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Victorians paid 4.96 for 4 pints of milk
Edwardia
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ASDA's Income Tracker has worked out that Victorians paid 13 times more for their food than we do now. Here's the article in The Grocer, the grocery trade mag celebrating its 150th anniversary.
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/150th-anniversary/victorians-paid-13-times-more-for-food-shop/224848.article
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/150th-anniversary/victorians-paid-13-times-more-for-food-shop/224848.article
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Thanks for that. Love stuff like this! Find it all so interesting
Saving as much as possible to replace all the things I've had years and are on their way to the knackers yard :eek:0 -
Asda's just trying to justify why they get to rip farmers off.
Pass the buck springs to mind
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I wonder if anything would work out cheaper "in real terms"??
Thanks for that Edwardia.
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I think it's meant the other way around...i.e what is cheaper in real terms in the past. I think cigarettes are the only one due to taxes always outpacing inflation to make them more expensive every year.geordie_joe wrote: »Electrical goods. I bought a TV in the 70's which cost half a years wages and took five years to pay off. Six months ago I bought one, a million times better, and paid cash out of the overtime I had done that month.:footie:
Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0 -
In the Regency era, before Victoria came to throne (1837) rich people would lose £30,000 on cards in a night and that seems quite a lot still yet a maid might not earn more than £3 a year.0
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Yeah, and what did the Victorians have to pay for their tellys?geordie_joe wrote: »Electrical goods. I bought a TV in the 70's which cost half a years wages and took five years to pay off. Six months ago I bought one, a million times better, and paid cash out of the overtime I had done that month.0 -
Maybe we will see those prices again when all UK Dairy farmers are put out of business.
What with having to fly milk in from EU etc (and I won't even go into the obvious downsides!).0 -
Actually I don't use milk other than a splash in a cup of tea, so I wouldn't mind too much.
But I don't understand why UK produce should be so much more expensive.0
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