Another Tesco Massive Price Increase

DCFC79

A_fiend_for_life wrote: »

Yes honey is the big one across the board though with good reason because of the decline in bee populations caused by colony collapse disorder. This is a genuine problem though seeing how stores conceal their whats going on is an eyeopener. Hard to find affordable honey these days. All the big jars are being rebranded to smaller jars for a similar price. Smaller pots are jumping in price like mad.

Holland and barrat have no honey in my local store, supermarkets have no value brands and iceland for one is reducing the size of pots like mad.

There are areas in China where there are no bees and people have to go round pollinating plants by hand. They don't get much crop.

theres basics honey in the sainsburys i work in,

watcha

I usually by the Tesco's own coffee whitener. Dunno why but I go for the Light option and I was quite happy when I saw they had a shelf full and no normal version. I then noticed the price and saw why...

Tesco Coffee Whitener 500g £1.20
Tesco Light Coffee Whitener 500g £1.64

Looks like I'm going to have to go to Asda for this

tiff

charis18uk wrote: »

Tesco passata sauce was 29p NOW 44p

Now 52p :rolleyes:

Smidster

Bread Flour back up again to 68p (After 1 day at old price)

Value mushrooms discontinued.

Also the freezer bags went from 25p to 47p

INT1

I buy our milk from Farmfoods. £1 and in Tesco cheapest is now £1.12 but was previously £1.36.

tiff

frdjns74 wrote: »

Yeah I agree it is a lot dearer to buy food but it is the same everywhere, but we just have to grin and bear it and hope for the best! It has made me realise what I need and what I want are 2 different things and my kids are now eating better as we are making things ourself insread of buying the usual rubbish

I'm not grinning and bearing it, I'm stocking up on things that are cheap or on offer and getting 3 months supply behind me. I need to do something as the increases are frightening.

fuzzybear01

I noticed that Tesco put tomato puree tubes up from 33p to 48p. Only took Sainsburys a few days to match that. I went and did a bulk buy of 12 tubes in Lidl for 29p each today. Have also bulk-bought heinz beans while on offer in Sainsburys, as they are one thing I can't buy cheap. Own-brand beans give me mouth ulcers!

tiff

Tesco are selling 6 Heinz Baked beans in a pack for £2.18 if it helps anyone

Also 7.5kg potatoes in brown paper bag were £2.99 but now £1.99.

Passata still selling for 44p in stores but last night was showing 52p online.

I started my stockpile today too, and bought 12 tins value kidney beans, 24 tins Lidl tinned tomatoes, also pasta and toothpaste. Worked out that I use 1 tin of beans a week, so now have 3 months supply and will carry on buying stuff like that over the coming weeks.

VoucherMan

tiff wrote: »

I'm not grinning and bearing it, I'm stocking up on things that are cheap or on offer and getting 3 months supply behind me. I need to do something as the increases are frightening.

Only 3 months? I've still got a years supply of Heinz baked beans. Got them on special last year 25p/tin. Now £2.18/4
2 years worth of corned beef. Bought at £1.00 for three tins. Now it's more than £4.00 . All sort of other stuff as well. Better investment than the banks at the moment - so long as I don't go off the stuff I've stockpiled!

tiff

I chose 3 months due to space really. Not sure Dh will let me store food items all around the house so just filling the spaces we have.