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

Where is that, I bought a jar today in Aldi, I'm pretty sure it's less than £2

Eta googled to check only £1.59

Isn't it the marshmallow twist beloved of young children 😁i also remember them being 10p when my children were younger

I have recently rediscovered Poundstretcher. 4 packs of Cadbury bars £1.40 there vs £1.75 in Morrisons. Also their cleaning products much cheaper than Morrisons. No olive oil and butter there though!

I too think it expensive. They are, however washable and reusable two or three times and should last longer, so long as you demonstrate to the rest of the family.

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Before long, we will all be on bread and pull it.

Boil in the bag seems the most apt 🤣

Those pink squashy marshmallow yummy things.

Slightly odd one but have you ever tried to buy paint in S France? It’s so weirdly expensive unless I’m looking in the wrong places?

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 26/09/2024 21:03

£7.50 for a tub of Lurpak.

Laldi has Nordpak, which is apparently indistinguishable and about half the price. ... In fact, Aldi has it at £2.09 for 500g.

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-nordpak-spreadable-slightly-salted-500g/4088600041445

Danpak in Lidl, similar price.

https://www.essexlive.news/whats-on/food-drink/tried-waitrose-co-op-lidl-8509966

Where we live most supermarket food is cheaper than in the UK, now we’re vegetarians so I don’t know how meat compares, when my mum stayed recently a small sirloin steak was almost £15 and one small salmon fillet was £9.50, I thought that seemed quite expensive and that was at lidl.

Small tins of heinz baked beans £1 20, so almost £5 for the usual pack of 4. It was Tesco. Lidls were 4 for £2. 80.

Legs of Lamb, £35 in Asda. I love Lamb as well but wait until it goes on offer because that is prohibitively expensive.

I am genuinely curious with what happens to all of them at this price-I appreciate some people can afford this and will buy, but our area isn't particularly affluent and there are usually piles of them-but I never see them yellow stickered.

Nicked.

The supermarket where my friend works, there're a group of shoplifters - not sure if they are in the same gang or some may do it independently. Usual things to get nicked are steaks, beef joints, the odd half leg of lamb. The store is a small one (not a Sainsburys Local, Tesco Express) and only sell legs of lamb if the whole supermarket chain has them on offer. So this is why they restrict in the number of these lines available in the chillers on shop floor.

I am a member of our local litter wombling group and on their FB page, a fellow womble litter picked a small layby in a by pass. She found about two dozen supermarket baskets from 3 supermarkets. One of these supermarket baskets come from my friend's work as its the only one in the area that use this style of basket. This is about 4 miles away from the supermarket. Guessing this is the shoplifters gang's meeting up point where they exchange their stolen stuff for drugs or other things.

Shoplifters steal to order, not because they can afford food as that would be a normal shop worth of purchases nicked, not 24 steaks. The CoL has not increased this type of stealing.

It's not just meat. Bottles of spirits (usually Smirnoff, JD), razor blades and dishwasher tablets.

Also lamb has a long shelf life - about 16 days.

A replacement toilet brush - plastic - £9.99. Speechless.

Greek, French available tho'

Where.from? Have you choosen to pay twice as much as you need to or is it special in some way?

Lex345 · Today 07:35

Legs of Lamb, £35 in Asda.

Holy shit! Sainsbury had them 1/3 off on Nectar, at Easter. I got two and put one in the freezer - I think they were 12 Quid.

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · Today 07:55

Greek, French available tho'

Greece, Spain and Tunisia have all had two years of bad harvests, too, because of drought and high temperatures.

It was the first time I’ve ever bought one (hate them but cleaner wanted it) and was expecting it to be 99p. It was from Robert Dyas. It was literally just a basic plastic loo brush, no stand (not that that would have justified the price even so). Insane!

You can get toilet brushes for much cheaper than that, they don't have that shop where I am but so I don't know what type it is but supermarkets, home bargains type shops etc wouldn't cost that much.

I think the issue is the shop rather than toilet brushes being expensive.

Everything in the South of France is over priced, except eating out and their wine. You don't have to pay very much for a good bottle of wine or champagne, unlike the UK. We get send all the rubbish and it's over priced.

My husband often has to buy tools or parts, we won't use French engineers, we fly out people from the UK, put them.up, feed them get them to do the work and fly them home, it's cheaper and safer than employing french people.

Same here. I work in the third sector, but delivering services that are funded by NHS or Adult Social Care money. We got a 3% pay increase this year.

We've had below inflation pay rises for so long that the same job in other sectors now pays 25% more than we get. We can't recruit experienced staff, so it's effectively become a training role. People come to us to get the experience, then fuck off and get more money elsewhere.

I'm not unduly bothered personally, I'm over retirement age, only do 17 hours pw and am sort of semi-retired, plus I have pension income, but it's shit for my colleagues, especially the younger ones. And it's going to have a real impact on the work we do as the more experienced staff leave.

I need a friend who lives in Croydon then. That's our nearest Costco and it's about 35 miles away.

You'd have to do a hell of a lot of shopping to make the savings outweigh the cost of getting there and back.

I now buy a roll of washable kitchen roll. It’s made from microfibre (I think). You tear them off as sheets like the paper towels but they’re reusable and washable cloths. My favourite buy this year (Poundland, I think £2.50 a roll).