Sneaky 'forward rolls' - Asda prices

Kazonline

I'm so glad I've found the OS board in view of all these rapid price increases! Perhaps going OS and growing all own veggies etc is going to be the way to afford to eat? Normally by now all the lettuce and cucumber etc are down in price. I do wish I'd been a bit more carefull with my lettuce now, but have bought some 'cut and come again' so hopefully a few more affordable salads soon.
Who knows, perhaps all the increased fuel prices will mean that small time local traders will be able to compete more with big chains by providing local grown product that doesn't need so much transportation. Perhaps it could even become cheaper - as if we are all buying that way and they have a higher turnover then their profit margin could come down and they'd still be quids in....?
Shopping tomorrow at Asda - perhaps I ought to bulk buy before the prices go up any more!
Kaz x

garysletters

A different thought on the recent price rises. May not be true but I'll put it forward anyway.
Prices have risen over the last couple of months. Lets say since July, the 7th month of the year.
I'm guessing we all know about the "special discount" rules for stores where an item must have been priced at the higher price for 28 consecutive days within the last 6 months.
6 months from July equals christmas shoppers!!!
Price em high now and the stores can claim massive reductions in price during December/New Year, thus winning the lucrative Christmas spending bonanza.

Just a thought! The rises seem to be way too high for purely an oil price hike, petrol has only risen 4 or 5 pence a litre.

livinginhope

Think I'm the odd one out here ,but following my visit to Asda the other day I came home with MEGA bargains,sooo many of their products were on offer for a quid,and Pepsi (all varieties) only 68p/2L bottle,too good to miss Hovis bread was 3 loaves for a pound,I asked at customer services and they said that these were offers that will last for a while longer yet
Problem now is I'm stocking up on things and my shopping budget has gone out the window :mad: hopefully I will save money later

V_Chic_Chick

Can I just say that the dairy producers are really struggling at the moment, and are only really surviving because of subsidies. This is because the supermarkets are screwing them, because when the supermarket offers two for one on, say, raspberries, the farmer has to absorb the cost and not the supermarket. If we don't watch out, then there will be no british milk (or anything, for that matter).

So, I say buy from farm shops and farmers markets.

BTW, if anyone lives in Bristol, the farmers market in Clifton, by the Apsley road auction rooms, is far, far, more expensive than the one in Corn Street on a wednesday. Just for comparison, 6 free range eggs in clifton was £1.50 :eek: but in corn street it's 70p for the same, and the corn street ones are sold by a charity that gives people with learning difficulties a job by working on their farm