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Inflation in Essentials

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  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    prowla wrote: »
    Beer seems to be going up in the supermarkets, to the point where it can be cheaper to go to the pub.

    In my local pub a pint is about £4.75. Even Waitrose doesn't stick any beer which costs anything like that. Even expensive carp like Brewdog is only £2 a bottle in the supermarket which comes out at less than £3.50 a pint. If I compared drinking the most expensive supermarket beer to the cheapest pub then it might come out cheaper to go to the pub, but I'm not that keen on wetherspoons personally...
  • prowla
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    I was thirsty yesterday and had a half of IPA - it was 90p.
    Another pub had a very nice local beer for £2.50 a pint.
    Comparing that to the bottled beers at £1.89 or 3 for £5.
  • Generali
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    In my local pub a pint is about £4.75. Even Waitrose doesn't stick any beer which costs anything like that. Even expensive carp like Brewdog is only £2 a bottle in the supermarket which comes out at less than £3.50 a pint. If I compared drinking the most expensive supermarket beer to the cheapest pub then it might come out cheaper to go to the pub, but I'm not that keen on wetherspoons personally...

    A fiver a pint!!! F... me! That's mad.

    I leave the country for a bit more than four years and you guys break it. Always remember the 2 Golden rules:

    1. Don't muck up
    2. Never forget rule #1.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    I am not sure they have increased in price either with smuggled tobacco and cheap supermarket beer dominating the market in poorer areas.

    Again, I will point out that this is an index put together by a firm of Money Brokers.

    Unless you too get paid a huge amount of money for being a spiv :eek:, you cannot relate to these people.

    They do not even know that poorer areas exist
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • shortchanged_2
    shortchanged_2 Posts: 5,546 Forumite
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    In my local pub a pint is about £4.75. Even Waitrose doesn't stick any beer which costs anything like that. Even expensive carp like Brewdog is only £2 a bottle in the supermarket which comes out at less than £3.50 a pint. If I compared drinking the most expensive supermarket beer to the cheapest pub then it might come out cheaper to go to the pub, but I'm not that keen on wetherspoons personally...

    One of the reasons why the cost of living is so much in London thus resulting in the demand for high wages and the resulting stupid house prices in London and so on and so on.
    Why are we here?......................because we are not all there.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    A fiver a pint!!! F... me! That's mad.

    A pint of Stella in the Railway or the Lord Russ Conway at Liverpool Street was over 4 quid in 1990 !!!

    We were paying even more than that in Henry's on Piccadilly which was our local :eek:
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • MacMickster
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    With the exception of a pint in London, most of the essentials referred to are already very low margin goods and services, where competition and rationalisation are unlikely to present much relief to the public going forward. With wages stagnating, people are certainly going to have less to spend on discretionary items, so this serves to highlight the fact that a consumer led recovery is not going to happen in the UK.
    "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    A fiver a pint!!! F... me! That's mad.
    .

    You think that's bad?

    £1.50 for a lime.....

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21519050

    Now that's mad. ;)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • StevieJ
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    prowla wrote: »
    I was thirsty yesterday and had a half of IPA - it was 90p.
    Another pub had a very nice local beer for £2.50 a pint.
    Comparing that to the bottled beers at £1.89 or 3 for £5.

    My local tiple is around £3, an equivalent (preferred) pint from the supermarket would be £1.11 (or £0.86p current offer).
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    You think that's bad?

    £1.50 for a lime.....

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21519050

    Now that's mad. ;)

    No wonder gen tells us not to fret over 5p on a litre of fuel.

    @gen

    Is the article a true reflection (not about a limes)?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
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