To ask the most insanely priced supermarket item you’ve seen lately? Bet you can’t beat this

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Co-op, bin bags £5.90

i know co op is notoriously a piss take but seriously?

another was Tesco, cooking oil, £9

Thats nice for you.. the rest of us minions get far less than that... and we have not had a pay rise for over 10 years.. all my increases have been below inflation so my wages have taken a 34% cut in reality...

Christ, bit of self awareness maybe?

We are in Channel Islands and those meals are around 10.80. Do it occasionally on a Friday as cheaper than take out. Dip wraps in the curries to make it go further!

Aware our tax over here is lower (though they are looking to put that up and everyone going mental) but our food is 25-40% more expensive than uk. We don’t have Lidl, Aldi, sainos or Tesco here. It’s a 209 return flight to mainland and average house price similar to London.

Weve really really noticed the prices jumping up. It’s just so bloody expensive to live I think. I keep saying to my husband how on earth can we be spending so much on food?! We cook from scratch a lot and grow a lot of produce. We don’t eat particularly extravagantly and the amounts are just insane.

Sorry, know the specific question was about an insanely priced thing.

I don't know what you do for a living but, believe me, your experience isn't shared by most. The majority of people don't earn anywhere near what you do, nor have they had such astronomical pay rises over the last 5 years.

Most people are finding the relentless cost of living rises very hard to manage.

Options hot chocolate £5.50 😬

No there was a particular disease on olive trees that wiped out most the harvest.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/plant-apocalypse-how-deadly-imported-diseases-are-destroying-eu-trees-and-crops-aoe

Its killed 1/3 of trees in the space of a year

I don't think this thread is for people in the top 1%of earners to get 😁.

Asda basic kitchen roll is 1.19 and the best I can find for the money. I've moved to microfibre cloths as much as I can for the environment, innit.

Never had a problem with Aldi and Lidl veg -it lasts far longer than Asda's. Although I do stalk the Asda reduced veg aisle for long lasters like broccoli, cauliflower, beans etc or stuff that I can make easily into soup.

My Morrisons local the other night reduced everything down to 10p (including packs of mince!) so I stocked the freezer up for about 1.50

Been lining all my bins and recycling bins with newspapers for years. All wet stuff goes in compost caddy. Everything else goes straight in big bin that gets directly inverted into the waste lorry. Save ££££

I haven’t bought heinz for years, there is often a fancy ketchup brand on offer for cheaper than theirs. Also haven’t bought kitchen roll for years - I can’t say I’ve really missed it 😁

I think the cost hikes on basics are despicable - basic healthy food, utilities, public transport and I am so sad that we all (including myself) make our lives smaller and less enjoyable to accommodate this rather than downing tools and demanding better pay. I understand the shareholders who apparently need all this money can be pension providers, but we all need to live now. It isn’t enough that some of us will not be on the breadline at retirement when it is at the expense of everyone, everywhere up until that time. Also companies should pay their tax so there is enough coming in for us to pay public sector workers a decent wage!

What a privileged, shortsighted comment! In the past 2 years my wage has risen by around 5%. Meanwhile I notice the prices of some items have gone up by over 100%! We are constantly being gaslighted by the media and the supermarkets into believing that food prices have only gone up by around 10 to 20% - every time I walk around Aldi I see things that maybe used to be 39p, now 99p. Used to be £1.29 now £2.69 etc.
My wages compared to the cost of living mean that I'm far worse off in real terms than I was a few years ago.
I could honestly cry when I walk into a supermarket and see this week's prices!

I don't think that is available at the moment - if you search 'unsalted butter' on Tesco website only 5 choices come up, of which one is a vegan butter, one is a spreadable (both fine, but not what I wanted to buy) and one is out of stock. That leaves Tesco butter at £3 for 250g or Lurpak £2.15 for 200g.
If you're seeing more options, maybe it depends where you are as to what the stores have in stock, but I can't find butter for anything like £1.79/250g around here.

Olive Oil and non supermarket brand coffee has gone up considerably lately.

Co-Op is the worst supermarket by far now, especially as it has adopted that two tier pricing shit now. Poor quality, high prices - someone tell them that's the wrong way round. I hate any supermarket with two tier pricing as it is obvious they just massively inflate the price of non membership holders and it isn't really cheap at all. I shop in Aldi and Asda and it's much better without it. When I shopped at Tesco recently on holiday it was about £30 dearer and the quality was worse! I wasn't expecting that at all.

Yes I like Sainsbury's too but its not local for me. Take your point on environment issues but I was responding to the fruit and veg standards. Swings and roundabouts.

Bit niche but last time I looked these were £2 - now £3.45 in Sainsbury's! Most supermarkets sell an own brand version - currently £2.65 in Morrisons. (Obviously this is only an issue for those of us without our own army of pudding chefs - if it doesn't affect you do please feel free to just throw another public-sector worker on the wood burner and scroll past.)
"Sainsbury's Free From Chocolate Cake Bars x4 | Sainsbury's" www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-deliciously-free-from-chocolate-cake-bars-120g

Blu-Tack!! Bloody that surprised me today! I don’t usually buy it so can’t really say if it’s gone up but it’s definitely more expensive that I thought!

I was also thinking about this thread earlier and I used to love Morrisons when I lived up north, there were loads. But now I’m in the east there don’t seem to be many around? The closest one to me is an hour away

a small jar of sun dried tomatoes £5.90

So much at the supermarket is ridiculously expensive, we don't use much kitchen roll but like the good thick ones and these are around £2.50 each now.

I agree, the only way that my DD could get a pay rise over the last year was to leave a job she liked and take a new job. In her old workplace only the managers got even a cost of living increase. As a single parent she says she simply couldn't manage on the old salary. I'm not sure if the statistics on pay rises take job moves into account? My DIL also moved this year for the same reason.

At our Tesco Lurpak 200g is £1.90 currently. So £9.50/kg, which seems a lot but is a bit better. It’s cheaper in other places. Aldi is £1.79/250 and Morrisons is too.
It’s one of the things I was looking at recently as will be buying ingredients for Christmas cakes soon, which we make about 10 of for family/friends
Weirdly some things haven’t gone up at all. You can still get the cheap sultanas for 95p/500g in Tesco. On the other hand sugar was about £4/kg and I’m sure it used to be more like 3 and ground almonds/marzipan are significantly more.

Yep, and here was me at the other end of the scale being mightily peeved off and shocked that a sodding Flump was 40p in a shop the other day... they were only 10p a couple of years ago, used to get them for the Trick treaters at Halloween

I wouldn't even know how to cook that. Saute? Deep fry? Boil in bag?

😉😆

I wonder why I am feeling a tad gaggy all of a sudden? 🤔😳😷

What on earth is a 'sodding Flump' ? I've never heard of that. I suppose I could google.

I know this was a while ago but just noticed it pop back up, I have been that butter weekly for I don't know how long and it's always in stock in my local large Tesco. I shop in person so maybe that makes a difference. Also always in stock in Aldi for the same price