Tesco, shocking price hike

Lilyflower

I first learnt the effect of inflation when I was twelve in the 1970’s. My mother sent me for bread and every time I went to the shop it had gone up. Her pay hadn’t!

I’d say our present food inflation is at least ten per cent , maybe more.

& the rest! I don’t know where they get this 10% from lilyflower

It's not just the prices going up while the product shrinks. A lot of cheaper options have either disappeared from the shelves or are now priced within pennies of their dearer alternatives. I am talking shops own brands and cheaper cuts of meat that I used to rely on when I found myself with two kids on benefits. I was brought up as a child myself on a very limited family income and a shortage of choice (early 1950s) and knew all the tricks of providing a nourishing meal for minimal expenditure, but I couldn't do it now. They seem to have closed all the loopholes. I am so glad I have my Civil Service Widow's Pension in addition to my OAP, but I wince every time I look at a joint of meat - and move on to the Quick Sale for another pack of sausages. Even there the cuts in prices merely change the cost from exorbitant to overpriced. When I do find a product I like at a reasonable price in there, I buy an extra pack for the freezer.

I have also noticed the price hikes in Tesco.

Every week I grumble about it and vow to go elsewhere, but it’s convenient as I can get everything I need there.

Flora margarine has gone up.
Scottish porridge oats have leapt from 99p to £1.£95.
Aunt Bessie’s frozen roast potatoes have leapt up to £4.
From £2.50 approx.
I was absolutely gobsmacked.
Needless to say, I didn’t buy them.
I’m really fed up of it. It’s an insult to increase some things so much, hoping we won’t notice maybe.

Well. I’ve noticed and I’m not buying it.

Don’t get me started on the price of a 6 bag of Walkers crisps… they’ve increased so much that glare at the price and I don’t buy them .. but I do buy Seabrooks if they R on offer

Babs03

Aldom

butterandjam I am less than impressed by your rudeness to Shinamae.

I totally agree.
We are not here to sit in judgement but to discuss the rise in prices of everyday groceries.

" We are not here to sit in judgement"

I'll go and do some ironying.

I noticed how milk took a sudden leap in all the supermarkets: from £1.45 to £1.65 in one go ( £1.70 in Waitrose)

We buy Ginsters pasties at Tesco when they are on offer at approximately £1.50.

This morning we purchased 2 from Home Bargains, at £1 each.

Have you noticed how loo rolls have reduced in size, but cost the same for a pack of 9? You can get "extra large" ones (i.e. the size they used to be) for a few pounds more. Do they think we are idiots and don't notice? The same with packets of biscuits - same price but less biscuits.

My local farm shop, supplied by an Artisan Baker, sells plate sized apple pies for £7.50; Danish and Belgian buns at 2 for £3.99 and a small granary for £2.25.

I first learnt the effect of inflation when I was twelve in the 1970’s. My mother sent me for bread and every time I went to the shop it had gone up. Her pay hadn’t!

I’d say our present food inflation is at least ten per cent , maybe more.

I was shocked to find that a first class stamp is now £1.70!! Last I checked (2020) it was about 76p😳

If I go to Tesco and there is a big empty space, especially in the freezers, that the missing product will be back soon with a hike in price.

I have gone back to the toasted sandwich for lunch after finding the fridge a bit low and having some very salty cheese to eat up.
I did a cheese and red onion sarny and it was lovely and filling and cheaper than a pasty. Put in ham if you must have meat.

If it's a treat ...30p more.... Yes everything is going up along with shrinkflation but I would have it for sake of 30p..every day is another issue on a few levels..🤣.go on push the boat out pay 30p and enjoy!

Ginsters are often on special offer with your Clubcard so you can limit "treat" to when they are . TBH, I find Tesco prices cheaper than the other major supermarkets, especially Morrisons. Also because the price match with Aldi and have Clubcard prices for a lot of their stable items I find this is a lot better and Bogof type offers. I shop online for my big shop and find it easier to check on the special offers.

I usually cook from scratch and wait for bargains like minced steak where I will get the good meat and then make 3 different things with it so bolognaise sauce, curry and a spiced mince and stick them in the freezer. Always make a list of shopping and set it out aisle by aisle so know what is where. , and would look for bargains, but recently the prices have gone up so much that as I get to something and think oh that is too expensive etc, but having been all round the store and ended up with not even enough to make one meal. Very depressing, and now a days rather than thinking what I want to cook I go to see what is in the reduced area to decide what I might make for a meal. When people say what they would do if they won the lottery or whatever they talk of going on long holidays and buying posh cars. I would just love to win enough so that I could walk into a shop and buy what I wanted without having to look at the price!!

butterandjam

Shinamae

Occasionally, I will treat myself to a Ginsters pasty for lunch..
They have been £1.95 for a good while now and that’s not on special offer
I have gone today and they have gone up to £2.25p in my opinion a massive increase, needless to say I did not buy it
I seem now just to accept that prices are going to keep going up and up and up but I’m very disgusted at the way they’re going up by so much and so quickly. Seems like the supermarkets have cart Blanche to do what they like And we as consumers are more or less powerless as although we don’t need to buy a new winter coat most of us to find the need to eat. 😠😡

If I had to worry about 30 p, I would not be wasting my money on crap readymade convenience food .

Those pasties are a meal in themselves and are made with a bit of meat and a lot of veg.All you need is an apple or fruit yoghurt after it to have a nutritious meal.

Another thing that annoys me about tesco. Their so called yellow label reductions. It used to be you could get real bargains. Now it's as little as 10p off for something going out of date.

I was about to post to say that 1 litre of Asda’s own orange juice has gone up hugely in the last few months to £1.74, from £1.25. I was going to say that I now buy Lidl’s at £1.15, but thought I’d check their website, where it appears to be £1.39, so looked back at my Lidl receipt from 20th July, and it was £1.15, therefore it has gone up by fractionally 20%!

If only Waitrose was nearer!!
I don't eat them but DH does.

Oh sorry it has already been mentioned

Waitrose if it is any help, are advertising them today

Ginsters Cornish Pasty227g
Ginsters Cornish Pasty
£1.75

I think the world’s gone mad and the rise in prices is huge - it must be dreadful for families who have very little. I looked at the beef and lamb in tescos last week and just put it straight down again as the prices were so high. Always buy stuff that’s on offer where possible. Also life’s got so confusing with what we should and shouldn’t eat/fast and convenience foods all being given a bad name etc. No wonder we have so many overweight people in the UK - we’ve been fed incorrect information for so long and also had so many additives added to so many foods. It makes life confusing for so many. I like to support small independents when possible but couldn’t do all my shopping on them .

I use the Trolley app (also website Trolley.co.uk) which shows the prices of various items across a number of stores. Apparently Ginsters pasties are on offer at Waitrose at the moment for £1.75 instead of the now more usual £2.25, so you can have your treat after all if there is a Waitrose near you!

They are all so expensive!