Prices still going up every week?

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Asda Aldi 6 salad tomatoes 99p today
Asda own brand tissues £1.20 last week £1.10.

It's ridiculous. It's little but it all adds up.

Which only means that the speed of the rises has slowed

We are looking at 4% increases come April

My big Sainsbury's still has loads of TTD mince pies for 50p a pack - good until 15/3 so that will do until nearly Easter!

Asda is still ok where I live.

Asda are really bad near ours. Especially the smaller one they hike the prices up!

Well it has for us. The minute we got access to a decent farm shop we stopped using supermarkets for all food items. Farm shops are better quality and often even better value. But not everyone has the time or even the physical capacity for this.

The small snack pizza I buy for emergencies is now 58p from 55p. I might just buy a big one and chop it in half. God knows why I didn't do this in the first place.

I was in Aldi today and more prices going up. Butter is back to 1.99! Cheapest loaf of whole meal 85p. Cheap chocolate bars have vanished. I normally make a big pan of flapjacks for the kids snacks at the weekend using lots of ripe banana and peanut butter. Much cheaper than buying cereal bars but now they are £££s to make.

I don't understand why so many people are complaining about this when over half of the country voted for Brexit, knowing that this would be one of the consequences.

So many people say it's "since Covid" - in fact, it was during the first year of the pandemic that Johnson's hard Brexit deal properly started to kick in, because that was the agreed timescale. And from that point onwards things steadily got much harder economically (and socially for that matter). The myth is that Brexit was immediately effective after the referendum. It wasn't, it took at least 4 years for our relationship with the EU to start properly uncoupling. The effects of the last 4 or 5 years are largely due to that.

I am finding online shopping has got worse but we rely on it because of busy schedules - we simply do not have time to go to a supermarket in person for an hour a week.

I've noticed that simple products that used to be available aren't and only the expensive versions are. But I know they will be in the supermarket, where they pick the online stuff.

So my online Tesco shop now says I can't buy tomato puree unless I buy the high end one. But know the cheap on is in stock in the shop if I went in. Same with lots of other products.

The farm shops I have been to are like giant delis and anything but cheap.

I guess we're lucky. Ours seem to undercut manufacturer's prices by a good 10-20% of stuff you can buy direct, and the meat is pretty much the same as the supermarket. The deli type stuff is very pricey, though.