Food prices - have you noticed them rising?
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northernhord
Active Member
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Definitely true in my case, but I do have quite a thrifty nature so tend to shop around.
It's also the case that the supermarkets have been having a deflationary effect on food for a long time - they've kept prices down and their profits up by screwing the producers. If the cost of food is rising so fast at the moment, it's clearly out of their control.
From the Times last year:
Associated British Foods, one of Britain’s biggest food manufacturers and owner of the discount fashion chain Primark, says prices for four of its most important food commodities – wheat, corn oil, malting barley and dairy products – have doubled in a year.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I most certainly HAVE noticed them rising. My shopping bill is now just silly.
It seemed to me that since the middle of last year everything's had 50p added to this, a pound added to that ... it all adds up. Especially shit when you've been on a wage-freeze for years.
It seemed to me that since the middle of last year everything's had 50p added to this, a pound added to that ... it all adds up. Especially shit when you've been on a wage-freeze for years.
northernhord
Active Member
Definitely true in my case, but I do have quite a thrifty nature so tend to shop around.
It's also the case that the supermarkets have been having a deflationary effect on food for a long time - they've kept prices down and their profits up by screwing the producers. If the cost of food is rising so fast at the moment, it's clearly out of their control.
Definately, it could only last for so long
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
Any positives...
It could be educational for people who have been guilty of wasting food with abandon?
Perhaps some of the fat people will get thinner?
Perhaps some peoples manicured lawns will be put to use growing food?
Perhaps we will see the people of Dewsbury Moor fighting over road kill?
There's always someone ready to polish the turd, eh?
_angel_
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I probably would have noticed more, but apart from yesterday, I haven't been in a supermarket for over a month - bf has been getting shopping.
I think it's fair to say I'm more numerate than him so probably would have shopped better..
Was in a bit too much rush to notice prices yesterday but I did notice rice and chicken both seemed a bit pricy.
I think it's fair to say I'm more numerate than him so probably would have shopped better..
Was in a bit too much rush to notice prices yesterday but I did notice rice and chicken both seemed a bit pricy.
northernhord
Active Member
Yeah I noticed price rises creeping in last year.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
Yes, prices seem to be creeping up further every month. Particularly on the basics; bread, milk, cheese, pasta, rice, cereal, eggs. Vegetables too, but not quite by the same percentage.
I'm sure one own brand cheese I buy from the supermarket has gone up by almost 50% in the last six months.
That's the feeling I get too. Things seem to actually be going up higher than is being publically acknowledged.
If this keeps up month by month, I'll very soon be unable to make ends meet in any way at all.
Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
I've notice food prices shoot up in the last year. It's all a bit really.
really.
There's always someone ready to polish the turd, eh?
Yes....quite.....
I don't want to pay too much for food but also I think it has been cheap for too long. It should be a fair price and perhaps people should attach more value to food than clothes, computer games and other things?
felixthecat
are we there yet?
Its getting fucking ridiculous. I'm like Tanky - buy pretty much the same stuff every week (except for bogofs) and its getting more expensive every shop.
I'm getting cannier now - more own brands, value brands and attack the reduced section. I try to shop later in the evening now to get the reduced items too.
I'm getting cannier now - more own brands, value brands and attack the reduced section. I try to shop later in the evening now to get the reduced items too.
Kanda
Diving wanker
What about Guinness?
6 for 6 quid in my local corner shop.
Well, it's £1.09 a can but I'm a regular so get it cheaper
innit
c'mon, little life giver
Agreed, it has been too cheap, and imo it has led to people developing a strange attitude where they expect to get food very cheaply and spend proportionately lots of money on luxuries.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I wonder how all those being clobbered by the abolition of the low-rate tax are feeling about these incessant price-rises? The people that have now got to faff around with a multitude of nasty, vicious little forms to ask for benefits that they can threaten to cut or clawback whenever the mood takes them?
currently 8 cans for £7 at the co-op near my house.What about Guinness?
£5.45 for 4 cans.
_angel_
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HELLO! There are some people who can't afford their weekly shop - anyone on a tight budget.
Just because you spend your disposable income on clothes and electrical goods don't mean to say we all do.
And those goods are probably sweated too, so why make an exemption for food?
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
Define "a fair price" to someone on a shit wage? Because to me it would be prices that don't threaten to gradually force you into bankruptcy along with the rises in fuel etc and the wage-freezes.
God, I'm so SICK of the "the pain is good for you" merchants.
northernhord
Active Member
Ive had to start working on the side again, its a fuckin Joke, a joke I never voted for.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
Well fucking said! I, for one, don't HAVE any disposable income. Repalcing shoes means I'll have to really scrimp the next moth. Any unexpected bills casue real trouble.
God, don't encourage him/her or we'll soon get a call for higher prices on clothers too.
That's true. Unfortunately, I think the supermarkets will be better able to withstand rising wholesale prices without passing them on to consumers - they're coining it anyway - so the current crisis will only give them even more of an advantage over the others and help them to tighten their grip on food retailing in this country.
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
I'm surprised that it has taken this long for people to notice.
Animal feed went through the fucking roof last autumn due to the shite harvests.
In July, 25Kg of pignuts cost £7.99, it was more like a Tenner by christmas. Oddly enough, little of these hikes seem to get back to the farmers. Our pig supplier saw a lot of 10-ish purebred saddlebacks at porker weight go for about £25 per animal last week.
I had contemplated feeding my chickens on organic layers pellets, but I think they are 11 odd quid for 20Kg as oppose to 6.99 for non-GM ones (up from a fiver before christmas).
I sell me surplus eggs for a quid per 6 (cos its a nice round sum to stick in me pocket). Given that I generally consider my eggs to be much better than supermarket ones, I think I'll put the price up.
Animal feed went through the fucking roof last autumn due to the shite harvests.
In July, 25Kg of pignuts cost £7.99, it was more like a Tenner by christmas. Oddly enough, little of these hikes seem to get back to the farmers. Our pig supplier saw a lot of 10-ish purebred saddlebacks at porker weight go for about £25 per animal last week.
I had contemplated feeding my chickens on organic layers pellets, but I think they are 11 odd quid for 20Kg as oppose to 6.99 for non-GM ones (up from a fiver before christmas).
I sell me surplus eggs for a quid per 6 (cos its a nice round sum to stick in me pocket). Given that I generally consider my eggs to be much better than supermarket ones, I think I'll put the price up.
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
yes im lookin as well for an additional job, but i will only get less benefit and am scared of it all going tits up- its a very worrying time
_angel_
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'Luxuries' like heating and bills do you mean? Ask someone on a pension how much they spend on 'luxuries'.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I do that, too - but it's only buying us a little time before those go up or disappear. What do we do then?
northernhord
Active Member
yes im lookin as well for an additional job, but i will only get less benefit and am scared of it all going tits up- its a very worrying time
Indeed, it forces people into working on the side, or worse in some cases.
innit
c'mon, little life giver
I'm not talking about pensioners! I'm talking about people who are splashing loads of money on entertaining and clothes but complaining about food prices. I never said it was everybody who thought like that, but I know people who do.
Chill the fuck out
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
I was thinking that yesterday.....
_angel_
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I'm not talking about pensioners! I never said it was everybody who thought like that, but I know people who do.
Chill the fuck out
But these are the people most adversely affected by food price rises.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
Adn the putrid propoganda posters all over the city will label you a theiving benefit crook for daring to try and stay alive.
They tip shit on your head and then tell you you stink!
