff at a huge mark up is a crime, how do you explain designer bling prices ?
If the item has no price on it, the shop can sell it for what the market will stand.
Heinz ketchup costs more at Waitrose than it does at Lidl after all.
The same products cost a lot more in Chelsea than they do in Hastings.

Business involves finding the right market price to maximise profits.
Its why the impact of Brexit was delayed and is being mingled in with Christmas across the board.

If selling stuff at a huge mark up is a crime, how do you explain designer bling prices ?

It's already been explained to you, but I fear I am flogging a dead horse. They're is a difference between RRP and prices, and blatantly excessive markups that are not for individual sale. Oddly enough, it's probably not written on the packs because they dont feel they need to.

They're is a difference between RRP and prices
But many products do not have an RRP so that whole line of argument is irrelevant.
www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/recommended-retail-prices-rrp.html

I read a few weeks ago that there has been a problem with butter production lately - I forget why - and that explains the massive hike in butter prices. Actually, the article said there would be a butter shortage by Christmas so I have been buying extra packs and putting them in the freezer. I don't normally notice general price rises, but I look the price of butter every week since reading the article, and it has gone up from about £1.20 to £1.45 to £1.60 this week as a pp said.

But many products do not have an RRP so that whole line of argument is irrelevant.

Flogging a dead horse it is then.

RRP and designer prices are not the same as a shitty chemist clearly exploiting the demographic of his customers in that area. It is still not allowed.