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

OK, so this isn’t a supermarket item but I’ve been thinking it for years and here seems like sort of the right place to say it.

Really expensive candles. Like a Jo Mallone one for £350* currently on sale in John Lewis. I mean, what the actual fuck! You’re burning £350 - might as well chuck £20 on the fire each time you light it.

*Shades of Hygge Tygge there.

@Fluffybagel i used to buy it all the time. Can’t bring myself to spend nearly a fiver on it though!

Weetabix 72 pack £8.
Wtf?

Come rip with me and tear with me
and rip with me, right now

The really odd thing to me is that now M&S food is only very marginally dearer than eg Sainsbury and Tesco on a good portion of their stuff. Not ready meals , fruit or veg or bakery items but other stuff like cleaning products, sauces, pre-cooked rice, niche jarred foods. And the quality is brilliant.

Not a supermarket but I was in B&Q today where a bag of shitty kiln dried logs was £8 per bag, so £24 for 3 bags. 3 years ago it was 3 bags for £15, cash terms increase of 60%.

They also wanted a heinous £48 for a 2.5l tub of trade dulux eggshell. Absolutely insane. Even their shitty own brand one is £25.

Hello Mari-Antoinette, is that you?

Note the price per kilo😁

One red pepper for £3.70 from Ocado
Unless that thing's the size of a tennis court that is madness

I live in France, and this week in a Carrefour witnessed a single (not especially big) aubergine for over €5

😱

Cheese is a precious commodity these days!

I saw this.... was gobsmacked I actually stopped and double checked it. It was also in security netting ....

That cheered up my night lol

Supermarkets are a lot less busy these days. Except maybe Lidl, there's always a queue at Lidl!

And in these sheds you have 20ft high peppers, and these peppers are scared because they don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?"

I was shocked and refused to buy it .

hopefully lose some weight now as I was buying at least 3 bars a week 😊

Waitrose essentials ketchup: 95 pence for 470g. It’s just as nice, if not nicer.

Diet Coke is so expensive I buy aldi own brand and it's fine.

Same! 😀

It's a natoora pepper not just a red bell pepper

In defence of the co op, their own brand ketchup is amazing and only £1.30. My die hard traditional ketchup fans totally agree way tastier.

So £3.70 for a pepper that's fucking spelt wrong then?

As for who's buying them, at a guess I'd say @Phen0menon .

Lidl own brand quilted toilet roll is really good. Not quite as thick as Andrex but better than other quilted supermarket own brands. It’s just dropped below £3 for 9 rolls, having been over £3 for the last couple of years.