Yeah who’d have thought that every single thing rising in price would make people buy less.
We’ve cut back on the food shopping, but are paying about the same as before.
I had to use my credit card to buy the ingredients for my sisters birthday cake. Two butter packets cost me £3.40, flour, eggs, sugar etc went up too. I basically cut back on food shopping in general and all extra spending like nails or eyebrows has gone to £0 a month so that I can pay my energy bills.
yea obviously – when everything goes up in price, people have less money to spend and cut backs are needed.
Thinks like milk going from 89 to 96 and butter from 1.85 to 1.99 and everything going up by 30 to 40p really stings when you arent buying any real expensive items and its all still expensive.
I’ve become a reduction hunter now, down the local coop everyday at 4.
No meal is ever the same and I don’t know what I’m having next week until I see what’s in the reduced section.
I popped to Tesco yesterday, I go shopping three times a week, before yesterday I went on Monday.
Price changes I observed in the 3 days:
Jolly hog sausages were £3, now £3.15
Chicken thighs were £2.40, now £2.50 (were still advertised on the shelf at £2.40)
Tiger baguette was 60p, now 65p
Hovis thick wholemeal was £1.10, now £1.20
And this is a just a small observation on things I buy regularly.
Shocker….
obesity epidemic solved.
I run a local convenience store that aevea a lot of very local customers. Our sales are flat this spring/summer when normally we’d see a 20% uptick after Easter.
Anyone working in food retail here care to share shoplifting/loss changes over the last year or so?
I actually started buying more, but cheaper stuff. Substituting normal supermarket brand stuff for the lower priced brands but buying more quantity.
Resorted to not using online deliveries due to the fact that the discounters (Aldi and LIDL) do not offer a delivery service.
Buying healthier foods has become harder. I cannot realistically afford to buy the same amount of fresh fruit that I normally do, it just costs too much now. Tinned fruit for the win…/s
This is how recessions start
This is essential stuff too. Non-essential industries are going to be hit by a sledgehammer at this rate. I expect the likes of hospitality and travel will be worrying a lot about this trend, knowing they will be hit even harder if people can barely afford food anymore. How long until the government decides to start bailing out its mates?
Prices are rising way higher than the 11% being claimed. Products are sometimes almost 75% to 100% more expensive than last year.
The cheap options have gone every time I have shopped in the last month. Lidl 19p pasta (500g) totally gone, next cheapest is more than 3x that. I did what I thought was a bare minimum weekly shop for my family of 5 and was expecting the bill to be £60, admittedly I wasn’t keeping a running total, just picking the cheapest of everything we needed. £83. That used to be what I would spend on a massive shop with meat and treats and trolley full to the brim.
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The recession on the horizon keeps getting closer
Yeah who’d have thought that every single thing rising in price would make people buy less.
We’ve cut back on the food shopping, but are paying about the same as before.
I had to use my credit card to buy the ingredients for my sisters birthday cake. Two butter packets cost me £3.40, flour, eggs, sugar etc went up too. I basically cut back on food shopping in general and all extra spending like nails or eyebrows has gone to £0 a month so that I can pay my energy bills.
yea obviously – when everything goes up in price, people have less money to spend and cut backs are needed.
Thinks like milk going from 89 to 96 and butter from 1.85 to 1.99 and everything going up by 30 to 40p really stings when you arent buying any real expensive items and its all still expensive.
I’ve become a reduction hunter now, down the local coop everyday at 4.
No meal is ever the same and I don’t know what I’m having next week until I see what’s in the reduced section.
I popped to Tesco yesterday, I go shopping three times a week, before yesterday I went on Monday.
Price changes I observed in the 3 days:
Jolly hog sausages were £3, now £3.15
Chicken thighs were £2.40, now £2.50 (were still advertised on the shelf at £2.40)
Tiger baguette was 60p, now 65p
Hovis thick wholemeal was £1.10, now £1.20
And this is a just a small observation on things I buy regularly.
Shocker….
obesity epidemic solved.
I run a local convenience store that aevea a lot of very local customers. Our sales are flat this spring/summer when normally we’d see a 20% uptick after Easter.
Anyone working in food retail here care to share shoplifting/loss changes over the last year or so?
I actually started buying more, but cheaper stuff. Substituting normal supermarket brand stuff for the lower priced brands but buying more quantity.
Resorted to not using online deliveries due to the fact that the discounters (Aldi and LIDL) do not offer a delivery service.
Buying healthier foods has become harder. I cannot realistically afford to buy the same amount of fresh fruit that I normally do, it just costs too much now. Tinned fruit for the win…/s
This is how recessions start
This is essential stuff too. Non-essential industries are going to be hit by a sledgehammer at this rate. I expect the likes of hospitality and travel will be worrying a lot about this trend, knowing they will be hit even harder if people can barely afford food anymore. How long until the government decides to start bailing out its mates?
Prices are rising way higher than the 11% being claimed. Products are sometimes almost 75% to 100% more expensive than last year.
The cheap options have gone every time I have shopped in the last month. Lidl 19p pasta (500g) totally gone, next cheapest is more than 3x that. I did what I thought was a bare minimum weekly shop for my family of 5 and was expecting the bill to be £60, admittedly I wasn’t keeping a running total, just picking the cheapest of everything we needed. £83. That used to be what I would spend on a massive shop with meat and treats and trolley full to the brim.