Is it just Sainsbury's

iliketosave_2

lesley1960 wrote: »

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

A lot of people would love quality food but cant afford it, thats REAL life. Thats why they/we use this site.
Ok complaining may not make a difference but at least we arent doing what this country is famous for,accepting things.
Unfortunately we dont all fit into the image of what you think life is really like.

Stefarno

Yeah, all the prices have increased, now it is almost not worth buying the basics in some areas, for example crumpets, they were 8 for 23p, now they are 6 for 29p, whereas their own brand are 12 for 60p, and have a much longer expiry date on, and imo taste much nicer.

The basics frozen cottage pie was 35p last week, I went in today and it was 63p.

I could understand if costs slowly increased, but they don't suddenly cost twice as much one week than the last.

I can only think they are putting up the prices of their basics range as too many people are buying them and to try to get people to move to the standard products, and then they will put those prices up.

Quite a devious tactic though.

katskorner

There are two I really noticed a lot apart from those already posted. Tesco own brand wholegrain mustard up from 35p to 75p!!! And tinned sweetcorn from 18p to 35p everywhere!!! That is crazy! It is now cheaper to buy a bag of frozen!

shezza

lesley1960 wrote: »

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

Can I be cheeky and ask why you are on this forum, you obviously don't need to be. I am recently single, and still have a house to run and bills to pay, and quite frankly expensive food is at the bottom of my list now. I need the basics so that I can still have a decent diet without cutting back on fresh fruit and veg.

As I mentioned earlier it's time to take a stand. Quite frankly I'm sick of this British philosophy of 'stiff upper lip' and 'grin and bear it'. Why should we. The banks are in meltdown through greed, and now because the rest of are now paying for that greed, the supermarkets have jumped in and decided to rip off the people who at the most in need - pure GREED. When does it stop. The fat cats have put us in this mess, and now more fat cats are stepping into their shoes. Instead of saying what will it achieve by complaining, start shouting from the rooftops that we are not happy and we won't be treated like this. Myself and a lots of other people buy basic food stuff so we can pay the bills and keep our homes heated and gas pumping to our cookers so we can have hot food. Lets join the Mirror newspaper, call watchdog get Martin on board and fight, it is the time to take a stand and be counted, instead of being sheep or ostriches and bury our heads in the sand and hope it will all go away.

bc3000

shezza wrote: »

Can I be cheeky and ask why you are on this forum, you obviously don't need to be. I am recently single, and still have a house to run and bills to pay, and quite frankly expensive food is at the bottom of my list now. I need the basics so that I can still have a decent diet without cutting back on fresh fruit and veg.

As I mentioned earlier it's time to take a stand. Quite frankly I'm sick of this British philosophy of 'stiff upper lip' and 'grin and bear it'. Why should we. The banks are in meltdown through greed, and now because the rest of are now paying for that greed, the supermarkets have jumped in and decided to rip off the people who at the most in need - pure GREED. When does it stop. The fat cats have put us in this mess, and now more fat cats are stepping into their shoes. Instead of saying what will it achieve by complaining, start shouting from the rooftops that we are not happy and we won't be treated like this. Myself and a lots of other people buy basic food stuff so we can pay the bills and keep our homes heated and gas pumping to our cookers so we can have hot food. Lets join the Mirror newspaper, call watchdog get Martin on board and fight, it is the time to take a stand and be counted, instead of being sheep or ostriches and bury our heads in the sand and hope it will all go away.

thank you!!! totally agree

JoCJo2

iliketosave wrote: »

A lot of people would love quality food but cant afford it, thats REAL life. Thats why they/we use this site.
Ok complaining may not make a difference but at least we arent doing what this country is famous for,accepting things.
Unfortunately we dont all fit into the image of what you think life is really like.

I'm with you on this!! While I draw the line at some budget foods, I have no worries about buying value tomatoes/ pasta/ washing powder etc. It's all the same. I too have noticed the amazing price hikes over the last 6 weeks or so - my shop costs the same now I buy value compared to when I bough store/ premium brands. I have to go all over the place now to try and find the best prices. I've only been doing a Sainsbury's shop every 2 weeks rather than every week - have been trying Aldi and while I think Somerfield are usually expensive, their offers tend to be good (especially on fresh meat).

I also noticed on my latest trip round the horrendous Tesco that they are apparently discontinuing their bag of value peppers (approx 6 a bag) and replacing it with that 'market value' bag - which contains less peppers and was about 10p more. My husband also noticed that the value chocolate bars (which we use for baking etc) are no longer on the shelf! I got some more today in Somerfield - 29p for 100g, but not v nice to eat on its own (dark choc anyway). Good job we like chocolate brownies!!

Can't wait til we move to Australia!!!

sweetstudent

Without sounding too rude, but you are complaining about a 4p jar of curry sauce rising 600%.

Im a temp, i have my own rented apartment, but still i wouldnt not spend 4p on a jar of curry, yes i do buy the odd basic food, but you gotta wonder whats in it to make it 4p.

Roland

As mentioned earlier, I saw the Mirror headline before coming to this forum.

The supermarkets really do have all of their bases covered in all economic times. I have a feeling that some of these items were artificially low in price anyway and they have plenty of scope to increase prices as demand rises for these budget products.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/2008/11/17/basic-baked-beans-rocket-in-price-by-53-per-cent-in-a-month-115875-20901228/

competitionscafe

lesley1960 wrote: »

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

I have to agree with that - not sure why so many people in this country think that dirt cheap food is necessarily a right - or a good thing. In most cases you get what you pay for. While we are each entitled to prioritise the spending of our own money, for me quality food is a high priority even when money is tight - I would rather go without other things and buy good food - even when/ if I cannot afford to go out, don't have a TV and my mobile phone is the cheapest £10 payg model I could find, at least I know that I can sit down and enjoy a good quality tasty homecooked meal each evening - it's something I always look forward to in good times and bad because for me cooking and eating good food is one of lifes pleasures. For others it may be more important to have that fortnights foreign holiday, the latest mobile phone or a flatscreen tv - each to their own, but even on a low budget it's possible to eat well if you are prepared to make that a priority. (See the family meals for under a fiver thread on the Old Style board for lots of good ideas). Cheaper cuts of meat and cheaper fish like mackerel, herring etc, slow cooking, using local markets and butchers/fishmongers/greengrocers (often cheaper than supermarkets whilst also being fresher, tastier and better quality), eating more pulses and grains, there are lots of ways to eat well for less money (and healthier too).

In any case, despite recent price hikes, "the amount we spend on food has actually fallen in the last 50 years. We spend just 15% of our earnings on it compared to a third just after the war." source: http://thefrugalcook.blogspot.com/2008/11/credit-crunch-bandwagon.html

I am not saying that all value and basics products are crap - far from it, although there is often a quality compromise and I also realise that those on very tight budgets have very little to spend on food - I have been there too.
However there are plenty of people who could afford to buy better food and don't or are not prepared to pay a bit more for quality or who spend a fortune on takeaways and ready meals because they 'cant be bothered to cook'. And some value items are false economy - value mince or bacon which shrinks to half it's size due to oozing water and fat (not to mention the animal welfare issue) is an example where it would make sense to spend a bit more on a quality product where the weight is not made up with fat and/or water. If we all demand cheaper and cheaper food we will not have much of a British farming industry left.

taxiphil

iliketosave wrote: »

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.

I totally agree with these comments about price fixing.

It's an open secret in the industry that nearly all the 'value' range items are price fixed across all 4 major supermarkets. The supermarkets collude by speaking to each other beforehand - that's why the price rises always happen in perfect harmony (8.00am on the same day) by exactly the same amount.

The recent price hike on tinned tomatoes is just a repeat of the hike in litre cartons of orange juice a couple of years ago, from 37p to 59p overnight in the 4 big supermarkets. There was absolutely no increase in the wholesale cost of oranges, it was just the most barefaced act of price fixing by the supermarkets. They did it simply because they could.

Price fixing is supposed to be illegal but the impotent and pathetic OFT lets supermarkets get away with anything, thanks to the Labour government's idea of "light touch regulation" of big business.