Morrisons Doubling Prices on some items - when inflation is 10%

pumpkin89

MrsStepford said:

Also, whole product ranges are disappearing. Unless M&S sells it, Waitrose is the only food store selling wild Alaskan salmon. It has disappeared from the rest. It's all farmed and if cheap shop stuff, can be farmed in China. 

I agree with most of your post - just to say on the wild Alaskan salmon point, M&S does sell it and Sainsbury's does too.  The latter used to sell it as part of their own Taste The Difference range but they've discontinued that and replaced it with a brand called Wild Fish Discovery.

molerat

pumpkin89 said:

Chrysalis said:

Morrisons do seem one of the worse, e.g. check the price of their paracetamol.

I agree Morrisons seem to be raising their prices faster than others, but not sure I'd consider 39p for 16 caplets to be excessive!

Even when that price it is 33% more than the other stores charging 29p ?

pumpkin89

As far as I can see, 32p is the cheapest in a supermarket (Aldi, Tesco, Sainsbury's).  Asda also charges 39p.

I don't think percentages are particularly helpful when it comes to grocery shopping.  At the end of the day, 10p is 10p and there's no way it's the most significant thing influencing your choice of supermarket.

Novice_investor101

Warburtons 800g loaf has gone up from £1.20 to £1.40 & Hoola Hoops 12pack crisps gone up from £3.00 to £3.50 since I last did an online Tesco shop. I’m sure I’ll find other regular items too. The crisps have been ditched, can’t justify that price for zero nutritional value. I only bought them last time as my one “treat” for the month to add to my packed lunches for work. 

tghe-retford

Personally, I think food and drink inflation should be based on a number of the most purchased items and based on price per weight/volume as opposed to the item price so it also takes into account shrinkflation, where items are shrunk while the item remains the same price used to disguise inflation.

MikeJXE

It's not just Morrisons I do all my shopping at Tesco

Warburtons tea cakes are up from 80p to £1.40

Tesco 6 Choc ices in one week went for £1 to £1.30

When increases are that much I stop buying and if enough people did the same maybe prices would go down. 

Murphybear

RobM99 said:

Two sea bass fillets in Morrison  £5.50 for 90 grammes = £61 a kilo!

You can buy sea bass fillets online at Morrison’s for £23.61 kg.  

Ps I’ve just noticed someone else has said this 

Murphybear

I buy a lot of fruit in Morrison’s and haven’t noticed their prices increasing that much. 

Xenon

I used to get 2 gammon steaks from Tesco for £1.50 now they are £2.40 - a 59% increase
Just one example of one item
How is that justified !

sevenhills

A._Badger said:

There are two important caveats about the inflation rate. The first is that the rate you hear about on the news is a government figure and, I have absolutely no doubt, massaged to suit their purposes. The second is that even if it were accurate (which it isn't) it is only an average, so some prices will have gone up by more than that nominal sum and some by less. 

The Governments recommended measure of inflation is now CPIH, thirty years ago it used to be RPI inflation.
The figures for Dec 2022, the most recent, put CPIH at 9.2% and RPI inflation at 13.4%
I guess back in the nineties the mathematicians were poor!
I agree, I think inflation is higher than the Governments figures suggest.