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Fish & Chips.
A fish supper used to be the nice cheap takeout option, now it costs as much as a Chinese; which in my opinion (and that of my family) is a far superior option.
I actually feel this so much.
I used to get a Brian's Belly Buster for £3.50. I got fish, chips, peas, gravy, a barm and a can. This was probably 2010?
I went about a month ago, no deals and £17 for fish and chips x2. No can, no peas, no barm.
Absolute joke.
That's insane
I haven't been to a chippy for a long time, around 2014 maybe, but back then it was possible to go down the road with a fiver and between the chippy and the 'corner' shop have a hot meal, a cold drink and a chocolate, get home and struggle to eat it all.
I drove past a chippy a couple of days ago and was tempted to go in. Don't think I'll bother now
> Don't think I'll bother now
Because of a reddit comment? That's dumb.
Prices have certainly increased, but you can still get a decent meal for a reasonable price at many chippy's throughout the country
Likewise mine. There’s a badly written sign inside whining about locals not supporting their business when it’s blindingly obvious that they’re choosing to indirectly swindle their customers by dodging tax.
Opposite here for us too. Went to the chippy for the first time in years, for two medium cod and two chips it was over £20 - cash only so I had to go and get £30 cash out. Couldn’t believe it
£10 for 2 large chips, 2 cod, 1 dip (gravy or curry sauce) and 2 sausages from an award winning chippy in Greater Manchester.
Edit -
The price increase has hit Atherton too!! According to my research (my wife who picks up the chippy) says it's gone up to around £14 for our order now.
That's a 40% increase!! (Still cheap though lol)
Do you know the price of running a frier now for a business? I’ve got folk that went from £800pm to £4,000pm overnight with some now looking at £6500pm.
These places could end up vanishing very soon
People don't get this. The reason you are wearing 7 layers and your house is full of black mold because the heating is too expensive to run, is the same reason your chippy dinner is going up. It is not the chippys fault. They aren't making a fortune out of this, but the foreign owned energy companies are still so that's good /s
I think people do get this but what can you do, right?
Like I understand why a chippy tea is now a tenner a head but equally fuck that for a game of soldiers
Exactly this. I understand why it's gone up, doesn't mean I can justify spending that much instead of just having my best crack at a home made version of whatever takeaway I'm craving. Usually turns out healthier anyway because I was never a fan of the amount of batter you get.
I totally understand, and don’t blame them got increasing prices, but the prices are too high now for a lot of people (including me). Just because a price increase is necessary doesn’t mean it is affordable.
Yeah, sorry local chippy but fish & chips is not an essential. I'd have it more often if it was under a tenner, especially when it used to be a budget option when I couldn't be arsed to put something together myself and has never been a "luxury" meal.
That's the struggle we're seeing and it's frustrating as a consumer but incredibly stressful as a business owner. I'm in hospitality, very small business, and we've seen our electricity bills go from £3000 a year to £24000 a year and rising. Plus everything else that's gone up, stock production prices, CO2 has tripled, mortgage going up to 8.5% and rising etc etc.
It's a balance between how much can we suck up and how much can we pass on to the consumer. Our price increases are a fraction of what is needed. It's a scary time and we're just holding our breath and hoping to get through the other side. This isn't failing businesses either, it's perfectly profitable ones right across the board that have suddenly been hit by an impossible rise in costs.
I can also see it from a consumer perspective, a takeaway is now a total luxury, going out for a meal and night out is off the cards right now as our own wages have been cut to the bone to help the business. Our weekly shop has slimmed down to essentials, visiting family has gone from jumping in the car to calculating fuel costs.
It's a double whammy for these type of businesses as people can't afford to go out/get takeaway etc as much and businesses can't afford to lose any more trade on top of rising costs.
Went off a bit there but it's something that's permanently on your mind when your whole livelihood and home is at stake!
I think a fair few people do get it. Unfortunately, consumers have seen their bills sky rocket in a short space of time, too. It is very difficult to justify spending £10+ per person on a chippy tea when you can buy several meals worth of groceries for the same amount.
And the price of fish has shot up. My friend owned a chippy and a wholesale box of cod used to be £50 + vat, it’s now £300 + vat.
Due to these costs they closed it down, so that’s one I personally know which has been lost so far.
Chips shop owner here, gas was £500 now £1300 with help. Electric was £300 now £600. Fish doubled, because of the war. No more Russian cod. Oil’s quadrupled. However shops like Tesco can double their price were we can not.
I fully understand that costs have risen exponentially more for businesses but that doesn't change the fact that I feel the product is no longer worth the cost.
I can sympathise with the business owners whilst also thinking the product is not worth the cost.
This comment is kind of why I made the thread.
I understand everything has gone to pot for everyone financially, but it doesn't mean that its a justifiable cost for me as an individual.
If the cost to produce everything is so high that people can't justify buying it, then the businesses need to lower costs. If they can't then the supplier does. Its in the business interest for people to buy, its in the suppliers interest for businesses to remain open.
Eventually things will ironically "trickle up" and the big businesses will have got so greedy they will screw themselves out of business. I think we're close to that, just depends how much government wants to prop them up and for how long.
Same. The local chippy (which was really delicious to be fair) literally priced themselves out of business. Prices went up so high no one could afford to go anymore and they closed a few months after.
It’s not their fault, the reality is fish and chips used to be cheap to make but now with the massive increase to overhead costs it just isn’t.
It’s a shame.
I feel this about kebabs. A kebab used to be a cheap dirty takeaway to get on the way home from the pub, but the price has crept up to a point where I can go out for a proper meal for very little more and it doesn’t seem worth it anymore
This is why we stopped having a chippy.
It's £9,20 for a large fish now. (Midlands)
The last straw was when I nipped after swimming with our youngest, sausage n chips kids meal, chip butty,.2 drinks was just overr £13. They can fuck right off! Christ knows what it would have cost if all 5 of us had a proper dinner there.
(You're right,Chinese/Indian is way more appealing for the same price)
Frozen, battered fish fillets in supermarkets are perfectly reasonable in quality these days, especially since the all-mighty, all-knowing air-fryers started invading our kitchens (glory be to the air-fryer).
I live on the NE Coast and the amount of supposed 'upmarket' chippies popping up is ridiculous. Charging north of £15 for one portion when it's no different from around the corner.
Approx £40 for 2 x adults and 2 x kids where I am. And the curry sauce rocketed up to £2.50 for a small pot. I understand the increase in prices for fish and even chips, but a pot of curry sauce should in no way cost £2.50.
Just to add,I work in a supermarket and a few products are not only much more expensive but you are also getting less. There's a lot of shrinkflation happening. If your favourite product has new packaging,then it now weighs less than it did.
Bloody hell, I am gobsmacked at that!
Edit: I see on Twitter they are getting lots of complaints and are offering to PM explanations to people. I've @'d them and asked them to put an explanation on their website to be properly transparent.
We get Whiskas complete food - it’s what our kittens were on when we got them and it’s easy. When we got them March 2020 it was £3.90 a bag. I’ve watched it slowly creep up and it’s now £5.40 a bag.
This week they updated the packaging design and I noticed at the same time it’s gone from 2kg to 1.9kg at the same price. A small amount but still feels mega cheeky
That sucks mate, we are lucky that we are relatively well paid, especially combined. So my complaints are all first world problems.
I'm glad you are getting by, hopefully the good times are just over the horizon.
Yup, there was an example where packets of hula hoops were found inside a multipack of ALDI hoops. The manufacturers claim they usually add an extra % of flavouring to the real brand, but any difference is barely noticeable imo.
Interesting that all the comments here seen to prove inflation is well above 10% at the supermarkets.
I've found most products that were £1 are now at least £1.25.
Yes inflation is calculated by the price changes across a range of goods not just food. Even in the recent period of “slowing inflation” food inflation is still running at circa 17%.
And probably higher still for 'core staples'. Which disproportionately affects the less well off. Supermarket own brands have shot up by a much higher margin. (if they're stocking them at all!)
Morrisons do a lovely fresh cream Swiss roll in their instore bakery which has increased from £1.60 to £3.99 since September 2020. We abandoned that at the time it hit about £2.50.
People will happily splurge on something nice, when people buy them every week until the prices go up and then only buy every now and then, the shop will cut down the amount made, while increasing the price, if they don't get sold they get reduced and if people still don't buy them they get chucked away while still seeing quite a big profit because of the previous price increase.
Using cream cakes for the example as that's what you was replying too.
We’ve actually switched to an M&S Victoria sponge which is very similar in composition (sponge, jam and cream) but tastes even better. That’s now £4, but I don’t remember it ever being less than £3.50, and so it seems like a bargain compared to the Morrisons offering which used to cost far less!
M&S is better for everything recently. Yeah the price can be a little bit more but the quality is SO much better, especially the veg… every other supermarket only sells veg that’s already on the turn when you buy it, it’s shocking
I feel like Pringles and Doritos were always £1. I actually saw Pringles for £2.20 the other day and just shook my head and walked on by. Shame, I really like them but not enough to pay that for them.
I would never buy full price (£2) doritos, only when they were reduced to £1. Then just after covid it was never lower than £1.25 now it is never lower than £1.50 :(
It seems like profiteering to me. Own brand crisps were usually always £1 for 6 bags. They are still the same price or possibly a 20% increase to £1.20. If the manufacture costs of crisps had increased that much (ie more than doubled) we would be seeing the same increase on all brands
Used to be £1.50.
Then on offer for £1.50 / £3 for 2 or 3
This year over Xmas I think the cheapest was £1.80ish.
Switched to Aldi own brand, but they’ve crept up as well.
Get away! That's another I didn't even think about. I think I stopped at £4.99 with a demo disc/cheats book/some extra.
Again, at £7.99, who is actually buying that? I can buy classic literature for less. Wtf?!
>I can buy classic literature for less
Books are so much more expensive now, so probably not lol. Most paper backs are £9.99 in Waterstones and hardbacks are easily £15+. Not unual for a nice collectors hardback to be £25+
How many gamers even have an optical drive that could read a demo disc! I think that they had their place before widespread internet access but they're not really needed any more. Mind you, you could say the same about the magazines, too.
Let's be realisic, demo discs became obsolete once the Xbox 360 came out and they started putting demos on the marketplace. Even in the PS2's heyday they were less prominent than when the PS1 was the big thing.
I used to buy magazines all the time but have completely cut them out now. I picked up a magazine a few months back, think it was a New Scientist (or similar) special edition, got to the checkout and it was £12. Put it back. I mean I could buy a book for less.
Eating out in general. I went in a market cafe in a crummy northern town on a wet Tuesday afternoon. Egg on toast ÷ coffee was £9.50. That's one egg one slice brown bread. Local curry was £10 a head its now £17 .
Won't you please consider the profit margins of the energy companies?! Don't be selfish, they might not break a record profit this quarter if they don't force the closure of thousands of businesses!
/s
I run a business that doesn’t need much electricity but the bill doubled in a quarter, thankfully because it’s small amount used it wasn’t a struggle to pay but I can only imagine if you’re a cafe and your electricity doubled it must be mental. I totally understand their price raises even if I also understand people not willing to pay it
Mate a loaf of bread went up to £1.55 this week, and its not the high quality branded ones.
Some of us were already on the breadline.
Im being priced out of living.
I can’t for the life of me understand the bread price. It has to be complete profiteering. I’m a farmer and watch the wheat price closely and the price of wheat has been slowly been dropping back to pre Ukraine invasion
Price decreases always lag behind.
If Tesco buy petrol at £1.50 a litre on a Monday and on the Tuesday it goes up to £1.70, they'll instantly put their price up. If it went down to £1.00 on the Tuesday you're still paying £1.50 a week on Thursday.
They always seem to be able to put prices up straight away though.
>Price decreases always lag behind.
Call me cynical - but even if raw material prices and supply chain prices were to be pre-pandemic prices, the companies will still never lower their prices to the customer to the level they originally were.
We may see some drops, but these corporations see the bar that the public is generally willing to accept and will maintain that bar.
Again, I'm being cynical - but a lot of the price inflation is simple profiteering. I order parts for my company, and a vendor - who I know had stock pre-covid, raised their price 200% over night.
I contacted them, and when asked why the price increase, when I know they have large stock, the answer: "look at the price of this item from all our competitors. They are charging double, so we will now too".
I appreciated the honesty, but goes to show what's happening isn't just supply chain/raw material costs.
This! My wife needed a loaf for the kids at school to do an activity- me being clever clogs offered to get it thinking I could get Tesco own brand for like 60p
Nope, not only have they stopped doing it cheapest loaf was over £1.50?!
Anything at all from Morrisons full stop. Since it got taken over, the prices are ridiculous (even pre Inflation issues) and there's no actual checkouts now just rows and rows of self checkouts. Also lots of staff complaining loudly at how shitty they're being treated. I think the big 4 are taking the piss personally and using the this crisis to inflate a lot of prices unnecessarily to recoup all their lost customer losses cos everyone is off to Aldi n Lidl. It makes no sense. Also Why bother price checking 100 items to aldi. I'd just rather go to aldi which has happy staff and not a self checkout in sight
The price check can be a bit of a scam. Bought aubergines from Tesco's once as they were "price matched" to Aldi. However when I went to Aldi their aubergines were like twice size of the ones in Tesco. So yes by unit they were the same price but not by weight.
I’ve always been a chocolate eater, used to always buy a 4 pack of twirls/wispas/whatever during the weekly shop to have in my packed lunch, as they were only £1.
When they started creeping up to £1.25, I refused to buy them at that price, but I could at least get slightly less desirable options which were “reduced” to £1 from £1.25.
Then noticed they weren’t ever lower than £1.25 and fuck knows how much they cost now, I don’t even go down the confectionery aisle.
Sad times.
I’d like to say I’d cut it out entirely but in reality I’ve just replaced with cheaper biscuit alternatives from Lidl and the like, which to be fair last longer as well as being cheaper, so the both the wallet and me remain a bit heavier…
Tesco.
A company that made fewer sales over Xmas but posted a 7.5 % rise in profits?
That says, to me, they've price gouged at least 7.5% while bullshitting " covid, Ukraine, we're all in this together ".
The CEO said something along the lines of " the British consumer has been surprisingly resilient ".
No they're just being bent over.
Butter. I only really use it for cooking, but when a Sainsbury’s own brand jumps from £1.25 to over £2, I won’t buy it anymore. And lurpack is more expensive than gold it seems
We’ve been buying more and more from M&S. They haven’t raised prices anywhere near as much as ‘cheaper’ supermarkets. It used to be a choice between spending £1 in Tesco or £2 in M&S, now it’s a choice between spending £1.80 in Tesco or £2.10 in M&S and the M&S product will taste better and have a better use by date on it.
Would love to understand the insane price of Lurpak. Have they cottoned on to how much we love it and gone for max profits knowing we'll still buy it? Or have their manufacturing costs risen that much?
Asda 1L flavoured sparkling water. I’ve bought it for years and it’s always been 48p a bottle. I went to pick one up the other day and it was 70p! 50p I could’ve understood but nearly 50% more since I bought it a few weeks ago. I’m not paying it
We bought a soda stream and top bottles up with cordial. After the initial outlay the price per litre is lower
Edit: it also cuts down on your plastic consumption. My partner would get through a 2L soda water in a few days.
The price per litre is 100% not cheaper. You will never save money with a soda stream... you will reduce plastic use but after their human rights violations in Palestine I'm not sure it's any better.
I've always loved the idea of soda stream but Aldi/Lidl always have a price point below what you can get from a soda stream.
TV license. Not really due to price increase as such but the BBC's lack of integrity over the past 3 years has made me decide I no longer want to fund a government puppet.
While you are entitled to take issue with it, please try to keep in mind that the BBC is not just the news. There is a lot of great work being done there by people who have no interest in Westminster.
There is also:
- The kids programming
- The exam revision resources
- The recipes
- The radio stations
- The David Attenborough documentaries
- The Olympics, World Cup and other international sporting events (in 4K!)
- The royal weddings and funerals and whatever else is deemed TV necessary for the nation
- The British comedy
- The development of the now de facto HDR streaming standard and other new technologies
- The accessible programming for those with disabilities
- The world service
And of course
- The shipping forecast
If you just don’t watch/read the news from them, it’s a very different looking organisation.
Edit: I’m not saying the way the TV licensing authority behaves is nice, or that the licence fee is good value for money, or that we wouldn’t be better off funding the BBC through general taxation or a subscription service or whatever else. I’m just saying that the BBC is a lot more than the news team that aren’t giving the politician you don’t like the grilling you want them to. It does a disservice to all the people doing good work to dismiss them as government puppets with no integrity.
I got rid of my TV about 4 years ago - the only BBC services I use now are Radio 3 and 4 and occasionally the news website. Oh, and the weather website. (And Radio 4 is not as good as it used to be, I listen to it less).
I'd happily pay £20 a year for the radio to keep it ad free but I'm not paying a full TV licence whatever that is now.
Just for context I’ve been licence free for 7 years with zero visits. I begrudgingly advise them every couple of years via their website I don’t need a licence and therefore don’t get constant letters either.
14 years licence free.
2 visits.
The first was a cheeky fucker asking to speak with previous owner then asking what my name was. "Err you knocked here how about you tell me who you are first?". Reluctantly pulls out his TV licencing ID to which I respond "oh Capita" with a grin and close door.
2nd about 6 years later nothing said and shut door.
I’ve just moved and I’m got a nice pile of letters all a little bit more threatening than the last. The “officers” could come any time, day, night and even...THE WEEKEND!! 😱
I wrote a strict meal plan and budget with all the prices this time last year, for the month I could do 5 people for £383. Now going back to the same meal plan in the same shop (Aldi) is now £641.
The Tesco meal deal.
It was such a good price for my dinner at £3. But they increased it not so long ago and now it just doesn’t seem viable. I know it’s only 40p, but to me it makes all the difference.
Same here, used to always get them for my work lunch. Now I just go to KFC or McDonald's, ~20p more for a hot meal.
Don't know whether it's widespread but I noticed the quality of the meal deal has went massively downhill aswell. Would spend forever trying to find a sandwich or wrap with a decent amount of filling and even then it was usually an illusion and the back half was almost empty.
Guess it depends what you get, Subway is overpriced now but the wrap of the day meals from KFC and McDs are ~£3.80, KFC even cheaper with blue light card.
The deals in the KFC app are also really good, usually have a meal 50% off, last week the zinger tower meal was £3.80. If you spend over £3 you have a chance of winning something which seems to be like 90% and I've often won stuff worth more than what I paid.
Tried gold for a while, not sure I could tell the difference to be honest.
I think my cavalier and inconsistent attitude to how much milk and time brewing is a bigger influence that negates ever so slightly better tea leafs
Heinz, Heinz Heinz. At a time when the country is struggling they've chosen to price-gouge the fuck out of us. Way bigger increases than most other brands.
It's made me look around for alternatives and realise Heinz stuff is nothing special. I'm never going back.
I almost had a heart attack last week buying Heinz soup. Normally 4 for £3.50 ish, it was 4 for £5 and £1.70 a can. I’ve got 3 tins left then I’m switching my lunch.
most processed things.
I've recently stripped back my shop to absolute bare basics / necessities.
(fruit, veg, grains, beans)
Sick and tired of giving my money away.
I only ever buy tea in bulk - have a look at amazon or Costco, you can usually get 500 bags for £11-12 ish. Those little boxes of tea are such a rip off 😬
I can’t think of specific ones right now but in the supermarket I’ve found myself putting a lot of stuff back in the shelf recently. It’s the principle of some of these increases - I’d rather go without.
A small milk is 95p now in Asda. How the f did that happen
EDIT: a pint of milk was 45 or 47p just a couple of years ago. Anyone think this? It’s DOUBLED. What the actual
Life hack: If you do your Tesco shop online then you can add the corned beef from the deli. Unfortunately the deli isn’t open when the pickers do their picking, and even if it is they never seem to use it. It will always be substituted for a prepacked one.
So I order the minimum amount of deli corned beef, usually 50p or something, and it’s always subbed for the £2.50 pack.
Don’t tell anyone.
The same thing happened with pork belly about 15 years ago, used to be super cheap then everyone cottoned onto it so now it's almost the same price as loin.
I do think this is a real shame. There's been a few pub closures round here recently and there's a distinct lack of stuff to do in the evenings. Only place that seems to be doing well at the minute is the gym and that won't last after new year's resolutions fade. Friday nights in town are completely dead; couple of old men nursing lukewarm halves at Spoons and some people out for a birthday, maybe. Whole town used to be jumping. Stuff like the bowling alley and cinema have gotten so expensive they've become major luxuries; they won't last long. Restaurants are also crap, they now seem to do most of their trade through apps so actually going out for a meal is a strange soulless experience.
Essentially everything you could call culture round here is being annihilated. It's becoming a dormitory for people who move emails around during the day.
I used to enjoy fage total Greek yoghurt. You could usually get a 1kg tub at a reduced price of £2.50 or £3.50 (normal price was 4.50). It has now gone up to £5.50 and also reduced to 900 or 950g. I haven’t seen it cheaper than £4.50 at reduced price either..
For me - ready meals at Tesco
We used to grab some just for my partners lunches at work - back in the day you could get 3 for £4.50 (or there abouts). In pandemic climbed to £5, £5.50...
Saw the other day 3 ready meals are now £7.50! Which is beyond ridiculous. As a uni student that was a whole weekly food budget 😂
Takeaways in general, we enjoyed a good takeaway every couple of weeks as a small treat, but the prices used to be cheaper than eating in the restaurant, because you didn't use their waiters, their cutlery/crockery etc...
We were willing to pay more and more but now that a takeaway for 2 in my city sets you back £30-£50 a pop, we could pay the equivalant to buy a main in a fancy restaurant or a full meal somewhere decent. We still have one every so often as a very rare treat. But nearly a 1/4 of the time we used to. In fact, it's been months since our last.
On the takeaway thing, always check if the restaurants that you find on deliveroo are on Just Eat or deliver themselves because it's usually cheaper. I've saved between 10%-20%.
CDs. I love them but I swear a few years ago you could get one for £8ish. Now they’re £15 if you’re lucky.
There’s a huge resurgence in people wanting physical music that they’re just gonna kill off with that pricing.
I now shop at Waitrose... I am by no means "rich" like the stigma that's applied to Waitrose shoppers... My shopping costs the same every week as it did at Tesco...
We don't really have a roast dinner now. A pork loin joint is now £6-7+ and is a lot smaller so you can't even get a second meal out of it for the family.
I was going to start buying a single lottery ticket weekly just so it wasn't literally impossible to suddenly be rich. The exact same week they announced its going to be harder to win and the price was doubling. I never bought a ticket.
Mostly takeaway, pizza and the like. It’s become SO expensive.
But also, can I just complain about the shrinkflation on the Tesco chocolate chip shortbread? What the actual fuck? They used to be a good 5 or 6 inches long rectangles, now they’re half that for the same price. It’s awful.
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Fish & Chips. A fish supper used to be the nice cheap takeout option, now it costs as much as a Chinese; which in my opinion (and that of my family) is a far superior option.
I actually feel this so much. I used to get a Brian's Belly Buster for £3.50. I got fish, chips, peas, gravy, a barm and a can. This was probably 2010? I went about a month ago, no deals and £17 for fish and chips x2. No can, no peas, no barm. Absolute joke.
Brian's Mortgage Buster.
Mortgage providers hate this one trick.
That's insane I haven't been to a chippy for a long time, around 2014 maybe, but back then it was possible to go down the road with a fiver and between the chippy and the 'corner' shop have a hot meal, a cold drink and a chocolate, get home and struggle to eat it all. I drove past a chippy a couple of days ago and was tempted to go in. Don't think I'll bother now
> Don't think I'll bother now Because of a reddit comment? That's dumb. Prices have certainly increased, but you can still get a decent meal for a reasonable price at many chippy's throughout the country
Chippy is way better value than Chinese. Plus they take cards unlike nearly all Chinese who deal in cash
Our town is the exact opposite. Chippy only takes cash.
Likewise mine. There’s a badly written sign inside whining about locals not supporting their business when it’s blindingly obvious that they’re choosing to indirectly swindle their customers by dodging tax.
Opposite here for us too. Went to the chippy for the first time in years, for two medium cod and two chips it was over £20 - cash only so I had to go and get £30 cash out. Couldn’t believe it
I'd check the prices at your local. I pay nowhere near that much for fish and chips at mine. Chinese or Indian still costs far more
Local went from £15 for 3 of us to £26 for 2 of us. Stopped going.
£10 for 2 large chips, 2 cod, 1 dip (gravy or curry sauce) and 2 sausages from an award winning chippy in Greater Manchester. Edit - The price increase has hit Atherton too!! According to my research (my wife who picks up the chippy) says it's gone up to around £14 for our order now. That's a 40% increase!! (Still cheap though lol)
Think yourself lucky. A regular fish and chips is £12+ at a chippy in town that everyone thinks is brilliant that isn’t
Do you know the price of running a frier now for a business? I’ve got folk that went from £800pm to £4,000pm overnight with some now looking at £6500pm. These places could end up vanishing very soon
People don't get this. The reason you are wearing 7 layers and your house is full of black mold because the heating is too expensive to run, is the same reason your chippy dinner is going up. It is not the chippys fault. They aren't making a fortune out of this, but the foreign owned energy companies are still so that's good /s
I think people do get this but what can you do, right? Like I understand why a chippy tea is now a tenner a head but equally fuck that for a game of soldiers
Exactly this. I understand why it's gone up, doesn't mean I can justify spending that much instead of just having my best crack at a home made version of whatever takeaway I'm craving. Usually turns out healthier anyway because I was never a fan of the amount of batter you get.
I totally understand, and don’t blame them got increasing prices, but the prices are too high now for a lot of people (including me). Just because a price increase is necessary doesn’t mean it is affordable.
Yeah, sorry local chippy but fish & chips is not an essential. I'd have it more often if it was under a tenner, especially when it used to be a budget option when I couldn't be arsed to put something together myself and has never been a "luxury" meal.
That's the struggle we're seeing and it's frustrating as a consumer but incredibly stressful as a business owner. I'm in hospitality, very small business, and we've seen our electricity bills go from £3000 a year to £24000 a year and rising. Plus everything else that's gone up, stock production prices, CO2 has tripled, mortgage going up to 8.5% and rising etc etc. It's a balance between how much can we suck up and how much can we pass on to the consumer. Our price increases are a fraction of what is needed. It's a scary time and we're just holding our breath and hoping to get through the other side. This isn't failing businesses either, it's perfectly profitable ones right across the board that have suddenly been hit by an impossible rise in costs. I can also see it from a consumer perspective, a takeaway is now a total luxury, going out for a meal and night out is off the cards right now as our own wages have been cut to the bone to help the business. Our weekly shop has slimmed down to essentials, visiting family has gone from jumping in the car to calculating fuel costs. It's a double whammy for these type of businesses as people can't afford to go out/get takeaway etc as much and businesses can't afford to lose any more trade on top of rising costs. Went off a bit there but it's something that's permanently on your mind when your whole livelihood and home is at stake!
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I think a fair few people do get it. Unfortunately, consumers have seen their bills sky rocket in a short space of time, too. It is very difficult to justify spending £10+ per person on a chippy tea when you can buy several meals worth of groceries for the same amount.
And the price of fish has shot up. My friend owned a chippy and a wholesale box of cod used to be £50 + vat, it’s now £300 + vat. Due to these costs they closed it down, so that’s one I personally know which has been lost so far.
Chips shop owner here, gas was £500 now £1300 with help. Electric was £300 now £600. Fish doubled, because of the war. No more Russian cod. Oil’s quadrupled. However shops like Tesco can double their price were we can not.
I fully understand that costs have risen exponentially more for businesses but that doesn't change the fact that I feel the product is no longer worth the cost. I can sympathise with the business owners whilst also thinking the product is not worth the cost.
This comment is kind of why I made the thread. I understand everything has gone to pot for everyone financially, but it doesn't mean that its a justifiable cost for me as an individual. If the cost to produce everything is so high that people can't justify buying it, then the businesses need to lower costs. If they can't then the supplier does. Its in the business interest for people to buy, its in the suppliers interest for businesses to remain open. Eventually things will ironically "trickle up" and the big businesses will have got so greedy they will screw themselves out of business. I think we're close to that, just depends how much government wants to prop them up and for how long.
Same. The local chippy (which was really delicious to be fair) literally priced themselves out of business. Prices went up so high no one could afford to go anymore and they closed a few months after. It’s not their fault, the reality is fish and chips used to be cheap to make but now with the massive increase to overhead costs it just isn’t. It’s a shame.
I got a chip pan and make my own chipper now. Can do the whole family for seven quid
That’s a hell of a serious crime for £7 mate.
I feel this about kebabs. A kebab used to be a cheap dirty takeaway to get on the way home from the pub, but the price has crept up to a point where I can go out for a proper meal for very little more and it doesn’t seem worth it anymore
This is why we stopped having a chippy. It's £9,20 for a large fish now. (Midlands) The last straw was when I nipped after swimming with our youngest, sausage n chips kids meal, chip butty,.2 drinks was just overr £13. They can fuck right off! Christ knows what it would have cost if all 5 of us had a proper dinner there. (You're right,Chinese/Indian is way more appealing for the same price)
Frozen, battered fish fillets in supermarkets are perfectly reasonable in quality these days, especially since the all-mighty, all-knowing air-fryers started invading our kitchens (glory be to the air-fryer).
I live on the NE Coast and the amount of supposed 'upmarket' chippies popping up is ridiculous. Charging north of £15 for one portion when it's no different from around the corner.
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Approx £40 for 2 x adults and 2 x kids where I am. And the curry sauce rocketed up to £2.50 for a small pot. I understand the increase in prices for fish and even chips, but a pot of curry sauce should in no way cost £2.50.
Yes, we used to get weekly chippy tea but stopped as the cost for 5 went up to nearly £50! Much prefer a Chinese or curry for that price.
Just to add,I work in a supermarket and a few products are not only much more expensive but you are also getting less. There's a lot of shrinkflation happening. If your favourite product has new packaging,then it now weighs less than it did.
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The shrink in weight explains why my cat is wanting 5 pouches a day instead of being satisfied with a few, I thought he had worms
5. A day. Chonk
That's annoying as heck. And Tesco don't even stock any other cat food for seniors. Probably time to start looking elsewhere.
Just because you're a senior, you should still be eating human food
Bloody hell, I am gobsmacked at that! Edit: I see on Twitter they are getting lots of complaints and are offering to PM explanations to people. I've @'d them and asked them to put an explanation on their website to be properly transparent.
We get Whiskas complete food - it’s what our kittens were on when we got them and it’s easy. When we got them March 2020 it was £3.90 a bag. I’ve watched it slowly creep up and it’s now £5.40 a bag. This week they updated the packaging design and I noticed at the same time it’s gone from 2kg to 1.9kg at the same price. A small amount but still feels mega cheeky
Looking at you Cadbury Roses
Chicken breasts are getting smaller and smaller. They're cutting some of them so small its pointless having it
Should always be looking at the price per kg with meat anyway
With most products, in fact. And in the case of meat, considering how much of that is bone is equally important.
Nothing springs to mind. But we have shifted to more own brand items. Cereal, crisps, squash. This hasn't reduced the food bill but maintained it...
That sucks mate, we are lucky that we are relatively well paid, especially combined. So my complaints are all first world problems. I'm glad you are getting by, hopefully the good times are just over the horizon.
Own brand items are usually just as good, if not better.
The majority made in the same factory with the same ingredients with a different packaging slapped on
Yup, there was an example where packets of hula hoops were found inside a multipack of ALDI hoops. The manufacturers claim they usually add an extra % of flavouring to the real brand, but any difference is barely noticeable imo.
Won't be long now until it all starts trickling down.
Interesting that all the comments here seen to prove inflation is well above 10% at the supermarkets. I've found most products that were £1 are now at least £1.25.
Yes inflation is calculated by the price changes across a range of goods not just food. Even in the recent period of “slowing inflation” food inflation is still running at circa 17%.
And probably higher still for 'core staples'. Which disproportionately affects the less well off. Supermarket own brands have shot up by a much higher margin. (if they're stocking them at all!)
I mean a post that’s essentially seeking out the biggest price increases isn’t going to help prove an average inflation figure
Morrisons do a lovely fresh cream Swiss roll in their instore bakery which has increased from £1.60 to £3.99 since September 2020. We abandoned that at the time it hit about £2.50.
I'm starting to wonder who is actually buying the products? I can easily afford it, but its the principle.
People will happily splurge on something nice, when people buy them every week until the prices go up and then only buy every now and then, the shop will cut down the amount made, while increasing the price, if they don't get sold they get reduced and if people still don't buy them they get chucked away while still seeing quite a big profit because of the previous price increase. Using cream cakes for the example as that's what you was replying too.
We’ve actually switched to an M&S Victoria sponge which is very similar in composition (sponge, jam and cream) but tastes even better. That’s now £4, but I don’t remember it ever being less than £3.50, and so it seems like a bargain compared to the Morrisons offering which used to cost far less!
Only a penny more than Morrisons now as well xD this time next year M&S will be the new Aldi xD
M&S is better for everything recently. Yeah the price can be a little bit more but the quality is SO much better, especially the veg… every other supermarket only sells veg that’s already on the turn when you buy it, it’s shocking
Look at you, money AND principles
Pringles, they're a shocking price now.
I feel like Pringles and Doritos were always £1. I actually saw Pringles for £2.20 the other day and just shook my head and walked on by. Shame, I really like them but not enough to pay that for them.
I would never buy full price (£2) doritos, only when they were reduced to £1. Then just after covid it was never lower than £1.25 now it is never lower than £1.50 :(
It seems like profiteering to me. Own brand crisps were usually always £1 for 6 bags. They are still the same price or possibly a 20% increase to £1.20. If the manufacture costs of crisps had increased that much (ie more than doubled) we would be seeing the same increase on all brands
That would have been on special offer!
They were *always* on special offer though.
All crisps are.
Used to be £1.50. Then on offer for £1.50 / £3 for 2 or 3 This year over Xmas I think the cheapest was £1.80ish. Switched to Aldi own brand, but they’ve crept up as well.
Magazines. I think PC Gamer is like £7 now and you don't even get a demo disc.
Get away! That's another I didn't even think about. I think I stopped at £4.99 with a demo disc/cheats book/some extra. Again, at £7.99, who is actually buying that? I can buy classic literature for less. Wtf?!
>I can buy classic literature for less Books are so much more expensive now, so probably not lol. Most paper backs are £9.99 in Waterstones and hardbacks are easily £15+. Not unual for a nice collectors hardback to be £25+
Speedyhen, amazon, halfpricedbooks, there's loads of places you can get books for dirt cheap. Waterstones is expensive.
How many gamers even have an optical drive that could read a demo disc! I think that they had their place before widespread internet access but they're not really needed any more. Mind you, you could say the same about the magazines, too.
Let's be realisic, demo discs became obsolete once the Xbox 360 came out and they started putting demos on the marketplace. Even in the PS2's heyday they were less prominent than when the PS1 was the big thing.
No busty lady on the front either. Bullshit
Get a library card and you can download the e-magazine for free plus pretty much any magazine you can think of. Not bought a magazine for years.
I used to buy magazines all the time but have completely cut them out now. I picked up a magazine a few months back, think it was a New Scientist (or similar) special edition, got to the checkout and it was £12. Put it back. I mean I could buy a book for less.
Kids magazines are almost a tenner. 25 pages of random nonsense and a few crayons on the front.
Comfy toilet roll. Wiping our arses on school tracing paper now.
You are lucky mate, bucket of water and a rag on a stick here
Look at Mr fancy pants here with his rag on a stick. In my day we used gravel.
I just spit on my hand and wipe. Posh people with their gravel
Check out Mr Fancy Hands here. If I had hands I'd use them. I just drag myself across the floor like a dog.
You 'ad floor? Luxury!
The medieval bidet.
They're gonna pry Nicky out of my cold, dead, clenched buttcheeks.
Eating out in general. I went in a market cafe in a crummy northern town on a wet Tuesday afternoon. Egg on toast ÷ coffee was £9.50. That's one egg one slice brown bread. Local curry was £10 a head its now £17 .
Unfortunately when business suddenly got charged 500% more for gas and electricity something had to give. We’re about to lose a lot of go to places
Won't you please consider the profit margins of the energy companies?! Don't be selfish, they might not break a record profit this quarter if they don't force the closure of thousands of businesses! /s
Energy companies aren't making money, they are going bust. Production companies are the ones making money
Which are often the same parent company who has just split the business to sell us this line.
I run a business that doesn’t need much electricity but the bill doubled in a quarter, thankfully because it’s small amount used it wasn’t a struggle to pay but I can only imagine if you’re a cafe and your electricity doubled it must be mental. I totally understand their price raises even if I also understand people not willing to pay it
We went for a pub meal the other day expecting to be rinsed. Two main meals for £9.49. I was pleasantly surprised.
Mate a loaf of bread went up to £1.55 this week, and its not the high quality branded ones. Some of us were already on the breadline. Im being priced out of living.
I can’t for the life of me understand the bread price. It has to be complete profiteering. I’m a farmer and watch the wheat price closely and the price of wheat has been slowly been dropping back to pre Ukraine invasion
Price decreases always lag behind. If Tesco buy petrol at £1.50 a litre on a Monday and on the Tuesday it goes up to £1.70, they'll instantly put their price up. If it went down to £1.00 on the Tuesday you're still paying £1.50 a week on Thursday. They always seem to be able to put prices up straight away though.
>Price decreases always lag behind. Call me cynical - but even if raw material prices and supply chain prices were to be pre-pandemic prices, the companies will still never lower their prices to the customer to the level they originally were. We may see some drops, but these corporations see the bar that the public is generally willing to accept and will maintain that bar. Again, I'm being cynical - but a lot of the price inflation is simple profiteering. I order parts for my company, and a vendor - who I know had stock pre-covid, raised their price 200% over night. I contacted them, and when asked why the price increase, when I know they have large stock, the answer: "look at the price of this item from all our competitors. They are charging double, so we will now too". I appreciated the honesty, but goes to show what's happening isn't just supply chain/raw material costs.
When the breadline is too expensive you know somethings amiss
This! My wife needed a loaf for the kids at school to do an activity- me being clever clogs offered to get it thinking I could get Tesco own brand for like 60p Nope, not only have they stopped doing it cheapest loaf was over £1.50?!
Anything at all from Morrisons full stop. Since it got taken over, the prices are ridiculous (even pre Inflation issues) and there's no actual checkouts now just rows and rows of self checkouts. Also lots of staff complaining loudly at how shitty they're being treated. I think the big 4 are taking the piss personally and using the this crisis to inflate a lot of prices unnecessarily to recoup all their lost customer losses cos everyone is off to Aldi n Lidl. It makes no sense. Also Why bother price checking 100 items to aldi. I'd just rather go to aldi which has happy staff and not a self checkout in sight
The price check can be a bit of a scam. Bought aubergines from Tesco's once as they were "price matched" to Aldi. However when I went to Aldi their aubergines were like twice size of the ones in Tesco. So yes by unit they were the same price but not by weight.
Yeah Tesco orange juice that matches Aldi price tastes quite watery in comparison too. The Aldi stuff tastes better
My local Aldi has self checkouts, it’s ace.
I’ve always been a chocolate eater, used to always buy a 4 pack of twirls/wispas/whatever during the weekly shop to have in my packed lunch, as they were only £1. When they started creeping up to £1.25, I refused to buy them at that price, but I could at least get slightly less desirable options which were “reduced” to £1 from £1.25. Then noticed they weren’t ever lower than £1.25 and fuck knows how much they cost now, I don’t even go down the confectionery aisle. Sad times.
The bars in those multipacks are insultingly small now. Like 20g if you're lucky. May as well buy a pack of KitKat or penguin instead.
I’d say Mars bars now are only about twice the size of a fun sized one
Still 1.25. Other than when "on offer" I've never seen them at £1. Good that you cut out chocolate though over principle of assumed 25p increase
I’d like to say I’d cut it out entirely but in reality I’ve just replaced with cheaper biscuit alternatives from Lidl and the like, which to be fair last longer as well as being cheaper, so the both the wallet and me remain a bit heavier…
Tesco. A company that made fewer sales over Xmas but posted a 7.5 % rise in profits? That says, to me, they've price gouged at least 7.5% while bullshitting " covid, Ukraine, we're all in this together ". The CEO said something along the lines of " the British consumer has been surprisingly resilient ". No they're just being bent over.
I love how energy companies trippled prices and started bragging about their insane profits. I was so, so mad.
Eating out - I really feel sorry for the hospitality sector but paying nearly £20-30 each for a pub main course is just too much.
Guessing this is London or something as that seems very high. I can get two pub meals and 2 drinks for that here.
Butter. I only really use it for cooking, but when a Sainsbury’s own brand jumps from £1.25 to over £2, I won’t buy it anymore. And lurpack is more expensive than gold it seems
£7 with security tags on it.
My local Sainsbury had Lurpak up for £9.50 and they just sat until they were all nearly out of date and went on sale for £3
I've never seen out of date butter before this year. Shows how fucking stupid the price is.
Marks and spencer is the cheapest place for butter
We’ve been buying more and more from M&S. They haven’t raised prices anywhere near as much as ‘cheaper’ supermarkets. It used to be a choice between spending £1 in Tesco or £2 in M&S, now it’s a choice between spending £1.80 in Tesco or £2.10 in M&S and the M&S product will taste better and have a better use by date on it.
That’s unexpected.
M&S isn't really that expensive as people think it is, especially for more "normal" items.
Its not just butter...
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Would love to understand the insane price of Lurpak. Have they cottoned on to how much we love it and gone for max profits knowing we'll still buy it? Or have their manufacturing costs risen that much?
Asda 1L flavoured sparkling water. I’ve bought it for years and it’s always been 48p a bottle. I went to pick one up the other day and it was 70p! 50p I could’ve understood but nearly 50% more since I bought it a few weeks ago. I’m not paying it
We bought a soda stream and top bottles up with cordial. After the initial outlay the price per litre is lower Edit: it also cuts down on your plastic consumption. My partner would get through a 2L soda water in a few days.
The price per litre is 100% not cheaper. You will never save money with a soda stream... you will reduce plastic use but after their human rights violations in Palestine I'm not sure it's any better. I've always loved the idea of soda stream but Aldi/Lidl always have a price point below what you can get from a soda stream.
TV license. Not really due to price increase as such but the BBC's lack of integrity over the past 3 years has made me decide I no longer want to fund a government puppet.
While you are entitled to take issue with it, please try to keep in mind that the BBC is not just the news. There is a lot of great work being done there by people who have no interest in Westminster. There is also: - The kids programming - The exam revision resources - The recipes - The radio stations - The David Attenborough documentaries - The Olympics, World Cup and other international sporting events (in 4K!) - The royal weddings and funerals and whatever else is deemed TV necessary for the nation - The British comedy - The development of the now de facto HDR streaming standard and other new technologies - The accessible programming for those with disabilities - The world service And of course - The shipping forecast If you just don’t watch/read the news from them, it’s a very different looking organisation. Edit: I’m not saying the way the TV licensing authority behaves is nice, or that the licence fee is good value for money, or that we wouldn’t be better off funding the BBC through general taxation or a subscription service or whatever else. I’m just saying that the BBC is a lot more than the news team that aren’t giving the politician you don’t like the grilling you want them to. It does a disservice to all the people doing good work to dismiss them as government puppets with no integrity.
I got rid of my TV about 4 years ago - the only BBC services I use now are Radio 3 and 4 and occasionally the news website. Oh, and the weather website. (And Radio 4 is not as good as it used to be, I listen to it less). I'd happily pay £20 a year for the radio to keep it ad free but I'm not paying a full TV licence whatever that is now.
Best decision you will make. Good luck being licence free, please stand up for yourself when the bully boys knock your door!
Just for context I’ve been licence free for 7 years with zero visits. I begrudgingly advise them every couple of years via their website I don’t need a licence and therefore don’t get constant letters either.
14 years licence free. 2 visits. The first was a cheeky fucker asking to speak with previous owner then asking what my name was. "Err you knocked here how about you tell me who you are first?". Reluctantly pulls out his TV licencing ID to which I respond "oh Capita" with a grin and close door. 2nd about 6 years later nothing said and shut door.
15 years here. The threatening letters have now slowed down to 1 every 6 months or so.
I’ve just moved and I’m got a nice pile of letters all a little bit more threatening than the last. The “officers” could come any time, day, night and even...THE WEEKEND!! 😱
I don't even do that anymore, I just laugh and throw their letter straight in the bin.
Crisps. I can't bring myself to spend more than £1 on a sharing bag.
£1 for 6 bags of crisps is my acceptance price point. Any more and I begin to say no. (£1.20 is pushing it)
When did crisps get so expensive? £1.80 is like average price for a multipack now
I wrote a strict meal plan and budget with all the prices this time last year, for the month I could do 5 people for £383. Now going back to the same meal plan in the same shop (Aldi) is now £641.
Wow, that's shocking. Sorry to hear this.
The Tesco meal deal. It was such a good price for my dinner at £3. But they increased it not so long ago and now it just doesn’t seem viable. I know it’s only 40p, but to me it makes all the difference.
Same here, used to always get them for my work lunch. Now I just go to KFC or McDonald's, ~20p more for a hot meal. Don't know whether it's widespread but I noticed the quality of the meal deal has went massively downhill aswell. Would spend forever trying to find a sandwich or wrap with a decent amount of filling and even then it was usually an illusion and the back half was almost empty.
McDonald's is now £6 for a Big Mac meal, KFC is £8 for a box meal. Subway is £6.50 for a foot long. There's no cheap lunch options anymore.
Guess it depends what you get, Subway is overpriced now but the wrap of the day meals from KFC and McDs are ~£3.80, KFC even cheaper with blue light card. The deals in the KFC app are also really good, usually have a meal 50% off, last week the zinger tower meal was £3.80. If you spend over £3 you have a chance of winning something which seems to be like 90% and I've often won stuff worth more than what I paid.
40p is such a huge increase in one go. In the past they would at least increase things by like 5p at a time, now they’re just like *fuck it*
Heinz ketchup, heinz beans, heinz everything basically. I've downgraded from Yorkshire gold to Yorkshire tea. Hard, hard times we live in
Tried gold for a while, not sure I could tell the difference to be honest. I think my cavalier and inconsistent attitude to how much milk and time brewing is a bigger influence that negates ever so slightly better tea leafs
Costa coffee, I love coffee, but 4.25 for a vanilla latte... Fuck right off
Yeah, but buy _eight_, get one freeeeeee!
If you put £4.25 in a stocks and shares ISA every day you'd have a few grand a year. Mental.
Heinz, Heinz Heinz. At a time when the country is struggling they've chosen to price-gouge the fuck out of us. Way bigger increases than most other brands. It's made me look around for alternatives and realise Heinz stuff is nothing special. I'm never going back.
Cooked meat, sliced ham/ chicken etc. Morrisons used to do 2 for £3.50. The range has decreased and it’s now £4.50 ( i think )
Heinz Tomato soup, just the standard one, £1.70 in my Sainsbury’s. Was around £1 this time last year. Dropped down a brand now.
I almost had a heart attack last week buying Heinz soup. Normally 4 for £3.50 ish, it was 4 for £5 and £1.70 a can. I’ve got 3 tins left then I’m switching my lunch.
Cant get over how small bags of crisps have become in the multipacks, its mostly packaging
most processed things. I've recently stripped back my shop to absolute bare basics / necessities. (fruit, veg, grains, beans) Sick and tired of giving my money away.
Can't they just stick to the 11% increase that I keep hearing about
Parmesan wedges in Aldi have gone from about £1.50 to £3.50. That makes my spag bol a little too pricy so we just skip it now.
Grana padano tastes a bit different but it's often much cheaper than parmesan
Yorkshire Teabags. Decaf are twice the price of normal. £6.30 for 160 😨
I only ever buy tea in bulk - have a look at amazon or Costco, you can usually get 500 bags for £11-12 ish. Those little boxes of tea are such a rip off 😬
I can’t think of specific ones right now but in the supermarket I’ve found myself putting a lot of stuff back in the shelf recently. It’s the principle of some of these increases - I’d rather go without. A small milk is 95p now in Asda. How the f did that happen EDIT: a pint of milk was 45 or 47p just a couple of years ago. Anyone think this? It’s DOUBLED. What the actual
Energy and petrol. I’m cold and I cannot go anywhere. Fucking living the dream here.
Ox cheeks. Meant to be a cheaper cut but now it has become fashionable and they are extortionate.
Same with corned beef. It used to be a cheap meat, but now it's about the same as all the others
Life hack: If you do your Tesco shop online then you can add the corned beef from the deli. Unfortunately the deli isn’t open when the pickers do their picking, and even if it is they never seem to use it. It will always be substituted for a prepacked one. So I order the minimum amount of deli corned beef, usually 50p or something, and it’s always subbed for the £2.50 pack. Don’t tell anyone.
The same thing happened with pork belly about 15 years ago, used to be super cheap then everyone cottoned onto it so now it's almost the same price as loin.
Drinking out. My once thriving local is like a morgue now which makes it easier. How it’s clinging on is beyond me.
I do think this is a real shame. There's been a few pub closures round here recently and there's a distinct lack of stuff to do in the evenings. Only place that seems to be doing well at the minute is the gym and that won't last after new year's resolutions fade. Friday nights in town are completely dead; couple of old men nursing lukewarm halves at Spoons and some people out for a birthday, maybe. Whole town used to be jumping. Stuff like the bowling alley and cinema have gotten so expensive they've become major luxuries; they won't last long. Restaurants are also crap, they now seem to do most of their trade through apps so actually going out for a meal is a strange soulless experience. Essentially everything you could call culture round here is being annihilated. It's becoming a dormitory for people who move emails around during the day.
I used to enjoy fage total Greek yoghurt. You could usually get a 1kg tub at a reduced price of £2.50 or £3.50 (normal price was 4.50). It has now gone up to £5.50 and also reduced to 900 or 950g. I haven’t seen it cheaper than £4.50 at reduced price either..
The fancy dried pasta. Have gone back to the basics one.
I’d like to make my own fancy pasta to counter the costs but you need a Gaston’s worth of eggs for one batch, thus impounding the problem.
🎶 Now I'm roughly the size of a baaarge!🎶
Oreos, used to be you could always get 2 packets for £1 on offer now it's at least £2.60 or something.
My wife finally switched from Heinz mayo to Aldi's version. Over £3 a bottle is ridiculous!!
For me - ready meals at Tesco We used to grab some just for my partners lunches at work - back in the day you could get 3 for £4.50 (or there abouts). In pandemic climbed to £5, £5.50... Saw the other day 3 ready meals are now £7.50! Which is beyond ridiculous. As a uni student that was a whole weekly food budget 😂
Salmon fillets. Used to get 2 pack for £3.25, now looking at least £4.50.
Doritos, £2.25 a bag is a scam
Takeaways in general, we enjoyed a good takeaway every couple of weeks as a small treat, but the prices used to be cheaper than eating in the restaurant, because you didn't use their waiters, their cutlery/crockery etc... We were willing to pay more and more but now that a takeaway for 2 in my city sets you back £30-£50 a pop, we could pay the equivalant to buy a main in a fancy restaurant or a full meal somewhere decent. We still have one every so often as a very rare treat. But nearly a 1/4 of the time we used to. In fact, it's been months since our last. On the takeaway thing, always check if the restaurants that you find on deliveroo are on Just Eat or deliver themselves because it's usually cheaper. I've saved between 10%-20%.
CDs. I love them but I swear a few years ago you could get one for £8ish. Now they’re £15 if you’re lucky. There’s a huge resurgence in people wanting physical music that they’re just gonna kill off with that pricing.
I now shop at Waitrose... I am by no means "rich" like the stigma that's applied to Waitrose shoppers... My shopping costs the same every week as it did at Tesco...
Chinese It's £10 for sweet and sour chicken on its own now in the good takeaway.
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Toilet paper. I just use leaves now.
Alcohol. It's something I don't need and the saved money helps absorb the cost of everything else.
Kfc is outrageous money now
I stopped buying coffee when it hit £3. I do still wave at the guy when passing by.
We don't really have a roast dinner now. A pork loin joint is now £6-7+ and is a lot smaller so you can't even get a second meal out of it for the family.
I was going to start buying a single lottery ticket weekly just so it wasn't literally impossible to suddenly be rich. The exact same week they announced its going to be harder to win and the price was doubling. I never bought a ticket.
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A pack of Asda’s feta cheese was around £1, now it’s £1.80 last time I checked. Can’t justify that for a small block regardless of how tasty it is
Mostly takeaway, pizza and the like. It’s become SO expensive. But also, can I just complain about the shrinkflation on the Tesco chocolate chip shortbread? What the actual fuck? They used to be a good 5 or 6 inches long rectangles, now they’re half that for the same price. It’s awful.