Morrisons remains competitive is a joke for me. Most things I used to buy in there skyrocketed
The sharpest rise was found in the cost of Waitrose’s chocolate chip shortbread. It was priced at 82p in the year to 31 October 2021 – but one year on, this had surged to £2.25.
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My local coop is running at something like 30% inflation every month. I literally have no idea what’s going on. I thought it was just misprices at first, but their own brand biscuits are like 1.90.
It’s a smaller shop so maybe that’s why.
Budget brands have smaller profit margins so not a surprise that’s where inflation is seen most. In some ways those figures might be misleading; I’ve noticed that in Tesco it’s not just that prices have gone up, value brands have started to disappear, which is a way of raising prices by stealth. Still, for stuff like meat and milk we know farmers’ costs have skyrocketed. If anyone’s making profits out of this, it’s not them.
Morrisons is now by far the most expensive supermarket around my area. Last time I went in there a lot of their own brand stuff like washing tabs, coffee etc was more expensive than branded stuff.
Ironically, we’ve started doing a bit more shopping at M&S because the other supermarkets are just as expensive as them now on a lot of products.
A loaf of bog standard white toasty bread is 85p at M&S, and it’s far nicer than Tesco’s own brand equivalent that’s only 5p cheaper.
Might as well get that sweet M&S quality if I’m gonna pay the same elsewhere.
We swapped to ocado. We spend the same as we did in tesco, but get M&S food instead.
The price is just one factor, another is decreased quality.
Due to the fact I can’t always cook, I was relying on Sainsbury’s ready meals. They have gone absolutely downhill in the last couple of months, to the point I stopped going to that supermarket altogether.
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Morrisons remains competitive is a joke for me. Most things I used to buy in there skyrocketed
The sharpest rise was found in the cost of Waitrose’s chocolate chip shortbread. It was priced at 82p in the year to 31 October 2021 – but one year on, this had surged to £2.25.
😬
My local coop is running at something like 30% inflation every month. I literally have no idea what’s going on. I thought it was just misprices at first, but their own brand biscuits are like 1.90.
It’s a smaller shop so maybe that’s why.
Budget brands have smaller profit margins so not a surprise that’s where inflation is seen most. In some ways those figures might be misleading; I’ve noticed that in Tesco it’s not just that prices have gone up, value brands have started to disappear, which is a way of raising prices by stealth. Still, for stuff like meat and milk we know farmers’ costs have skyrocketed. If anyone’s making profits out of this, it’s not them.
Morrisons is now by far the most expensive supermarket around my area. Last time I went in there a lot of their own brand stuff like washing tabs, coffee etc was more expensive than branded stuff.
Ironically, we’ve started doing a bit more shopping at M&S because the other supermarkets are just as expensive as them now on a lot of products.
A loaf of bog standard white toasty bread is 85p at M&S, and it’s far nicer than Tesco’s own brand equivalent that’s only 5p cheaper.
Might as well get that sweet M&S quality if I’m gonna pay the same elsewhere.
We swapped to ocado. We spend the same as we did in tesco, but get M&S food instead.
The price is just one factor, another is decreased quality.
Due to the fact I can’t always cook, I was relying on Sainsbury’s ready meals. They have gone absolutely downhill in the last couple of months, to the point I stopped going to that supermarket altogether.