Price fixing on sugar at Tesco and Asda?

Mistymaid

Oh, and just in case anybody is interested, what brought me to this thread was the fact I live in one of the places in the UK that is possibly the most expensive to buy food (outer Scottish islands) and the sugar at our shops runs at £1.12 and 90p respectively. Since our shopkeepers have to pay extra for hauliers to get the stuff here I'm amazed that one of them is running either cheaper or equivalent to places like Tesco!

carriebradshaw

Mistymaid wrote: »

Oh, and just in case anybody is interested, what brought me to this thread was the fact I live in one of the places in the UK that is possibly the most expensive to buy food (outer Scottish islands) and the sugar at our shops runs at £1.12 and 90p respectively. Since our shopkeepers have to pay extra for hauliers to get the stuff here I'm amazed that one of them is running either cheaper or equivalent to places like Tesco!

I noticed in Tesco that sugar has actually gone up in price again it's 92 p while my local shop has put the price down to 79p so for the first time ever they're cheaper than Tesco!

andrewmp

Mistymaid wrote: »

Dollar, Canadian Dollar ...
?

Did you check that table I posted, it clearly shows the pound is down against the dollar in the last year.

Mistymaid wrote: »

Your graph isn't measuring any one currency value against the other

But that's exactly what it's showing!

Mistymaid wrote: »

it's just showing how much each currency has fallen

No it isn't.

Mistymaid wrote: »

To be honest I'd love to know why someone who doesn't buy sugar is even participating in a thread on it in the first place?

Because it went off topic and I made a comment on the off topic part. I do buy sugar, as I posted above, just not very often.

Mistymaid wrote: »

Oh, and just in case anybody is interested, what brought me to this thread was the fact I live in one of the places in the UK that is possibly the most expensive to buy food (outer Scottish islands) and the sugar at our shops runs at £1.12 and 90p respectively. Since our shopkeepers have to pay extra for hauliers to get the stuff here I'm amazed that one of them is running either cheaper or equivalent to places like Tesco!

They're probably getting subsidies :rotfl: