If people cuddle their pets and do a few star jumps they can use the energy savings to pay for food. Easy!
Annual
My arse
My shopping has gone up near 50% for the same shop I always do. It’s nearer to an extra £180 every 6-8 weeks for me these days. For the exact same shop.
They keep downplaying the rising costs in the hopes none of us will notice. We are being gaslit on a massive scale.
I’m done. This country has all lost all legitimacy. It’s systems are corrupt and it’s social contract in shreds. The rich have plundered everything and now we face hunger and cold with evictions hanging over our heads. Young people, enough is enough!
Protest protest protest until this regime is gone!
Well with all this warning I’m sure those *’we are all in it together’* supermarkets we all helped support over the pandemic would happily drop prices and profit, right?
I’m sick of this country, Brexit, rising tax for low earners the blatant corruption and insane higher costs of living, my energy supplier went bust now my monthly bill has gone from £80 to £300 and can’t do fuck all about it, student loans, death tax, income tax, pension tax I’m considering my options to move abroad with my family. I basically had to start a business to afford to buy a house and that took me 5 years because I was deemed “self employed” and the banks didn’t want to know after the 2008 financial crisis – meanwhile paying someone else’s mortgage renting for so long, at higher rate than the mortgage would’ve been because of landlords buy to let mortgages – I feel so bad for the younger generation it’s such a slog here everyday, it’s depressing and I cannot see a way out of this for anyone other than leave the country for a better standard of living.
My weekly shopping bill for 6 people has gone up from £120 to £180 in the last 12 months. That’s over ~~£700~~ £3,120 per year on top over energy and fuel.
Borris and his cronies accepted their end of year bonuses during a pandemic where thousands of people died.
Ask yourself why we are picking up the pieces.
Yearly!! that has to be for pets! that’s about how much my 2 dogs food will go up. Who writes these stories. No seriously who does as i cant see any mention of the author. Have I just missed it?
Looking at the other comments I’m clearly odd and/or dense – when people say their weekly shopping bill is £X and has gone up to £Y, does that mean you buy more or less the same things every week?
Just asking as I tend to do some big shops (I’ll stock up on the new special offers every 3-4 weeks when they change) and spend much less in between. I can tell you how much my favourite items have gone up but I don’t know if/how much the total has changed.
This makes me sick. I don’t understand the ‘People are buying less so the prices are going up’. Can’t win. Try and keep costs down, get charged somehow.
Surely, they should see that as a sign we are buying less because we can’t afford to? It’s forcing the spend down to the bare essentials.
Food for us now is primarily just about ‘fuel’ over enjoyment.
Energy bills crisis, food shortages and price increases, an increase in national insurance – thank god we got the Tories and not Labour in charge right? Im also really glad Rishi Sunak wrote off those fraudulent loans – really sensible of him, sooo glad he did that.
As wages remain stagnant but the cost of living rises and rises, is an economic crash not on the cards as well?
They should introduce a Brexit tax, everyone who voted to leave should pay people who voted remian monthly to help cover the costs of their stupid decision making.
They would oppose that tax but will happy sit back and pay increased Tory tax when all that is being used to make Tory donars richer.
Pringles were £3 in Morrisons the other day, the end is already here
There almost seems to be a concerted effort to underreport/misrepresent the cost of living. This is a massive understatement. Everything is really expensive now.
My rent has gone up, I’m having mandatory insurance tacked on as a stealth rise, energy is absolutely nuts, car insurance went up despite no claims and low mileage, weekly food shop seems more every week, ee contract gone up. There’s not really anything to scale back on, I’m teetotal and don’t smoke and actively avoid going out. I don’t have sky or even a TV license. The monthly take away is the only real unnecessary luxury left to cut, and even then its 20 quid a month and isn’t enough to stop the erosion of savings.
What do?
The supermarkets pretend to be your friend whilst sucking the very life blood from your veins
I live on my own and a weeks shop was £40. Now £65. It’s costs 150p a litre to fuel my car. Gas bill is 100 a month and I barely use it. A train ticket costs the same as a night out. I’m seriously looking at living and working elsewhere.
Instead of just noticing the odd +1p/2p over the course of the year, some items are jumping up by £1 or more, its absurd
And my shopping is modest (I’d argue an understatement) no sweets/treats booze etc
Luxury to me is being able to buy bread that week, or brand tea bag instead of the “in store”
And I am also noticing the in store (smart price or similar) stuff is disappearing from shelves as well as entire lines of product altogether.
I’m actually decent in the kitchen with meal prep or we’d be fucked.
What someone else said.. I used to drive and would get the shopping in for loved ones who couldn’t get out as well as a few other people I cared about, real variety in items (yea I’ve even had the whole “buying lady stuff as a bloke” moments) and you really do notice the increases
And echoing other posters.. not annual, obviously not to the tune of £180 but stuff is creeping up way more rapidly than that, monthly at least.
Can the media just print one article saying “the cost of everything is rising and we are all fucked”.
Everyone at work was talking about rising prices ect and one person was like they spend £35 a week on food for 2 people. I just said to them, I’ll give you £50 a week to get me the same shopping and they just responded with just go to Aldi 🙄
Even Aldi isn’t that cheap to feed 2 people for £35 a week unless you are pretty much just living off carbs without much protein/meat ect.
I wish I smoked and drank alcohol so I could cut them out and save money. But I don’t. Now trying to figure out where I can reduce my outgoings
NI increase
Food increase
Electric increase
Council tax increase
7% inflation
Rail fares increase
UC reduction
Ay yo what the fuck
I’ve gone from eating a varied diet to having a single meal a day again because of this, I have a baguette with like ham or chicken and tomato soup to dip it in
I wonder if benefits will increase to reflect the increase…. They ain’t, are they?
Don’t warn us, fix it.
The constant struggle to keep my head above water is exhausting, miserable and so demoralising.
The same shop at aldi I did 5 years ago has gone from £30 a week to nearly £60.
Literally buying the same stuff.
I’ve started buying meat from wholesalers because I can get a kilo of lean mince for a fiver and get a like 30 chicken breasts for £20.
“Shoppers” that is, not “people”. People who aren’t shoppers are presumably unaffected.
Energy crisis, rising grocery costs, slashing universal credit, rent is out of control, houses are unachievable for most, most expensive trains in Europe, a dwindling NHS. It feels like we can’t win in this country anymore.
I find a good way of getting around this is
downgrade the labels on everything but meat.
I won’t pay for added water thankyou very much!
I buy tinned food in bulk.
I buy catering value packs of items.
Have also noticed food is for the first time in year adulterated with nasty rapeseed oil,
Just when trans fats were got rid of, they foist that trash oil on us.
So that’s reduced my choice hugely. Bread has fewer choice now. I may have to resort in a few years to buying a Panasonic bread machine.
Warned? It’s already happened, And 180 feels like the difference per month, not per year.
That’s maybe 6 weeks worth of ‘extra’. Definitely not a year. We’re spending £20 ish extra per week on the main shop, and having to buy different branded stuff rather than usual own brand products due to lack of stock.
So in April we are given a pay rise for minimum wage of around 60p an hour so working full time is an extra £900-1000 a year. My heating bill alone is going to be above this, my fuel cost is going us going to be a decent chuck, my food bill has gone from £40 to £60, although I’m not the best with saving money with food shopping. The the government is also increasing taxes as an added bonus.
If my bills don’t increase by 1500-2000 I’d be surprised.
We need to coin a new law of headlines about inflation, that every reported figure is grossly unrepresentative of realty and not recognised by a majority of the readers. Because it happens all the time
Key EU agricultural policy: keep food cheap
UK exits EU: huge food inflation
Hmm
Alongside the NI increase and the rapid increase of energy bills, so many people on low incomes/in receipt of benefits are going to be absolutely fucked. As if the widespread reliance on food banks and energy vouchers for many to keep their heads above water wasn’t indicative of the situation already.
We’re getting outright f***ed… food prices, patrol RPI on everything I can think of. And guess what, my wage has been the same since 2019 whilst My rent has increased by 2k annually…. Before anyone states leave my job I’m a phd with a bloody stipend.
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If people cuddle their pets and do a few star jumps they can use the energy savings to pay for food. Easy!
Annual
My arse
My shopping has gone up near 50% for the same shop I always do. It’s nearer to an extra £180 every 6-8 weeks for me these days. For the exact same shop.
They keep downplaying the rising costs in the hopes none of us will notice. We are being gaslit on a massive scale.
I’m done. This country has all lost all legitimacy. It’s systems are corrupt and it’s social contract in shreds. The rich have plundered everything and now we face hunger and cold with evictions hanging over our heads. Young people, enough is enough!
Protest protest protest until this regime is gone!
Well with all this warning I’m sure those *’we are all in it together’* supermarkets we all helped support over the pandemic would happily drop prices and profit, right?
I’m sick of this country, Brexit, rising tax for low earners the blatant corruption and insane higher costs of living, my energy supplier went bust now my monthly bill has gone from £80 to £300 and can’t do fuck all about it, student loans, death tax, income tax, pension tax I’m considering my options to move abroad with my family. I basically had to start a business to afford to buy a house and that took me 5 years because I was deemed “self employed” and the banks didn’t want to know after the 2008 financial crisis – meanwhile paying someone else’s mortgage renting for so long, at higher rate than the mortgage would’ve been because of landlords buy to let mortgages – I feel so bad for the younger generation it’s such a slog here everyday, it’s depressing and I cannot see a way out of this for anyone other than leave the country for a better standard of living.
My weekly shopping bill for 6 people has gone up from £120 to £180 in the last 12 months. That’s over ~~£700~~ £3,120 per year on top over energy and fuel.
Borris and his cronies accepted their end of year bonuses during a pandemic where thousands of people died.
Ask yourself why we are picking up the pieces.
Yearly!! that has to be for pets! that’s about how much my 2 dogs food will go up. Who writes these stories. No seriously who does as i cant see any mention of the author. Have I just missed it?
Looking at the other comments I’m clearly odd and/or dense – when people say their weekly shopping bill is £X and has gone up to £Y, does that mean you buy more or less the same things every week?
Just asking as I tend to do some big shops (I’ll stock up on the new special offers every 3-4 weeks when they change) and spend much less in between. I can tell you how much my favourite items have gone up but I don’t know if/how much the total has changed.
This makes me sick. I don’t understand the ‘People are buying less so the prices are going up’. Can’t win. Try and keep costs down, get charged somehow.
Surely, they should see that as a sign we are buying less because we can’t afford to? It’s forcing the spend down to the bare essentials.
Food for us now is primarily just about ‘fuel’ over enjoyment.
Energy bills crisis, food shortages and price increases, an increase in national insurance – thank god we got the Tories and not Labour in charge right? Im also really glad Rishi Sunak wrote off those fraudulent loans – really sensible of him, sooo glad he did that.
As wages remain stagnant but the cost of living rises and rises, is an economic crash not on the cards as well?
They should introduce a Brexit tax, everyone who voted to leave should pay people who voted remian monthly to help cover the costs of their stupid decision making.
They would oppose that tax but will happy sit back and pay increased Tory tax when all that is being used to make Tory donars richer.
Pringles were £3 in Morrisons the other day, the end is already here
There almost seems to be a concerted effort to underreport/misrepresent the cost of living. This is a massive understatement. Everything is really expensive now.
My rent has gone up, I’m having mandatory insurance tacked on as a stealth rise, energy is absolutely nuts, car insurance went up despite no claims and low mileage, weekly food shop seems more every week, ee contract gone up. There’s not really anything to scale back on, I’m teetotal and don’t smoke and actively avoid going out. I don’t have sky or even a TV license. The monthly take away is the only real unnecessary luxury left to cut, and even then its 20 quid a month and isn’t enough to stop the erosion of savings.
What do?
The supermarkets pretend to be your friend whilst sucking the very life blood from your veins
I live on my own and a weeks shop was £40. Now £65. It’s costs 150p a litre to fuel my car. Gas bill is 100 a month and I barely use it. A train ticket costs the same as a night out. I’m seriously looking at living and working elsewhere.
Instead of just noticing the odd +1p/2p over the course of the year, some items are jumping up by £1 or more, its absurd
And my shopping is modest (I’d argue an understatement) no sweets/treats booze etc
Luxury to me is being able to buy bread that week, or brand tea bag instead of the “in store”
And I am also noticing the in store (smart price or similar) stuff is disappearing from shelves as well as entire lines of product altogether.
I’m actually decent in the kitchen with meal prep or we’d be fucked.
What someone else said.. I used to drive and would get the shopping in for loved ones who couldn’t get out as well as a few other people I cared about, real variety in items (yea I’ve even had the whole “buying lady stuff as a bloke” moments) and you really do notice the increases
And echoing other posters.. not annual, obviously not to the tune of £180 but stuff is creeping up way more rapidly than that, monthly at least.
Can the media just print one article saying “the cost of everything is rising and we are all fucked”.
Everyone at work was talking about rising prices ect and one person was like they spend £35 a week on food for 2 people. I just said to them, I’ll give you £50 a week to get me the same shopping and they just responded with just go to Aldi 🙄
Even Aldi isn’t that cheap to feed 2 people for £35 a week unless you are pretty much just living off carbs without much protein/meat ect.
I wish I smoked and drank alcohol so I could cut them out and save money. But I don’t. Now trying to figure out where I can reduce my outgoings
NI increase
Food increase
Electric increase
Council tax increase
7% inflation
Rail fares increase
UC reduction
Ay yo what the fuck
I’ve gone from eating a varied diet to having a single meal a day again because of this, I have a baguette with like ham or chicken and tomato soup to dip it in
I wonder if benefits will increase to reflect the increase…. They ain’t, are they?
Don’t warn us, fix it.
The constant struggle to keep my head above water is exhausting, miserable and so demoralising.
The same shop at aldi I did 5 years ago has gone from £30 a week to nearly £60.
Literally buying the same stuff.
I’ve started buying meat from wholesalers because I can get a kilo of lean mince for a fiver and get a like 30 chicken breasts for £20.
“Shoppers” that is, not “people”. People who aren’t shoppers are presumably unaffected.
Energy crisis, rising grocery costs, slashing universal credit, rent is out of control, houses are unachievable for most, most expensive trains in Europe, a dwindling NHS. It feels like we can’t win in this country anymore.
I find a good way of getting around this is
downgrade the labels on everything but meat.
I won’t pay for added water thankyou very much!
I buy tinned food in bulk.
I buy catering value packs of items.
Have also noticed food is for the first time in year adulterated with nasty rapeseed oil,
Just when trans fats were got rid of, they foist that trash oil on us.
So that’s reduced my choice hugely. Bread has fewer choice now. I may have to resort in a few years to buying a Panasonic bread machine.
Warned? It’s already happened, And 180 feels like the difference per month, not per year.
That’s maybe 6 weeks worth of ‘extra’. Definitely not a year. We’re spending £20 ish extra per week on the main shop, and having to buy different branded stuff rather than usual own brand products due to lack of stock.
So in April we are given a pay rise for minimum wage of around 60p an hour so working full time is an extra £900-1000 a year. My heating bill alone is going to be above this, my fuel cost is going us going to be a decent chuck, my food bill has gone from £40 to £60, although I’m not the best with saving money with food shopping. The the government is also increasing taxes as an added bonus.
If my bills don’t increase by 1500-2000 I’d be surprised.
We need to coin a new law of headlines about inflation, that every reported figure is grossly unrepresentative of realty and not recognised by a majority of the readers. Because it happens all the time
Key EU agricultural policy: keep food cheap
UK exits EU: huge food inflation
Hmm
Alongside the NI increase and the rapid increase of energy bills, so many people on low incomes/in receipt of benefits are going to be absolutely fucked. As if the widespread reliance on food banks and energy vouchers for many to keep their heads above water wasn’t indicative of the situation already.
We’re getting outright f***ed… food prices, patrol RPI on everything I can think of. And guess what, my wage has been the same since 2019 whilst My rent has increased by 2k annually…. Before anyone states leave my job I’m a phd with a bloody stipend.