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

[Lougle]

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).

I have spent the day at the JR in Oxford (pre planned appt) - my son wanted to spend his own money in the vending machine- £1.60 for a can of Vimto. I didn’t think that was too bad - until I went to buy myself a bottle of water- 500ml - £3.20.
needless to say I didn’t buy it, had a slurp of vimto until I got back to the car to drink my water I accidentally left behind!
in other news - 4 hours of parking at the hospital cost me £3.70 which I actually thought wasn’t too bad (I was also parked right next to the entrance!).
last year it was around £6 for the same amount of time!

oh no! is it being discontinued??

For me it's the price of 'drugstore' make up such as loreal, elf etc. It's ridiculous, skin tints for £15, concealers for a tenner. The only brands that are actually cheaper are MUA and Collection I think

If meat is cheap it's factory-farmed. Welsh lamb is as free range as it gets.

MUA lumi tint has really good reviews, I’ve just picked one up to try

On offer at boots currently for £2.50

i guess I do a version of couponing in a way. Basically I buy everything when it’s at its lowest price and stash stuff even if I don’t need it that week or month. Anything not perishable and it goes on shelving in my spare room - toothpaste, deo, toilet rolls, cleaning products, tins of food, marmite etc etc
Amazon deals, Quidco etc
superdrug have some really good deals on currently, lots of buy one get one half price. I saved £17 on my shop there the other day with discounts

😂 no! Fair point!

Lind probably made in china

Saw a standard pack of about 10 mini eggs in Heathrow for £3.50!!! Then again, airport prices are the work of the devil....!

But it would cost you more to deliver personally.
Prices vary on grocery depends where you go.
It's not just they go up either, the size shrinks.

Go to Marks and Spencers. They have tins of soup for 65pence and they are lovely!

Asda basic baked beans, 28p a tin. Perfectly decent. No ring pull but am prepared to put up with that!

I still mourn for the 8d (pre-decimal) Mars Bar of my youth. Not only cheaper, but much bigger.

I remember being sent down the road with 10p to buy a broadsheet newspaper (7p) and permission to buy myself something (always a 3p mini Milk Way) with the change.

In the queue to pay for diesel yesterday and I remembered how, not so very long ago, I’d have grabbed a Snickers or Crunchie too. At £1.25 they stay on the shelf. I used to wobble about paying £0.79 and I’m not sure when they all rose over £1?

Jacob’s cream crackers £1.69

Agree. and they will post record profits as they do every year, the greedy lot

Postage stamps. It now costs more to send a card to Spain than the cost of the actual card.

Rising food costs are going to hit some families very badly. I was heartened to see that the food bank drive outside my nearest Waitrose today was getting a steady stream of generous donations. One man had half a trolley of items from the list of suggestions. It is lovely that people who can afford it are willing to help those less fortunate.

I can top all those. I was in Morrison’s looking at the yellow stickers. I picked up a bone. Yep. A BONE. Presumably for stock or something. £3.12!!!

actually I’ve just looked and it’s even more bizarre. £2.52 full price, £3.12 reduced 😂😂

I buy beef bones, marrowbones and pig trotters in Morrisons to make bone broth for the dogs. Seldom see them yellow-stickered.

The Morrisons I visit is absolutely awful about reductions, time and time again the wrong sticker is on something that wouldn’t have been that price originally. Every time I go, I pull at least 5-6 items off the reduced shelf and hand them to a staff member, the manager if he’s on the shop floor. The young staff will say the item description doesn’t matter, but it bloody well does if they’ve used the price for lamb fillet to stick on ribs, or sea bass to stick on a kipper.

Wasn't the price of diesel more alarming than the price of chocolate? I filled up about 3 weeks ago and paid 146.9p per litre, this morning it was 175.9p per litre. If I was commuting and using a full tank a week that would be an extra £12 per week. Not a kings ransom on its own but added to price increases in everything else it's easy to see how comfortably managing can quickly become counting every penny.

I paid 160.9ppl yesterday at Sainsbury’s, the BP a mile away was 179.9. Last I bought was on 2 March at 135.9, also Sainsbury’s.

I don’t have to drive every day, luckily.

When I'm in the office I usually get a boots meal deal, but it was hailing so I went to the much closer m&s instead. Sandwich, drink, small chocolate bar and crisps - nearly £12. I remembered why I either bring my own or go to boots!

The price of a pint of Guinness, Lemon meringue pies (when you can actually find one) and yoga classes, doubled in price, duration often halved, from 90 minutes to 45-60minutes, which just doesn't work.

Diesel.
Last year it cost me £40 to fill my tank.
Earlier this year it cost me £60 to fill my tank.
Yesterday it was £50 for less than half a tank!

Sainsbury own brand floor wipes, were thick and so good and a pound a packet. Now thinner and crappier and £1.65. It's so annoying