Supermarket biscuits are rising in price

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Just read online that the big supermarkets are increasing their prices in biscuits and blaming the price of butter for the increase, well I maybe a bit cynical but the price of butter has indeed risen in the past few weeks but I have a feeling that the SM are just jumping on the bandwagon as I don't think the biscuits have been made within the past month for the Christmas trade or am I wrong .I make my own at home so I'm not too bothered but for a lot of people buying a christmassy box as a present for a neighbour maybe will not bother about it anymore.

I only buy cream crackers at Christmas to have with cheese and pickles etc.I normally eat crackerbread anyway as I stopped eating sliced bread a couple of years ago as it was just too full of unknown chemicals etc

tessie_bear

umm does the average shop biscuit have any butter in it ? i think happy shopper say they have no animal fat in them...cheeky imo

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Since when do they use butter? It's all hydrogenated vegetable oil.

[Deleted User]

Jo Jo thats what I thought I think its just an excuse to jack the prices up

LameWolf

They must think we all came down with the last shower! :cool:
Not that I ever buy biscuits other than cream crackers in any case.

AndyCF

Yes I saw that earlier too (on what passes for 'Teletext' these days) , does seem a bit of an excuse I guess.

One thing I have noticed although not exactly related it is still biscuits:

It seems more and more manufacturers are not selling the 'selection tins' as much now, at least from the ones I've seen, most of them seem to now prefer cardboard or similar packaging. You could read this as both good and bad, however the tins do have other sensible uses I still have a good tin from 2008 or something I use for storing first aid bits in.

Shropshirelass

Shop bought biscuits are pretty awful but not everyone has the opportunity to bake their own. If you do, you will know first hand that butter has gone up in price.

As the price paid to farmers for milk is again being reduced, (starting with M*llers from January) I expect more dairy farms will be going under, leading to less milk being produced, leading to further increases in cost of butter etc etc.

Regarding tins, you are right about more cardboard packets. Also I noticed last Christmas, the tins of Scottish shortbread that I bought contained little tiny biscuits, O.K. the weight is mentioned on the tin, but the biscuits themselves were tiny. I reckon this is a cunning plan to abolish the traditional biscuit.

Lynplatinum

Evening all

So reducing the price of milk = more British farmers going out of business = more imports = Britain being less self reliant = food prices going up in the UK = more folk below the poverty line.

I thought Brexit (reccomended by most of the current government) was supposed to to make us a wealthier, more independent country - or does that only apply to certain sectors of society?

Re biscuits going up in price, yes, definetley. Any excuse???

On the other hand I suppose I should be eating less of them anyhow!

Nite all

maman

Lynplatinum wrote: »

Evening all

So reducing the price of milk = more British farmers going out of business = more imports = Britain being less self reliant = food prices going up in the UK = more folk below the poverty line.

I thought Brexit (reccomended by most of the current government) was supposed to to make us a wealthier, more independent country - or does that only apply to certain sectors of society?

Re biscuits going up in price, yes, definetley. Any excuse???

On the other hand I suppose I should be eating less of them anyhow!

Nite all

I think the majority MPs voted to remain but now they're afraid to go against the 'will of the people ' in case they lose their seats. Instead they're prepared to let the country go to hell in a handcart. They're just making up the Brexit negotiations as they go along, reading whatever suits into a simple Yes/No vote. What a shambles!

Biscuits may be the latest con but supermarkets will continue trying to fool the public out of their hard earned.

AndyCF

No excuse for the price rise I suspect they are made quite a while in advance so that should mean allowing for stock/supply chains nothing should 'rise on the shelf' for a few months, well in theory.

I would bet that if the price of butter fell by a bit chunk next year for some reason, said biccies would not fall much in price.

This does remind me a little of something years back when I was growing up I can still recall chips at the local chip shop were 18p (no idea how I remember that!) anyway there was that potato issue 'back then' , mid 80's maybe a bit earlier ? , and I recall the chips were then something like 36p or 38p

I remember being told something along the lines of "now the potato issue is over, see the way the prices have not come back down"

iammumtoone

It takes a long while for any price increase the manufacturer has seen to reach the end consumer so yes the biscuits made months ago would have been made at a higher price to the manufacturer.

Having said that I agree that they probably don't have any butter in them!

You are right the price will not likely go down again if the price of butter drops but that is due to the fact it will then be used to offset the other price increases the manufacturer has had to absorb in the meantime.