Butter - the great scam continues

ky822000

I think the point of this is that butter is a basic cooking ingredient and I have also noticed the price rises of late - it is almost as though the supermarkets have noticed an increase in people baking their own cakes and biscuits etc to save money and so have increased the cost of the ingredients.

I LOVE the taste of real butter but cannot always justify the cost in relation to cheaper spread/marg.

robpw2

mrsbartolozzi wrote: »

is clover actually butter?

no its plastic

anamenottaken

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

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Clover is £1 in poundland

so what is your point exactly?

What's the price of Clover got to do with the price of butter?

max2002ad

Your original post misses three important factors that effect the price.
The first is that the cost of milk and associated products is increasing due to external factors.
The second is that the price in budgens will normally be higher than a supermarket unless on promotion.
Third is the average price in the supermarket is £1.53 in the last year at asda and is currently £1.60 so this price is not suprising.

A._Badger

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

You cannot compare the price of a pack of butter being sold at two for the price of one and the price of a single pack today.

Of course you can. A product that was regularly being sold on ' twofer' offers for £1 a pack, rising in price to nearly £2 per pack has either suffered from a serious cost increase, or is being ramped.

A._Badger

max2002ad wrote: »

Your original post misses three important factors that effect the price.
The first is that the cost of milk and associated products is increasing due to external factors.
The second is that the price in budgens will normally be higher than a supermarket unless on promotion.
Third is the average price in the supermarket is £1.53 in the last year at asda and is currently £1.60 so this price is not suprising.

The price in Budgens may be near the top end of the span but you will find that Sainsbury's is now already charging over £1.70 and the price is continuing to rise week by week.

Remind me, meanwhile, of the increase in milk prices that matches such an increase.

Must say, I am puzzled by people who come to MSE to defend supermarket rip-offs. Shouldn't there be a new Money Wasting Expert site?

Bongo567

Butter normally lasts me weeks if not months - I think it's still cheap compared to how much use I get out of it (I don't use too much)

I suppose the people who will be hit in the pocket more are the ones who home bake cookies, cakes etc but they will probably still save money.

VfM4meplse

A._Badger wrote: »

Must say, I am puzzled by people who come to MSE to defend supermarket rip-offs. Shouldn't there be a new Money Wasting Expert site?

Butter is a luxury product, whereas to most people milk is a necessity, if only for tea and coffee. Sometimes you just have to make a difficult choice as to whether you're prepared to pay market prices.

As difficult as it can be to make a decision about an item that costs less than £2, that is

A._Badger

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Butter is a luxury product, whereas to most people milk is a necessity, if only for tea and coffee. Sometimes you just have to make a difficult choice as to whether you're prepared to pay market prices.

As difficult as it can be to make a decision about an item that costs less than £2, that is

Utter nonsense! Butter is not a 'luxury' product - try as the greedy supermarkets and dairy giants might to turn it into one.

Once again, I find myself astonished by the complacency of posters who inhabit a forum on 'Money Saving Expert' then act as if excessive price rises are nothing to be concerned about.

Ken68

So agree Badger, unwarranted price rises, can only suppose its to make up the overall profits.
I just stop buying. Shop around, Do without , or find something cheaper. Like when coffee went up, I went back to tea and I suppose when that goes up, on to plain water.