The rocketing price of butter

A._Badger

I had to do a double-take in a branch of Budgens, yesterday. There on the shelf was a stack of Lurpak butter priced at £1.75 a packet. Surely the highest yet?

Not too long ago, Lurpak and the other major butter brands were regularly on twofer offers - twofer a pound. Now they are all over £1.50 a packet and even the supermarket own brands are over £1.

So what's the excuse? It can't be transport costs as they are a small fraction of the eventual price of a pack. It's not higher tax and don't even think of suggesting to a dairy farmer that it's his fault.

Someone is responsible for this scalping and neither the media nor the government seem at all interested.

jumblejack

On the OS thread, they stock up on whoopsied cream and make theirs for pennies. Am hoping to do so too if I drop on in the reductions!

alandbailey

This afternoon I bought Lurpak spreadable at ASDA. the offer is £2.98 per 500gm tub - but 2 tubs for £4.50.

antrobus

A._Badger wrote: »

I had to do a double-take in a branch of Budgens, yesterday. There on the shelf was a stack of Lurpak butter priced at £1.75 a packet. Surely the highest yet? ...

So what's the excuse? ....

The price of butter has gone up. Butter is like anything else; oil, tuna, government bonds, second hand books; people buy and sell, there is a market, and supply and demand sets the price.

Apparently UK bulk butter prices broke "all previous levels" in the past few days, "due to limited UK production, strong Continental demand and continued weakness in Sterling". It seems that across the EU as a whole, butter production is insufficient to meet demand.

See http://www.dairyco.net/datum/dairy-processing-trade/wholesale-prices/uk-wholesale-prices.aspx

A._Badger

antrobus wrote: »

The price of butter has gone up. Butter is like anything else; oil, tuna, government bonds, second hand books; people buy and sell, there is a market, and supply and demand sets the price.

Apparently UK bulk butter prices broke "all previous levels" in the past few days, "due to limited UK production, strong Continental demand and continued weakness in Sterling". It seems that across the EU as a whole, butter production is insufficient to meet demand.

See http://www.dairyco.net/datum/dairy-processing-trade/wholesale-prices/uk-wholesale-prices.aspx

Strange - they left out speculation and market rigging. Can't imagine why.

chesky369

Oh for the good old days of the butter mountain!

henmuffin

I buy Norpak which is Lidl's Lurpack version. Just cheaper lol

DCFC79

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JC_Derby

apparently your pm space is full dcfc79 by the way


whoopsied cream....is it double cream to make butter? how long does it keep for jumblejack?

DCFC79

JC_Derby wrote: »

apparently your pm space is full dcfc79 by the way


whoopsied cream....is it double cream to make butter? how long does it keep for jumblejack?

thanks JC, its now corrected

making own butter sounds a good idea, wonder what the taste is like

JC_Derby

i watched one of the jamie oliver cook in half an hour episode thingies and he did it.