Sure even koka noodles were 13c back in the day. As soon as they became popular and a household item, they jacked up the price.
Aldi taking inspirations from tesco or something?
Won’t somebody please think of the children
Ever think it was too cheap in the first place?
Oh no 75c for noodles with zero nourishment.
The cup noodles have gone up a lot recently too. You’re paying about €2 for a Koka noodle now. It used to be a handy cheap lunch.
So my dear experts, how does inflation alone translate into more than 400% increase over 5 years?
And we all know that even if the ingredients costs plummets again, the price is never going back down.
In my local Aldi, Chinese students have been buying that up in bulk for years. Aldi realised they were onto a winner, jack up the price
They should be shot
There were these 15c noodles in various storesthat disappeared overnight because they were made in various Asian countries with dodgy pesticides.
Still hard to see how like 50 grams of freeze dried wheat can cost a euro
Sorry 100g cost 75c
Kinda depressing that I only stick to the absolutely bare essentials nowadays
(Irish but living in Scotland rn) Croissants in Tesco were 85p for 1 3 years ago. Currently £1.10
No nutrition in these and arguably they are worse for you than eating nothing
I used to live on these when I was broke and was so shocked to see the price now, it’s ridiculous to see them go up by so much
Milk has gone up another 5c, it used to go up at 1c or 2c more. Now everything goes up in rounded figures.
A standard 500ml of coke zero has gone up from 2.25 to 2.49 in just a week.
Netflix before Christmas was 8.99 now it’s 10.99 before that it was 7.99, so basically a 50% price increase. It’s like they want us to pirate stuff.
Was only thinking this during the week. Remembered you could get noodles for 15c and now they’re way more. Also watching the lidl ads recently about a full shop being over €100 and cheaper than other stores – I’m nearly sure they had one for 70-80€ not too long ago….
Apollo noodles are 5 for €1.49 in Lidl.
Personally I wouldn’t be eating anything that cheap anyway. It’s guaranteed to be muck
Big Noodle on the rise
I used this as an example to my mom not too long ago. She was saying she does feel telhe pinch of the cost of living crisis a lot but also hasn’t noticed a very drastic change in individual food costs overall. She was basically struggling to combine the two.
Reminded here how the instant noodles used to be like 20c when I was in school and now they are 70c/1 euro, she was genuinely shocked. Hadn’t realised how continuous little increases have added up.
14c for pack of noodles seems insane though
While 436% sounds like a lot in reality it’s only 61 cents raise in 5 years. A lot of costs like rent, wages and so on spread between the products not by % increase but by increasing by fixed number of cents. If shelf space cost 1c per sq cm the price will rise. It’s just more noticeable for low cost items.
I doubt anyone who bought these 5 years ago is still alive. Is there anything more un healthy than this shite.
I used to buy the SE Asian noodles because I liked them, even though they were twice as expensive, but now they are almost the same price. And they taste better.
The supermarkets are a price fixing cartel
Wouldn’t mind but these are pure shite tasting as well.
*”Can I offer you obbles of noobles in these trying times”*
Tbh how they could make it, package it, ship it to the store for 14 cents was crazy
This is why I despise the supply and demand model or dynamic pricing. These were bought out of necessity and now, because of data driven price hikes, people with the least get zero breaks.
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The COL crisis has disproportionately hit the cheapest food items so if that’s what you buy because you have no option you’re doubly fucked.
I used to live on these in my teenage years, food was low on my list of priorities.
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It’s an absolute disgrace
I’m going to need more than two data points for this one. The lowest price looks to be a flash sale or promotion so wouldn’t be a fair comparison.
The CPI increase between 2019 and 2023 was 16.9%.
https://www.forsa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/NERI-Paper-Inflation-Trends-and-Prospects-Dr.-Tom-McDonnell.pdf
Sure even koka noodles were 13c back in the day. As soon as they became popular and a household item, they jacked up the price.
Aldi taking inspirations from tesco or something?
Won’t somebody please think of the children
Ever think it was too cheap in the first place?
Oh no 75c for noodles with zero nourishment.
The cup noodles have gone up a lot recently too. You’re paying about €2 for a Koka noodle now. It used to be a handy cheap lunch.
So my dear experts, how does inflation alone translate into more than 400% increase over 5 years?
And we all know that even if the ingredients costs plummets again, the price is never going back down.
In my local Aldi, Chinese students have been buying that up in bulk for years. Aldi realised they were onto a winner, jack up the price
They should be shot
There were these 15c noodles in various storesthat disappeared overnight because they were made in various Asian countries with dodgy pesticides.
Still hard to see how like 50 grams of freeze dried wheat can cost a euro
Sorry 100g cost 75c
Kinda depressing that I only stick to the absolutely bare essentials nowadays
(Irish but living in Scotland rn) Croissants in Tesco were 85p for 1 3 years ago. Currently £1.10
No nutrition in these and arguably they are worse for you than eating nothing
I used to live on these when I was broke and was so shocked to see the price now, it’s ridiculous to see them go up by so much
Milk has gone up another 5c, it used to go up at 1c or 2c more. Now everything goes up in rounded figures.
A standard 500ml of coke zero has gone up from 2.25 to 2.49 in just a week.
Netflix before Christmas was 8.99 now it’s 10.99 before that it was 7.99, so basically a 50% price increase. It’s like they want us to pirate stuff.
Was only thinking this during the week. Remembered you could get noodles for 15c and now they’re way more. Also watching the lidl ads recently about a full shop being over €100 and cheaper than other stores – I’m nearly sure they had one for 70-80€ not too long ago….
Apollo noodles are 5 for €1.49 in Lidl.
Personally I wouldn’t be eating anything that cheap anyway. It’s guaranteed to be muck
Big Noodle on the rise
I used this as an example to my mom not too long ago. She was saying she does feel telhe pinch of the cost of living crisis a lot but also hasn’t noticed a very drastic change in individual food costs overall. She was basically struggling to combine the two.
Reminded here how the instant noodles used to be like 20c when I was in school and now they are 70c/1 euro, she was genuinely shocked. Hadn’t realised how continuous little increases have added up.
14c for pack of noodles seems insane though
While 436% sounds like a lot in reality it’s only 61 cents raise in 5 years. A lot of costs like rent, wages and so on spread between the products not by % increase but by increasing by fixed number of cents. If shelf space cost 1c per sq cm the price will rise. It’s just more noticeable for low cost items.
I doubt anyone who bought these 5 years ago is still alive. Is there anything more un healthy than this shite.
I used to buy the SE Asian noodles because I liked them, even though they were twice as expensive, but now they are almost the same price. And they taste better.
The supermarkets are a price fixing cartel
Wouldn’t mind but these are pure shite tasting as well.
*”Can I offer you obbles of noobles in these trying times”*
Tbh how they could make it, package it, ship it to the store for 14 cents was crazy
This is why I despise the supply and demand model or dynamic pricing. These were bought out of necessity and now, because of data driven price hikes, people with the least get zero breaks.
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