The Rising Cost of Food

nannyboo1

Natty68 wrote: »

Sorry for jumping in on the thread but can I suggest a company bonnie-bumpkins? I have a veg box delivered every week and I realised the other day that it is coming up for nearly 2 years since I first started using them. The company I use is Riverford, who are based in Devon, but deliver all over the country. I do have a veg person that deals with my area of Kent and they are brilliant. They collect all the veg within 24 hours of the order being placed and deliver it all fresh and lovely, and are brilliant if you aren't in etc..

Back off to read the thread thoroughly now before I post again..

Hugs and love to everyone, I see a few regulars on here

Would also recommend this company I look forward to mine every week and because I pay for it (and not on food shopping) don't waste what we get if that makes sense

Maitland13

Has anyone heard of Utility Warehouse cash back MasterCard?? It claims to help you save on your bills but I haven't heard anyone use it before.

Maitland13

nannyboo1 wrote: »

Would also recommend this company I look forward to mine every week and because I pay for it (and not on food shopping) don't waste what we get if that makes sense

Hello do you order from the web or telephone them as I couldn't find them online it could just be me but perhaps I spell it wrong.

Thank you lots

bonnie_bumpkins

Maitland13 wrote: »

Hello do you order from the web or telephone them as I couldn't find them online it could just be me but perhaps I spell it wrong.

Thank you lots

Hi if you go to post 224 and click on 'Riverford' in blue writing it will take you to their website. Clever eh?

Re the credit card, have you tried on the financial-type forums, there may be useful info there.

BBx

OrkneyStar

mrswive wrote: »

DH raises his eyebrows and laughs at me when I go round Mr T's saying, "OMG, I can't believe how much that's gone up!" The eyebrows are certainly getting a lot of exercise atm I can tell you!
The latest - I bought a pack of creamed coconut sachets last week and paid 65p, the very next day they were 99p and yesterday £1.09:eek:, that's over 69%!!!!
And what's happened to the price of value stuff? Now a lot of us have gone down a few levels and are buying value stuff, the prices of those items have increased hugely, as several posters have mentioned before.:mad::mad:

Value items are subsidised by non-value (eg store brand, store premium brand or non-store premium brand), stands to reason if more people shift from subsidising brands (non-value) the profit from those will go down, meaning there is less to subsidise value brand with, meaning the subsidised price (value item) will increase to reflect that!

ceridwen

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Value items are subsidised by non-value (eg store brand, store premium brand or non-store premium brand), stands to reason if more people shift from subsidising brands (non-value) the profit from those will go down, meaning there is less to subsidise value brand with, meaning the subsidised price (value item) will increase to reflect that!

Thats also my understanding of how the system operates - ie that those who are buying standard and premium ranges have been paying extra on those ranges in order for the prices of "Value"/"Basics" type ranges to be lower than they are due to be. A sort of "socialism in the supermarket" of taking from the better-off and giving to the worse-off (admittance here to not having been happy with knowing I was paying "over the odds" to do the cross-subsidisation - as I'm a Liberal Democrat/Green inclination rather than "socialist").

I think the other thing that is going on here is that supermarkets have been charging UNDER cost price on Value/Basics type goods - as loss leaders to get people to come into their stores looking for a couple of specific "bargains" in those ranges and the supermarkets' intention has been that once the shopper had stuck that couple of Basics/Value products in their basket that they had specifically come in for - that they would then get tempted into buying various other (standard and/or premium range) products that they hadnt planned on buying and the shopper would then be cross-subsidising themselves iyswim (ie they would be paying less than they were due to on Value/Basics custard powder for instance - but then getting tempted into buying Premium fruit juice or some alcohol).

The supermarkets have got wise to the fact that a lot of people are now rigidly sticking firmly to a Value/Basics only shopping list and have stopped cross-subsidising themselves and ordinary/premium range customers arent prepared to pay any further subsidy towards the Value/Basics ranges because we're also having "our pockets hit" by the current economic climate.

OrkneyStar

Yes Ceridwen, I also agree on your second point, that any sort of offer/value product is an incentive to get us in the store, hoping we will then buy a load of other things ('offers' perhaps ?) which we didn't need in the first place ?

parsonswife8

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/15/food-prices-rise-un-report

The report predicts that continued expansion of biofuel output – often to meet government targets – will create additional demand for wheat, coarse grains, vegetable oils and sugar.

We are going to have to be REALLY Old Style to cope with this one.

Going to try and grow even more salad and veg, store some sugar and some veg oil. I also heard meat and rice mentioned on the news this morning and that has already gotten SO expensive.


http://news.sky.com/home/business/article/16058442

Andy Clarke, Asda chief executive, said: "The maths is simple - the rising cost of feeding the family, getting around and increasing unemployment add up to the biggest squeeze on families since the last recession."

The company found customers were half-filling petrol tanks and cutting their own hair instead of visiting the hairdressers to deal with the spending squeeze

goodgodthatonesevenbigger

This just makes me more determined to convert the whole garden into a veg plot next year, maybe some chucks as well.

Its not going to be long before a large percentage of normal people cant afford their daily staples anymore. It makes you wonder how people can continue to lead the so called 'aspirational life styles' and what they are actually missing out on or not paying to do so.

valk_scot

I have to say that when I look at the brimming trollies of junk and processed food that some folk drag through the checkouts at Tesco I think that some folk could easily stand to lose 40% of it, both for their pockets' sake and that of their health.

But I do take your point. Most folk could cut down on the pre made and processed stuff, but it's different when its the price of wheat and rice and grain that's going up. And by knock on effect, the price of meat and dairy produce. These are staples. I wonder if this will benefit our farming economy in any way? If there are going to be price rises and shortages then it would be worthwhile for our farms to start growing more for the domestic market. That can't be a bad thing even if it didn't bring the prices down much.

I think also there will have to be a shake up in eating habits in this country. I know most of us old stylers are pretty canny about stretching expensive ingredients already, but there's going to be a lot more of this sort of cooking around. Less meat, less fats, less sugar, more locally produced veg etc...actually, it doesn't sound that bad IF you've got the slack in your budget at the moment. It's the folk that are already struggling even having cut down on all the expensive bits that are going to be hit hardest, unfortunately.

As to me well, I'd better not downsize the allotment juist yet, eh?