Butter prices

plumbers49

Have you noticed that supermarket blended butter has increased from 98p to £1.10 in the past week. Coincidentally (?) I see Sainsburys and Asda have been fined £116 million for their part in a price fixing scam with dairies. Net result is that milk producers didn't get the extra money, supermarkets and dairies got richer from the fixed, higher consumer prices, milk producers went out of business so there's now a shortage so prices of dairy products are going up. The £116 million is going to goverment coffers, consumers - us - are left to pay the bill. Scandalous!

antrobus

plumbers49 wrote: »

The £116 million is going to goverment coffers, consumers - us - are left to pay the bill.

Since we pay the goverment's bills, no matter what, that's the same difference.

antrobus

plumbers49 wrote: »

Coincidentally (?) I see Sainsburys and Asda have been fined £116 million for their part in a price fixing scam with dairies.

In December 2007.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/07/supermarkets

Don't tell me they're at it again?

thatguy1

should read the dates on articles you read OP!

farmers-marketeer

antrobus wrote: »

In December 2007.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/07/supermarkets

Don't tell me they're at it again?

Shop elsewhere Lidl, Aldi, Waitrose, Morrisons, and Tesco all charging less and not facing a fine its not rocket science really but something we should do from choice.

sinw

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Butter_Margarine_And_Spreads/Country_Life_Unsalted_English_Butter_250g.html

country life 50p in asda atm xx

DCFC79

There is a choice OP, you dont have to buy the butter priced at £1.10, get the country life from asda at 50p or buy 1 thats on offer somewhere else

sinw

or if u no asda buy only this from tesco and put it through the price checker

jodyg

i go to the local farmers market and buy in bulk... and miss the whole supermarket thing. not easy for everybody i know, but if you can...

geordie_joe

jodyg wrote: »

i go to the local farmers market and buy in bulk... and miss the whole supermarket thing. not easy for everybody i know, but if you can...

I go to my local farmers market very month, got no choice as it's outside my front door so if I want to go any where I have to go through the market.

I look at the butter, £3 per 250g, then carry walking and buy it from Morrisons.

I can remember the 60's and 70's when you could buy from farms cheaper than you could get in the shops. Because the farmer sold to you at the same price he sold to the shops. Now they charge you extra for the privilege of not having the supermarkets adding their markup to the price.

VoucherMan

Best of luck buying country life from Asda.

Tried on Tuesday. Not a pack left on the shelf. Not even a space for it. Something else there instead.

So I guess they'd sold out and weren't expecting any more in before the offer ended.