How Much????

Boz

Lurpak butter has shocked me; now £4.24 to £4.50 a tub. I think I was paying £2.85 last year.

Lurpak butter £5.29 in our local Co-op supermarket.

Granny23 wrote ... or pay extra for home delivery.

Yes, I do pay for home delivery.

I have a Tesco annual Delivery Saver plan that costs £72 per year and for that a personal shopper or personal shoppers go round the store picking my shopping, acting on my picker notes, and a delivery driver delivers it to me, taking great care in doing an excellent job. The only condition is that each order is £40 or more when I check it out, if, due to a special offer or out of stock, the actual cost is below £40 it still qualifies for no extra charge as it was £40 or more when the order was placed.

This was very convenient even when I was still driving, after giving up driving it is a lifeline, even more so with the pandemic.

However, it does not actually cost me £72 as Tesco has its clubcard system, one point for each pound spent, and has a clubcard points offer of a triple value on some things, one of which is paying for the Delivery Saver plan. So I pay for the Delivery Saver plan with £24 of Clubcard points. So I get the Delivery Saver plan with no money leaving my bank account.

Tesco from time to time send me an email stating how much I have saved by having the Delivery Saver plan. It is a few hundred pounds each year.

However, by having the delivery service available at all, I save much more as otherwise I would need to be paying for someone to get my shopping for me.

I suppose that it is good deal for Tesco too as it probably means getting regular custom.

Jane43

Elizabeth27

I am sure many on here will remember the late 1970s when interest rates were 17% and prices were going up daily.

Yes but the Labour government at the time had a policy that when the consumer price index rose by a certain percentage everybody had a wage increase, I think it was 50 pence. I remember DH having several increases at the time. Harold Wilson or Jim Callaghan would have been PM at the time. One MP a few days ago said people should work more hours, such compassion.

Are you referring to what were known as "threshold payments" in around 1973 to 1974?

If I remember correctly it was not quite like that.

As I remember it, in order to try to curb inflation, they brought in a law such that wage settlements had to be at least one year apart. I think that that might have been the Conservative government that brought that in.

However, to restrain pay settlements and possibly thinking "it will never happen" allowed pay settlements that included that if the retail price index rose above some govenment stated threshold then for each thresho;d increment of some size above that, an extra pay increase of, if I remember correctly, £40 a year extra would be paid with immediate effect. Please bear in mind that a quite reasonable annual salary at the time was about £2000 per year, though some people got more and some people got less. So £40 a year was often a 2% pay rise, a bigger percentage for someone earning less.

Labour became the government again in February 1974.

In the event, the policy was treated by employees and unions as meaning "immediately a year had passed".

Thus began the era of "the annual wage round". I don't know if it still happens today, but for many years it became established. Each industry sector having its place in the wage round more or less by chance as to when they had previously settled a wage increase claim when the policy started.

It did happen and if I remember correctly for several months in 1974 one, or two, were being added each month.

A few years later a union leader, Jack Jones, suggested "£6 a week for everbody" and that gained general acceptance and happened, so people less well paid got quite a large percentage increase that year.

StarDreamer

25Avalon

I think my casual staff (I have 8or9) may find they want to work instead of leaving me in the lurch.

But if the basis on which you employ them is "casual", how can they leave you in the lurch?

They are casual staff. They can apply for various shifts as and when they come up as shifts are variable depending on bookings. Just lately none of them have been applying for any shifts at all which leaves me in the lurch. Do I cancel a kids party cos no one has applied? Last Christmas when they wanted money they were falling over themselves to apply for shifts. As inflation bites I expect I’ll have several applying for each shift.

Today at till,”Do you want your receipt?”
Me, “No thanks, it will only depress me”
Last week at till,”Do you want your receipt?”
Me,”Yes please, so I can see how I’ve spent £28”

JaneJudge

a tank of fuel for a week is now the same cost as one full days wage per week at work now for a lot of people
wtf are people going to do?

last time I filled my car to just half, it cost me more than my weeks wage , maybe its a good thing I can't afford the MOT and it's been sat on the drive for 2 mths, although now I can't get to job interviews........

OmaforMaya

Boz

Lurpak butter has shocked me; now £4.24 to £4.50 a tub. I think I was paying £2.85 last year.

Lurpak butter £5.29 in our local Co-op supermarket.

It is £9 for a kilo of lurpak. I ordered clover instead which I think was £3 a kilo

Mibx, I know