Prices rise dramatically fast, but fall slower than molasses in winter.
Gotta provide ShareholderValue™️ above all else.
>Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said customers should “start to see food prices come down in the coming months as the cut to wholesale prices and other cost pressures filter through”.
Can’t see it. Prices very rarely drop. They might stop rising for a bit.
Can’t pay nurses though otherwise inflation and food prices will increase?
So we shouldn’t ask for pay rises because of inflation… but this allowed to go on unchecked? Ridiculous.
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Aha-ha!”
– Johnny Rotten
I’ve only really noticed small price changes up until yesterday when I went to buy a small pack of Tesco own brand chocolate. Last week it was 85p and yesterday it was £1.35.
It’s all corporate profiteering. They’ll keep bumping it up until someone forces them to stop or people start starving in the street.
My weekly shop for four used to be around £75 a week, in the last 18 months its up to around £115 a week. That’s at Aldi and nothing fancy at all. Their laughing at us knowing no one will do a thing about it.
Competition authorities need to have a good look at this. The Lib Dems are asking fir this and while I don’t have much time for them as a party in this respect they are correct.
I was shopping yesterday and noticed basic own-brand table salt was 65p. Less than a year ago it was 27p. How the fuck can it more than double that quickly?
Either Brexit really has fucked things, or they’re simply profiteering. Either way is terrible.
food prices aside, Tesco are also now putting the minimum spend for online delivery up from £40 to £50 (25% increase) and a higher minimum basket charge if you don’t meet it, even if you’re paying for delivery saver
for now you can switch to e.g. Morrisons, who have actually lowered theirs to £25, but if other retailers follow suite eventually then that on its own could hit people hard
I know I can’t afford the extra cost, as it’d effectively be an extra shop each month added up – even with rising prices I’d kept my total around the same by switching brands and buying less, but staying would wipe those savings out ><
(you could get around it by throwing on a bottle of something expensive and returning it at the door though, for the unethically inclined)
Got to replace those lost EU subsidies one way or another.
Because our country is run by people (and companies) who don’t care.
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Must be all the immigrants and dirty benefits claimants. If they weren’t so lazy at the food banks waiting for handouts maybe the companies could afford to keep prices low
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Who would have thought, capitalism taking advantage of inflation as an excuse to bump prices, take advantage of wholesale prices every time they go up but never as quick on the backswing.
These retailers are vultures.
Yeah last 2 weeks my weekly shop went over £80. Before that it was around £70. And before that it never went over £50.
But they’ll definitely report bumper profits again.
Before you all start about it being a posh store, I only buy one thing from them (well, used to!). Less than 12 months ago a tin of M&S Beef Madras curry was £3. Went to get a couple as a treat last month, £4.50. I call bullshit on increased costs and demand an investigation into blatant profiteering.
I’m sure prices will fall eventually but nothing to like they were.
Higher prices will become the norm. But did anybody expect otherwise?
Gotta keep reporting those record profits while the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet. Bloody thieves.
“petrol prices remain high despite record profits for shell and BP”
I mean I’ve been having to keep a close eye on general grocery prices to make ends meet. I’ll believe the price falls when I see them.
Every time we get told prices *should* be coming down what they mean is the prices stop going up. Doesn’t mean I can start affording the same stuff I did years ago, so the damage is still done.
Suspected cost pressures = immediate prices up
Cost pressures easing = “we’ll bring consumer costs down in 3 to 9 months”
It’s the same with petrol, electronics, et al.
When are people going to wake up and realise inflation is caused by the government, printing money and giving it to the rich?
There needs to be an inquiry here, it’s profiteering pure and simple.
Start shopping at your local farm shops. Fuck the greedy supermarkets, they’re even shafting people on their ‘loyalty’ points now.
Wake me up when you see any kind of price drops lol.
It would be good if they really think for us and they drop the price because that is what we would appreciate but people are seeing that they are not dropping it.
Well I can’t see any kind of drop right now too lol, what’s it?
Stop the cap, the whole public knows what is going on.
I want some prices to come down, on vegetables at least.
Sorry but people should realise that there are nothing which is getting good for us at this point in the name of price drops, I don’t know why they keep saying that they cut the cost and all.
I would like to tell these people that this is not happening in my super market.
Would like to see that but sadly there are no drops right now lol.
Nah I am still searching for the drop, only my speaker can get that.
How about come and look at the nearest shop near my house lol, there are none drops, they should focus on the dropping man, I don’t know what they are doing.
Lol they should stop with the rise of these prices all the time, instead of doing anything else, that’s what we want at least for now, we don’t want to see rise again, there are no drops.
False things, they never do what they always tell us.
It’s getting bad for the people who are not that rich now.
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Prices rise dramatically fast, but fall slower than molasses in winter.
Gotta provide ShareholderValue™️ above all else.
>Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said customers should “start to see food prices come down in the coming months as the cut to wholesale prices and other cost pressures filter through”.
Can’t see it. Prices very rarely drop. They might stop rising for a bit.
Can’t pay nurses though otherwise inflation and food prices will increase?
So we shouldn’t ask for pay rises because of inflation… but this allowed to go on unchecked? Ridiculous.
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Aha-ha!”
– Johnny Rotten
I’ve only really noticed small price changes up until yesterday when I went to buy a small pack of Tesco own brand chocolate. Last week it was 85p and yesterday it was £1.35.
It’s all corporate profiteering. They’ll keep bumping it up until someone forces them to stop or people start starving in the street.
My weekly shop for four used to be around £75 a week, in the last 18 months its up to around £115 a week. That’s at Aldi and nothing fancy at all. Their laughing at us knowing no one will do a thing about it.
Competition authorities need to have a good look at this. The Lib Dems are asking fir this and while I don’t have much time for them as a party in this respect they are correct.
I was shopping yesterday and noticed basic own-brand table salt was 65p. Less than a year ago it was 27p. How the fuck can it more than double that quickly?
Either Brexit really has fucked things, or they’re simply profiteering. Either way is terrible.
food prices aside, Tesco are also now putting the minimum spend for online delivery up from £40 to £50 (25% increase) and a higher minimum basket charge if you don’t meet it, even if you’re paying for delivery saver
for now you can switch to e.g. Morrisons, who have actually lowered theirs to £25, but if other retailers follow suite eventually then that on its own could hit people hard
I know I can’t afford the extra cost, as it’d effectively be an extra shop each month added up – even with rising prices I’d kept my total around the same by switching brands and buying less, but staying would wipe those savings out ><
(you could get around it by throwing on a bottle of something expensive and returning it at the door though, for the unethically inclined)
Got to replace those lost EU subsidies one way or another.
Because our country is run by people (and companies) who don’t care.
[removed]
Must be all the immigrants and dirty benefits claimants. If they weren’t so lazy at the food banks waiting for handouts maybe the companies could afford to keep prices low
/s
Who would have thought, capitalism taking advantage of inflation as an excuse to bump prices, take advantage of wholesale prices every time they go up but never as quick on the backswing.
These retailers are vultures.
Yeah last 2 weeks my weekly shop went over £80. Before that it was around £70. And before that it never went over £50.
But they’ll definitely report bumper profits again.
Before you all start about it being a posh store, I only buy one thing from them (well, used to!). Less than 12 months ago a tin of M&S Beef Madras curry was £3. Went to get a couple as a treat last month, £4.50. I call bullshit on increased costs and demand an investigation into blatant profiteering.
I’m sure prices will fall eventually but nothing to like they were.
Higher prices will become the norm. But did anybody expect otherwise?
Gotta keep reporting those record profits while the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet. Bloody thieves.
“petrol prices remain high despite record profits for shell and BP”
I mean I’ve been having to keep a close eye on general grocery prices to make ends meet. I’ll believe the price falls when I see them.
Every time we get told prices *should* be coming down what they mean is the prices stop going up. Doesn’t mean I can start affording the same stuff I did years ago, so the damage is still done.
Suspected cost pressures = immediate prices up
Cost pressures easing = “we’ll bring consumer costs down in 3 to 9 months”
It’s the same with petrol, electronics, et al.
When are people going to wake up and realise inflation is caused by the government, printing money and giving it to the rich?
There needs to be an inquiry here, it’s profiteering pure and simple.
Start shopping at your local farm shops. Fuck the greedy supermarkets, they’re even shafting people on their ‘loyalty’ points now.
Wake me up when you see any kind of price drops lol.
It would be good if they really think for us and they drop the price because that is what we would appreciate but people are seeing that they are not dropping it.
Well I can’t see any kind of drop right now too lol, what’s it?
Stop the cap, the whole public knows what is going on.
I want some prices to come down, on vegetables at least.
Sorry but people should realise that there are nothing which is getting good for us at this point in the name of price drops, I don’t know why they keep saying that they cut the cost and all.
I would like to tell these people that this is not happening in my super market.
Would like to see that but sadly there are no drops right now lol.
Nah I am still searching for the drop, only my speaker can get that.
How about come and look at the nearest shop near my house lol, there are none drops, they should focus on the dropping man, I don’t know what they are doing.
Lol they should stop with the rise of these prices all the time, instead of doing anything else, that’s what we want at least for now, we don’t want to see rise again, there are no drops.
False things, they never do what they always tell us.
It’s getting bad for the people who are not that rich now.