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

greent

I use Tr3x for baking my bread and rolls - our local (very large) T's have stopped stocking it earlier this year I found it in a mid size close-ish Sainz at 90p (at 5p? dearer than T) - this then went up to £1 and then jumped straight to £1.50 maybe a month later 😱😱  - and Trolley has just informed me it's now £1.55!! With 6 of us I bake a lot (much nicer than the smkt - more filling and I can customise each batch as to what we fancy/ need) so I do get through it. I have 2 spare boxes - so if I see it on offer I will stock up and freeze some boxes (currently £1.45 in M'sons but not worth the extra fuel to go there for this!)

GaleSF63

London_1 said:

YorksLass said:

jamanda said:

Corned beef at Morries has gone from a high £2.75 to £3.59 in one jump. 

It's only this last couple of weeks I've been able to get corned beef at Sainsburys at all as it's been out of stock for many weeks.  They haven't got their own label one that I normally buy, but the branded one is still £2.50 so I've bought a couple of tins for my pantry before it disappears again.  Tins of sardines seem to fly off the shelf quickly too.

as Sardines seem to be vanishing I buy the tiny tins of pilchards when I fancy a salad for myself i empty a tin into a bowl and mix with Mayo and some fresh ground black pepper and half the mix does me for one salad and the other half the following day on crispbrad or crackers for lunch with some sliced tomato on top at around 50-60p a tin the Glenryk ones in tomato sauce are delicious and do me for two meals easily, cheap as chips :0 although today a bag of chips from the chippy is probably a lot dearer  

JackieO xx

I used to sometimes buy the pilchards in tomato sauce for my cats. One of them used to eat all the tomato sauce leaving practically dehydrated pilchards in the dish. Luckily there were 2 or 3 other cats  and a dog to demolish them. 

GaleSF63

London_1 said:

Good grief ,that puts corned beef hash out the window then. How can that price be justified.I know it comes mainly from south america so perhaps its the amount of travelling it does. Oh well just have to think of something different for a change Luckily I keep a couple of tins as a standby in the cupboard. They will be prized now  

JackieO xx

At this moment the 340g cans at Waitrose are £2.80 - but the 200g cans are £2.85!

London_1

I wonder sometimes about the pricing systems in shops.Do they honestly think women (and men at times  ) shop with our eyes shut ? 

I have been shopping for the best part of 70 odd years, first with my late Mum ( who went through 14 years of rationing ) and who could sniff out a bargain at 100 yards , and then after I left home, and cooked and looked after myself in a grotty bedsit for two years before getting married.

I not only check the prices, but the weight,content ,and value for money, being I think a pretty canny shopper its stood me in good stead over the years.

I would have been so tempted to find a 'suit' (there is usually one walking around (seemingly doing very little apart from walking around )  in the supermarket, and point out the discrepancies and watch him talk his way out of it.:)   I'm probably the sort of shopper that puts the fear of god into them  

To me, I know the prices are rising almost daily, but keeping on top of them must be our number one priority. If I couldn't find a suit then it would have been an email to customer services to enquire about it .

After all the clue is in the name 'customer' services and if they are willing to pay someone to look after the customers then its part of their job to take the brickbats along with the bouquets. 

Well its the start of a new month today and no doubt in a months time we will all be wondering about the continuing rise in prices, and how somethings on sale today in the shops will seem cheap by comparison in a months time  

All I have to buy on my shopping list today is a cucumber and some tomatoes and thats it my purse will shut with a resounding clang its definitely essentials only this month as I have two hefty bills to cough up for.

The builder who is painting the back of my house next week, and the tree surgeon who is coming this Thursday to remove a dead tree from the bottom of my garden. I have budgetted for them, but I shall still be shopping extremely carefully this month just the same 

Hope everyone gets through the week Ok without too much hassle ,keep your eyes peeled chums as it helps when folk know the places to get stuff at good prices and also which shops to avoid . I have websites for Tesco Sainsburys, Aldi's and Asda's on my laptop and I check them before I shop to get the best price I can ,I am lucky that they are all within a short distance of where I live with a new Lidl's in the process of being built this summer.

Onwards and upwards chums 

JackieO xx

P.S. I'm not really a grumpy old woman in a shop, I am always reasonably polite to the 'suits '  

Auntycaz

@JackieO you can check prices on trolley.co.uk       It was set up by some of the people who worked for my supermarket when it closed down.  It was also going to close down but they've managed to find a sponsor.

joedenise

I've decided to do as much as my shopping as I can for the month during this first week.  Unfortunately I have to go to 2 different towns to get the different SMs!  So today is was Aldi and Mr Ts; tomorrow will be The Food Warehouse, Home Bargains, Lidl and Morries.  Wednesday I will be in a different bit of the 2nd town which is near to Sainsbugs so I will go in there for the final bits, included baked beans as we like theirs better than any of the others.  May not be the cheapest but they certainly don't have masses of sauce and very few beans like some of the cheaper brands.

I just buy a very cheap shower gel in Mr Ts and the last time I bought it the cost was 20p; today it was 30p so a 50% rise in about 3 months.

GaleSF63

GaleSF63 said:

London_1 said:

Good grief ,that puts corned beef hash out the window then. How can that price be justified.I know it comes mainly from south america so perhaps its the amount of travelling it does. Oh well just have to think of something different for a change Luckily I keep a couple of tins as a standby in the cupboard. They will be prized now  

JackieO xx

At this moment the 340g cans at Waitrose are £2.80 - but the 200g cans are £2.85!

It's caught up - the 340g can is now £3.50.  .  To be expected. 

London_1

GaleSF63 said:

GaleSF63 said:

London_1 said:

Good grief ,that puts corned beef hash out the window then. How can that price be justified.I know it comes mainly from south america so perhaps its the amount of travelling it does. Oh well just have to think of something different for a change Luckily I keep a couple of tins as a standby in the cupboard. They will be prized now  

JackieO xx

At this moment the 340g cans at Waitrose are £2.80 - but the 200g cans are £2.85!

It's caught up - the 340g can is now £3.50.  .  To be expected. 

When you think its not that long ago that you could buy a whole chicken for around £3/3.50 ,now its just a large tin of corned beef..
Corned beef hash will no longer be a cheap and cheerful mid-week meal for families anymore  I think its the costant erosion of inexpensive food that will hit the poorest in society. 

At this rate we will soon have a "let them eat cake " attitude from the better off. Although even they may be feeling the pinch now.

I would like to see instead of the constant stream of cookery programmes that churn out dishes that many of us would not be able to afford ,or for that matter even want a programme aimed at showing how reasonable healthy food can be made without resorting to instant junk food.

I saw on the internet this morning someone saying that with so many food outlets letting kids eat for free during the holidays with an adult meal purchased it will soon be a case of folk taking their kids out for a meal and just buying the minimum for themselves to enable the childrens meal to be a free one.

Are we going to end up with 'soup kitchens' to feed people in the winter.  Where will this luncay end up This is the 21st century and we live in a fairly rich country. Farmers pouring away milk as they can't afford to sell it at prices set by supermarkets to me seems obscene. Perhaps it may be time for free milk for all school kids as it was in the 1940s/50s when I was small. 
One of my grandsons is a primay school teacher and he says he knows many children in his school come to school not having had a decent breakfast and often not a great deal in their lunch boxes its sad to think of children in our affluent country going to school ,or bed hungry, but its what will happen if something isn't done to help folk more.

I despair at times I grew up in an era of rationing and food shortages and now it seems to be returning again

JackieO  

YorksLass

I'm another one that checks not just the price of an item but also the weight (ie cost per 100g or whatever) and then decide which size or product to buy.  Ingredients too - I don't want something loaded with E-numbers and so on.  One of the advantages of cooking something yourself is that you know what's gone into it.

As a competent cook (comes with age and experience  ) I don't follow a recipe religiously, especially when it calls for just one ingredient that I'd never use again.  Herbs and spices spring to mind.  There's nearly always a substitute you could use - just google if in doubt.

As for promotional items, I do look out for these, but again you have to be careful.  Using O*o cubes as an example, it's sometimes cheaper to buy two boxes of 12 when they're on offer than it is to buy a box of 24.

Keeping on top of prices is definitely key these days.  We might not be able to halt the rise so - if we can - we have to shop where it's best value for money (ie our purses) and not at the shops that seem to think they can get away with stupid prices.  My bugbear is our local N*sa - I am not paying £1.95 for 4 pts of milk when I can get it cheaper elsewhere.  Pity, as it's the nearest shop within walking distance for me but I'm happy to walk a bit further and get some free exercise into the bargain!    

Brambling

Jackie the problem with some of the children eat free deals is there is a minimum spend for the adult meal depending on the store I believe some are around £5 (not sure if that is per adult and if there is a limit to the number of children who eat free per adult?)  in which case it may be cheaper to feed the family at home even if it's beans or egg on toast.  I was in the M&S cafe on Saturday and the man in front was shocked at the price as he didn't know the children could eat free