Food price hikes!!

mazziem

Hi all,

Not sure if this has been picked up already so I apologise if this is old news.
I personally buy tesco Gold coffee the 200g jar and have done for a while. Over past couple of years Ihave seen it increase by a few pence but nothing huge but I have recently noticed it went up to £3,20.

Now I couldn't remember exactly how much I paid not could I find a old online order, it's bugged me that much iv looked in my old emails and found one from October showing the price being £2.45 , it was about November time I noticed the increase.

Is it me or is that a lot to just 'up' a products price.

I buy it weekly and it hasn't been on offer either - other than the 500g tub - which did work out cheaper to buy, but overall the price still remains at £3.20

If I calculate that right that's a 32% increase!

What does everyone else think? Has there been any other 'large' increasements in other things.

Oh and for anyone who put 'everything is going up' yes I know that I just think this is a large jump for coffee!!

Thanks M x

mazziem

Hi

Iv just posted about this - the coffee I use has gone up from £2.45 to £3.20!!! It's ridiculous

M x

surfsister

that's exactly why I topped shopping at Tesco! veg are also ridiculous prices finding m and s and waitrose cheaper quite often!

but now i get all veg/fruit on the market and the rest at asda/lidl/aldi

zennith

Surely all :money:er's drink this?


47p

Tesco Everyday Value Instant Coffee Granules (100g) :eek:

Fire_Fox

Tesco have been scalping for years, massive January price hikes presumably to pay for the December bargains. If you have a smartphone the big supermarkets have apps, plus there is Mysupermarket for comparing. You may be able to get grocery home delivery for stores that are not in your town, it often is not the local branch that does the deliveries anyway.

naganalf

shinkyshonky wrote: »

Lol.....are you a tesco bod in disguise....methinks you are lol!
Seriously ....read the OP Headline....that`s why there is 8,9 pages...oh and I`m not your buddy Mr Tesco

“Words are loaded pistols.” :rotfl:

naganalf

Well,I'll be damned if Tesco aren't going to launch a huge price cutting exercise just after they've put them up 20-50% post Christmas!!
Do not be conned.....just keep going to Morrisons and Asda,Lidl and Aldi as they'll respond but at a lower level so you'll gain but Tesco won't!
"The investment, likely to herald price drops on a wide range of products, is understood to be slated for March, just after the company’s financial year end.

One source said: “The investment will be substantial and aimed at ensuring Tesco’s turnaround plan doesn’t lose momentum. It has been in the pipeline ever since Christmas, when it did particularly well compared to its rivals. Consumers can expect !significant decreases in food prices.”

A Tesco spokeswoman said: “We are continually !investing in keeping prices low, to keep the cost of food shopping down for our customers.”

ALIBOBSY

diamond_dave wrote: »

I've been watching the price of tesco passata go from 29p to 36p and now 54p!! Vote with your feet,Folks, and buy it in Aldi - still 29p.Our local is rammed with customers at ALL times of the day and the best thing the shop staff are pleasant,agreeable, normal people - no trouts in Aldi.
Aldi Angels, perhaps?

I reckon the Aldi passata is better tasting and thicker as well. Our Aldi is absolutely packed all the time-I remember going in when it first opened and on a weekday morning it would be me, the baby and a couple of pensioners. Now its packed and they added a new till and often all 6 are on together. Our is getting an extension this year and I have been told there will be 2000 extra lines as well.

TBH the only time we go into tesco anymore is if there is a really good offer on-eg petrol saver deal and they don't seem to have too many great offers either anymore.

Looking at say the valentine meal deals Tesco look rubbish, if you needed to go cheap Asda/morrisons/coop do a deal without starters and some with wine for £10, if you want to spend a bit more marks and waitrose are doing 3 courses and wine and a box of chocs for £20 with much more choices (and probably better quality) than mr T who are not giving you a starter or the chocs for £15.

Ali x

Edwardia

I read in The Grocer that Tesco is planning a Clubcard push... and wanting suppliers to pay for it.

ALIBOBSY

Doc_N wrote: »

Aldi don't tell you that - you can tell from the codes on the packs, the place of manufacture and the ingredients. The Stilton, to take just one example, comes from the same creamery that supplies M&S, and the (British made) High Juice blackcurrant cordial is infinitely superior to Ribena but at a fraction of the price - check the labels for the blackcurrant juice content.

Most Aldi food these days comes from British suppliers - the same ones that supply all the supermarkets. The big exception is cooked, sliced meats, which are often from France or Germany, and are usually far better than the British equivalents. I'd mention, for example, the excellent Torchon Ham.

The cake slices and most of the cakes come from the same factory that Mr K uses and in fact our sells some Mr K cakes as well. I was told that the beans are HP beans or at least in the same factory. So yes alot of the suppliers are british and those that aren't are continental. TBH how much of Tesco's stuff is british and how much if flown half way around the world lol.

I was told one of the two either Aldi or Lidl (Lidl I think) have shortbread made in the walkers factory as someone who worked there confirmed it.

Ali x