I've just found an 11 year old Asda groceries order email. The price of BUTTER!

[How11yearsfly]

It's not the most detailed order because there's no volumes weights etc. But butter is butter. £1.76 for 2 packs.

Jeepers

4th August 2015

Yeah Heinz products are american which means that, along with other factors, Heinz is a "strong brand power allowing them to pass high costs onto consumers in the UK, sometimes more aggressively than rivals, leading to significant price hikes noted by shoppers and watchdogs"

This from Google.

In this case, and as with other american products, think twice about buying them.
Try to look for a comparable substitute, why help their economy when all else is so expensive on the shelves?

Remember when butter got to be £1 think it was just before Covid now at leat £2 funnily enough M&S is one of the cheapest at £2

This thread is like Swiss cheese! 🧀 😬

Wonder how much that was in 2015???

Yes @How11yearsfly everything has gone up quite a bit - some stuff has doubled, but as a pp said, the NMW is practically double what it was 10 years ago. £6.50 per hour to £12.21 I think it is now....... So it balances out - a bit.

Honestly, DH and I don't struggle, and we're not minted. Average salaries. Both part time - him 28 hours a week, me 16. We cope fine. We have no mortgage, but apart from that, we have to pay for everything else.

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😆 And the 1970s was 25 years ago!

It's not just the prices of things though. It's range and availability. Which has dramatically reduced since Brexit.

Makes me furious that we pay so much for power in this country. All because of environmental bullshit reasons.

I agree. We should have loaded up on nuclear 40 years ago.

Tesco, 2014

From what I understand, Germany CLOSED some nuclear plants and starting burning coal instead. Makes me mad

I’m more shocked about the price of 3 packs of sausages at £11! They must be some amazing delux sausages

Yes. Because "Green" is a near synonym for "thick" in too many places around the world.

I remember DM refusing to buy Anchor butter in 1965 because it was a shilling. DF earned £14 per wk . Rent was £1 per week London.

I managed to check Sainsburys as far back as 2016, when I was paying £1.70 for a 250g pack of their Taste the difference salted butter. I used their bog standard own brand for baking and remember it being about half the price.

not butter though...

That’s what I pay for M&S’s own 500g block.

I recently pulled an old coat from the wardrobe. There was the cellophane from a packet of 20 cigarettes in the pocket with the price on - £6.14 😆

For the non-smoking majority, cheapest fags are now £15 or so for 20.

There was a bank mini statement in the pocket as well suggesting this was from 2014.

There's nothing on earth as delicious as butter.
Maybe cream. Blackforest gateaux. garlic in melted butter. roast potatoes.
no. butter.

Food is still quite cheap in the uk especially when you compare it to other countries. Housing, energy and everything else not so much.

I've given up sweets, all chocolate, cakes and pastry so I can carry on having thick butter on the occasional toasted teacake or crumpet.

That £1.99 Asda butter was probably about a quid, like the Sainsburys equivalent, 10 years ago.

It's bewildering to me that someone would prefer crumpets. Teacakes, however, make sense.
Crumpets exist to carry butter i hear, but I find it hard to believe they are food not a building material. But if other people like them there's that at least.

Dairy products have really rocketed in price since then. I'm surprised, given the panic about the ending of free movement a few years ago, that fruit and vegetables cost about the same.