Grocery Price Increases - What's the Biggest Hike You've Seen?

Rosa_Damascena

iris said:

Lots of items have gone up in Aldi's i.e. biscuits and hairspray just to mention two.

When last in there I bought a six pack of Snackrite crisps. SEL said 69p, receipt said 75p.

tiredwithtwins

tesco large jars of sundried tomatoes were £2.50 a jar, now £3.50 ... darent look at price of olives .. wont be buying either for a long long time!!

Auntycaz

GaleSF63 said:

Lurpak spreadable 500g is £3.59 in Tesco at present. In a few hours who knows!

£5.99 for a 1kg tub in Lidl. I didn't get any as I stocked up the freezer with a few tubs when it was on offer a while back in waitrose,

Slinky

We don't buy Lurpak, so when the Tesco delivery box on Saturday night had that in the top I knew something was amiss. Closer inspection, none of it was ours. Told the delivery driver who thanked us for our honesty. Didn't even occur to us that somebody would keep somebody else's shopping, but I dare say it happens.

I noticed the huge increase in price for sundried toms, dropped them off my list this week as I've just opened a jar, but will have to bite the bullet and buy at some point as I use them in a favourite recipe.

YorksLass

Another couple of price increases spotted today in Sainsburys.

750g drum of own brand table salt was 27p, today it's 55p.  May have been on a price lock or Aldi price matched, honestly can't remember - but is it really necessary to double the price?

Packet of branded egg noodles was £1.75, then went on price lock for 8 weeks at £1.25, no longer on price lock but price has not reverted back to the original £1.75 - it's now £2.10.  Glad I stocked up.

A little non-related price increase rant - my local Co-op has moved everything around, the reason being "healthy" foods are the first thing you encounter on entering the store and the "not healthy" are at the back of the store.  Grrr.

Auntycaz

Co op are a joke. They've just increased their 240 pk of pg tips to £7.20. That's more than double what Morrisons and Waitrose are selling them for.

annieb64

I've just about given up on our local Coop. They stopped the offer where you could get two four pint containers of milk for £2.60 and the shelves are always half empty.

Auntycaz

They've stopped it in mine too @annieb64. Annoying as it is the nearest shop for me to get to with living rurally. The bus stops right outside so I don't have far to walk.

annieb64

I can get a bus at the end of the road which stops near an Aldi  so do most of my shopping there now. 

Vegastare

I am baffled at Country Life 500gr.......my usual price pre Xmas @ Tesco £2.50 now £2.75 and been steady at that price  butterly unbelievable in Sainsbury yesterday £4.15