Food price hikes!!

iris

Two price increases at Aldi this year

Small fresh chicken was £2.49 now £2.99
Chocolate digestive biscuits was 59p now 65p

Nada666

iris wrote: »

Two price increases at Aldi this year

Small fresh chicken was £2.49 now £2.99
Chocolate digestive biscuits was 59p now 65p

Not valid.

This thread is for ridiculous increases.

Stompa

iris wrote: »

Two price increases at Aldi this year

Small fresh chicken was £2.49 now £2.99
Chocolate digestive biscuits was 59p now 65p

I've counted 14 so far, but 11 decreases (though they've all been by trivial amounts).

Cornucopia

What I find striking is that you can stand in front of a vast selection of cheese & cold meat in Lidl/Aldi, with a good many products being less than £2.

When I go to Asda, there's only a small number of products in that price range and some of them are sad-looking Smart Price items.

Like-for-like, some of the equivalent products are £3-4.

rachmc

I normally buy Asda's smart price sausages for things like casseroles. For the past year or so they've been 84p.... went shopping on Friday and they've gone up to £1.10! I personally don't think there's anything smart about that price increase

Cornucopia

Like these?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-range/fresh-bakery/best-of-british-meat/pork/pork-product-detail-page/ps/p/everyday-essentials-british-pork-sausages/

As well as there being price competition in the mainstream between supermarkets, there is also price competition at the deep discount end (between Aldi/Lidl and value range items in the major supermarkets).

joeyboy

I can understand it on seasonal products and climatic conditions for particular raw ingredients, I do wonder at times when we hear about a certain crop increasing in price 100% on the wholesale markets due to drought for instance, yet we don't see a 100% increase at the shelf, are they instead upping other unrelated products by 15% to balance it all out.

Anyhow one thing at Iceland we do manage well is price stability, I've been there 5 years and not a lot has changed, particularly with the frozen stuff. There have seem some shrinking product sizes, generally just 10% size reductions, but for most things this isn't the case and in fact some things have become better value.

Generally though a big price increase is just a façade for a "special offer" a month later. I often look at mysupermarket to see what the products price has been over the last year to predict if it's a temporary high which is probably going to go back down.

For the value brands though, I do expect more variable pricing, as they're using the best deals they can do get the production costs down, if something is 50p, then becomes 70p, it seems like a big increase (40%) due to the small numbers, but a £3.00 product becoming £3.20 isn't deemed such a travesty.

Though although being young, it does seem to strike me from hearing from my parents and grandparents, the smaller percentage of household income that is spent on food then how it used to be, especially since we have come to expect to be able to eat a variety of meats pretty much daily. What were luxuries have become considered almost necessities, maybe we've been..spoilt in some ways.

Sooetie

Fortunately Tesco is the other side of town and although only abot 3 miles it can take over 30 mins to get there - So I don't.

I use Aldi and Iceland for my main shopping and Sainsburys for the odd couple of things I can't get. Mainly dishwasher tabs and coffee.

Had a voucher from Sainsburys the other week and after buying 8 200g jars of Carte Noire at £4 I now have coffee for a while for less than half price

Iceland have been great but I think now a few of the big companies like Birds Eye have got too much of a foothold in there and they can't be as competetive on some things.

Aldi does what it syas in the TV adverts - my kids like their stuff as much as any other. I know people who go there for the wine offers. I like the great prices on fruit and veg and deli cheeses and meats.

I'm a divorced mum who has to watch her purse but I can feed my kids good food at very reasonable prices.

Just have to do the supermarket run once a fortnight lol

(btw they are on the way home from work so no extra petrol used)

cheltenhamgal

The biggest price jump I have seen recently is for a 2kg bag of potatoes, at the start of the year they were £1.25 in Iceland and are now selling at £2.00. Even my over-priced Londis is selling a 2kg bag at £1.89

zenseeker

cheltenhamgal wrote: »

The biggest price jump I have seen recently is for a 2kg bag of potatoes, at the start of the year they were £1.25 in Iceland and are now selling at £2.00. Even my over-priced Londis is selling a 2kg bag at £1.89

Yes, but wholesale potato prices have increased by as much as 250%! Supermarkets have to pass on the increase.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22525223

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/cheap-as-chips-not-any-more-as-potato-prices-grow-by-250-29193737.html