Price rises in Sainsbury’s

[Cancerian]

Went to get a few bits in the dog kennel hill Sainsburys this morning and something that has been £1.15 for ages has suddenly gone up to £1.45! Tin of Sainsburys anchovy fillets. Looks like price rises are on the way! 

[KalamityKel]

OMG not the Anchovy fillets!!! 😱

[malumbu]

Don't start me on Lidl pastries....

[Angelina]

The own brand chocolate was 45p for a long time and then has gone up to £1.00

Still not breaking the bank but was quite happy with something at a decent price for once.

More than 100% increase

[Insuflo]

The price of some things seems to be volatile. I think there must be a spike in international chocolate markets or some such. Sainsbury’s recently increased the price of both Club and Penguin biscuits from £1.60 to £2.00 a pack in one hit, so a 25% rise. 

[Spartacus]

Just don't buy the chocolate covered anchovies 

Only because it's wrong on so many fronts 

Edited 19 hours ago by Spartacus

[Sephiroth]

Let's have a look at olive oil price in Uk Tesco

 

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254516076?sc_cmp=ppc*GHS+-+Grocery+-+New*MPX_PMAX_All_OT_All+Products_Online+Budget_1011017**254516076*&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADiyNaszLAry567QKuGGE_WRyOsJB&gclid=Cj0KCQiAvvO7BhC-ARIsAGFyToVxNYLKhpNfGyF3C6x4KzK2FynwQtOmzQEujQNODuoep1zaPbiLz1YaAiLbEALw_wcB

 

 

Now let's try same bottle in Ireland 

 

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/en-IE/products/254516076?srsltid=AfmBOopMBjIs5dRjf87MVaZo_BzH-uVgRCv7Te2bkz0qZ5LZKW3VNGNW

 

Now it's true that inflation is impacting countries everywhere - but guess what's making things worse in UK

[Spartacus]

16 hours ago, Sephiroth said:

Now it's true that inflation is impacting countries everywhere - but guess what's making things worse in UK

The disastrous decision by Rachel Theives  to increase employer NI thereby pushing up costs to businesses resulting in higher prices is my guess 

[malumbu]

Well we were either taxed more or the money had to come from somewhere else ... Either way we would have less money to spend but the former was preferable.  Expect the market will adjust, hopefully sooner rather than later.  Reducing the amount of unprocessed food would be a great start both for our pocket and our wellbeing 

[Sephiroth]

39 minutes ago, Spartacus said:

The disastrous decision by Rachel Theives  to increase employer NI thereby pushing up costs to businesses resulting in higher prices is my guess 

you would be wrong - price differentials like this predate current labour government

(labour NI increase also doesn't come close to many European countries in terms of cost overhead)

 

what is with people in this country refusing to countenance the damage Brexit continues to do

[malumbu]

Just remembered that we paid a lot more for our CDs compared to Europe.  Government investigated, the industry said we had higher quality product.  Then that argument collapsed and we got parity.  Now we are outside the trading bloc we don't have these competitive pressures.  I think we were told that Brexit would make things cheaper.  Do you have an answer Farage, Gove and Johnson?  The first will blame the others, the others have their well paid careers, so don't care 

[Spartacus]

42 minutes ago, malumbu said:

Well we were either taxed more or the money had to come from somewhere else ... Either way we would have less money to spend but the former was preferable.  Expect the market will adjust, hopefully sooner rather than later.  Reducing the amount of unprocessed food would be a great start both for our pocket and our wellbeing 

The better choice would have been to raise employee NI back to the pre cut level thereby taxing those who work and can afford it without pushing up prices for everyone. But stupidly "there will be no tax increase on working people" which is why it's disastrous in my mind. 

[malumbu]

Catch 22, if they said sorry you will need to pay more tax as the country is broke and we need to rebuild the economy, they may not have got in.  And if they had raised taxes for those working they would have been roasted for not following their pledges.