Tescos milk £1.36 for 4 pints East Anglia bad!!

muddyfox470

beetplek wrote: »

Farmers are going out of business as the prices of milk has become so low doe to massive buying power from the supermarkets. Raise the price and all the supermarkets get are complaints. Even if the farmers are noy getting paid more it just shows that all people are bothered about it was it costs us.

Do you honestly think the farmers get any significant amount from this price increase? I'd be suprised if they get more than 1p.

I have read and heard in the news of all this coming, and no doubt the supermarkets will take advantage and will be perfectly happy to raise the price a bit more. Did none of you read that Tesco and Asda force down the farmers costs (here) threatening to drop them from the supply, all this after Tesco were advertising they paid a 'fair' price for their milk.
Waitrose FTW :P

Ian

seems the pricerise to farmers is more than what I anticipated, but still for the supermarkets to capitalise: http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2007/09/11/106601/sainsburys-announces-milk-price-increase.html

COOLTRIKERCHICK

do you know how much % wise that the average shopping bill will go up by ?

as i personally think this will be an excuse for everything to go up and they will use the floods etc as the reason...

i can see it now..... things like shoe polish etc wil go up and they will say its becuase of the floods..... their neighbour had a flood 3 thousand miles away... and we are coming out in sympathy... by putting our prices up, because they had to put theirs up...

dont get me wrong..... prices go up ..thats life... but not all together.....

COOLTRIKERCHICK

computersaysdoh wrote: »

I have heard news stories about food prices rising 30% by end of year.

have we already had the affects of the last supermarket price war reversed. . ..

so that means for people who spend £100 per week on shopping it will cost them £130. per week...

or if you spend £50 per week on shopping it will cost £65 with the price increases:eek:

i personally think that this could push some people/familes over the financial edge

surfsister

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

so that means for people who spend £100 per week on shopping it will cost them £130. per week...

or if you spend £50 per week on shopping it will cost £65 with the price increases:eek:

i personally think that this could push some people/familes over the financial edge

Now is the time to stop going to tescos and decamp to Lidl or aldi and get veg at the market or local shop. Today i got 3 lbs bananas for £1 at my grocers and a sack of pot for £2.50 yet pots were £1 for a small bag at Tesco.

funky04

tesco value uht skimmed milk 1 litre carton, from 33p to 38p now 44p each!

flea72

i love the way the supermarkets up the prices on goods, blaming the recent floods.

what most people dont know is that supermarkets buy from farmers about 12-18m in advance, so the carrots the supermarkets stock at present will have been bought at last years prices. you shouldnt see the knock-on effect of the floods, until next years crop, but the supermarkets realise they cant just up the prices by a whopping amount in one go, they will have to do it gradually over the year so WE dont notice, or i think in this case, up prices now, as they know in 12m time we will have forgoten about the floods, and they wont be able to use it as an excuse.

But heres betting the farmer will only get 1p/lb (if lucky) to cover the lower yields/higher expenditure, whereas the supermarkets will make loads, by making us believe their $%&£

Flea

pollyskettle

The rate we go through milk is unsustainable if the price rises much more, so I have decided to set a limit of £10/week on milk (down from about £14 atm) and spend NO more than that. The current amount I spend represents nearly 25% of the weekly food budget which is silly really. This year I've grown my own carrots, potatoes, peas, spring onions, beetroot, herbs, courgettes and I've got leeks and onions to go in when the time is right so that'll slice a large amount off my bill. Any veg I buy comes from the Saturday market and I spent £6.90 last week on 3 carrier bags full of fruit and veg so I saved a fortune on going to Tescos! Luckily I live in a very rural area with loads of farms around here so I shall buy direct what I can and hope to end up only getting non-perishables from the supermarkets.

surfsister

perhaps us Mse'rs should pool our resources and start a commune with interent access of course!

pollyskettle

surfsister wrote: »

perhaps us Mse'rs should pool our resources and start a commune with internet access of course!

:T Only if we can keep cows. I have a shed we could live in but I don't really think it's big enough :rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

surfsister wrote: »

perhaps us Mse'rs should pool our resources and start a commune with interent access of course!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

it has been done in wales....( but without the internet connection i think)

its a place called teeppee valley......i think it started around the 70's ..people opting out of the rat race so to speak....