Has food prices risen again this month?

[Lifeisnotsimple]

Been shopping today and I go to various shops to keep the cost down but even Aldi has added 10/20p to everyday items. Farmfoods is the only shop that seems to still have value. We,ve moved away from branded foods but even they are being hiked up, dont buy biscuits/cake, crisps or sweets anymore. When you go shopping now foods like tesco value oats etc the shelves are bare, Ive always bought them but now it seems more people are to. Tesco fresh rolls used to be lovely but now seem undercooked and doughy, so stopped buying them. I do a monthly shop and from last month it seems alot more expensive, not sure if this is my imagination.

I couldn't agree with you more. Hard working British citizens from every culture & religion (before anyone calls me racist) are struggling every single day whilst these people who are here ILLEGALLY are put up in hotels, provided with food, free driving lessons, gym passes, bank cards with benefits paid in, cinema passes, free passes from the national Trust....the list goes on and on and we can't afford the basics, we're on our arses but are facing another tax increase.
It's a disgrace and it needs to stop!!
Britain is broken and our government couldn't give a shite about us.
Starmer just sleeps, eat, lies and repeat!!

The boat people was in reference to another poster and no my shopping wouldn't be any cheaper but my taxes would be so high either therefore I could afford my shopping. Honestly!!

He’s only been in power a year.

Well, I read today that tax rises are coming in October to add to the woes. It is a shit show all round.

And look at the shit show. I can't even think about what the UK will look like by 2029. It's a scary thought.

@Lifeisnotsimple You can buy direct from farmers - farm shops, farmers markets. I very much doubt it would be cheaper than the supermarket.

Supermarkets have screwed suppliers for year, that is true. However the benefits have mainly been felt by end customers. We have much cheaper food here in terms of the proportion of income spent on food than many other countries.

I've just tried to fact check this and I can't find any evidence that illegal immigrants are getting free National Trust or cinema passes, except a ranty video on Youtube that I won't be giving clicks to.

In the interest of fairness it seems that Ukrainian refugees can enter NT free if their host family are members, and English Heritage have offered free entry to legal refugees or displaced people with leave to remain.

I can't get frothy about that, seems you can.

It's different councils giving different benefits, fir example my council are providing free driving lessons, the council next to me are providing days out and cinema passes. Nation Trust we're advertising free passes to immigrants which was retracted when it caused outrage and people cancelled their memberships.

Ukrainian refugees are genuine and came here LEGALLY there if a big different!!

I'm frothy about ILLEGAL people here being given freebies whilst the rest of us struggleto make ends meet yet we're facing further tax rises in autumn. The Ukrainian refugees weren't given a fraction of what these men are given.

Infact in not "frothy" I'm fucking pissed off with it!!

It’s ridiculous how you can spend £60/£70 and still feel like you’ve barely anything! Butter, cereal, anything vaguely ‘treat like’, meat, all ridiculously priced.

I nipped out to Co-op last night for eggs, bread and peanut butter. I thought I’d pick up my son’s favourite chocolate bar (Boost) as well as a treat. A standard chocolate bar like that is now ONE-POUND-RIP-OFF-TWENTY. They’re having a laugh. I swear they were about 65p a couple of years ago. And that’s before I even go into how much a loaf of own brand bread, own brand peanut butter and own brand eggs were.

I’d definitely go vegetarian if it wasn’t for the fact the others in my family like and eat meat and I know id miss it and not eat properly and some meat free alternatives are not always cheaper either , so I won’t , but the cost of meat has really gone up. We used to have a joint of meat at least once a month , but that’s all stopped now and things like chocolate and any treats have also stopped. Probably not a bad thing, but it is depressing and how young families manage I’ve no idea.

It’s not helping much.

Yep.

There is currently a wildfire in southern France which has burnt through 13,000 hectares of land - the size of Paris.
That will impact food production and prices.
It’s just one fire -there are many more across Europe.

Where are you getting this figure of 50%? Retail grocery as an industry has famously low margins. Even the gross profits are typically 5-7% - much lower than most industries would consider viable, even with the pricing deals agreed/imposed on producers (which are responsible for UK consumer prices being so low compared to our peers in Europe).

Food prices have gone up worldwide, supply chain costs have risen, there has been an energy crisis and ongoing global uncertainty. Food prices are up across Europe and elsewhere not just in the UK. The idea that any of this global food price inflation is caused by anything specific to the UK is not realistic.

I just spent £80 on 2 bags of shopping that had nothing extravagant in it except olive oil, blueberries and some salmon. The rest was bog standard groceries.

Salad cream ( branded ) ketchup and other condiments have increased massively for smaller bottles. I have tried the fake ones and didn’t like them , so now I don’t have any. It is a first world problem, but it’s shocking how much things cost for more quality items.

I don’t think illegal people are given things like free driving lessons and cinema tickets by councils - you have been misinformed

What asylum seekers get - https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

NB that £49.18 is per week.

I guess we get figures like that when we see tesco profits topping 3 billion quid and when you shop about their mark up is way over other shops for identical items.

I think that before Covid/Brexit companies didn’t think they could get away with such large price increases, they assumed people simply wouldn’t accept it or wouldn’t be able to pay.

But once they saw how compliant we all were during and after the pandemic continuing to pay inflated prices without much resistance they just kept ramping prices higher.

Even now in this thread, you still see people defending the supermarkets saying things like we have the cheapest food in the world or that profit margins are low. Yet these same companies continue to report massive profits. It feels like price hikes have become normalised and we're are still just expected to take it.

Yes prices have gone up again recently. The extra costs for employers from National Insurance and minimum wise rises feed through into higher prices. Climate change can mean crop failures and lower yields. War in Ukraine pushes up prices of oil and wheat. Problems in the middle east can mean shipping goes by more expensive routes.

It is possible to grow some food even if all you have is a window box. If you have a bit more space tomatoes and green beans are fairly easy starter crops.

I always buy the Hovis seeded bread but it’s finally hit £2 in our local Sainsbury’s. I remember the good old days when it was £1.25. I think I’ll start buying the generic stuff from now on. When we do a big shop, it can easily end up being £200 for two of us and I’ll often look at it and think that there isn’t really much there. I try to focus on buying things like mince so we can make chillis and chicken for curries. We don’t have pizza too often as that’s just one meal.

But 50% on grocery retail? Where does that come from?

Tesco, like the other grocery retailers are a publicly quoted and publicly reported company. Their gross profits are available for anyone to see - both Tesco and Sainsburys were at 6-7% last year. If they are not competitive with other shops, people will go to the other shops which is exactly what I would do if Tesco were charging 50% more than the competition.

A couple of billion in gross profit may sound huge but set it against costs of tens of billions and its small compared to other businesses.

If businesses make no profits they cannot invest and they shut down resulting in job losses. Aldi’s UK gross profit was suggested at only 3%. (its harder to tell due to the national splits) but that wouldn’t be sustainable of the rest of the group was not performing better. At that margin there is no margin for risk or error or unexpected events impacting that company.

Yeah. We live right next to Sainsbury's so I'm going round every day at 5pm and getting yellow sticker to freeze.