I moved out of my home town just after covid and although many of my mates still live there I was back recently to meet for pints. €8 a pint….
Shocked. I know its a well known pub but jaysus that’s shocking. I can literally walk across the round or around the corner and pay up to €2 less if I went to GAA club.
Guess they’ll keep charging these prices if people continue to keep paying them.
*”Ah, sure it’s a great little business, acting like a country”*
That’s not even price gouging that Rip off Ireland at it’s finest being going on for years just highlighted more now than ever because majority of ordinary decent people are affected.
Does anybody know if legislation could be passed to counter price gouging?
No doubt business costs have gone up but it seems that certain businesses are certainly taking advantage of the economic situation and charging astronomical prices for their product/service
Man with a van took my bed a 4mins drive down the road. 80 Euro.
“**Orla Ryan** said her “drink of choice is a latte, but only with one shot. With coffee prices having increased, what I’m finding in many cafes is that there is no difference between one or two shots in price – how is this? I have begun to ask what is the price for one shot – there is less coffee should it not be less cost?””
A shot of espresso will mostly always be a double shot by standard. Effectively when you ask for a single shot, half of it is going down the drain.
“Four pastries, an Americano and a chocolate milkshake cost €4.05…was that 1987?!
Those food trucks charging restaurant prices for basic stuff. Glorified street food.
😂 I just paid €14.50 for a fish and chips in Courtown Harbour
Got charged €150 for a €100 bag
Most of this is people choosing the most expensive thing then complaining I have never paid close to 8euro for toothpaste it’s not somthing you need to buy in a hurry it’s a once a month purchase.
Wine varies widely in price everyone has different taste and budgets just because you can buy a nice bottle for €10 doesn’t mean another nice bottle can’t cost €50. Also wine price on restaurants is usually 40%cost 60% profit then ad 23%vat so a €40 bottle of wine is €12 marked up to €32 +vat €8 like it or not that’s what it costs to have q restaurant open even at that it’s tough to make money restaurants have one of the highest failure rates. A successful restaurant is one that makes 10% of all money taken in as profit and then pay income tax on that.
The wrap in similar vein some things are a rip of because the quality’s bad but as food costs go restaurants take the cost multiply ×4 and ad 9%vat. I can’t speak for the particular wrap but the food cost would have to be 3.40 to justify €15 price tag, if there was a whole good quality chicken fillet that alone costs over 2 quality bacon and the other bits and pieces could technically add up to €1 more.
Coffee I havnt a clue about but there’s a somewhere selling coffee on every street it seems if you choose the most expensive it’s because either you see somthing of value in it or you’re an idiot.
A 6-7 seat rental car is not mid-range price even if the brand is. Always have been expensive.
Paid nearly €15 quid for a pack of solpadine. Bottle of nurofen for the kids is about the same in local chemist, absolute robbery. Got maxilief for €5.50 and generic nurofen for €8 in chemist warehouse.
I know this goes against, but…
€1 for a coffee from the LIDL coffee machine!
Oh shit don’t say that out loud.. they’ll put up the price.
I’ve switched to almost all store brands.
That article was so infuriating.
Every single one of them actually paid those prices. So not a single person asked the price first, or looked at a price list before ordering?
Celtic Tiger prices are back people, shop around and don’t pay stupid prices or if you want to pay them, shut up complaining about it!
5.50 for a chicken fillet roll with Lettuce. Nothing else.
I see not much has changed. Ireland AKA the rip off republic was like this in the 90’s.
Still no idea why everything is so expensive there.
Inflation is only part of the story, the gouging that’s going on since covid is ridiculous.
Bought two jugs of sangria €77 in a restaurant in Dublin. Shocked 😲
Stayed in the crowne plaza near dublin airport for work and they’re charging €25 for a poor quality burger and chips.
€20 for a succulent Chinese meal these days.
Car hires are so high they should be wearing ski masks and holding a gun when they give you the contract
Honestly same price here, except we pay taxes on top and then are guilt tripped into tipping 20%
When I was a child, my mother met with a family frend in a small village café with myself and her friends kids.
They ordered and paid for a glass of milk for each of us. We didn’t like it and when our parents checked they found out the fuckers had diluted the milk with water.
This was in the early 90’s, this kind of shitty price gouging behaviour has /always/ existed and the people that do it simply wait for times or opportunities to do it.
I just stick to McDonald’s coffee because at least you have the little cardboard loyalty card and it’s decent enough coffee, better than the piss they have in petrol stations.
I used to love Starbucks as a little treat but the coffee got worse and the prices are too f*cking mental to justify it.
Lidl or Aldi own brand is excellent
Real simple solution to bring these prices down.
People need to stop paying it.
Yes my weekly shopping bill has gone from 80 euro a week to 100-110 in the last year. (Basically a 30-40% increase!?)
But il avoid anywhere or any item that has a ridiculous price tags now.
I know not everyone can do this but I avoid Supervalu completely in the last 5 years. Il avoid the smaller shops like centra etc now (like when I’m buying petrol…I’m not buying a single thing besides that petrol)
I mainly go to Tesco for now but only because a handful of items I regularly buy each week are on offer…but some things are starting to go too high and il start getting more items from Lidl or Aldi.
Two smoked cod and chips over the weekend…€24.80!!!
€5 for a Jameson and €1 for a dash of flat white TK Lemonade. I cant afford to go the pub anymore.
He’s the thing. As long as people keep paying it they’ll keep charging it.
I hear the tourism sector on the horizon whinging for another bail out as for some reason, tourists are not coming anymore and spending….
I was dream shopping for a new motorbike.
Exact same model in Spain was over 5k less than Ireland.
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Any chance of a Rip Off Ireland flare?
I went to buy some toothpaste earlier and nearly had a stroke when I saw the price of the stuff.
I’m gonna have to start swallowing it, can’t be spitting it down the drain at those prices!
https://archive.ph/B66He
Get around paywall
4.60 for a flat white?! Fucking hell
I moved out of my home town just after covid and although many of my mates still live there I was back recently to meet for pints. €8 a pint….
Shocked. I know its a well known pub but jaysus that’s shocking. I can literally walk across the round or around the corner and pay up to €2 less if I went to GAA club.
Guess they’ll keep charging these prices if people continue to keep paying them.
*”Ah, sure it’s a great little business, acting like a country”*
That’s not even price gouging that Rip off Ireland at it’s finest being going on for years just highlighted more now than ever because majority of ordinary decent people are affected.
Does anybody know if legislation could be passed to counter price gouging?
No doubt business costs have gone up but it seems that certain businesses are certainly taking advantage of the economic situation and charging astronomical prices for their product/service
Man with a van took my bed a 4mins drive down the road. 80 Euro.
“**Orla Ryan** said her “drink of choice is a latte, but only with one shot. With coffee prices having increased, what I’m finding in many cafes is that there is no difference between one or two shots in price – how is this? I have begun to ask what is the price for one shot – there is less coffee should it not be less cost?””
A shot of espresso will mostly always be a double shot by standard. Effectively when you ask for a single shot, half of it is going down the drain.
“Four pastries, an Americano and a chocolate milkshake cost €4.05…was that 1987?!
Those food trucks charging restaurant prices for basic stuff. Glorified street food.
😂 I just paid €14.50 for a fish and chips in Courtown Harbour
Got charged €150 for a €100 bag
Most of this is people choosing the most expensive thing then complaining I have never paid close to 8euro for toothpaste it’s not somthing you need to buy in a hurry it’s a once a month purchase.
Wine varies widely in price everyone has different taste and budgets just because you can buy a nice bottle for €10 doesn’t mean another nice bottle can’t cost €50. Also wine price on restaurants is usually 40%cost 60% profit then ad 23%vat so a €40 bottle of wine is €12 marked up to €32 +vat €8 like it or not that’s what it costs to have q restaurant open even at that it’s tough to make money restaurants have one of the highest failure rates. A successful restaurant is one that makes 10% of all money taken in as profit and then pay income tax on that.
The wrap in similar vein some things are a rip of because the quality’s bad but as food costs go restaurants take the cost multiply ×4 and ad 9%vat. I can’t speak for the particular wrap but the food cost would have to be 3.40 to justify €15 price tag, if there was a whole good quality chicken fillet that alone costs over 2 quality bacon and the other bits and pieces could technically add up to €1 more.
Coffee I havnt a clue about but there’s a somewhere selling coffee on every street it seems if you choose the most expensive it’s because either you see somthing of value in it or you’re an idiot.
A 6-7 seat rental car is not mid-range price even if the brand is. Always have been expensive.
Paid nearly €15 quid for a pack of solpadine. Bottle of nurofen for the kids is about the same in local chemist, absolute robbery. Got maxilief for €5.50 and generic nurofen for €8 in chemist warehouse.
I know this goes against, but…
€1 for a coffee from the LIDL coffee machine!
Oh shit don’t say that out loud.. they’ll put up the price.
I’ve switched to almost all store brands.
That article was so infuriating.
Every single one of them actually paid those prices. So not a single person asked the price first, or looked at a price list before ordering?
Celtic Tiger prices are back people, shop around and don’t pay stupid prices or if you want to pay them, shut up complaining about it!
5.50 for a chicken fillet roll with Lettuce. Nothing else.
I see not much has changed. Ireland AKA the rip off republic was like this in the 90’s.
Still no idea why everything is so expensive there.
Inflation is only part of the story, the gouging that’s going on since covid is ridiculous.
Bought two jugs of sangria €77 in a restaurant in Dublin. Shocked 😲
Stayed in the crowne plaza near dublin airport for work and they’re charging €25 for a poor quality burger and chips.
€20 for a succulent Chinese meal these days.
Car hires are so high they should be wearing ski masks and holding a gun when they give you the contract
Honestly same price here, except we pay taxes on top and then are guilt tripped into tipping 20%
When I was a child, my mother met with a family frend in a small village café with myself and her friends kids.
They ordered and paid for a glass of milk for each of us. We didn’t like it and when our parents checked they found out the fuckers had diluted the milk with water.
This was in the early 90’s, this kind of shitty price gouging behaviour has /always/ existed and the people that do it simply wait for times or opportunities to do it.
I just stick to McDonald’s coffee because at least you have the little cardboard loyalty card and it’s decent enough coffee, better than the piss they have in petrol stations.
I used to love Starbucks as a little treat but the coffee got worse and the prices are too f*cking mental to justify it.
Lidl or Aldi own brand is excellent
Real simple solution to bring these prices down.
People need to stop paying it.
Yes my weekly shopping bill has gone from 80 euro a week to 100-110 in the last year. (Basically a 30-40% increase!?)
But il avoid anywhere or any item that has a ridiculous price tags now.
I know not everyone can do this but I avoid Supervalu completely in the last 5 years. Il avoid the smaller shops like centra etc now (like when I’m buying petrol…I’m not buying a single thing besides that petrol)
I mainly go to Tesco for now but only because a handful of items I regularly buy each week are on offer…but some things are starting to go too high and il start getting more items from Lidl or Aldi.
Two smoked cod and chips over the weekend…€24.80!!!
€5 for a Jameson and €1 for a dash of flat white TK Lemonade. I cant afford to go the pub anymore.
He’s the thing. As long as people keep paying it they’ll keep charging it.
I hear the tourism sector on the horizon whinging for another bail out as for some reason, tourists are not coming anymore and spending….
I was dream shopping for a new motorbike.
Exact same model in Spain was over 5k less than Ireland.