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

OrkneyStar

sheilavw said:

Jacobs cream crackers were £1.60 in Sainsbury's last week. I'm not sure what they were before, but the shelf underneath where their own brand was at 49p was empty

This is another interesting one, prices of everything going up, and in addition to this the cheaper ranges not being available, so it's a double whammy going from cheap item to item that was more expensive to start with and now costs even more! Grrr.

Nonnadiluca

I don't know if anyone buys lavazza coffee; the double packs were £6 in Tesco last week, £7.20 this week, but I got some in Waitrose yesterday at £6.20. I expect that will go up very soon, but if you get the weekly loyalty coupons on things you buy there, you will probably get a £2.50 off coupon, I've had one a couple of times. 

TheAble

Butter up to £1.90 in Sainsbury's now as I think another poster mentioned.

I'm not paying that much for it, end of story.

YorksLass

OrkneyStar said:

sheilavw said:

Jacobs cream crackers were £1.60 in Sainsbury's last week. I'm not sure what they were before, but the shelf underneath where their own brand was at 49p was empty

This is another interesting one, prices of everything going up, and in addition to this the cheaper ranges not being available, so it's a double whammy going from cheap item to item that was more expensive to start with and now costs even more! Grrr.

That's part of the problem.  I'm currently holding off on buying corned beef and sardines as the only ones available are the more expensive branded ones - the own brand ones have been unavailable for about a month now.  This is the second time it's happened over the last few months and I'm wondering how much they might be once they're back in stock.  I dare say the Government minister who advised people to use basics brands isn't aware of this.    

Paspatur

Tes*o salted butter (which is an Ald* price match) up to £1.75, was £1.55 last month
I will be buying it as I cannot eat anything but real butter

OrkneyStar

YorksLass said:

OrkneyStar said:

sheilavw said:

Jacobs cream crackers were £1.60 in Sainsbury's last week. I'm not sure what they were before, but the shelf underneath where their own brand was at 49p was empty

This is another interesting one, prices of everything going up, and in addition to this the cheaper ranges not being available, so it's a double whammy going from cheap item to item that was more expensive to start with and now costs even more! Grrr.

That's part of the problem.  I'm currently holding off on buying corned beef and sardines as the only ones available are the more expensive branded ones - the own brand ones have been unavailable for about a month now.  This is the second time it's happened over the last few months and I'm wondering how much they might be once they're back in stock.  I dare say the Government minister who advised people to use basics brands isn't aware of this.    

I was thinking about this yesterday, where I live (an island) we don't have the same access to different stores, or even the different ranges within the stores - we often simply have one or two brand and then supermarket own (not a value range just the standard shops own). I think some people in more populated areas, which had more choice to start with, are noticing the change in availability more than those of us who have never had as much choice.

EssexHebridean

Paspatur said:

Tes*o salted butter (which is an Ald* price match) up to £1.75, was £1.55 last month
I will be buying it as I cannot eat anything but real butter

I just spotted this too - it's Aldi price matched and was £1.45 just a week or so ago so that's a huge rise. I will also be buying it as I choose to eat "butter" rather than the alternatives - but I do feel for those who have no choice, and simply have to now go without on the basis of cost.  I'll be curious to see whether it shortly goes onto a "clubcard price" - probably not as it matches with Aldi, but we'll see.  The unsalted has also gone up to £1.75 - from memory I believe this was previously £1.55

@OrkneyStar The Hebrides (specifically Uist/Benbecula) are mostly restricted to small co-op stores, a couple of independant supermarkets, and the smaller local shops, but across a lot of lines now they all stock co-op produce anyway. The butter prices above are a full 15p more than I paid for butter up there at the start of the year - at the time that was 15p more than I was paying at home. 

I'm just browsing out of interest elsewhere on the Tesco site. Crackers (Cream crackers and similar) seem to have held their price. 20p Spaghetti is still a thing, but the 29p 500g bags of basic pasta are showing OOS. the cheapest LG rice is still 45p for a kilo. I think I'm going to grab a couple of packs of each of those each time I go in over the coming weeks as I can't see beyond them going up. the ordinary tinned Sardines and tuna seem to be holding their prices too currently - another thing to stash I suspect. 

Crisps are an interesting one - for absolutely years we've had a "target price" of under 10p a pack for multipack crisps. the "Meaty" selection of 30 packs hovered around the £2.49 mark for a long while, but over the past - year, I reckon, has steadily increased. Last time we bought - a few weeks ago, they'd finally reached the £3 threshold and we looked at each other and jokingly said "end of an era!" - now - £3.20. Still a good price for what you get, but also still a full 70p increase. 

EssexHebridean

sheilavw said:

Jacobs cream crackers were £1.60 in Sainsbury's last week. I'm not sure what they were before, but the shelf underneath where their own brand was at 49p was empty

No idea what store options you have near you but if it helps Tesco own brand CCs are still at 39p a pack. I seem to recall that MrEH says the Aldi ones are also every bit as good. (He's choosy - he used to insist on Jacobs until they got to a point of extortion that I said no more!) 

Katiehound

JIL said:

 
Tesco meal deals used to be £10, they are now £12. 

Absolutely shocking.

they've gone up since   last Thursday - bought one then.

Instead of Stork you might try own brand block margarine- 65 pence in Tesco (and Morrisons I think)

London_1

I think its highly likely that a lot of people will say enough is enough and find alternatives to eat. I too am holding off on the corned beef front I suppose its maybe because of the long ride via ships from South America.

I now have those little tins of pilchards at 50p a tin .As I live alone I am quite happy to put a tin into a bowl ,add some mayo and mix with a little black ground pepper. I have half with a salad one day and they next finish off the tin either spread on crackers for lunch or as a filling on a jacket spud.I get my two helpings of oily fish and its not too expensive.

So what ever I buy now, if its risen too much for my purse, I try to look for an alternative .
I too like the Aldi cream crackers as I don't eat a great deal of bread and find crackers keep so much longer than bread.

I will buy a wholemeal loaf from M&S for 60p and it gives you  20 slices and I portion it up into four slice portions and freeze then only get out what I need, so no waste, usually for someting on toast as I'm not made keen on ordinary sandwiches.

Just watching the news on TV and it was reporting that people really are tightening their belts and buying less, so hopefully there will be less food waste in future.

JackieO x