Spreadable butter is a con. It’s butter mixed with veg oil, yet despite veg oil being cheaper than butter, it’s more expensive, the people getting robbed are the customers.
Well how else are you supposed to trap free-range butter? You’re not allowed to shoot it any more.
> Aldi shoppers stunned after spotting security nets placed over tubs of Lurpak
I can’t believe it’s net butter
I believe some supermarkets are moving to a model where they put the security tags on the kinds of stuff that actually walks out the door most often, not just the steaks.
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I stopped buying Lurpak spreadable a while back after the price shot up. Seemingly 35% in a year.
Dan pak tastes the same and his half the price lol
stunned? err, why? Bottle of gin £10 security tag, big packet of Lurpak £14 – security tag
Meanwhile I saw a kid getting intercepted by Tesco security a couple of days ago, stealing eggs.
At this time of year that’s not unusual. Kids and chocolate, right?
No. Eggs. As in chicken embryos. Breakfast protein. Cracking good food most people don’t think they’re shelling out for….
My immediate thought wasn’t ‘lol what a scamp’ but more like ‘oh shit, We’ve fallen this far??’
There could be only 3 possible reasons for that:
A) he’s been bullied into nicking *something* and the eggs were especially over easy
B) he wants to throw them at someone
C) his home life is really that desperate that they’re resorting to egg theft just to have something to eat.
In my day when kids turned over supermarkets it was for sweet stuff. When they wanted to egg people, they bought them by the box, not stealing individual ones (flashback to a bunch of my friends buying 3 pallets of 24 and throwing them from the bus windows, with me in stitches at the back of the bus).
Stunned? I see shoplifting on daily basis. Some for basic food which is tragic and I personally totally excuse.
On the other hand lot teens openly grab and run whatever they want. There is a group I’ve spotted that does this daily wearing covid masks in different shops… it would be funny if not completely sad we’ve reached the point there is zero security unless the store owners pay for it. I feel bad but don’t know what to do…
They can afford the equipment and staff time to put on and remove these tags but they can’t lower the price…
This is a very stupid idea by lurpak, i love their butter but I wont be buying it now. This is going to take up twice it’s usual space in my fridge. Not happy.
Damn, I wondered why the smackheads in my local pub had run out of stock.
In WW2 it was so hard to get hold of butter shopkeppers stored it in a safe. So this isn’t actually very new for Britons.
Real butter is like £2.50, tastes better and lasts ages as you don’t need much. Get a butter dish and leave it a cool cupboard.
It’s crazy how much extra we will pay for an inferior product and a bit of extra convenience.
(Edit: yes I know even butter is a convenience product)
Why do I have a feeling this is an Aldi in a city centre?
A 225g spreadable tub is €4.19 in carrefour in Spain, for context . In the ‘before times’ , it was €1.99.
‘Before times’ being last fucking year…
>One Aldi store in *Kidbrooke, south east London*, put security nets over its £5 tubs of Lurpak, leaving customers stunned and shocked when they went about their weekly shops
Aldi shoppers stunned because people are stealing butter thus the prices going up to compensate, to keep the prices down to inflation and profit levels shops are making said butter secure.
Who the hell is stealing Lurpak butter?
Welcome to Brexit Britain. Meanwhile I was in Germany in a supermarket and there were no security tags on alcohol, and guess what, abundance of fruit and vegetables. Back in my local Tesco Extra, they have metal nets over Prosecco!
Shoplifting to order – just like the old days. Its back to 1990
They should nick the Nordpak instead. It’s basically identical
It’s a cost of living crisis and people are either getting desperate or looking for a way to make a quick quid down the pub. It used to be meat, then the likes of cheese and coffee; now, it is Lurpak. We will see this more and more, it is also why places like Sainsbury’s are introducing shops where you have to scan your receipt to leave.
Well if people stopped stealing it… solves itself really
Why not go a bit further and electrify them aswell ffs
Meanwhile people still refuse to admit the Tories economic policies did this
Well what do people expect when there are so many thieving scumbags out there
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Spreadable butter is a con. It’s butter mixed with veg oil, yet despite veg oil being cheaper than butter, it’s more expensive, the people getting robbed are the customers.
Well how else are you supposed to trap free-range butter? You’re not allowed to shoot it any more.
> Aldi shoppers stunned after spotting security nets placed over tubs of Lurpak
I can’t believe it’s net butter
I believe some supermarkets are moving to a model where they put the security tags on the kinds of stuff that actually walks out the door most often, not just the steaks.
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I stopped buying Lurpak spreadable a while back after the price shot up. Seemingly 35% in a year.
Dan pak tastes the same and his half the price lol
stunned? err, why? Bottle of gin £10 security tag, big packet of Lurpak £14 – security tag
Meanwhile I saw a kid getting intercepted by Tesco security a couple of days ago, stealing eggs.
At this time of year that’s not unusual. Kids and chocolate, right?
No. Eggs. As in chicken embryos. Breakfast protein. Cracking good food most people don’t think they’re shelling out for….
My immediate thought wasn’t ‘lol what a scamp’ but more like ‘oh shit, We’ve fallen this far??’
There could be only 3 possible reasons for that:
A) he’s been bullied into nicking *something* and the eggs were especially over easy
B) he wants to throw them at someone
C) his home life is really that desperate that they’re resorting to egg theft just to have something to eat.
In my day when kids turned over supermarkets it was for sweet stuff. When they wanted to egg people, they bought them by the box, not stealing individual ones (flashback to a bunch of my friends buying 3 pallets of 24 and throwing them from the bus windows, with me in stitches at the back of the bus).
Stunned? I see shoplifting on daily basis. Some for basic food which is tragic and I personally totally excuse.
On the other hand lot teens openly grab and run whatever they want. There is a group I’ve spotted that does this daily wearing covid masks in different shops… it would be funny if not completely sad we’ve reached the point there is zero security unless the store owners pay for it. I feel bad but don’t know what to do…
They can afford the equipment and staff time to put on and remove these tags but they can’t lower the price…
This is a very stupid idea by lurpak, i love their butter but I wont be buying it now. This is going to take up twice it’s usual space in my fridge. Not happy.
Damn, I wondered why the smackheads in my local pub had run out of stock.
In WW2 it was so hard to get hold of butter shopkeppers stored it in a safe. So this isn’t actually very new for Britons.
Real butter is like £2.50, tastes better and lasts ages as you don’t need much. Get a butter dish and leave it a cool cupboard.
It’s crazy how much extra we will pay for an inferior product and a bit of extra convenience.
(Edit: yes I know even butter is a convenience product)
Why do I have a feeling this is an Aldi in a city centre?
A 225g spreadable tub is €4.19 in carrefour in Spain, for context . In the ‘before times’ , it was €1.99.
‘Before times’ being last fucking year…
>One Aldi store in *Kidbrooke, south east London*, put security nets over its £5 tubs of Lurpak, leaving customers stunned and shocked when they went about their weekly shops
Aldi shoppers stunned because people are stealing butter thus the prices going up to compensate, to keep the prices down to inflation and profit levels shops are making said butter secure.
Who the hell is stealing Lurpak butter?
Welcome to Brexit Britain. Meanwhile I was in Germany in a supermarket and there were no security tags on alcohol, and guess what, abundance of fruit and vegetables. Back in my local Tesco Extra, they have metal nets over Prosecco!
Shoplifting to order – just like the old days. Its back to 1990
They should nick the Nordpak instead. It’s basically identical
It’s a cost of living crisis and people are either getting desperate or looking for a way to make a quick quid down the pub. It used to be meat, then the likes of cheese and coffee; now, it is Lurpak. We will see this more and more, it is also why places like Sainsbury’s are introducing shops where you have to scan your receipt to leave.
Well if people stopped stealing it… solves itself really
Why not go a bit further and electrify them aswell ffs
Meanwhile people still refuse to admit the Tories economic policies did this
Well what do people expect when there are so many thieving scumbags out there