Tesco, shocking price hike

I saved myself over £10 in Sainsbury’s recently by buying several of their Nectar card* offers. Plus I made a point of buying more than I usually would (all stuff we’d definitely use) use) to get the extra 800 points for spending over £40.
Total points were then worth over £19 🙂.

*one of which was dishwasher tablets, £6.50 instead of £13!

just come on to report today’s shopping shock - New Year cauliflowers were 69p and size small to medium, today! £1.19! but 99p with a Clubcard, in optimum growing season.

We have stopped buying many items when they leapt from £1 to £1.50 overnight, eg the frozen mixed veg, £1 with tiny onions in (this mix was covered a while ago when a poster couldn’t remember which store it was from) anyway, today, part of a buy 3 for 2 offer, £1.65! I’m not convinced the onions are wee silverskins either.
We stopped buying frozen eclairs for the same reason, missed that eclair crack for a while but over it now.

Trickier than a barrow load of monkeys.

Caveat Emptor never more necessary than now.

keepingquiet

I suspect prices are now even higher- this post is six months old!

I've just noticed that keepingquiet.

I have a Tesco delivery every week. Ordered online so I browse the clubcard offers.
I noticed the Sheba cat food pouches have steadily crept up in price. This last week a box has gone up to £6 so I knew I was going into B&M last night. Price there, 4.99 and so I bought a few boxes. They have some good bargains there.
Chocolate bars have shrunk in size and gone up in price no end.

I suspect prices are now even higher- this post is six months old!

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 .

Unnecessarily rude.

I agree that food has gone up so much lately, and shopping has never been my favourite thing to do, and also being on my own, it is never worth buying large amounts, as unless I could freeze them (only small freezer too, no space for larger one!) . My best place is going to our twice weekly open market. I take cash - which the stallholders much prefer, and can buy one or two of something rather than a large packet. They know me now from long use and going on my yellow peril mobility scooter. When I am having a bad day they will even get me what I want and suggest things that they know I usually get from them, if I have missed something off my list.
When I have to go to a supermarket, I write a list out and rarely deviate from it, in fact there are times when I dont buy something which has shot up in price.

Granmarderby10

In fairness butterandjam I would not regard a Ginsters’ Cornish Pasty as crap readymade convenience food.
There are no doubt more authentic recipes and I do prefer a shortcrust version instead of puff pastry -hard to find in supermarkets.
…but the crap readymade convenience food accolade must surely be reserved for MuckDonalds (imo obviously)

McD’s burgers contain beef, salt and pepper, that’s it.

karmalady

The supermarkets all have shareholders who have invested in the company. They squeeze their suppliers wrt wholesale cost, so the suppliers are putting the cheapest ingredients into their products as well as shrinking the product.

Mackir is absolutely spot on as is Butterandjam

Try making foods from scratch. You are what you eat

I don’t think this is the full picture. UK supermarkets generally operate on very thin profit margins (often ~1–3%), so it’s unlikely that rising food prices are mainly about shareholder profit. While supermarkets do have significant buying power and can squeeze suppliers - which can lead to shrinkflation or reformulation - that pressure has existed for years.

Recent food price rises are also driven by wider factors: higher energy and labour costs, global commodity price volatility, trade and political instability, and climate-related impacts on harvests. Supermarkets tend to pass these costs on rather than absorb them.

So supplier pressure plays a role, but it’s only one part of a much more complex system.

I apologise for not reading all these posts.

The rise in the OP is 15.38% which is shocking for the buyer but please, count yourself lucky, many "Free From" items have gone up by around 40% and it's often the case of little or no choice.

The supermarkets all have shareholders who have invested in the company. They squeeze their suppliers wrt wholesale cost, so the suppliers are putting the cheapest ingredients into their products as well as shrinking the product.

Mackir is absolutely spot on as is Butterandjam

Try making foods from scratch. You are what you eat

Eating inexpensive convenience food will cost less today but will cost more later when you need a GP for your health problems from choosing unhealthy crap readymade convenience food. YES butterandjam

Best to choose unprocessed foods

The app us" too good to go" and can be great, but near to us its Costa and Gail's which means loads of starchy stuff that we shouldn't be eating.
My daughter loves it but she gets Pret and it may include salads etc.

Esmay it’s called ‘Good to go’ and has been around a long time but it’s more than £2.25 here, nearer £4 you ve no idea what you are getting they just bag up a ‘surprise’ bag and you go and collect it late in the day
I only tried it once at the local Coop I paid my dues excitedly went down to collect my bag at time given only to be told they hadn’t had any left overs that day so I got my money back and never used it again

Bobtail is about the same 🤣🤣🤣

JaneJudge have you got a B&M near you, their large Bovril is £3.95

Personally, I think the supermarkets are ripping us off and the government are happy to let them get away with it. The price of food is beyond ridiculous and you are getting half the amount for your money. Add to that the Palm Oil/ Palm Fat c**p they are now sticking in nearly all our food. Look at M&S biscuits, Palm Oil in nearly every packet of biscuits they sell. Consecutive governments have the nerve to moan about obesity, but let c**p like Palm Oil and Bovaer be added to our foodstuffs without any notice or consultation.

I haven't used it but there's an app for Greggs -use it and you can gave a huge bag of goodies for 2.25 ( I think )
Sitting having a tea - I saw customer after customer collecting them.
Shortly before they close - Costa's will give you a selection of foods that can't be sold the next day .
Otherwise ,I certainly agree that food has gone up enormously.

^ClicketyClick - your sidenote.
I agree.
I think it is getting worse.
I dont know which names you mean, but there are more than enough people posting rudely. And often like that. Sometimes not even for any good reason.

I know some are ill. Not sure how much difference that makes.
I wonder whether they were always rude.

We shop at Morrisons but I am becoming very cross about their offers. They started doing these with fruit - perhaps for instance buy grapes, oranges and blueberries all for £5. Then they might have buy 3 items and get the cheapest free. Now there are ‘offers’ all around the shop on a lot of the fresh food items. If I wanted just a punnet of blueberries I would be paying over the top for them, so I don’t buy them. Luckily enough I have blueberries in the garden ATM but that will stop soon.

Icount myself lucky that theres a great family butcher nearby who even make their own potted beef which tastes far superior to supermarket stuff as is all the produce they sell. Although it's not as cheap as supermarkets, I will shop there while I can afford to.As they say use it or lose it.
As a sidenote, I have to say that I agree with Aldom and babs03's comments. I've not been active on gransnet for very long and have already noted certain names cropping up time and gain who seem to not care about being rude with their comments. I've already been the brunt of uncalled for rudeness and thought about removing myself but I refuse to be bullied or put down. My job entailed regular contact with the public and I often experienced first hand rudeness but I never reacted negatively. I would just think that there may be something awful they are dealing with or just having a bad day. I do wonder if these people would be so rude saying it in person.

On milk I have had to pour away more this year than ever. Even the “quite new”fridge struggled in the heatwaves recently.

On *cheaper cuts of meat” you’ll find any cut that has become “cheffy” or fashionable in foody circles, on TV and online media etc very soon becomes more expensive. Supply and demand. Look at Brisket, Spare ribs, Belly pork. Lamb shanks,Oxtail.

I haven’t seen Tuna steaks anywhere or Halibut for a long long time- though haven’t really searched it out.

Just out of interest,look up Tesco’s profit last year - amazing!

keepingquiet

We've had a hot summer?

But the fridge doesn’t know that! 😂

I’m just back from Aldi having picked up a few essentials including milk. Their brochure has a page showing a basket of items costing £12.19 in Aldi but £19.20 in Tesco.

As I live within 300m of Aldi I rarely shop anywhere else. It is not worth the petrol to drive to a big supermarket. I also find the choices are overwhelming.

Aely as a child being brought up in a seaside town, we often had fish'n'chips (it once was a cheap meal) and Rock (salmon) my favourite fish, was very popular. It's not flakey like cod and has a soft bone. It seems to have a few various names...'Rig', 'Gurnet', 'Huss' and 'Rock' being amongst them. Now it's difficult to find, it's very different from cod or coley, sweet tasting, with a soft central bone...