Is it just Sainsbury's

pen1

Tomorrow's Mirror front page, from skynews.com:

The Daily Mirror claims that supermarkets have cranked up the cost of budget baked beans by 53 percent.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Mondays-Papers---Newspaper-Front-Pages-For-November-16-2008/Media-Gallery/200811315152673?lpos=UK_News_Left_Promo_Region_0&lid=GALLERY_15152673_Mondays_Papers_-_Newspaper_Front_Pages_For_November_16%2C_2008

Coveredinbees!!!!

Helix wrote: »

Sainsbury's don't make any profit on their Basics range. Everything is sold at cost price, so any price increases will be because the suppliers have increased their prices.

I still don't believe that a tin of tomatoes can increase in price by 70% regardless of the cost of fuel, tin or for that matter tomatoes and that it can happen simultaneously across 3 supermarkets.

DCFC79

Helen819 wrote: »

sainsbury's beans from friday 9pm...18p value tin
saturday morn...29p value tin.!!!
I rang and complained,the woman thought i'd lost the plot i'm sure.
Refunded 50p onto nectar card.

why complain though, , yes i bet she did think you had lost the plot

Coveredinbees!!!!

I really wish the banging head against wall smiley was available on this site, no ones overheads are going to increase that much !!!!!

DCFC79

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

I really wish the banging head against wall smiley was available on this site, no ones overheads are going to increase that much !!!!!

but how do you know, i do understand where your coming from, ive emailed sainsburys and they should get back to me with 2 days

iliketosave_2

DCFC79 wrote: »

HAve you considered that the prices might have gone up due to the operating costs of where the items are produced has gone up

And they all pluck the same higher price out of thin air?No way.
Blatant price fixing, yet the powers that be can find no proof of it.

cybermum

Yes ,I have also noticed how pasta has gone up at the same time to the same price across the board.

The percentages of 70% in increase is blatant price fixing.
Overheads/costs may go up of course,but by 70% ?

iliketosave_2

DCFC79 wrote: »

why complain though, , yes i bet she did think you had lost the plot

So we all sit back and take it?
No, complain is the answer, the more people the better, its time they realised they cant take us for mugs.
See the post above about the Daily Mirror headline. At least they are noticing and playing a part.
Just look at the excuses, recently it was oil, now its the rate of the Euro.
Another blames the cost of the tin even though the cost of aluminium is down.

Coveredinbees!!!!

I've just been out on a job and on the way back I popped in to aldi, the chopped toms were 44p!!! (I thought Aldi was supposed to be a cheap shop) but Netto came in at 26p, still more than they were before the price hike but what can you do. You can only have 12 cans per person.

lesley1960

iliketosave wrote: »

So we all sit back and take it?
No, complain is the answer, the more people the better, its time they realised they cant take us for mugs.
See the post above about the Daily Mirror headline. At least they are noticing and playing a part.
Just look at the excuses, recently it was oil, now its the rate of the Euro.
Another blames the cost of the tin even though the cost of aluminium is down.

And complaining will do what exactly?

Its not that food prices have increased , more food prices having been very low for the last 20 yrs?


i am always amazed at how little people are prepared to pay for food it seems that quality food is the bottom of a lot of peoples priorities