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Post by wagsastokie on Nov 15, 2022 17:37:35 GMT
I nipped in the chip shop last night for a portion chips For my cold gammon left over from sun £1.65 Had large haddock and chips Friday night £6.30 Is gammon a particular favourite of yours? Yes smoked with a nice bit of cracking
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Post by questionable on Nov 15, 2022 17:50:56 GMT
Picked up a Bargain from the CO OP last night two reduced breaded cod fillets 94p, probably cost about £4 to cook them when thinking about it. I realise you can't microwave what you bought, but, in all seriousness, you'll save a fortune by microwaving stuff instead of using usual cooking methods. Worth thinking about until energy prices become more manageable again. Hopefully! Yes mate we are in all truth, shop at Aldi and never purchase anything that requires oven cooking, fry plenty of stuff mind but far cheaper than putting the oven on. Now to educate the wife who states she deserves a hot meal, Pot Noodle it is then.
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Post by questionable on Jan 22, 2023 17:07:36 GMT
This is blatantly day light robbery, the dogs food was £37 for a 12kg bag, begrudgingly I then had to pay £45, now it’s £59.99, how’s that remotely possible.
Yes things have gone up but this is taking the piss, some energy big wig acknowledged last week that gas prices were at pre war prices and falling but bragging that the increased prices were here to stay.
Something has to give soon and we need to stand up to corporate greed and a corrupt government.
And I cant share my Netflix account now with the kids unless I pay an extra £3 a month, easy fix I’ll cancel my subscription, it’s crap anyway and it’s not as if the kids will chip in.
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Post by butlerstbob on Jan 22, 2023 17:17:51 GMT
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Post by questionable on Jan 22, 2023 20:18:26 GMT
We get our dog food from Zooplus and they’ve put a message on their website saying they’re experiencing shortages from certain suppliers as they’re not prepared to pay the prices that the manufacturers are charging them as it’s basically robbery.
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Post by questionable on Feb 5, 2023 13:12:05 GMT
Christ just popped into the CO OP and £1.15 for a bag of crisps, sod that for a lark, the 175g sized were £2.25.
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Post by musik on Feb 5, 2023 14:05:22 GMT
Lidl here in Svea Rike (Sweden):
Small delicatesse greek youghurt 125 ml. Went from 4.90 SEK (£0.38) to 21.90 SEK (£1.68) over night.
ICA here in Svea Rike (Sweden):
Ordinary yellow onions per kg. 129 SEK (£9.9).
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Post by questionable on Feb 17, 2023 15:19:15 GMT
Obviously not food related but this is taking the piss from Virgin Mobile
Hi. From 1st April 2023 the monthly price of your calls, texts and data will go up by 17.3%, in line with the Retail Price Index inflation of 13.4%, plus 3.9%. For example, a £8 plan will increase by £1.38. See full details and Legal Stuff at virginmedia.com/mobile/annual-rpi-price-increase
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 17, 2023 17:01:28 GMT
Yesterday the local supermarket had sold out of normal eggs and only branded ones left for $8.99 (£8) a dozen. Mental!
Aldi used to sell them for under $2 to get people in the door.
Used to make a good scramble or omelette every week. Haven't done a single one this year.
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Post by questionable on Feb 17, 2023 17:07:29 GMT
Plenty of folk with chickens near us, £1.50 half a dozen.
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Post by swampmongrel on Feb 17, 2023 18:16:14 GMT
Yesterday the local supermarket had sold out of normal eggs and only branded ones left for $8.99 (£8) a dozen. Mental! Aldi used to sell them for under $2 to get people in the door. Used to make a good scramble or omelette every week. Haven't done a single one this year. Bird flu in the States killing all the chickens. Try switching to bats eggs.
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Post by questionable on Jan 18, 2024 11:21:17 GMT
I was talking to a friend earlier who works in the food packaging industry (they print the packaging)
He was telling me that over 80% of the printing plates they use are continually being changed to basically reduce the amount we actually get weight wise, which makes perfect sense as the Soreen Malt Loaf I’m currently eating seems loads smaller, that or my hands have grown but from memory it’s far more expensive.
We tend to stick to the same food and average 4 carrier bags per shop which averages out around £90 but last night we spent £80 on two bags, I’d read that supermarkets were under investigation and told to lower prices??
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Post by Eggybread on Jan 18, 2024 11:39:17 GMT
It’s post Brexit Britain.
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Post by Northy on Jan 18, 2024 11:51:49 GMT
It’s post Brexit Britain. Have you actually read the story ?
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Post by Eggybread on Jan 18, 2024 11:56:52 GMT
It’s post Brexit Britain. Have you actually read the story ? Nope but prices have shot up since Brexit so I don’t need to 😀
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Post by questionable on Jan 18, 2024 12:32:15 GMT
My wife works for one of the major supermarkets and with her very generous staff discount it’s still far cheaper to use the likes of Aldi.
There’s also the amount of stuff they throw at the end of the day, scary but occasionally we can fill our freezer with freezable type stuff, fish and bread mainly, sounds biblical…
The stuff that needs consuming on the day she’ll pick up for our neighbours and go round handing it out
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Post by musik on Jan 18, 2024 12:39:19 GMT
Prices and wages is a great interest of mine.
Comparison This is normal prices in Sweden.
Tomatoes 1 kg [£4,25] Potatoes 1 kg [£1,50] Salmon (freezer) 1 kg [£11] Football std seat ticket highest league [£18,25] Men's haircut [£60]
Any differences from Stoke?
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Post by marylandstoke on Jan 18, 2024 12:40:48 GMT
It’s post Brexit Britain. Thats funny. It seems to be happening in post Brexit America too.
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Post by backintheday on Jan 18, 2024 12:48:52 GMT
It’s post Brexit Britain. Thats funny. It seems to be happening in post Brexit America too. Was talking to a friend of mine who lives in Canadia (With a French Canadian wife who hates the English) and he was saying the same prices just on the up.
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Post by oggyoggy on Jan 18, 2024 12:52:59 GMT
It’s post Brexit Britain. Thats funny. It seems to be happening in post Brexit America too. Not all of the increase in prices is brexit related. But in the UK, brexit has caused significant inflation on food prices according the supermarkets and food suppliers.
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Post by questionable on Jan 18, 2024 13:04:40 GMT
Prices and wages is a great interest of mine. Comparison This is normal prices in Sweden. Tomatoes 1 kg [£4,25] Potatoes 1 kg [£1,50] Salmon (freezer) 1 kg [£11] Football std seat ticket highest league [£18,25] Men's haircut [£60] Any differences from Stoke? Haircut 10-£15 no more
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Post by Veritas on Jan 18, 2024 13:08:53 GMT
Prices and wages is a great interest of mine. Comparison This is normal prices in Sweden. Tomatoes 1 kg [£4,25] Potatoes 1 kg [£1,50] Salmon (freezer) 1 kg [£11] Football std seat ticket highest league [£18,25] Men's haircut [£60] Any differences from Stoke? Yes the wages
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Post by cvillestokie on Jan 18, 2024 13:42:23 GMT
Yesterday the local supermarket had sold out of normal eggs and only branded ones left for $8.99 (£8) a dozen. Mental! Aldi used to sell them for under $2 to get people in the door. Used to make a good scramble or omelette every week. Haven't done a single one this year. I’d stay out of Aldi in the U.S. I’ve never been to one where the quality is semi-decent. It reminds me of what it used to be like in the 90s/00’s in Britain before it went through some image reform.
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Post by Northy on Jan 18, 2024 14:36:25 GMT
Have you actually read the story ? Nope but prices have shot up since Brexit so I don’t need to 😀 Yet Germanies are even higher than ours ...
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Post by musik on Jan 18, 2024 14:53:09 GMT
Prices and wages is a great interest of mine. Comparison This is normal prices in Sweden. Tomatoes 1 kg [£4,25] Potatoes 1 kg [£1,50] Salmon (freezer) 1 kg [£11] Football std seat ticket highest league [£18,25] Men's haircut [£60] Any differences from Stoke? Yes the wages What is an average wage for let's say, a Bus driver Teacher (for 16-19 year olds) Doctor in general medicine Carpenter Interviewer (within market research) Footballer pro level (Stoke) And what is the income tax?
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jan 18, 2024 15:02:55 GMT
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Post by Eggybread on Jan 18, 2024 15:25:56 GMT
Thats funny. It seems to be happening in post Brexit America too. Not all of the increase in prices is brexit related. But in the UK, brexit has caused significant inflation on food prices according the supermarkets and food suppliers. Shhh dont tell some on here that.
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Post by cvillestokie on Jan 18, 2024 15:29:37 GMT
I thought that it was generally understood that about 2/3’s of the inflation in supermarkets was driven by greedy profit margins of big businesses. Wars in Ukraine etc are just a nice excuse for profiteering.
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Post by AlliG on Jan 18, 2024 16:00:05 GMT
I am a sad old anorak who has been using an accountancy programme to record all my expenditure since 2002. I tend to eat exactly the same things Monday to Friday and alternate a couple of menus at the weekend, so I basically buy the same stuff every week. (So much easier than having to think about what I might want to eat on any particular day. ) My annual grocery expenditure over the last 5 years has been as follows (I also always use the Aldi store just up the road, so it really is a like for like comparison): 2019 - £1,100.02 2020 - £1,214.18 (+10.4%) 2021 - £1,213.27 (- 0.07%) 2022 - £1,318.40 (+8.66%) 2023 - £1,579.85 (+19.83%) Not sure what the rest of you will make of that other than last year food/grocery prices rose a hell of a lot more than the official rate of inflation.
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Post by superjw on Jan 18, 2024 16:23:25 GMT
I am a sad old anorak who has been using an accountancy programme to record all my expenditure since 2002. I tend to eat exactly the same things Monday to Friday and alternate a couple of menus at the weekend, so I basically buy the same stuff every week. (So much easier than having to think about what I might want to eat on any particular day. ) My annual grocery expenditure over the last 5 years has been as follows (I also always use the Aldi store just up the road, so it really is a like for like comparison): 2019 - £1,100.02 2020 - £1,214.18 (+10.4%) 2021 - £1,213.27 (- 0.07%) 2022 - £1,318.40 (+8.66%) 2023 - £1,579.85 (+19.83%) Not sure what the rest of you will make of that other than last year food/grocery prices rose a hell of a lot more than the official rate of inflation. Corporate greed is the underlying factor.
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