Supermarkets are taking the pi$$

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I can’t believe how expensive food is now especially in the likes of Sainsbury’s for the same product. Total P-take, e.g. Organic Milk Sainsbury’s £2 Aldi £1.79.

Why give us ‘nectar’ prices when they are inflated prices in the first place? £5.50 for a Pizza Express Margherita and £2.75 on Nectar. I think actually it’s the fakery with making us think we are getting a good deal that’s pissing me off.

I went to Aldi today (we don’t have one near us) as I was doing a drop off nearby and the price difference is huge!!

If cows in the UK get sick they are given antibiotics.
They are not given it in the uk as a preventative measure in their regular feed as standard though

£350 actually. and if you use the nectar app you can get all sorts of extra points offers

I don’t buy processed crap so it’s a moot point. I cook from scratch and the percentage of fresh and non processed crap I have to choose from is the same. If anything it’s easier to buy non processed crap because there are less options and distractions to wade though. to wade through and the shop is smaller.

So £2 points on a weekly shop. Woopy do if you’d have saved a lot more in Aldi. And as for those bloody nectar offers I’m sick of them. Hoards of scraps of paper for different things. Just lower your prices!!!!

Not true, dairy cows are not fed food waste and are certainly not fed antibiotics in the UK.

No, true. Botulism. I knew the vets involved and how difficult it was for them to work out what had killed so many cows. It was finally revealed that they were sometimes fed waste products from a large bakery factory in the area. No one knew where the botulism had come from. They couldn't find any evidence of it in the silage and there was a suggestion that it might have developed in bread stored in airtight plastic bags for a long time before being mixed with pellets.

Here's an article on all the kinds of waste food products that beef cattle can thrive on, including bread and doughnuts.
https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/2023/01/converting-waste-products-to-quality-beef/#:~:text=We'd%20feed%20them%20to,gained%20weight%20and%20body%20condition.

Officially cattle aren't routinely dosed with antibiotics and those that are have their milk thrown away until the antibiotics have cleared their systems. Milk is tested by testers and any contaminated with antibiotics goes down the drain. But there's a lot of pressure on vets when they have a massive contract with a superdairy hanging over them and a very punchy business owner with millions at stake telling them to dole out pre-emptive antibiotics.

I would save much more, if anything...that's my point!

And I always get way more than £2 per week. I get about £400 per year with the offers. Yet very few bits of paper (unless a coupon spits out at the till) as it's all on my app.

The Nectar offers lower the usual prices, IME, they aren't bringing inflated prices to normal prices. If you compare prices in other supermarkets, they generally all charge the higher / usual price as standard. (However, I only know the usual prices of stuff I usually buy, so this may not be standard across the board.)

Fresh veg is more difficult to measure because abuse the prices do tend to go up and down according to time of year but I do not notice that the Tesco club card offers are reducing price to a normal one. For eg I eat coconut collab yoghurt - it costs £2.95 for a big tub usually. Sometimes there are clubcard offers which bring it down then I stock up. But £2.95 is the usual price, not an artificially inflated one.

I agree with this. I save my nectar points through out the year and by Christmas I usually have enough the cover most of the Christmas food shop.

I prefer Sainsburys over other gorcery stores although I occasionally go to Waitrose. Have never had a problem and their own brand seems decent enough and good value. Love, love, love their nappies. Fraction of the price of pampers and much softer and stretchy.

Every Sainsburys I've been in is fairly clean and tidy, staff are abundant and helpful. The delivery team is excellent and friendly. And their delivery pass is a bargain at £40 for mid week deliveries. Slots always available. I have no complaints.

If you don't want your info out there, don't sign up to reward cards. It's simple.

All the nectar prices do is make me feel resentful at seeing the usual markup for things as basic as vegetables.

Not seen that happen. 🤷‍♀️

And pay even more! Err no thanks. That’s the point. You have no choice.

Of course you have a choice. It’s not mandatory to shop in supermarkets with loyalty cards and it’s not mandatory to sign up for them. You could even sign up for them in a false name, they’d never know. Lots of choices there.

If you don’t sign up for them you get charged more on many items on the 2 tier pricing system. . You also don’t get the points that bring the over inflated prices down slightly.

The only milk that's organic is milk that's sold as organic....

Disagree going by my experience today. Won’t be going back there in a hurry.

Absolutely not. Most milk is produced with huge amounts of chemicals in every part of the process, from growing the grass onward. Welfare standards for organic producing animals are also better.

It’s getting fucking ridiculous I truly hate shopping; but it’s worse now cause the fuckers are robbing us blind; a jar of jam £1.50!! My dogs food has almost trebled in price it’s crippling i don’t mind because their my babies but I can see why people are struggling it’s getting worse by the day

And you're surprised that an animal product where the animal is adequately looked after costs more, op?!?!

The only thing I agree with is the club card schemes.

I do Sainsburys as they deliver and Aldi don't. My closest supermarkets are Waitrose and Morrisons neither particularly cheap but okay if I need fruit and veg (as I don't get that delivered). Both also have a good bakery, Morrisons actually bake in store still(not just heat up frozen baguettes) which I really like, you can tell when certain people are working in the bakery as the cakes change.

I've been to Lidl and was impressed with their bakery but there isn't one close to me.

If you were a dairy farmer you probably wouldn't think £2 for milk was overpriced.

Milk is sold as a loss leader in Aldi (and likely Tesco too. The real cost of the milk, if they were to make any profit from it, would be much higher.

Really?!

Sounds like a good idea. I also cook a fair bit of Asian and Indian food and this sounds like a better way of doing things.

I dislike all the big supermarkets who are responsible for much of the rubbish food we’re forced to consume and also huge amounts of plastic waste. It’s because of their marketing ploys we can’t find many places to buy fresh food anymore. Sainsbury’s is the worst of them all and con people quite often with their prices and special ‘offers’. I never shop in there and only use Lidl and Waitrose when I have to.

I went out for the day today and stumbled across a herons food. Wow, the prices were amazing. Blue cheese for 69p, 6 pack of Muller rice pudding for £2, kipling cakes for £1, family size dorities 2 for a £1, fancy judes icecream tubs for a £1...tons of bargains .I wish I lived closer else is use it every day. It's maddening that the big stores are literally fleecing us AND our data, when smaller shops can offer these prices.

From reading this thread, many people just appear to have beef with particular supermarkets, sometimes with very little basis in fact!