Shoppers 'cheated.' We're paying the same for less.

Emma37

We're paying the same for goods, but getting less for our money. Maybe sometimes without realising it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046179/Shoppers-cheated-supermarket-brands-downsize--pay-less.html

withabix

This isn't new - it's been going on for years.

Crisps, biscuits, bread, sweets, tinned food, frozen food, soap, shampoo etc etc

uktim29

Complete anti Supermarket rubbish.

Food has got cheaper & cheaper & cheaper. Back in the 70's the average person spent 22% of their income on food now they only have to spend 8%.

The public are just selfish, thats why products have to become smaller to keep the price the same rather than the product staying the same size and the price going up. When the latter happens there seems to be tears, thats why they have to do it.

This thread reminds me why I have never bought a newspaper.

Emma37

uktim29 wrote: »

Complete anti Supermarket rubbish.

Food has got cheaper & cheaper & cheaper. Back in the 70's the average person spent 22% of their income on food now they only have to spend 8%.

The public are just selfish, thats why products have to become smaller to keep the price the same rather than the product staying the same size and the price going up. When the latter happens there seems to be tears, thats why they have to do it.

This thread reminds me why I have never bought a newspaper.

You must be the only person delighted with the price of food then.

uktim29

Emma37 wrote: »

You must be the only person delighted with the price of food then.

There are millions of us with "knowledge" who know exactly how cheap food is now. More or less every thread started on here about this ends with all the ones moaning about the price of food being proved wrong.

You wait and see how many other comments pointing out what I've said are made in the next 24 hours.

How on earth people haven't noticed how cheap food has got is beyond me.

Bamber19

The problem is tht there is a current generation who have had too much free money because food has always been cheaper for them, they're just crying because they can't afford to smoke and drink as much anymore and that plasma screen is looking like an expensive burden.

No-one is being cheated, it's simple, food has got costlier to produce and they're keeping the prices the same, the only way to do this and retain the same profits is to reduce the amount of the food in a package

dmg24

I wasn't around for most of the seventies to comment from my own experiences (and was far too young for the few years that I was here!), but there was a thread on DT (which I think got deleted because it went a tad ranty) that compared food costs as a proportion of household income over time. From memory the proportion is much lower now.

I also agree with Bamber19 about the credit culture that we have seen over the past decade. We have become so used to being able to afford anything and everything, that the current economic climate is possibly hitting younger adults more than, for instance, my parent's generation.

omen666

I posted this weeks ago although as others have said been going on for years

Blacksheep1979

omen666 wrote: »

I posted this weeks ago

Well done for you :T

mum2one

It has been going on. but its been done sneakliy, for example we purchased a box of 6 fish portions, supermarket own brand, the product disappeared for about a mth, then returned with 4 in the box, no cheaper!

Lakeuk

So true, but what's important is that creme eggs have got smaller (no it's not us just getting bigger)

http://www.gofish.com/player.gfp?gfid=30-1098863