Price rises in Tesco’s, should be used to it by now but I’m not 🤦‍♀️

Hetty58

Shopping around really makes a difference right now. Those who still go shopping (not online) will find Aldi, Lidl and Asda cheaper than Tesco. Inevitably, everything will become dearer, though, with transportation costs rising.

The thing is I don’t drive and my local Tesco is a four minute walk away so that is what I use… I have never done an online shop..

I like the French butter that Aldi sell. I think it's about £2.50 and it's slightly dearer in Waitrose. I was going to buy a similar butter in Sainsbury today but found that theirs was £3.50! I know it's a luxury I can easily do without but charging £! more for 250g butter seems excessive.

Shopping around really makes a difference right now. Those who still go shopping (not online) will find Aldi, Lidl and Asda cheaper than Tesco. Inevitably, everything will become dearer, though, with transportation costs rising.

If you have a B&M store near you toscalily they have range of Baxters soups at £1 per can. My favourite is Thai vegetable but there is quite a wide choice. I make a lot of my own soup and freeze it away but tend to stick to the more traditional recipes.

I often make my own soup but like to keep a few tins in store for those occasions when you just want something quick and easy. Thought I would get a couple yesterday while shopping in Sainsbury's, Heinz, most were £1.40 a can, Baxters a little more rising to £2 a can for some of the varieties. They had some on offer so I got a couple extra. Goodness knows what those on really restricted budgets will do as soup with a roll was aways considered a cheap meal. But, I tend to agree with Maw & Georgesgran that we have had unrealistic price points on many food items for a long time and given the events of the past couple of years it's unsurprising that prices are going up (does not mean I like it).

Still 80p in Sainsburys. Like most things at the moment, you need to shop in multiple supermarkets to get the best deals - but what hard work to have to. I only bother for high cost items like dishwasher tablets and coffee, but I tend to go to several different supermarkets at the moment in a vain hunt for the right dog food, as stocks are woeful everywhere.

I’ve got to agree with Maw - it’s awful, but prices have to go up to cover costs and overheads, especially raw materials and staff salaries. Last week a GN made an observation about prices and was told in many replies that we have had cheap goods for so long, but now have to start and pay realistic prices (mainly for food) otherwise suppliers would go out of business. Again, I’m not defending any particular retailer either.

Right - I am not banging a drum for Tesco or any supermarket chain, but look at the increases they face in their outgoings
Raw materials/wholesale prices/worldwide supply issues
Scarcity issues
Recovering from reduced footfall during the recovery period from the pandemic
Fuel prices for deliveries all over the country in all those huge lorries
Energy prices for all their equally huge stores
Wages - some , like Aldi have given pay rises to all their staff to make them one of the best-payers in the retail trade
It costs money to change prices, so some products may have stayed unchanged for several weeks or months , shops can’t up or reduce their prices on a weekly basis
I am not an apologist for any store but business have to show a profit or they get closed down

Soda crystals, in the green pack, were £1 for ages.

My local discount store now seems the cheapest, £1.19.

Yes, I think it’s jumping on the bandwagon as they get a lot of good reviews for various cleaning jobs.

Another price jump. Shortbread fingers, ( not a famous brand name but ok) have been £1 for packs of four for a long time. Now they have leapt to £2 for the same pack.

This was at a Herons store, part of B&M.

I think it's called jumping on the bandwagon and nothing to do with inflation. Prunes (which I no longer buy!) went from £2 to £3 overnight in Asda. My son recently queried huge increase in parking charges and was told it had something to do with Ukraine!!

I had the same problem with soda crystals and Tesco. Ours still haven’t got any so I sent DS to Morrisons and he paid £2 for the same size packet. I notice they are £1.75 in Waitrose. Words fail me!

We buy things like that in Home Bargains/B&M etc rather than supermarkets. The cheapest place we were found was our local ironmonger, who also sold larger packs and v cheap branded dishwasher tablets.