Every little helps…..

You mustn’t point out the facts Northface, that’s not what people want to hear on these constant threads about ‘profiteering’. I’ve tried it in the past (about the reason for the increase in the price of soda crystals).

NorthFace unfortunately the worldwide economy is so closely entwined that when China sneezes we all end up suffering financially.

The same with fuel from Russia and grains from Ukraine.

The price of steel and aluminium has seen a sharp spike recently. Chinese post-pandemic demand. Those high wholesale prices are being reflected in the shelf price of canned goods as will be the recent shortage of tomatoes in tomato and tomato-sauce based products e.g. baked beans. Every rise in wholesale and manufacturing costs along the supply chain eventually filters through to the consumer.

Producing canned soup is very energy intensive and therefore costly. This is from the How It's Made TV series:

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Check out the website Trade Economics to see commodity prices.

Sugar has now hit an eleven year high so expect anything containing that to rocket. One reason for the price spike is that sugar cane producers are being encouraged to allocate more of their crop to biofuel production rather than food production.

After a spike last August, wholesale coffee bean prices are down around a quarter from a year ago so that should come through in lower shelf prices.

Germanshepherdsmum

My favourite coffee has gone down by 25p. Same size jar.

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My favourite coffee has gone down by 25p. Same size jar.

Tesco bagged 1kg carrots for 50p one week next week down to 40p great, Oh no looked at the bag contents weight down to 800g Only bonus is the Tesco club card price was 19p over Easter so the rabbit etc are happy

MrsKen33: Asda sells an acceptable version of their own which was cheaper than Coffee Mate the last time I bought it, which was a while ago. I expect other supermarkets do, too, although I’ve yet to see anything comparable on Lidl’s shelves.

My cat’s favourite treats (a jumbo size tub of Dreamies) have gone from £3.75 a year ago , to £5.75 🙀

We went into the Coop for some CoffeeMate. It was nearly£6 a tin. We can manage without so left without.

TerriT

So many things in the supermarket are going up by a huge percent. I think the supermarkets are cashing in on the situation in Ukraine being blamed for the increase in so many things. And we the customers are just their victims!

I think the rise in fuel prices has had a big impact, coupled with the fact that much of the fertiliser used in farming was produced in Russia. The price of fertiliser had risen before the sanctions on Russia, too.

Yes, I think they are profiteering. As an example, the brand of yoghurt I buy was 42p per pot early last year, rising to 45p which it remained at for some time, then just before Christmas it went up to 50p and now has jumped to 60p. No way can that be due to the cost of raw materials alone. I now don’t buy it as often.

TerriT

So many things in the supermarket are going up by a huge percent. I think the supermarkets are cashing in on the situation in Ukraine being blamed for the increase in so many things. And we the customers are just their victims!

There are those that will disagree with me, but I think the supermarkets are now blatantly profiteering..😡

If items in the shops are massively increased I wonder at what point will we say enough is enough or will we just keep accepting the rises.
We resisted buying tomato ketchup as the shop's own version was unavailable but after four or five weeks had no choice as the only variety available was the large Heinz Tomato sauce at £3.99 and our grandsons have ketchup on pretty much everything.
We have more recently taken the view that if we feel something is too expensive we just won't buy it - we can live without it and have tried many alternatives and been pleasantly surprised at some of our purchases.
Would the supermarkets be forced to reduce their prices if they realised that everyone just would not buy at any price?

So many things in the supermarket are going up by a huge percent. I think the supermarkets are cashing in on the situation in Ukraine being blamed for the increase in so many things. And we the customers are just their victims!

I agree Shinamae. Aldi are doing the same. Their baked beans (which are lovely) at 39p disappeared from the shelves for about 2 weeks. When they reappeared they were 45p. Tesco and Aldi skimmed and semi skimmed milk jumped from 69p to 95p in about 3 weeks.