Trying really hard to OS but the prices keep going up

wigglebeena

Basically with the crunch, a whole lot more people are out there buying 'loss leaders'. People who would have been embarrassed to be caught with it in their trolleys six months ago.

And if everyone buys lots of loss leaders... yup, they're going to... well, no, I can't see Mr S running at a loss. But not their normal fat, fat, gross obese profits, either.

They're trying to discourage the new converts: to make the difference small enough to have them go, 'Well, it's hardly worth it for that saving, we might as well shell out for the posh brand'.

Bit hard on us long-time skinflints, though.

wigglebeena

I doubt curry sauce will be 4p for much longer. Grab it while it lasts, peeps...

wigglebeena

well, i'm not too discouraged yet. I don't write my shopping list then try to find the cheapest stockists: I buy what's cheap then work out what I can make out of it.

Let's have a thread on that - buy anything that's insanely cheap then we all chip in with recipes. I suppose there already is one!

Penelope_Penguin

wigglebeena wrote: »

Let's have a thread on that - buy anything that's insanely cheap then we all chip in with recipes. I suppose there already is one!

How did you guess Saving money by NOT meal planning.

HTH, Penny. x

wigglebeena

HTH, is that 'Hard to Handle'? As is 'Come on now baby let me light yer candle yeah, oooh baby I'm sure hard to handle yeah, ooh ooh ooh...'

Pink.

wigglebeena wrote: »

HTH, is that 'Hard to Handle'? As is 'Come on now baby let me light yer candle yeah, oooh baby I'm sure hard to handle yeah, ooh ooh ooh...'

I think Penny was saying, ''hope this helps''

For a list of abbreviations commonly used on MSE, this might help: abbreviations

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tiff

Which grocery items would increase in price do you think?

sb44

Everything!

RAS

sb44 wrote: »

Everything!

if everyone panics. A lot has more to do with psychology and world markets than supply.

THe UK is about 60-70 percent sufficent in vegetables but only 5% in fruit. Since 20&% of some fruit and vegs are thrown away as not meeting EU standard (going this July) and we throw away 30% of what we buy, I reckon that real shortages in veggies will be snall, but fruit will be hard.

If we stop making spirits from grain and reduce our meat eating, there is enough to feed people, but fruit will be hard to come by.

emilyt

Bread, milk, sugar, Margarine , flour, teabags.
All the essentials items i would think.