£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).

Yes, buy painkillers in supermarkets or chemist's. Generic brand. Avoid branded stuff in a petrol station like the plague

£3.40 to post granddaughter’s card to Oz

A small bottle of olive oil in M&S for around £7…

I think most people would find the link between iran-Hormuz-fertiliser-farming surprising (I did) and helium, according to news cast, apparently, there will be a shortage of due to Trumpwarz.

I heard some arable farmers are letting some fields go fallow rather than sow rn.

It's frightening re prices and how this might play out.

Saturday newspaper £4 😲

I don’t know if this has been said but the cost of cucumbers! My kids love them and I tend to buy 3 a week. I could easily get 3 a week for around a £1 a few years ago and now they’re closer to a pound each!!
If you have the lidl app and go to receipts you can scroll back through the years, shocking how much prices have gone up over the years.

@Acutissima yes you defo need netting for berries! Pigeons ate every gooseberry overnight my first year, thought they were safe as so prickly with thorns and I saw the blackbirds jumping up to reach the raspberries. I got a kind of netting tent many years ago reduced at end of season for £5 but as the raspberries spread themselves needed more so last year just bought some cheap netting from temu and used canes and pegs to attach to the canes, seemed to work.

I'd recommend raspberries as they send out runners and new canes appear like magic, started off with three for £5 from asda (they'll be in soon) and they have spread to about 20 canes which i must have got 10kg of fruit off last year. Thornless blackberry grows itself too and the birds don't seem as keen on those😂

Bristol airport … large bags of Skittles are £5!

To those saying first class stamps are expensive at £1.70, they are, but they’re going up to £1.80 on the 7th of April.

I've made granola before and loved it, I'm on a bran flakes addiction just now 😂 with blueberries and cranberries. Now that you've posted that I might make granola for next week! Love it with yoghurt. Xx

That’s just an airport though, DH paid €5 for a bottle of water in Dublin airport the other day…

My DC look at me like I have two heads when I say it but I used to take £1 to my corner shop and get a can of coke (50p), boost chocolate bar (40p) then 10p of penny sweets! I’m a millennial so not old.

Also used to be able to get fish and chips for a family of four with a tenner! My mum used to send me on a Friday evening for them sometimes when I was about 8/9 so talking early 00s. You’d be lucky to get one set of fish and chips for a tenner now, just over 20 years on.

Tomato ketchup.
I moved from Heinz to Waitrose own brand which is just as nice and costs only £1.
I am trying to avoid American brands so this was an added bonus.

Aldi are doing a Christmas type cheap veg for Easter from Monday at 8p bag and legs of lamb are about £6 kg.

Toothpaste!! I use Sensodyne, 6 bloody quid for a tube!! Granted it’s the pronamel one but still! Same one is 2 Euro in the local supermarket in my parents country.

You are shopping in the wrong places! Hummus is £1 a tub in Lidl, wagon wheels are £1 for 6 in Poundland

Did this work?

Just asking because the last time I tried to melt Dairy Milk it wouldn't melt properly, went all grainy and weird. Assume due to the changed recipe/palm oil.

Supermarket cheap own brand worked fine though. And actually tastes better for the same reason!

Hairspray £5.50

I was checking into the Radisson at Manchester Airport a few weeks ago. They had a little stand by the reception selling snacks and a pack of McVities chocolate digestives was priced at £6.99!!! It wasn't even a full sized pack, more like a 3/4 sized. Shocked doesn't even come close.

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff - I just looked at Ponds cold cream and it's £32.06 for a 3 pack. Still ridiculous, but less than your £45. Maybe it changes daily?? Amazon do that.

Try clearing cookies and deleting history or signing in via another account, sometimes the fuckers track what you search and nudge the price up on sites like Amazon

I use napisan in my wash and last time I bought it it was £5 end of last year. Bought it a few weeks ago for £7.

I think Tesco used to be reasonable but in the last couple of years they have become outrageously expensive and the quality of their own brand is poor. Waitrose is expensive but much better value by comparison. I tend to shop at Aldi too.

I bought some for £3.49 in Home Bargains yesterday, 75ml tube, pronamel.

Are toothpaste tubes getting smaller too?

@FOJN this is good intel 😁 sadly there is no Home Bargains near me, in the meantime my mum brings me a stash when she comes
to visit. I do keep a beady eye on Lidl, Aldi etc too. But the £6 headline rocked me to my core!