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

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My treat as a coeliac was a g@@dfella gfree pizza. Which was £3 then £3.25 now £4😭
@London_1 M&s had Cyprus potatoes 2 kg for £1 .

Kaylataste

£1.10 for puff pastry online at sainsburys yesterday,£1.50 this morning.40p overnight!

YorksLass

London_1 said:

Now since January I have a large book that I have been listing what I have bought foodwise, and the price, to see how the cost of food was really going as I had a feeling things were going to get a bit tough.

I've been keeping a notebook since April for listing edibles - what, where, price etc - and am updating it every week with something or other that has gone up.  On my grocery delivery today there were two more price increases - extra strong Cheddar 15p, 1 ltr LL milk 4p.  There was only one sub (will be refunded the difference in price) but more than a few items I wanted to order but couldn't as they were out of stock.

Things are definitely getting harder than ever and many shoppers will be struggling to keep abreast of things. Anyone else noticed how quick inflation has almost become the 'norm' now ?

Yes, and I can see it getting worse before it gets better.  It's not looking good, is it?

Slinky

London_1 said:

My daughter asked me to nip into my local tescos on Sunday to pick her up a packet of Hobnobs for her to take to work for the office biscuit box .There were a £1.00 10 days ago ,they are now £1.19.

Bother that!  I've been buying Tesco Oaties - they have actually gone down in price from 70p to 36p on an Aldi price match. I suggest she switches biscuits!

Slinky

joedenise said:

@Slinky - have you tried just taking leaves off the iceberg as I've found that using a knife for cutting it causes the brown edges which doesn't happen with just removing a few leaves for a meal.  Also means the lettuce lasts longer!

Just to report back on this, I've been doing as you suggested and it's working well. I took the lettuce out of the bag and have it resting on some kitchen towel in the bottom of the fridge (as suggested by somebody else) and I've got 2 more days to my shopping day and it looks like the lettuce may make it all the way to the line. Nothing slimy so far.

weenancyinAmerica

In the US, the Democrats are being blamed for the price increases. Maybe too many of them went over there. Most Americans don't even realize that other countries are having the same problems. Very insular over here. Prices here are rising rapidly also - except our gas, which surprising went down $1 a gallon when the government threatened to investigate the gas company profit-making policy. Strange how it worked -just like it did in the past price rise for gas.

YoungBlueEyes

I think we could do with that here.  I wonder what the outcome would be?

I remember just a few months ago when the headlines were saying - Energy company bosses say they're making so much profit they don't know what to do with it.  Why does the government have to give people cost-of-living payments for folk to cope with their bills? Why can't the companies be made to pay out from their massive profits? How far would 1% of those profits go to helping people for example?  (I appreciate it's complex, and there are probably reasons you can't make a company put some of those profits back into the system to help, but it's a thought I often have.) 

Sorry for going off-topic - fuel/gas/electric isn't exactly groceries ha haa!

London_1

I agree petrol at around £8.35 a gallon is absurd I think that about $7 a gallon roughly weenancyinAmerica. around I think its about 65% is tax collected by the government to fill their coffers as well so the higher the price the more gets pinched  

I heard on the radio that if Rishi gets to be PM he will remove VAT from the energy (but only for a year  ! ) another Uturn  we seem to all be going in cricles at the moment don't we ?
The higher the fuel costs, the higher the grocery prices, the higher the grocery prices the higher the wage demands which push prices up even more. Its very worrying and how it will be resolved I've no idea. but then I'm just an ordinary old granny who has seen boom and bust so many times over the years its almost become a fact of life ;( 

JackieO x

bupster

YoungBlueEyes said:

I think we could do with that here.  I wonder what the outcome would be?

I remember just a few months ago when the headlines were saying - Energy company bosses say they're making so much profit they don't know what to do with it.  Why does the government have to give people cost-of-living payments for folk to cope with their bills? Why can't the companies be made to pay out from their massive profits? How far would 1% of those profits go to helping people for example?  (I appreciate it's complex, and there are probably reasons you can't make a company put some of those profits back into the system to help, but it's a thought I often have.) 

Sorry for going off-topic - fuel/gas/electric isn't exactly groceries ha haa!

There's quite a common misconception that the companies that deliver our energy are the same as the ones producing it. They're largely not, and it's the providers that you pay money to that are going to the wall, hence the raising of the price cap. The big producers are raking it in, yes, and Labour I think are talking about a windfall tax on them. 

London_1

I wonder how much more the fuel prices will rise now Russia has turned off the taps to Europe it will have a knock on effect onto everything

If they are not selling it in vast quantities ,surely they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces China won't buy it all, and little point producing it if they won't sell it I wonder how the ordinary housewife in Moscow is coping as surely their prices will rise as well if there is no money in circulation. I have no beef with the ordinary Russian people just their mad despot of a leader

JackieO xx