Supermarket biscuits are rising in price

CRANKY40

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

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.

"There you go again", ahem, I think not. Where exactly did I say it the first time? I was merely wondering what other massive price hikes there were other than butter that you knew about but the people on this thread maybe hadn't noticed. I bought flour this week for instance and that isn't any dearer than it was this time last year. I still don't think anyone was whinging or whining, merely pondering if the items were made with ingredients purchased at a lesser or greater price due to the manufacturing timescale yet you seem determined to ignore that point and concentrate on the supermarkets price policy.

I'd be interested to know for instance how long it takes a packet of biscuits to reach supermarket shelves from the time of manufacture. Not because I want to complain about the price of them, but just because that's something I've never given much thought to (I don't buy them very often). To be fair I've never really thought about how long anything sits round in a warehouse until it's sent to the supermarket but if anyone knows feel free to say.

When the Republic of Ireland joined the single currency the new supermarket prices in euros bore little relation to the actual currency conversion rate from the old to the new. I suppose it's reasonable to pass on the cost of re-labelling everything and changing over tills and computer systems to the buying public but at the same time it stings a little when you are the consumer.

AndyCF

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I'd be interested to know for instance how long it takes a packet of biscuits to reach supermarket shelves from the time of manufacture. Not because I want to complain about the price of them, but just because that's something I've never given much thought to (I don't buy them very often). To be fair I've never really thought about how long anything sits round in a warehouse until it's sent to the supermarket but if anyone knows feel free to say.

Unfortunately I think this is too much of an "open ended question" to get meaningful information as its also going to factor in supply/demand too for popular/less popular varieties of said biccies.

Given that the 'eat by' ( ! ) date can be a year or so ahead its not unreasonable to assume they are produced say anything up to three months before they appear on the shelves, given their lack of need of 'special storage' really. Its not like they need refrigeration or specific conditions other than sensible temperature range and dry environment.

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I suppose it's reasonable to pass on the cost of re-labelling everything and changing over tills and computer systems to the buying public but at the same time it stings a little when you are the consumer.

Although it was a few years 'before my time' as I understand it the same / similar thing happened when we switched to decimal currency ?

In that as far as I understood it from what people were saying (this was a reasonably recent conversation as in the past couple of years) shops etc "rounded the prices up" and banks and the like "rounded things down" :question: