Food prices

[Dmas]

Tesco are the dearest at the moment.

My phone ran out of charge the other day holds my club card, obviously didn’t realise till I hit the check out wouldn’t even class the shop as a bags full just a few essential bits before the ‘big shop’ £40 I don’t think il be back there ripping people off, got 2 bags out lidls last week for around £30 just going to stop being a lazy bas and go a bit further along the road

[Paulie Walnuts]

My phone ran out of charge the other day holds my club card, obviously didn’t realise till I hit the check out wouldn’t even class the shop as a bags full just a few essential bits before the ‘big shop’ £40 I don’t think il be back there ripping people off, got 2 bags out lidls last week for around £30 just going to stop being a lazy bas and go a bit further along the road

If you kept your receipt I’m sure you can go back and ask them to add it onto your club card/refund any items you didn’t get discounted.

[Dmas]

If you kept your receipt I’m sure you can go back and ask them to add it onto your club card/refund any items you didn’t get discounted.

Double blow too busy spitting feathers to take the receipt

[SteveHFC]

My phone ran out of charge the other day holds my club card, obviously didn’t realise till I hit the check out wouldn’t even class the shop as a bags full just a few essential bits before the ‘big shop’ £40 I don’t think il be back there ripping people off, got 2 bags out lidls last week for around £30 just going to stop being a lazy bas and go a bit further along the road

Haven’t shopped in Tesco for a while myself. Have started going to Farmfoods/Aldi’s instead for most things while using Asda for anything else.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

Anyone else tried Too Good to Go. The only place here is Greggs but end of the day bargain to be had.

£2.59 got us a chicken and bacon baguette, a morrocan chicken roll, a morrocan chicken flatbread, a cheese pastry, 2 sausage rolls and 2 chocolate muffins.

Not had a bad one yet, if anyone happens to live near a petrol station with an M&S shop the bags are always superb. Very disappointed when the M&S shop in the petrol station at Slateford changed hands.

[stu in nottingham]

The fruit and Vegetables boxes at the till at Lidl can be absolutely brilliant and great value

Would you say there's a particular time of day when you're likely to catch them, morning perhaps? I've never noticed them in my local Lidl. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place.

[Berwickhibby]

Would you say there's a particular time of day when you're likely to catch them, morning perhaps? I've never noticed them in my local Lidl. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place.

I normally shop early afternoon and I would say they are there 50% of the time

[Paul1642]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66051711

I couldn’t find a thread relevant to this and didn’t think it’s worth a new one. This month saw the largest ever net withdrawal of savings compared to amount saved, however the main thing that stops out to me is the amount saved during lockdown, around 30 billion. Goes to show where all the taxpayer money went :(

[Hibernia&Alba]

Adli dug food up another 25p on the six pack. I think that's about a pound increase in the past year, now four quid per pack. About three years or so ago it was two quid per pack.
The mineral water I get has doubled in price in the past few months, the cheeky *****.

They've ******* done it again this month, the *****. Six pack of dog food now £4.19, up another 20p. It's literally every month now, along with numerous other essentials. Just spent £70 in Aldi and got three bags of messages for that. It won't last two adults a week.

[Hibby Bairn]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66051711

I couldn’t find a thread relevant to this and didn’t think it’s worth a be one. This month saw the largest ever net withdrawal of savings compared to amount saved, however the main thing that stops out to me is the amount saved during lockdown, around 30 billion. Goes to show where all the taxpayer money went :(

Incredible graph that. And probably explains part of why inflation is still high in UK. People hoarded cash in 2020-22 (nothing to spend it on and all the handouts) and now using it to keep the lifestyles going no matter the price. And using it to meet shortfalls in meeting bills including food.

But it'll run out soon.

[SickBoy32]

Incredible graph that. And probably explains part of why inflation is still high in UK. People hoarded cash in 2020-22 (nothing to spend it on and all the handouts) and now using it to keep the lifestyles going no matter the price. And using it to meet shortfalls in meeting bills including food.

But it'll run out soon.

Would people in comparable Western countries not also have 'hoarded cash' during the pandemic?

The reason UK inflation is still so high, and above others in the Eurozone, is absolutely due to Brexit and the calamitous government down in London

[Bristolhibby]

I was really surprised - not in a good way - to notice that Heinz soup seems to be £1.70 for a single can these days.

Saw that. Stuck to the four pack. £3.99 for 4 tins.

J

[gbhibby]

Whenever I see "price locked" in a supermarket, I check the size of the item and compare it to a previous purchase of the same item to see how much it has shrunk.
You are 100% correct. A number of items which we buy have changed their packaging and size from 500ml to 475ml. It has been common practice for years. You see packets of biscuits which were packs of 9 now are packs of 8. Do they think we don't notice these things. Some of these price locked item will be loss leaders as well.

[Steven79]

You are 100% correct. A number of items which we buy have changed their packaging and size from 500ml to 475ml. It has been common practice for years. You see packets of biscuits which were packs of 9 now are packs of 8. Do they think we don't notice these things. Some of these price locked item will be loss leaders as well.Look at the size of a packet of crisps or chocolate.

Fairly shrunk since I was a lad...

[emoji1787]

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[gbhibby]

Look at the size of a packet of crisps or chocolate.

Fairly shrunk since I was a lad...

[emoji1787]

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When you shopped in places like the pound shop etc their pack sizes were smaller than the main supermarkets so what you thought was a bargain was in fact not a bargain at all. Watched a programme on how supermarkets operate and how they layout stores and how they will change pack sizes and how the big suppliers price fix across the supermarkets.

[archie]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/01/rip-off-britain-cost-of-living-crisis-uk-retail-profits

[Berwickhibby]

Sound familiar to anyone else?

Spent another half an hour walking around Asda mumbling,....

"F*** that, not paying that"

"Ffs, you're taking the piss, that's 50 b*****d pence dearer than last week"

"You can stick that price right up your a**e"............

etc, etc, ad infinitum

[Paulie Walnuts]

Sound familiar to anyone else?

Spent another half an hour walking around Asda mumbling,....

"F*** that, not paying that"

"Ffs, you're taking the piss, that's 50 b*****d pence dearer than last week"

"You can stick that price right up your a**e"............

etc, etc, ad infinitum

I shop in Aldi and if I’m honest I’ve not noticed massive differences in prices although that may just be me being oblivious. It also helps that over the last year I’ve reduced the branded stuff I buy drastically so it’s probably squared me up a bit and gave me a false sense of things not changing too much.

[Hibernia&Alba]

I shop in Aldi and if I’m honest I’ve not noticed massive differences in prices although that may just be me being oblivious. It also helps that over the last year I’ve reduced the branded stuff I buy drastically so it’s probably squared me up a bit and gave me a false sense of things not changing too much.

We go to Aldi because it's the nearest to home, plus Tesco for branded stuff we like. Aldi has increased prices enormously, just like all the other supermarkets. As I have said previously, my particular nemesis just now is their dog food, which has doubled in price in the past couple of years. That's just one example amongst many. They are all price-gouging.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

£30 for 24x70g tins of cat food earlier on. What the absolute ****. I could probably feed them ****ing salmon and Calamari for cheaper than that. Pets At Home, btw. Checked the same brands dog food purely out of interest, sixty-seven-*******-quid for 24x400g tins. Also costs me less now to just order hello fresh for three nights of the week for me and the mrs and then grabbing something on the go or throwing something that’s in the freezer on the other days, the price of fresh fruit and veg in particular is shocking.


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[Pretty Boy]

I'm in Spain at the moment and have been picking up a few bits and bobs and food here seems pricey too.

Tube of Pringles - €3.25
Pack of ham - €4.60
Bottle of coke (1.75ltr) - €2.95

On the flip side a bar next door to our hotel is serving draught Estrella for €3 and the going rate elsewhere seems to be about €3.50. That certainly compares favourably to back home, you won't get Estrella for under a fiver a pint in most places in Edinburgh.

[pollution]

I'm in Spain at the moment and have been picking up a few bits and bobs and food here seems pricey too.

Tube of Pringles - €3.25
Pack of ham - €4.60
Bottle of coke (1.75ltr) - €2.95

On the flip side a bar next door to our hotel is serving draught Estrella for €3 and the going rate elsewhere seems to be about €3.50. That certainly compares favourably to back home, you won't get Estrella for under a fiver a pint in most places in Edinburgh.



In my line of work I specialise in Spanish supermarkets products and pricing and the items you quote appear expensive for Spain.

Are they from a convenience store ? All the major supermarkets are much cheaper than that with these products, although some are out of town.

Aldi and Lidl are the ' go to ' stores for basic lines in Spain as they are here.

As for alcohol : there is not nearly the same level of duty that we pay here.

[Pretty Boy]

In my line of work I specialise in Spanish supermarkets products and pricing and the items you quote appear expensive for Spain.

Are they from a convenience store ? All the major supermarkets are much cheaper than that with these products, although some are out of town.

Aldi and Lidl are the ' go to ' stores for basic lines in Spain as they are here.

As for alcohol : there is not nearly the same level of duty that we pay here.

Aye it's only a tiny place and the shops are probably the equivalent size of a Coop/Scotmid at home (ridiculously expensive btw) so probably paying a bit of a premium compared to the likes of Mercadona and Carrefour.

[Bristolhibby]

Aye it's only a tiny place and the shops are probably the equivalent size of a Coop/Scotmid at home (ridiculously expensive btw) so probably paying a bit of a premium compared to the likes of Mercadona and Carrefour.

Yes, you are paying for not having to drive 20 minutes to a big supermarket.

Same with my village shop. Good for getting some milk when you’ve forgotten it. Will never do a weekly shop.

J

[DH1875]

Asda have put the price of their dog food up again as well.

[Green Man]

In Tesco today, Lurpak butter was £2.75 club card price, £3.75 “regular” price. Seemed like a great deal (relatively speaking) until I picked up the tub and saw that it was 400g rather than 500g.

[JohnM1875]

A few people have mentioned the TooGoodToGo app. Downloaded it and paid under £3 for a Gregg's pack. Two minutes up the road from me and for under £3 I got;

Tuna pasta (Don't like tuna but it's the luck of the draw)
Four pack of fruit scones
Steak Bake
Sausage roll
Glazed donut

Well worth the money you pay.

So many local (Leith for me) places doing it as well, so I'd urge people to get the app if you're struggling or just want to save a bit of money.

[DH1875]

£4 for a Vienneta in my local shop. A Vienneta for duck sake.

[Pretty Boy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66809188

An interesting move by Carrefour in France.

[Itsnoteasy]

A few people have mentioned the TooGoodToGo app. Downloaded it and paid under £3 for a Gregg's pack. Two minutes up the road from me and for under £3 I got;

Tuna pasta (Don't like tuna but it's the luck of the draw)
Four pack of fruit scones
Steak Bake
Sausage roll
Glazed donut

Well worth the money you pay.

So many local (Leith for me) places doing it as well, so I'd urge people to get the app if you're struggling or just want to save a bit of money.

You need to try & get The Baynes TGTG. Far better than Greg's & u get a stack of stuff.

Well I did anyway on more than 1 occasion.

[Stairway 2 7]

Not good but drink. Pub in London is putting 20p on a pint at the weekends in dynamic pricing. Depressing if this is the future. Found this fact in the article interesting

https://archive.ph/G3s7z

"For most of the history of human commerce, dynamic pricing was the norm, with customers haggling and bartering with vendors over the price of every item. But in 1876, inspired by notions of equality, Quaker merchant John Wanamaker introduced price tags at the launch of his eponymous department store in Philadelphia. Macy’s, the iconic New York-based department store, also under Quaker ownership at the time, did the same.

Beyond high-minded ideas of fairness, fixed prices allowed the stores to save on years of training for shop clerks in price negotiation, which in turn enabled faster expansion. The price tag quickly caught on

[lapsedhibee]

Not good but drink. Pub in London is putting 20p on a pint at the weekends in dynamic pricing. Depressing if this is the future. Found this fact in the article interesting

https://archive.ph/G3s7z

"For most of the history of human commerce, dynamic pricing was the norm, with customers haggling and bartering with vendors over the price of every item. But in 1876, inspired by notions of equality, Quaker merchant John Wanamaker introduced price tags at the launch of his eponymous department store in Philadelphia. Macy’s, the iconic New York-based department store, also under Quaker ownership at the time, did the same.

Beyond high-minded ideas of fairness, fixed prices allowed the stores to save on years of training for shop clerks in price negotiation, which in turn enabled faster expansion. The price tag quickly caught on

:agree: Price tag right up there with the wheel, automatic washing machine, electric toothbrush, you name it.

[Allant1981]

Not good but drink. Pub in London is putting 20p on a pint at the weekends in dynamic pricing. Depressing if this is the future. Found this fact in the article interesting

https://archive.ph/G3s7z

"For most of the history of human commerce, dynamic pricing was the norm, with customers haggling and bartering with vendors over the price of every item. But in 1876, inspired by notions of equality, Quaker merchant John Wanamaker introduced price tags at the launch of his eponymous department store in Philadelphia. Macy’s, the iconic New York-based department store, also under Quaker ownership at the time, did the same.

Beyond high-minded ideas of fairness, fixed prices allowed the stores to save on years of training for shop clerks in price negotiation, which in turn enabled faster expansion. The price tag quickly caught on

Pub group up here are planning on doing it also, they were talking about it on forth one the other day, can't remember the pubs that will be impacted but a few in Edinburgh and the lothians

[Scouse Hibee]

Pub group up here are planning on doing it also, they were talking about it on forth one the other day, can't remember the pubs that will be impacted but a few in Edinburgh and the lothians

Not surprised really, dynamic pricing exists in hospitality, travel etc just don’t think people actually realise.

[Ozyhibby]

Pub group up here are planning on doing it also, they were talking about it on forth one the other day, can't remember the pubs that will be impacted but a few in Edinburgh and the lothians

Pretty sure alcohol price changes need to run for 72 hours minimum in Scotland? It’s why we don’t have happy hours etc.


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[Allant1981]

Not surprised really, dynamic pricing exists in hospitality, travel etc just don’t think people actually realise.

Stonegate is the chain, they own the slug and lettuce

[Pretty Boy]

Pretty sure alcohol price changes need to run for 72 hours minimum in Scotland? It’s why we don’t have happy hours etc.


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That was certainly the case when I left the industry a few years back. Same time as incentivising doubles or offering 5 for 4 on bottled beer and so on was prohibited.

It was designed to put a stop to pound a drink nights and the like but it would also cover something like this.

[Moulin Yarns]

Pub group up here are planning on doing it also, they were talking about it on forth one the other day, can't remember the pubs that will be impacted but a few in Edinburgh and the lothians

The pub group is Slug and lettuce and Yates wine bars.

[speedy_gonzales]

Back to food prices, I'm gonna blame some kinda exorbitant rise in the price of condiments because when I opened up the fridge today to make a sandwich, I was faced with Del Monte salad cream and Heinz mayonnaise?!?

They're not terrible tasting, but they're not great either (imo).
They're "quite a bit cheaper" says the person who last went to the shops. I think I'd rather pay the difference next time 🙄