Butter prices

robin58

Witless wrote: »

In L!dl a 1lb block is £2.25, 1/2 lb block is £1.09.

Like to know how.

Current price for thier own butter is £1.40 unsalted, £1.33 salted. Saw these prices today. Never seen a 1/2 lb block in there.

£1.09 price was weeks ago, price is going up nearly every 2-3 weeks.

Mrs_Mac_1

Is that the Crown brand of butter in Lidl that you posters above are referring to? If you read the ingredients, it is not pure butter. It doesn't taste as nice as real butter and even when left out of the fridge, does not soften or spread like real butter

x12yhp

Butter is an extreme example but everything is way on the rise. Over a short few weeks we can note:

Muller yoghurt deal went from 12 for £3 to 6 for £3
Dried meat pack - 3 for £5 is now 3 for £6
Butter, as per thread
Tiger loaf - £1 to £1.10

I am fairly sure that cream is up on cost. I know that the alcohol deals are worse. This is just what I am noticing, no doubt there are piles of other increases which are below radar as I don't buy them as often.

Our business is a manufacturer and, whilst we buy from the UK, almost all of our materials ultimately are either sources outside the UK or rely on feedstocks which are price in Euro or Dollars. We have seen raw material prices rising between 10 and 20% (and sometimes a lot more). I have been saying for ages that it is only a matter of time until that percolates through to the end users/purchases. It takes time as there is a resistance to putting prices up but I think we are there. I can see that the floodgates are open and we could be starting to face the music which we have started playing.

Witless

robin58 wrote: »

Like to know how.

Current price for thier own butter is £1.40 unsalted, £1.33 salted. Saw these prices today. Never seen a 1/2 lb block in there.

£1.09 price was weeks ago, price is going up nearly every 2-3 weeks.

Seeing is believing I suppose. AFAIK 227 gm is 1/2 lb but when I was posting last night I wasn't sure the exact weigh - 225 gm or 250 gm: when I checked this morning it turns out it's actually 227 gm.

I bought it on Friday 20 Oct 2017 - not weeks ago.

I still have the receipt.

Mrs_Mac_1 wrote: »

Is that the Crown brand of butter in Lidl that you posters above are referring to? If you read the ingredients, it is not pure butter. It doesn't taste as nice as real butter and even when left out of the fridge, does not soften or spread like real butter

No, it's Dairy Manor Pure Irish Creamery Butter.

Witless

x12yhp wrote: »

Butter is an extreme example but everything is way on the rise.

Certainly is!

I know it's more than a few weeks but the last time I bought motor oil (12/02/16) 20 litres was £39.92 + VAT.

There's just about enough left for one more service so yesterday I checked the price of the same oil with the same motor factor.

Best price was £55.60 + VAT.

Sorta gives the lie to 3% inflation.

x12yhp

Witless wrote: »

Certainly is!

I know it's more than a few weeks but the last time I bought motor oil (12/02/16) 20 litres was £39.92 + VAT.

There's just about enough left for one more service so yesterday I checked the price of the same oil with the same motor factor.

Best price was £55.60 + VAT.

Sorta gives the lie to 3% inflation.

Oil is rather closer to our business than butter. If you haven't seen a rise in price matching or exceeding the post brexit loss of sterling value, you should expect it!

Businesses are also having to take a rather cautious approach. We have no confidence in the situation so no sensible business will be too aggressive on pricing and many will be trying to hedge as best as possible as most are expecting things to get worse. Then we have concerns of whether labour might get power and that makes people worry even more. There is very little light at the moment and the consumer is going to see this more and more as time goes on. Of course there will be whingeing - it is amazing that consumers seem to totally dissociate themselves from the rest of the world. Who knew that !!!!ing into the wind could lead to getting wet.

PasturesNew

In the 1970s we had a butter shortage. Most people turned to margarine back then .... in our family we stuck with margarine ever after (I'm not sure how much butter we used before this problem arose).

I grew up with margarine, so it was what I bought by default as an adult - and still do.... I buy those cheapo "god knows what that is" spreads - for me, it's yellow so it'll do

montyrebel

crown butter out of poundland is king

donnac2558

PasturesNew wrote: »

In the 1970s we had a butter shortage. Most people turned to margarine back then .... in our family we stuck with margarine ever after (I'm not sure how much butter we used before this problem arose).

I grew up with margarine, so it was what I bought by default as an adult - and still do.... I buy those cheapo "god knows what that is" spreads - for me, it's yellow so it'll do

My Dad refused to eat butter always margarine. I use the spread things scrape on and scrape off for me. I have a yuck thing against butter since childhood, a aunt insisted on putting like an inch thick of the stuff when making toast etc.:eek:

tara747

I will only eat proper butter. Margarine is disgusting and really awful for our health.

And yes, I have noticed the price going up sharply in recent weeks...