Tesco price hike

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I’m sure there’s many things that have shot up however this is the biggest rise I’ve seen recently. Every week I buy a bag each of frozen blueberries and frozen cherries. For as long as I can remember each bag has been £2.50. I have just been doing my usual online order for delivery later this week and they are now £3 each! I checked my receipt for Saturday, just two days ago they were both still £2.50. I can’t believe a price can increase by 20% in days. Anyone else noticed such a huge price hike from one week to the next?

Waitrose 3 bags of any frozen fruit £6

Yes my son likes a particular brand of ham which shot up 25% in one week last year. Ludicrous.

I've noticed this this week too.
Was looking at tesco own brand cereal bars for back to school (dd has afrid so need a certain one jumped 25p since last week). Also noticed many items out of stock which usually means a rebrand/new packaging/smaller size and a higher price.

They may have been holding the price down for a long time. Or it could be new season crops have come in more expensive. Or just re-balancing prices across the store. Frozen blueberries and cherries are not exactly essentials so they may choose to increase those prices rather than more basic items.

I think most people would class fruit as pretty essential. Frozen is the cheapest way to buy, I can’t afford fresh blueberries or cherries. Out of interest, what food do you class as essential?

Tesco take the piss! My coffee in Tesco is £8 a jar
on B&M it’s £6.74 . Both are making a profit but one is absolutely taking the piss

In Sainsbury’s. Big box of Maltesers was £6.90, and the little box that used to be a pound is now £3.25!

Chocolate has increased massively.

I’ve really noticed this weekend when food shopping the price hikes in sainsburys,especially their cooked meats ,Lidl and Aldi have all gone up in the last week.
our shopping bill for the same as we normally buy was over £30 more between the three shops.

think we will go back to under one roof and compromise even more again but it’s getting unreal.

we go over budget nearly every single week at the moment.
we work opposite hours so don’t eat together or the same foods and teenager is eating throughout the bloody day while on school holidays so that doesn’t help but we can’t change our working hours.

I’ve downbranded washing powder and softener and loo roll and dish washer tablets the last week so will see how they go but it’s just going up and up

Jason sourdough bread in Tesco used to be £2.00 . Looked last week it was £2.75.

DH and I were just discussing food prices today. There are 5 of us, 3 teens and we all have lunchboxes plus fussy cats.

I used to shop for £100 a week, £120 if I needed lots of extras like toiletries. Then that changed and £120 became the norm and £150 the extras. Then £150 the norm and so on.

Now, if I get below £180 its a win and a "big" shop is more like £230.

We buy lots of own brands, cat food is fairly pricey as cat only eats one type of food. We try to eat healthily so lots of fresh fruit, salad, meats, veg etc.

I did shop for the bare basics in aldi this week, still cost me £100 and didn't get very much at all. Likely will need to top up.

It's so depressing. Back in 2009-2011 I used to spend £200 a month. (Granted the kids were toddlers)

How long is ‘as long as you can remember’?

Yes stuff is literally going up every week at Tesco.
Mince has gone up from £4.89 to £5.25, I noticed last week.
just done a shop to collect tomorrow and strawberries up 30p and milk 20p.
Just a few thing that stood out.

It's not just Tesco

This is what is going to keep happening too and it is so far out of our control.

It has also been an incredibly dry year for harvest and prices are going up everywhere including the farming, processing, packaging and so much is going on all across the world where so much of our food comes from.

If we’re going to try and push our government to listen to our concerns this should be on the agenda.

We need to invest in UK farming, food processing, encourage gardening, allotments, public food growing places, and teach the importance of this all

Exactly! And surely while it's a difficult year for brassicas, it is a bumper year for some fruit? I'd never seen so many plums on our tree and everyone's fruit trees in the allotment are incredibly full. Also the local vineyard is harvesting a few weeks early, absolute bumper crop.

Food inflation was second story on BBC news this morning.

Our plum tree only had 8 plums this year unfortunately, we did have loads of figs though, probably all the sunshine. Victoria plums are in the shops at the moment, price not too bad.

Cost of living is getting ridiculous! Tesco, are one of the worst offenders.Every month we do a big shop.The prices go up every time we shop.We used to buy Aberdeen Argus minced beef 4.50 per 500 grams,now gone up to 6.50.Just not paying it!.Everytime we come away feel liked we've been fleeced! We only do half our shopping there now.Milk has gone up from 1.45 per 4 pints to 1.65.Most supermarkets are charging the same amount now.Husband has gone into Farm foods He buys 2 litres x 2 for 2.00.A really good price at the moment! Is this government ever going to challenge this greed for profits from Supermarkets.If Farm foods can charge less, it makes you wonder why other supermarkets charge so much more!

Tesco’s gross profit margin in the most recent period was 8.6%. Immediately before COVID it was 7.6%. So their margin has gone up a bit but that only accounts for about a 1% price rise over the last five years.

Instead of blaming profiteering, the true reasons for food inflation are more likely to be minimum wage increases (at supermarkets and processors and farms), tax increases, commodity cost increases (oil, fertiliser, sugar), energy costs, and business rates.

Rising consumer demand in emerging markets is also a factor - for example, Chinese people drink coffee too and they can now afford a lot more of it than they used to, so growers can charge more.

Food prices have gone up around the world. It’s not just a UK phenomenon, still less a Tesco one.

It's not just the rises that are getting to me, it's the repeated disappointment.

Sausages now containing water so they shrink 25% during cooking.

Supermarkets only seemingly stocking shelves with 'deluxe' or whatever alternative so you can't even get budget price tomatoes.

And don't even get me started on restaurants/pubs serving bloody kids' portions on the adult menu.

The only way to beat this in a way is to shop around. I do a farm food shop ever couple of weeks, lunchbox snacks, milk, sauces and laundry and cleaning bits are all quiet cheap. Milk is 2 for 2 quid
In Tesco I buy own ) value brands a lot.
We've cut right back on chocolate and I bake a lot more now.
It's really hard for so many.

The basic payment scheme has now
stopped for British farmers. It has been reducing over the last
five years and has been cut short by a further two years by the current government. So our farmers will no longer have direct subsidy support unlike our counterparts in Europe. This was part of leaving the EU. There are some environmental subsidies but these schemes have also been changed or stopped.

Farm subsidies help keep food prices down and are a core part of having stable
prices. With these no longer available
I think in the near term prices will continue to rise in the UK.That coupled with weather related issues.

How would you expect the price to rise, though? A penny a day for seven weeks?

Mince has jumped up. Now getting the 20% fat one at the same price I was paying for the low 5% fat one. The low fat one is out of my budget now.

Are freddos now 4 per pack not 5? Or am I imagining there used to be more in each pack ..