Tesco price increases

RHYSDAD

Sainsbury's have been doing this with some if the basics stuff as well as things like sugar. At the same time they launch their 'live well for less' campaign. Seems a bit insulting really....

Salz

Tesco Coffee 300g was £2.15, went down to £1.98 in Price Drop, now up to £2.40

PolkaDotsAndLace

Asda's own brand (not smartprice) grated mozzarella 250g - used to be £1.50, now £2
Same but grated cheddar 220g - used to be around £1.50, now £1.80

Glad I sit and check my shopping list online - now I know to pop to Scotmid for cheese instead.

roz_d

where do i start with tesco's "price drop" mushrooms prechopped for a bag went from 75p to 89p to £1 and now back to 80p. mine has shot up to £1.90 for 250g was £1.50 a few months back. the price of ham flucktuates every day could be £2.20 for 220g or £3 for 220g. the price of fresh salad is astronomical.

For me and my fiance we have to have fresh food and can't have the cheaper reformed meats because of my fiance's food intolerances to yeast, milk and eggs. an average weekly shop for us is anywhere between £150-£200 and that is just for the two of us just buying for 3 meals a day and we have no waste we eat everything we buy. I know farm shops are alot cheaper but i can't get to them it is a 20 minute drive to my nearest one.

Ken68

I suppose that is the new way...supermarkets moving prices up then down then up and back again.

[Deleted User]

I always try to shop with my feet after checking the prices online I used to use tescos quite a bit but their selling tactics seem to be a bit OTT.I can understand stuf going up gradually but to put things up by 20 or 30p is just greedy.I will not pay that sort of money and as a pensioner living on a fixed income I do shop around quite a bit I feel for those who are stuck with little choice of where to shop.It does seem at times that tesco's want to run all the small shops out of business and grab as much of your cash as possible.What they don't realise is women are not fools and we are extremely careful about how we shop and the more folk look around and shop with their feet the more they will moan that they are stuck with stuff.On Christmas Eve I had to go to the local large tescos to get some bread stuffing for my DD at the last minute They were selling £40.00 bronze Norfolk turkeys at 1.00p.m. for £28.00 and they had shelves of them, and the assisitant said that by 5.00 they would have to sell them off at a fiver as no one was buying them.Sadly both my DDs and I had no room in the freezers or I would have bought a couple for Easter/Bank Holiday.The shop at Gillingham is huge and they couldn't sell half the fresh food they had even reduced

steviedeal

6 Onion Bajjis, were £1 then 80p (in the price drop) now £1.50!!!! :eek:

terra_ferma

roz_d wrote: »

For me and my fiance we have to have fresh food and can't have the cheaper reformed meats because of my fiance's food intolerances to yeast, milk and eggs. an average weekly shop for us is anywhere between £150-£200 and that is just for the two of us just buying for 3 meals a day and we have no waste we eat everything we buy. I know farm shops are alot cheaper but i can't get to them it is a 20 minute drive to my nearest one.

:eek:
Do you mean monthly by any chance? I used to spend a huge amount of money on food, when we were richer but never that much, even with shopping at Waitrose and buying extra stuff at M&S etc (oh the old times, the old junk food and all...).
we are very good now...
if it's weekly you could start a thread listing what you buy and you'll find people will help you find alternatives that are equally, if not more, nutritions, healthy and compatible with food allergies etc.

dawnie1972

dawnie1972 wrote: »

Because Tesco are a bunch of robbing rip off merchants. How about this for a price increase ................ wooden handled snow shovel bought before xmas for £2.97 .............price now .............£5.97!!!!!

price has increased again to 6.97 now!!

anniemf2508

just been doing my online shop for the week and noticed 2 quite significant increases:
Tesco 340g smooth peanut butter gone up from £1.01p to £1.38 in a week.
Trattoria thin crust pepperoni frozen pizza up from £1.00 to £1.49