AIBU TO BE SHOCKED BY THIS INCREASE?!

[Kate0902900908]

So I’ve just gotten over the fuel increase, made some changes and become more aware of the energy I’m using both at home and car.

Went to Lidl today. I buy 2 tubs of cream cheese a week, Lidl Goldessa Classic Cream Cheese 200g. It’s been 65p for as long as I can remember. Today shop assistant was sorting shelves and organising labels ect. New label £1.19. I asked if that was the price of the 65p cream cheese to which she said Yh, it’s not changed yet it’s 75p now but will be £1.19.
HOW? How? Can something almost double in price? Also when I was it 75p 😵‍💫

I noticed the other cheeses all being marked up too some by 80p-£1. Add this increase to even 1/3 of a shop and it’s going to be unmanageable!
Has anyone else noticed prices on things they buy almost doubling?
What is the plan to keep costs down?
Where do we go from Lidl’s own soft cheese 😭

Yes, there is a global recession coming.
In some countries, this will become a depression akin to 1930's USA.

Britain has already decimated so much of its industry, & now lost so very much of its trading power by divorcing itself from a highly influential commercial bloc, that it will struggle for decades to recover.

5th largest economy maybe but only 28th in terms of GDP per capita.

I have started only buying meat when it is reduced, and then the weekly shop looks like I'm a vegetarian-it's the only way I can feed us a varied and reasonably healthy diet

We are vegetarian, all except my DH. Though he’s de facto veggie as I do the cooking - he’s more than happy with that and really enjoys pretty much everything we try. I made a ‘nicoise’ salad last week and I thought I’d treat him to a piece of fresh tuna with it, he hasn’t had that for probably about a year or more. I shop online and it wasn’t until I was checking everything at the end that I realised the tuna steak was GBP9.00. He just had boiled eggs on top with the rest of us………

Omfg, it's cheaper to drink wine.

KettrickenSmiled · Today 11:08
What is the plan to keep costs down?
There is no plan.
The current administration (it hasn't earned the title 'government') is content to allow the cost of essentials to soar. It tallies with their actual plan, which is to create the kind of massive underclass accepted as normal in UK history.
Welcome to New Feudal Britain.
Your NHS is already being sold from under your nose, social welfare is becoming as inaccessible as dentistry, 'food deserts' abound & nutritious food is unaffordable to too many, & rents/mortgages are set to become cripplingly, prohibitively expensive.
Meanwhile, the Rule of Law is flouted by lawmakers, & news barons & financiers control policy.
If you voted for Brexit, & for the Tory party, this is what you have wrought.
We will be paying for it for decades.
The new underclass will be pushed off (already inadequate) benefits & into McJobs. It has been created to serve its UK & global masters - & British accents will be the ones people wince at on outsourced cold calls, for which the caller will be lucky to get paid the minimum hourly wage.

This is absolute rubbish - Brexit is an issue but not the main one. Its a global issue not specific to the UK driven by the fall out from policies implemented to deal with Covid and exacerbated by war in Ukraine.

But yes, the government could be dealing with the effect on people much better
than they are

strongly recommend Approved Food. I use it for dog food - get it for about 30% of the price. Have to keep looking every day for new things.

But it can't go up to 50% of peoples income considering many pay more than 50% on rent alone, then they've got extortionate gas and electric, childcare, other bills and god forbid they have a car and need fuel.....

Yes it can. People can be pushed back into multigenerational housing/housing large families in a 2-bed. It’s already heading that way.

Childcare will be provided by whoever happens to be around in the house. Heating won’t be used. And cars will return to being a luxury rather than something everyone has.

I went into sainburys today £1.40 for a tin of Heinz beans it's utter madness

Perhaps that is the plan. Victorian London where everyone is smashed on gin. Everyone too smashed to protest (or drive to the protests). A vulnerable nation is an easier one to control. 😀

So .. NOT absolute rubbish then? 😂

The fact of a global recession takes nothing away from the culpability of a series of goverrnments that have actively worked to dismantle the welfare state, demonise poverty, & prop up elite financial interests. Labour & the LibDems bear culpability along with the usual suspects - looking at you, Blair, with your rabid outsourcing of public services, & you, Clegg - the 'coalition' appeaser.

If we are wasted all of the time we would only be doing what our government is doing anyway 😀

Food was much more expensive in the 1970s, but housing was much cheaper. And childcare if it existed was a neighbour watching your kids as they played with their toys in your garden.

The supermarkets are profiteering out of the recent situation (covid/ukraine/inflation) I'm sure. They're using those excuses to ramp up prices, well beyond what is necessary. It's affecting the the cheapest/own brand/basics ranges more than the more premium stuff. A lot of Asda's own brand products are now barely any cheaper than the branded equivalents. They're gradually dropping lines that are less profitable, and also not running promotions on lines that they used to. I've always been super prudent and stocked up on items when on offer, capitalising on promotions and bulk buys, but that's getting harder now, with less offers running.

It does feel like the price increases are focussing on the cheaper end of the market - where those on the tightest budgets are likely to be selecting items, so it's hitting the less well off the hardest. Premium products don't seem to be having price increase at quite the same rate.

My local co op used to have a permanent multibuy on milk (2 x 4pints for £2.50). They've dropped that and also increased the normal price, so now it's £1.80 for one 4 pinter.

The government/society has spent the last 50 years turning us into a consumer (and debt) society. Now when self sufficiency looks ever more appealing, most people don't have the outside space to grow their own fruit and veg. In addition, we (as a nation) produce very little any more, we're highly dependent on foreign imports. The current situation is the result of a long running policy/direction that the country has been pursuing, and now we're reaping the results of that.

Has anyone mentioned Tesco Clubcard? I've noticed online that they reduce the price of some individual items if you use a Clubcard on the order, & it can make quite a difference to the price of each item, not just a few pence. Also, they have some offers with a minimum spend, e.g. recently spend £20 on cat food & get £5 off. If you can afford to stock up when something has an offer on it & not buy when it doesn't, you can save quite a bit.

@KleineDracheKokosnuss people cannot imagine this, therefore they believe it "can't" happen. As your post makes clear - moaning about it & expecting governments to care won't stop it from happening. Britain needs systemic change, not window dressing, or the bloody populist circus that was Brexit. We've cast ourselves out in the cold, & the entire european continent thinks we have gone mad. They're not wrong.

75p in ASDA.

Yes to the petrol, I noticed it last year within weeks of the new E10, about 30 miles less per tank. I've been putting in E5 although the price of E5 is heading above diesel near me, so sometimes I alternate E5 and E10. Also a good motorway journey seems to sort out the miles per gallon as normally I'm just tooting around the town, but that's not really cost effective!!

But that won't work! Older generations won't be around the house to look after the kids because they'll need to work as well. If I moved in with my parents yes we'd be financially better off although we'd still need ft childcare because all four of us work full time!

These solutions solve nothing.

We usually buy Yeo Valley spreadable, which about a year ago was £2.50 for 250G. It then went up to £3.00, and is now £4.20!!

Multigenerational living is definitely not far away..Children will never move out.

Do you have a Poundland near you? some have a large chilled/frozen section and it can be extremely cheap, I buy frubes squeezy yoghurts for 50p a pack, they're great to freeze too. They have walls icecream but a foreign version very cheap, I think it's a pound.

It's bad and I think it's going to get worse.

Woman in front of me was trying to decide whether to put back eggs or cheese yesterday as she'd gone over her budget. I paid for her shop and told her to save it for emergencies. I couldn't bear to see someone having to make that choice. It was about £15 and she hardly had anything as it was and certainly no treats. I'm frightened for her and people with similar constraints.

I'm certainly noticing the increases at the checkout :(

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000539g

Have a look in tesco. 200g soft cheese is 49p (creamfield brand is low price for all cheese there)
They're generally well priced too. If you shop the clubcard prices and stock up on non perishables when they're reduced and pick other shopping based on clubcard prices it works out very good value too, much cheaper than asda for a shop and their fruit and veg is good quality unlike some I've tried from other supermarkets.

KettrickenSmiled · Today 11:30
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KettrickenSmiled · Today 11:08
What is the plan to keep costs down?
There is no plan.
The current administration (it hasn't earned the title 'government') is content to allow the cost of essentials to soar. It tallies with their actual plan, which is to create the kind of massive underclass accepted as normal in UK history.
Welcome to New Feudal Britain.
Your NHS is already being sold from under your nose, social welfare is becoming as inaccessible as dentistry, 'food deserts' abound & nutritious food is unaffordable to too many, & rents/mortgages are set to become cripplingly, prohibitively expensive.
Meanwhile, the Rule of Law is flouted by lawmakers, & news barons & financiers control policy.
If you voted for Brexit, & for the Tory party, this is what you have wrought.
We will be paying for it for decades.
The new underclass will be pushed off (already inadequate) benefits & into McJobs. It has been created to serve its UK & global masters - & British accents will be the ones people wince at on outsourced cold calls, for which the caller will be lucky to get paid the minimum hourly wage.
This is absolute rubbish - Brexit is an issue but not the main one. Its a global issue not specific to the UK driven by the fall out from policies implemented to deal with Covid and exacerbated by war in Ukraine.
But yes, the government could be dealing with the effect on people much better
than they are

So .. NOT absolute rubbish then? 😂
The fact of a global recession takes nothing away from the culpability of a series of goverrnments that have actively worked to dismantle the welfare state, demonise poverty, & prop up elite financial interests. Labour & the LibDems bear culpability along with the usual suspects - looking at you, Blair, with your rabid outsourcing of public services, & you, Clegg - the 'coalition' appeaser.

The conspiracy element is rubbish - but yes, the government should be doing more to help those people most in need.