Butter - the great scam continues

Nada666

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

How on earth do you rationalise that dissonance? Butter is certainly not a luxury - to a Western diet it is a basic. Milk is not a luxury - but it is not a 'necessity'. And how is charging 49p per pint to those you claim 'need' it justifiable when those who don't are charged less than 25p? Butter and milk are neither luxuries nor necessities.

Nada666

A._Badger wrote: »

Seen in a branch of Budgens today - Anchor butter at £1.97 per pack!

Something to bear in mind when the government next lies about the inflation rate.

Branded butter has cost £1.75 in supermarkets for a long time. £2 in a smaller store hardly seems crazy.

antrobus

The wholesale price of butter has gone up by 60% over the past year.
http://www.dairyco.org.uk/market-information/milk-prices-contracts/wholesale-prices/uk-wholesale-prices/

I know this won't make any difference to the OP - this is not the first time they've started a thread complaining about the price of butter, and I doubt it will be the last. It will always be a conspiracy to extract money from the butter loving British public.:)

AngelsMadv

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

Is Clover actually butter?

Not as far as I'm concerned - it's vegetable5hite!

AngelsMadv

To be fair, there is always an offer to be had. I've nearly run out but I've been living off 25p Lurpak for about 6 months since the Tosco Express glitch.

Before this I had at least 50 blocks from DTD glitch.

Just keep looking out for the offers. It's annoying that butter has gone up, but in reference to the OP, Anchor has always been a premium brand, as had Lurpak. I'd expect those prices in a local shop.

Stock up and freeze when cheap is the answer. It's the answer to most necessity buys!

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

Is it possible that the price fluctuations for Anchor Butter are due to the fact that (as sold in the UK) it is no longer a New Zealand product?

honeythewitch

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

To many of us, two pounds is a lot, and every penny spent will be considered first.

A._Badger

antrobus wrote: »

The wholesale price of butter has gone up by 60% over the past year.
http://www.dairyco.org.uk/market-information/milk-prices-contracts/wholesale-prices/uk-wholesale-prices/

I know this won't make any difference to the OP - this is not the first time they've started a thread complaining about the price of butter, and I doubt it will be the last. It will always be a conspiracy to extract money from the butter loving British public.:)

Another poster to whom it seems to come as a constant surprise that consumers complain about beyond inflation price rises on a money saving website.

Nada666

But how long has butter been about £1.75? A 13% increase is not beyond 3% annual inflation after a very few years.

A._Badger

Nada666 wrote: »

But how long has butter been about £1.75? A 13% increase is not beyond 3% annual inflation after a very few years.

Well according to our resident fact checker, the wholesale increase has been 60 per cent in the past year. Does that tally with the general rate of inflation?