£1.25 for a Wispa!! What grocery prices have given you a shock lately?

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I nipped down to the shop this morning to buy some tea bags. In the opposite aisle, all the chocolate bars were lined up. I don't buy chocolate generally, but a Wispa bar winked at me. I took it to the till - £1.25 for a Wispa bar that is easily 2/3 of the size of the Wispa bars of my childhood.

I exclaimed to the cashier, who I know, and we had a nice conversation with another customer about rising prices, the cost of cereal shooting up, fuel, of course...it got me thinking.

What prices have you been shocked by when you're doing your shopping? My tins of tomatoes seem very stable at 47p per tin (I could get them for 43p but can't be bothered to get the tin opener out so I'm happy to pay a 4p ring-pull tax).

Chocolate is expensive in New Zealand atm. Don't exactly know why, but probably going to get worse. Easter eggs are twice what they were last year. I'm thinking they actually wont sell many this year and end up having to give them away at half price.

Eggs, soup, chocolate, all more expensive. Thinking of making my nephews Easter eggs this year.

Chocolate seems so expensive now! I often buy the packs of four like four Kit Kat chunkys, four double deckers etc and they were always a pound, but the last couple of years they’re now around £1.80, almost double. And a bar of Galaxy that would sheets be a pound is about £2.25 now!
Also peppers…. they always used to be 95p for a pack of three, now about £1.90.

Was that Heinz? You'd be much better off buying M&S soup - about 65p a tin and doesn't contain the muck which Heinz has. Baxter's is also a better bet.

Probably right. You can buy tiny pots of cosmetic cram from other sites like Temu. They are more like samples.

Yes - peppers! I noticed the other week I was paying over £1 for a single pepper (weighed in supermarket on scan and go). And now I've noticed it a lot since then. I don't usually want 3 so multipacks don't save me anything!

all these posh half loaves at £2.50 - complete daylight robbery.

Special K £4

Large Yeo Natural yoghurt £4

As I walked round Tesco the other day looking at the prices, I was thinking the current ME situation hasn't yet fully hit the prices in the shops, so if we think it's bad now, in 3 months it's going to be horrendous,

As I don't always want a net of them.. Kiwi fruit, singular in Tesco £1.00.

Oh god I'd forgotten about cereal prices! Absolutely insane!

Came here to say this. Posted my nephews birthday card this week £1.70 for first class is insane

A regular size box of Shreddies in my local Co-op - reduced to clear to 4.40!

I bought a single Flake Ice cream from the coop on the hot day last week.
£3.25!

I bought a packet of (normal size) crisps in a small Tesco - £1.25, I actually took them back and said I’d been overcharged I hadn’t!!

Supermarket own brands are £3.00 for 48. I can’t tell the difference.

I’ve started looking at the reduced section now (I admit I never used to). I got one of those ‘posh’ half loaves for half price, but even that still seems a bit much. I’ve actually dusted down my bread maker and made a perfectly decent loaf (albeit better as toast).

I rarely buy branded items, but I needed some cherry jam for a cake I was making my Mum for Mothers Day and the only one I could find was Bonne Maman - £3.80!! It wasn't even that nice, which made it worse.

I love a bit of jam on toast but I don't know who is buying that on a regular basis.

I was in Ireland at the weekend €2.60 for a KitKat. €10 for Elvive shampoo which is under £5 here. I would be skinny and greasy if I lived there.

Despite all their advertising hype, I think Tesco is very expensive, e.g., 12 large free range eggs £3.30 as opposed to £2.89 in Aldi.

its the sugar tax essentially. I don't really eat chocolate as I don't like the taste of cadburys, but if I do fancy a little treat I buy multi packs instead. Even those have gone down in size but not in price

Over £5 for a bottle of extra virgin olive oil in Aldi/Lidl these days!

Flora spread or supermarket own brand has rocketed too
Crisps and, as has been said, chocolate, at least it will do my figure good
Jams and spreads like peanut butter, etc

Whatever profits the big stores are making ( and will make in the future ) isn’t being invested in the stores. Went into one ( not a supermarket , but do sell some long life food items ) where they sell cleaning products, but the cobwebs hanging down from the roof will still be there by Halloween ! The place was a mess with dirty shelves and the customer toilets have gone. If the shop does have a toilet , can bet that at least two are out of order and no soap in the dispensers. Considering the mark ups and lack of staff , it’s bad how neglected so many places seem. Makes me wonder how bad it is ‘ out the back ‘ where the food is actually stored. Hopefully that is well looked after and chilled properly. The big freezers in Morrisons were so iced up in places you couldn’t open the doors that well.
I’ve never known this before , but probably lack of staff or cleaners around. Sorry to derail and I’m definitely not blaming the staff at all either.

Maybe it’s a conspiracy to stop us all buying treats or things like crisps as most don’t taste the same anymore and so pricy nobody can afford to buy them.

Choc bars are always cheaper when bought as a multipack. Baked beans is me. If buy one from local coop it's nearly £2. For one tin of beans! And well, yeah, pretty much everything is sky high now. £200 quid for the last shop and I didn't even get that much. Cat food is expensive..

Agree. Both tesco and sains are expensive. I occasionally can't face shopping when need heavy items and get ocado to deliver and I went through the branded items I bought and they were the same price at tesco.