Supermarket biscuits are rising in price

CarlosRiv

Always at Christmas and the end of the year things go up in stores, there's nothing new about it

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I never buy sm biscuits, if I have a pcket then something in them makes me eat at least half a packet, I thing it is the glucose/fructose stuff they use, anyway I never buy anything with hydrogenated fat in it. So now I have a yearning for a biscuit, sometimes only a biscuit will do with a cup of tea. I blame this thread lol, I have taken my shortbread mould down and will make butter shortbread later

YorksLass

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

Then again seems a bit strange that a certain section of the population is complaining about Christmas biscuit price rises when they will get a 3% pension increase when hard working families are likely to go without any pay rise AGAIN this year.#JustSaying.

Errrm, this "certain section of the population" has earned their pension by working for a lifetime and the now-guaranteed annual increases ensure they're not continually falling behind the rest of the population as happened in the past. Not all baby boomers had it good! And don't forget, oldies are now providing (usually free) care for grandchildren and sometimes elderly parents too so they're still "working" in a sense.

Lynplatinum wrote: »

And the bosses of large companies, who failed in many cases to provide adequate pensions and whom are using dodgy employment practices (tho legal) such as zero hours contracts are getting how many % pay rises/bonuses???? Possibly some deserve but most of them......???? Try living honestly on just a state pension before one comments (and, no I am not a pensioner yet but watch my older friends struggle!

Couldn't agree more. :T

AndyCF wrote: »

To be honest the other thing that does annoy is when you read about the 'workforce' getting say 2% increase and management getting 5% or 10%. This is unfair in principle really as the 2% may only equate to say 20p/hour for 'workforce' but for 'management' it may be the equivalent of say £2K/year or more, there's no need for them to generally I think have a larger percentage as their salaries are higher anyway so they do get "more reward"

Where I worked everyone got the same % increase but, as you point out, 2% of a small salary is a lot smaller amount than 2% of a large salary.

I concur on the tins, looking around what little local shops I have there is very little apart from a sensible size shortbread type tin. The 'usual regulars' now appear in various size of cardboard boxes. :rotfl: , I did glance online at three supermarkets to see what they had but the situation did not appear much better, to be completely fair it is likely they might have "in the shop" but not "online"

Seems to be the other way round where I am Andy. I can get certain things online but not in their local store! Example: I can get basics ginger nuts online but not in store. There seem to be an awful lot of basics/cheaper items disappearing of late.

We don't buy a lot of biscuits and tend to stick with cream crackers, ginger nuts and digestives. But we do like a treat now and again so keep an eye out for when "luxury" biscuits might be on promotion.

All my cake tins were biscuit tins in a previous life and two others house sewing items and embroidery silks.

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YorksLass my sewing tin was in a previous life the tin of biscuits my late OH brought me into hospital 50 years ago when I had my eldest DD,:)

I too, being of a 'certain section of the population' worked from the age of 14 and paid for the pension I have of just over £8k p.a.

I have never signed on or been unemployed The only 'benefit' I collected during my lifetime was my family allowance which beck in my day was only paid for the second child and it wasn't a great deal then:) but I manage of my pension, and pay my way, as that is how I was brought up.

I cook from scratch and don't owe anyone a penny.I have food in the cupboard and a roof over my head which both my late OH and I worked and paid for back when the mortgage rate was 15%.I make my own biscuits as a rule but like you but cream crackers and digestives (Aldi's as a rule)

Its the impression that the big supermarkets are giving that because of the rise in butter prices that biscuits should rise too which I find objectionable as I doubt very much whether many biscuits are made with butter.I make my own shortbread biscuits and bought and froze several packets of butter back in the spring

JackieO xx

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well said Jackieo, frugal as always, that is why us old schoolers are comfy in our old age, probably because we are content with less. I am not getting onto that bandwagon but let`s just say that I don`t own a mobile phone, don`t have exotic holidays, don`t have paid tv of any sort and am happy to cook from scratch. Which reminds me, I still want to make those butter shortbreads and yes, I am another who, frugally, froze lots of butter when I heard the scare story, months ago

YorksLass

JackieO wrote: »

YorksLass my sewing tin was in a previous life the tin of biscuits my late OH brought me into hospital 50 years ago when I had my eldest DD,:)JackieO xx

Seems we have a lot in common, Jackie!

Ha, today I've bought some "luxury" biscuits for Christmas - on promotion, of course - and these do contain butter. It's a sharing pack of Borders biscuits, made in Scotland. And no, I don't feel at all guilty that I have them. Now firmly esconced in the pantry, they'll be consumed and enjoyed by us over the festive period. :)

lessonlearned

For those seeking biscuits in tins......they had some in B&M last week. I bought Foxes, but they also had Cadbury’s.

The tins do come in useful.

I have two old tins which were my mothers, I think they are older than I am..... and I’m 66. :rotfl:

Mr_Singleton

The point I'm making is that as somebody that travels a fair amount I.e. I've just returned from Bangladesh and will be in in Tokyo early next year is that food prices in the UK are CRAZY cheap compared to other countries yet people still feel the need to whine that a supermarket is ripping people off if it puts the price up in line with MASSIVE supplier price hikes.

Looking at French butter in Paris in October and it was cheaper to buy it in a London Tesco than anywhere I could find in Paris.

CRANKY40

I thought that the points being made were that the supermarket was blaming the increase in price of a particular thing on item that wasn't on the list of ingredients, not the increase of price in general and also that the items were produced before the price of the ingredients rose so much. I also wouldn't have said that the OP was "whining". Any need? A comment on what other ingredient has MASSIVELY increased in price might have been useful?

Mr_Singleton

There you go again.... "blaming" no doubt Supermarkets felt the need to explain the (perfectly legitimate!) price increase to head off the people who automatically start whinging and whining when prices go up that supermarkets are profiteering.