Supermarket Cartels Treating Customers With Contempt

Sago

I make my own butter, it takes around 5 minutes, tastes delicious and costs around half the price of supermarket butter.

Ooh😊 Sago do tell!

Sago

I make my own butter, it takes around 5 minutes, tastes delicious and costs around half the price of supermarket butter.

That’s interesting, Sago. All the articles I’ve ever seen on making your own butter conclude that, although it’s a nice thing to do it’s really not cost effective. That might well have been before the price of butter had risen so steeply, though.

Can you give us some costings?

Junoesque

Did anyone else notice the distinct shortage/absence of butter in the larger supermarkets just before Christmas? Not for the first time I have noticed this sudden generalized ‘shortage’ just before a price hike! Lo and behold it’s happened again before Christmas butter went from £1.69 to £1.89 just when we thought it couldn’t go any higher came the so called ‘shortage’ and yesterday the price was £1.99 !! Call me Mrs Cynical but it’s my belief that it was deliberately held back in order to facilitate
yet another price hike. I for one am getting sick and tired of supermarkets treating us with such contempt. Of course they’ve got us over a barrel and they know it, we have to feed ourselves and our families and if confronted they will trot out umpteen reasons why these price hikes are unavoidable. However in the words of Judge Judy ‘ Don’t pe* up my leg and tell me it’s raining’ Grrrr. Ok rant over best wishes to one and all for 2025.

The energy companies have been operating like this for years. Now it's the supermarkets turn. And let's not forget the water companies.
What riles me is the manufacturers and producers claim they're not making a profit, the wholesalers cry poverty and the supermarkets have the nerve to say they're margins are down to the bone......but then they say "you can always shop around!" and if that isn't contempt then I don't know what is.

God alone help us in April when everything is hiked straight through the roof!

Rip-off Britain alright.

I make my own butter, it takes around 5 minutes, tastes delicious and costs around half the price of supermarket butter.

I read a piece in the news yesterday about hundreds of people being hospitalised because of suffering
from vitamin deficiencies. They said it all starts with the food chain as people can't afford to eat nourishing
foods anymore. The price of free range chicken has risen considerably. Food prices are so much dearer now ,especially for pensioners.

Here is an article from 'The Grocer' explaining what has been happening in the commodity (wholesale) market for butter.
www.thegrocer.co.uk/kvi-price-tracker/butter-prices-soar-by-a-fifth-amid-tight-milk-and-cream-supplies/697870.article .

As you will read, the whole sale price of butter has gone up 60% in the past year, so the price rise is not a unilateral decision by supermarkets to up their profits, but their response to rises in the cost further up the food chain.

No shortage of butter here. If you think butter is too expensive you could try an alternative.

Supermarkets are not charities. I didn't see any shortage of butter btw.

The price hike was necessary. Supermarkets are not charities and farmers need to be paid as do the butter makers

Make your own