Is it just Sainsbury's

Coveredinbees!!!!

But the good news is inflations down to 4.5%, I wish I shopped where the government did there shopping. :mad:

freebiequennie

i too have been shocked at price increase always brought value tins of sweetcorn as 2 of us used 1/2 tin at a time but its double in price in asda.

also value dried spaghetti was around 22p in most supermarkets, sainsburys were the last to put it up in price but most places its 44p.

tinned tomatoes are a joke at the prices they are now charging for value ones. going to buy fresh ones when reduced and chopped up and make my pasta sauces then freeze.

seems like they have cotton on to people trying to reduce outgoings and have started buying value ranges.

we now only do a mian shop once a month and do buy essentials on a weekly basis and check out the reduced sections for meat for the freezer.

Schamansky

spaceman5 wrote: »

how is it price fixing?, prices are kept low by competition, i.e all the main supermarkets do what they can to price match each other, so if one puts the prices up, the others generally follow suit, for example if tesco and asda where selling beans for 40p, would it make sense for sainsburys to sell theres for 20p, knowing they could get 40p for them, not saying it is right, but on day to day products, not promotions all the supermarkets are within a few pence of each other, Dave

Nice piece from the book of micro-economic fairy tales. But it's not the cheerful tale of Little Red Polypoly Hood and the Big Bad Four, but Whiter than White and the Seven Oligopolists, which is not a fairy tale at all.

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The discounters are riding the same train, by the way. Staple food prices at Aldi and Lidl have risen just as sharply as at the Big Four, with no perceivable price difference to the full service retailers.

I've been an ardent disciple of discount, but I'm about to lose my religion.

freebiequennie

agree that for those people who are going down a brand or 2 these prices may seem great

but for those who have always brought basic ranges and try to provide themselves and families with a good balanced diet these price increases may force them to eat a less balanced diet and perhaps some people will have to choose between heating their home and eating. I know alot of single mothers who only eat one meal a day so that their children can eat properly.

thor

spaceman5 wrote: »

how is it price fixing?, prices are kept low by competition.

Hook, line and sinker methinks!

mummyjane

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.

Completely agree :T Many of us on here cannot afford to double our budget so easily! It is getting harder and harder for those not so well off to provide a healthy diet for their families :mad:

PixiePie

mummyjane wrote: »

It is getting harder and harder for those not so well off to provide a healthy diet for their families :mad:

See I totally disagree with this, it's just life has changed so much over the past 20 or so years - it used to be that people were in touch with their food, nowadays the kids at school don't even know a chip comes from a potato!

It really is so cheap and easy to grow your own fruit and veg (depending on the type obviously, some are easier than others, but many are so so simple even I can do it, and I generally kill anything green!), but nowadays if you do this you are looked upon as a bit odd - how many people have a vegetable patch nowadays, when it used to be that everyone had one. And if you live in the cities and don't have any garden at all, you can still have either an allotment (although there do tend to be waiting lists for these nowadays it's true), or planters on the balcony/window boxes etc. Obviously you don't get as much yield, but it is still very possible to get a lot of produce for your own needs this way, and costs virtually nothing.

It's because generally we have lolled into the lifestyle of, bluntly put, being lazy and getting used to just buying as it's quicker and easier than putting effort in ourselves - and now we are paying the price. Goodness only knows what would happen to our country (and many others I imagine too in a similar state) if there were a wide spread massive disaster and modern life as we know it shut down - how many would starve etc?

sweetstudent

shezza wrote: »

As I started this thread, I feel that it has gone off track somewhat. My complaint initially was about the price rises, not about quality of food etc. I feel that if we don't fight about these price rises, where's the stopping the supermarkets thinking well we got away with that one, lets put the next level of food stuffs up then the next. I think even the most wealthy of people would complain if the price of an organic chicken jumped 70% from £8.00 to £13.60 overnight. I accept the prices of the value range are still low (to some), it is the principle. We have to stop this. There are alot of people out there who rely on basics, pensioners, low income families etc, and these are the people who should not be getting hit. None of the other food stuffs have gone up so I accept that many people may not have noticed, but they will if supermarkets are allowed to get away with it this time and thet hit the next level. I personnally feel that we are morally obliged to fight this, even if you are not personnally affected by it, there are people out there who it does affect and they only have a small voice, but if everyone shouts about it they will get heard.

You forget that people have a choice where to shop, the 4 supermarkets do not control the whole retail market, if you dont want to shop in a supermarket, then shop around, go to independant retailers....

Lo-Lo

PixiePie wrote: »

It really is so cheap and easy to grow your own fruit and veg (depending on the type obviously, some are easier than others, but many are so so simple even I can do it, and I generally kill anything green!), but nowadays if you do this you are looked upon as a bit odd - how many people have a vegetable patch nowadays, when it used to be that everyone had one. And if you live in the cities and don't have any garden at all, you can still have either an allotment (although there do tend to be waiting lists for these nowadays it's true), or planters on the balcony/window boxes etc. Obviously you don't get as much yield, but it is still very possible to get a lot of produce for your own needs this way, and costs virtually nothing.

It's because generally we have lolled into the lifestyle of, bluntly put, being lazy and getting used to just buying as it's quicker and easier than putting effort in ourselves - and now we are paying the price. Goodness only knows what would happen to our country (and many others I imagine too in a similar state) if there were a wide spread massive disaster and modern life as we know it shut down - how many would starve etc?

That's a bit unfair too as a blanket statement. I like gardening and having a go at growing my own veg, but there are very few crops that will be lasting the average gardener through this cold winter!! We certainly need to top up what we can grow with value ranges from the supermarkets. I think there are different options for finding food for a reasonable price that people can take, but one is not better than another, you have to do what suits you! A mother of three working a part time job might not have the time even for planting up a few window boxes - people often use supermarkets for the convinience and their need for this convinience in busy lives and supermarkets shouldn't be able to hike up prices and hit these people's pockets whilst claiming to be slashing prices and all that claptrap!!

worcestersaver

It amazes me how people can be so stupid.
Have they missed the news for the past 12 months?
Do they not remember how commodity prices went to all time highs?
Can they not remember food riots around the world because of the price of rice and wheat?
Do they think supermarkets buy their ranges a week at a time and not on long term contracts?
At the start of 2008, 71 pennys would buy you a Euro today it is 88 pence,
an increase of 20%.
19 pence for a tin of tomatoes? how do people expect anybody to make a profit from that when the standard brands are 50 pence plus a tin?
Stop whinging about shops profiteering and look at the "bigger" picture.