Price increases

today in pound land pears soap 2 for a quid on the small shelf edge soap 100 gm when i looked some had 100gm on them some had 75gm so take it they are they new ones.....i got 4 of the 100gm ones xx

I bought my usual organic butter yesterday in sainsburys, £2. We have to watch out for goodies made with butter, they will either increase in price or they will start using added hydrogenated fat or palm oil

I buy butter from Sainsburys (the only other sm near us is a local Co-op) and remember complaining in October 2016 about the almost indecent price increase then. It's gone up at least once more since - could even be twice - so it's now £2.90 for a 500g block and £1.60 for 250g. I've switched to using a cheaper alternative butter spread for baking, mashed potatoes etc (£1.10 for 500g) and find it's a perfectly acceptable substitute. We like butter though so I still buy it and save it for toast and sandwiches.

Next Friday (17 Nov) there's a Food Unwrapped supermarket special programme on C4 at 8pm. The blurb says it's "a look at why the prices of some foods have risen so much over the last year and how the latest technology can help customers stay ahead of the supermarket pricing game". Plus an investigation into why some brands have been shrinking in size whilst staying the same price. Not sure if it will tell us anything that we don't already know but I'll be watching with interest.

I've long been using Knights Castile soap and always got it from the cheap stores at 6 x 100g bars wrapped together for £1 or 99p. Same everywhere.

Then, perhaps about three years ago, I saw the changeover when the pack shrunk from six to five bars. I stocked up majorly on the old deal and won't need to buy soap for an awful long time.

Then, the sneaky bu88ers shrunk the 100g bars to 90g and now the pack is 4 x 90g bars for your £1, a shrinkage of 240g of the original 600g which your fine English pound used to get you.

I like grass-fed butter esp Kerrygold, and stock up when I can get it on offer. Am just coming to the end of a lot which I got at £1.20 (butter is freezable, not everyone knows this).;) Still in hopes of getting a re-run of a deal which saw me buying butter at 0.08p a 250g block the other year, because it was going OOD that day.

And they say there's very little inflation?!

8p butter was one of my best ever YS deals, it was in the gap between Xmas and New Year, sometimes you get lucky with YS then as their stock control (this was tesc0) gets a bit haywire.

I'm only buying butter one pat at a time, unless and until I can see a v.good deal - and have the space to freeze it - in which case, I shall stock up.