In the last two weeks the Chinese charge me 50c for a bag to carry my food out, H&M charged me 20c for a bag, and then today my local chipper have upped the price of curry sauce from 2€ – 2.50€ and are just giving out something I need to microwave myself. Why is everything such a rip off

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1. Because you let them. Not happy with the price? Don’t shop there

2. As someone in another thread said; there’s a premium on laziness.

   I see the delivery charge of €3 for my takeaway, the service charge of 50c and the bag charge of 25c. I roll my eyes but still click order every time.

3. Items like the bag charge are just a direct cost they’re passing to you.

   You just shouldn’t have paid that much for that curry sauce though. That one is on you

4. Welcome to 21st century Ireland my friend

5. If anything, the plastic bag charge is great value. It hasn’t increased since 2007.

6. That’s the price of convenience my friend. Takeaways aren’t an essential, although they are nice. If pricing is a concern, home cooking way better bang for buck.

7. Do you spend a lot on takeaways OP?

8. My local pizza place upped the garlic dip from €2.00 to €2.50… and made the bloody thing smaller. I started buying the big squeezy bottle of Empty Pockets Garlic Sauce for €3.50 instead. It’s nicer and it’s cheaper (still a rip off but comparatively cheaper)

9. Inflation baby. Cost rises and if the cost of product hasn’t risen then why not raise the price anyway as everything else is going up

10. Because we will pay for it. The microwave your own stuff though is a bit of a joke. I mean the whole point of paying for this stuff is so we don’t have to do any of it ourselves.

    This is up there with that chap who worked in a deli moaning because someone asked him to butter a scone. The whole fucking point of going out and paying a person to make this shit up for a customer is so they don’t have to do it themselves.

    If I wanted the Ikea of food, I’d just buy some scones and butter and probably get better value for money as well.

11. People may say it’s due to increases but honestly if you look at the markup companies have on lots of products it’s just complete greed, they’re doing it to ensure annual growth and basically aren’t footing any of the additional costs themselves, that’s why things are ridiculously priced, I get to see how much items are sourced at in my industry and some companies add 100-200% markup it’s just greed plain and simple, that curry sauce could have been bought for less than 50 cent easily

12. It’s called the lazy tax

13. I hope one day there’s a massive downturn and people start cooking at home so shops are forced to reduce prices , it’s gone beyond a joke it’s nothing to do with energy crisis any more, the price of energy came back down but the food prices didn’t

14. All the takeaways I go to use paper bags (I think).

15. mcdonnells sauce is nice though

16. Wait are you saying that tiny little tub of whatever in the picture cost you €2.50?

17. Peak r/Ireland moan right there.

    There are worse things happening than a few cent increases on your fast food treats tbf.

18. Plastic is killing the world. They are trying to put you off from asking for a bag.

19. Just to add to how outrageous pricing can be, Was doing price comparisons in the office with competitors, simple product €15 to us delivered, companies charging €48, exact same product I charged €22 for with delivery and what happened they went and ordered a load, and now I’ve a repeat customer, people that haven’t studied business often use bench marks off competitors to justify their pricing, so if I had done the same could’ve said ah that’ll be €45 but what’s the point, hence it’s just greed, whenever things go south you’ll see companies change their tune and start offering deals and promoting business but while times are good we’ll continue to see this unjustified greed

20. Don’t worry it’ll trickle down to you someday. It’s capitalism it just takes all of your lifespan to trickle down 🤷

21. These are easily solvable problems. This is a dumb fucking post

22. If I got that carton of curry in any chipper or Chinese I wouldn’t be going back.

23. Mate you need to change your chipper!!!

24. Don’t believe a chipper would give that as a portion of curry

25. i’d get over the bags, but that curry is absolutely unacceptable

26. It’s to prevent people from using single use plastic. The curry is a rip off imo but Jesus Christ fella

27. Because you paid for it .

28. I wouldn’t mind plastic bag charges in general. There was loads of them just dumped around the place back before the charges. 2.50 for sauce is crap though, agreed there.

29. Can you get Mayflower curry there? Closest to the real thing I’ve found.

30. I have to say if any of my local chippers gave me this I wouldn’t order from them again.

31. We clearly haven’t reached our limit,we’re still not out on the streets protesting.

32. If a chipper is giving you a portion of multipack curry sauce from the shop find a better chipper.

33. Corporate greed. We pay for their record profits, and they blame whatever crisis is going for for the price increases. But it all comes down to pure, unadulterated corporate greed.

34. Bags are a tax, not a cost. It’s been in this country for YEARS now, if ya haven’t been paying attention that’s your own fault…jaysus. Bring your own bags, save the environment yadayadayada…

35. Buy some reusable bags, buy your own curry bottle at home

36. Welcome to the future brother or sister

37. I generally accept that most places (bigger companies being a possible exception) aren’t out to fuck me over but rather it’s a consequence of rip-off Ireland. Their rents and energy costs are insanely high so they all need it up their prices accordingly.

38. High inflation and you not using reusable bags aren’t one issue.

39. Capitalism