Examples of surprising prices

Rosa_Damascena

sebo0607 said:

Sorry to say this but the supermarkets have a lot to answer for, they are increasing prices more than is needed due to the increase in raw materials just to boost profits. 
The cost of living crisis is being used as a smoke screen and they are all at it.

I don't think this is true. SMs obviously cannot afford to run at a loss, but they do know it's hard to win back customers once people's shopping habits have changed. They are playing a long game.

sheilavw

I went to Sainsburys Thursday evening to get a few bits for me, and my Brothers shopping. He had weetabix on his list. He gets Sainsbury's own brand 48. The shelf was empty. They had the proper ones, box of 72 for £8. He wasn't desperate for them so I gave them a miss

baser999

Did a top-up shop in Morrisons a few days ago and couldn’t help but notice the number of store staff wandering round filling Amazon Prime bags of customers shopping. 

jackieblack

sheilavw said:

I went to Sainsburys Thursday evening to get a few bits for me, and my Brothers shopping. He had weetabix on his list. He gets Sainsbury's own brand 48. The shelf was empty. They had the proper ones, box of 72 for £8. He wasn't desperate for them so I gave them a miss

Local big Tesco has had proper branded Weetabix 72 pack for £5.75 recently, as 48 pack is usually £5.00 I got my dad stocked up (he doesn’t like the supermarket own brand ones, I have tried)

mumf

I work in the food industry. Stuff is going up! Prices out there ,increased, are not a ‘plot’ to increase profit. 

flipflopflo

@YorksLass, Lidl do a cinnamon grahams taste a like which is really nice. I love anything with cinnamon too but have refused to buy nestle because of their morals so was chuffed to bits when hubby came home with these. 

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Mrs_Z said:

No pic unfortunately but £12.50 for 4 x AA batteries   (not even Duracell!) from Sainsbury's at Southend-on-Sea!!!!
Was a bit of an emergency buy so had fork out but as a devoted MSE it was painful..... didn't think they'd be more than £4 a pack. So next time you're at Wilko or Ikea... stock up!

Good prices at B&M too.

Coffeekup

I'm not a brand snob, but one of the products I can't find a good alternative to is walkers crisps, I tend to only eat ready salted, prawn cocktail and roast chicken.
I've tried Sainsbury's own, snackbrite from lidl or Aldi for me they don't hit the spot like the brand I mentioned above do. 5 years- 18 months ago I only ever bought them when they were on a promo for £1 for 6 packets. 

I shop around in home bargains, Poundland, Iceland, farm foods and a few of the supermarkets, now the prices are up to £2 for 6, or when on promotion @ 2* packs of 6 for £2.80 ish. The best price is in farm food for a box of 32 for £5.99 but that hits a good percentage of my weekly shop when buying on promotion. I begrudge spending that much, so I'm either going to have to find other brands to replace or cut down on my daughter's and I crisp in take which between the two of us is 6-10 packets a week.
The other down side of the bigger 22/24/32 pack packs or boxes are you have at least 6 or 12 packets of flavours we don't eat/like.
When walker's had their "computer" or "supply" glitch this time last year I said to my self when they get up and running again the prices will shoot up.... I hate being right sometimes.

As for other posts in the thread... Any Kellogg's products I haven't bought since a few months into Covid as I noticed the prices almost doubled along with shrink flatiron on box sizes,

Prices will remain high as people just keep buying regardless, they will go on to moan about the prices like I have but we don't appear to cut back on them or find alternatives.

Breakfast's again with out bring Kellogg's back into it, people will buy even if and when they do but the walk I do with my daughter to her school is 3 miles, we walk past 2 Gregg's and there is usually a good few children waiting to be served... Some the same every day some not. People complain about the prices, again we do t make changes, it's like a free for all here everyone (not everyone but most) has soo much money companies are more than happy to take it from us.

Edit: to add... I do see something's that have done up very little tho or not at all, mutipack chocolate bars, branded cola, energy drinks, bottled water.

London_1

I am lucky that I have never been that bothered about crisps ever. My late Mum said the thought that someone would pay good cash for around ,if you were lucky, a quarter of a potato. I am just imagining 6 packets of crisps containing in whole maybe ONE potato sliced thinly and cooked it must be like printing money for the crisp companies

I remember probably around 1953, when my eldest brother was courting his fiancee and their Friday night outing was a pint for him and a babysham for her, he would bring home a packet of Smiths crisps (if we were lucky) with the tiny blue screw of salt in the bottom for my middle brother and I to share, I thought they were a bit greasy, so I was never that bothered about them and never have been. my grandchildren seem to like them ,but I've never bought any so probably saved a fortune  
But then growing up with rationing it was rare to have inbetween snacks.  
JackieO xx

Floss

mumf said:

I work in the food industry. Stuff is going up! Prices out there ,increased, are not a ‘plot’ to increase profit. 

Also production costs are rising, as is the cost of fuel to get ingredients from source to factory & finished goods to distribution centres / supermarkets so any conspiracy theory about price increases being to boost profits is just codswallop.