Food price hikes!!

Nada666

mazziem wrote: »

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.

Well, they were selling it for only £1.60 last week. Their coffees do oscillate wildly. The red label one is ridiculous. The 100g jar used to be half the price of the 200g jar. They corrected that anomaly with a swingeing increase to the smaller jar. Haven't bought it for years but do pop it to laugh unwryly at SELs now and again. Yes, I know.

Nada666

KxMx wrote: »

How are people differing between a rip-off price hike and a genuine, unavoidable price increase?

You won't hear me moaning about how much Tesco have put up the price of the potatoes, because I know it's not down to Tesco, it's down to the rotten harvests.

Yes, the complainants (mostly) DO know the difference.

KxMx

Nada666 wrote: »

Yes, the complainants (mostly) DO know the difference.

Well to be honest I think the thread started out that way, but now every price rise is automatically labelled a rip-off/scam.

:cool:

z.n

JaneDoe wrote: »

I'm doing my online shop at the min and the prices are unreal. I was buying Tesco's maple & pecan crisp cereal, it was £1.09 for a few weeks has since shot up too £1.89. Needless to say I've not bought it since, it's lovely but it's only a 500g bag mostly full of air. Cheapo cat litter also up in price and the quality of it is dire, I had 2 bags in cupboard for bad weather and it contains nothing but powder. Getting harder and harder each week to stick within a budget, don't have car so online with Tesco has to do at the minute, also save up points.

Consider using bailieys no 1 horse feed (think baked breadcrumbs) chick crumb or similar animal foodstuff (in a largeish sack) as cat litter. Some brands do have a slight smell when wet (so need clearing out regularly) but an £11-12 sack lasts me a month with three cats, two of whom are essentially indoor boys at 21 and 22 yo. It clumps and the cats like it. I find it much more convenient and economical than anything sold as cat litter.

Chrysalis

clairk14 wrote: »

Went shopping today and some of my usual foods had gone up, not just by a couple of pence by mostly 25p more expensive!!

Eg. Tesco frozen Garlic Bread, sliced is now £1.25 instead of £1, but a frozen garlic bread baguette is still £1. Can't see how the former can suddenly incur such a rise.

Pure greed on Tesco's behalf. Is this so in 4 weeks time they can drop the price back down to £1 and shout about extraordinary value?!

your theory isnt far fetched, remember the recent great price drop thing they did?

I remember prior to that price drop a load of goods were shooting up in price eg from £1 1 week to £2 the next then during that price drop they were back to £1 as special offer then back after to £2 as a normal price.

Of course its not just that I have seen prices just jump up randomly (usually in large chunks) not like from £1.00 to £1.05 always in large amount like from £1 to £1.50 and they stay there. Or sometimes they change to bulk only offers so from £1 to £1.50 but buy 2 for £2. The latter is very common with tesco, so many of their goods are bulk discounted (after a price rise). Its a real nasty to those of us who shop just for ourselves and dont have the budget to be buying so much food in bulk.

Chrysalis

do Lidl and Aldi home deliver? if not whats the solution for home delivery customers?

111222

Just noticed that a brand of lager at ASDA went up by 21%.a few days ago.

Then, I started doing an online shop at Tesco this morning and have my basket ready I think to order, now by chance I noticed that mince beef has already gone from £2.34 to £2.50 for 750g then I see that the cheap sausages have gone from 64p to 99p, bananas £1.02 to £1.15 etc so I guessing that a few other things will have gone up already by this morning, incidentally, the prices in my basket are still showing the prices from this morning, I did delete one (with a new price)and re add it and the new prices came up.

So, these are some quite big percentages increases here, I take it this is going on all the time and I just happened to catch a few on the day, and also do I get to keep the prices from this morning or will they readjust when I go to checkout because as I said, unless i re add them they are still showing the old price?

Fire_Fox

Ongoing thread on this
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4370027

Fire_Fox

Chrysalis wrote: »

do Lidl and Aldi home deliver? if not whats the solution for home delivery customers?

Nope, the whole process costs grocery stores a fortune they'd have to increase their prices. Taxi, push bike, Shanks' pony, car, bus ....

111222

Looks like it's meat, veg and fruit that are going up, I guess they fluctuate depending on the markets.