Food prices - can't keep up!

MickyD

I was shocked the other day when I bought fruit in Tesco -
2 punnets strawberries
2 boxes grapes
2 small blueberries
I small raspberries
Over £17 !!!!
I price compared when I got home and found Sainsbury’s to be only pence dearer.
Bananas were good and cheap though. A hand for only 71p.

Bananas are loss leaders.

Girl Starmer is trying to kill us Oldies Off starving us with lack of heating now not been able to afford our Food .
It will get worse he said before it gets better you better believe him it comes in. 3s

Harv1
Food prices would have been cheaper if the UK had kept in the EU.

Oooh, that makes sense then.

The prices here in Australia are horrendous. A piece of cheese is now $7 but last year it was $3.50. Same cheese. That’s at Aldi the cheapest shop. As for meat and fish - thinking might have to go vego! We get no pension from the government whatsoever as we have a work pension but it isn’t that good and we have to pay full doctor fees and full council rates because we don’t qualify for a government pension. Seems to be a worldwide thing except for America. We have a socialist government, good intentions but they stuff up the economy.

I have a weekly ocado shop and it is price matched with Tesco. Last week I received a £10 voucher back, and the week before over £6. The quality and range is excellent, and includes M&S food, although I preferred it when they partnered with Waitrose. I won't shop in Lidl, I found the quality of their fruit and veg very poor, sometimes going off in the shop. Ocado veg last all week, and longer in the fridge.

i live on my own and shop at morrisons online, i have a delivery pass costing £8 a month, with the pass i only need to spend £25 on each online shop, i tend to buy food that is on offer or items that give me extra more points, the 3 for £10 meat items give me extra meals for the freezer, ie pk 4 chops or tray of chicken thighs, when i only need a small shop i stock up on toilet/kitchen rolls and extra tinned items, i am disabled and the online is great for me, it also means i only shop for what i need.

I live within two minutes’ walk of Aldi, so I rarely shop anywhere else. I only buy what I can carry in two bags. Not so long ago that would cost me about £9, now it’s £12 for just everyday basics. Obviously if I buy wine or dishwasher tablets that costs more. Mosts shops I find I am spending about £20.

Bananas are not lost leaders if you buy organic ones. Their prices keep going up.

It used to be Sainsbury’s would give you 10%off if you spent £100. Then it went up to £130. Now it’s £150.

25Avalon

Bananas are not lost leaders if you buy organic ones. Their prices keep going up.

It used to be Sainsbury’s would give you 10%off if you spent £100. Then it went up to £130. Now it’s £150.

Organic bananas are also often sold as 'loss leaders' too.

I shop online at Morrisons mainly because you only have to spend a minimum of £25.00. I don't drive so its much easier to shop online. Shopping has gone up in price and l feel for anyone who is struggling.

I do sometimes shop in M and S and occasionally in Waitrose and treat myself whenever l like.
I decided that l was not going to worry about what l spend on nice, good quality food. Either for me or my dog.

MickyD

Locally grown in season fruit and veg are what our mothers or grandmothers bought - and they were canny shoppers.

They certainly were…I’m going to start taking more time in the supermarket and checking the origins. I’m sure we can live without strawberries for the winter.

TBH there wasn’t nearly so much choice when our grandmothers were doing the food shopping. I doubt they ever saw the likes of mangetout, sugar snaps, baby sweetcorn etc.

Potatoes, cabbage, sprouts, parsnips, swede, carrots, turnips and ‘tops’ would presumably have been mostly the order of the day - unless you lived near an ‘exotic’ market.

In the mid 50s my father who worked in central London bought me a few items - probably from Soho - for my school’s Harvest Festival display. Among them was a green pepper - what a weird thing! And it smelt so funny, too! 😂

Witzend

MickyD

Locally grown in season fruit and veg are what our mothers or grandmothers bought - and they were canny shoppers.

They certainly were…I’m going to start taking more time in the supermarket and checking the origins. I’m sure we can live without strawberries for the winter.

TBH there wasn’t nearly so much choice when our grandmothers were doing the food shopping. I doubt they ever saw the likes of mangetout, sugar snaps, baby sweetcorn etc.

Potatoes, cabbage, sprouts, parsnips, swede, carrots, turnips and ‘tops’ would presumably have been mostly the order of the day - unless you lived near an ‘exotic’ market.

In the mid 50s my father who worked in central London bought me a few items - probably from Soho - for my school’s Harvest Festival display. Among them was a green pepper - what a weird thing! And it smelt so funny, too! 😂

We didn't have a fridge until I was about 9, let alone a freezer.

Mangetout? (Mange Tout, Rodney? 😁) What! You eat them like that and don't let them grow into proper peas?

A newly opened Aldi has been a great addition to my town. I'm splitting my shopping now between that store and Sainsbury's, with a few things from Waitrose and Marks. So in a way, my shopping bill has slightly reduced, Aldi undercut some of Sainsbury's items, although I still use discounted Nectar prices on various products which can be good value. I'm lucky, Sainsbury's and Aldi only have a roundabout between them and Waitrose is literally next door to Aldi, so I can hotfoot it between the three if necessary. Aldi also has free parking for 90 minutes which is very good, with the other two a ten pound spend, not difficult, will give 2 hours free parking.

kittylester

Aldi and Lidl, at least here, have very little gf stuff since i have no option but to shop in the 'more expensive' supermarkets like Sainsbury's or Tesco.

Or give my wealthy, snobby side free reign and go to Waitrose.

I tranferred from using other supermarkets to shopping in Waitrose simply because their stores are not oversized and they are in town centres.

When I go to Waitrose I can leave the car in the car park while I go into the town centre to Superdrug, Holland & Barrett, the Building Society, Hairdresser, optician, and a host of other stores, and even visit the town museum to see their latest exhibition.

Any other supermarket is on the outskirts of town, is gigantic and takes hours to shop in and you are very lucky to find a parking spot anywhere near the shop entrance unless you cruise the car park for 5 minutes - then you have to drive to the town centre to do any other shopping you want to do.

There is a development of retirement homes opposite our Waitrose, the kind run by a charity, and you often see people from there shopping in Waitrose, an out of town supermarket is of no use to them, they do not have cars.

To say that Waitrose is for the wealthy and snobby is just repeating standard cliches. Town ccntre shops are bound to be more expensive, the rent and rates for such properties will be much higher than out of town sites. Convenience has to be paid for - and Waitrose do put most of their stores where they are convenient.

Our Waitrose is, sadly, quite small and on the site of a former Budgens store in the next but one village.

I recently went to an in town one in Market Harborough (our nearest full sized one) and got really quite excited.

Kitty
You really should get out more 😂

petra

Kitty
You really should get out more 😂

A tour of Waitroses around the country! 😁

Yes, the one we go to is in the town.
But it is quite a distance away.

I have a choice of 2 Waitroses, both in towns about 5 miles distant, but, as I said, in the town centre so that all my shopping, in various shops gets done in one sweep,

Allira

petra

Kitty
You really should get out more 😂

A tour of Waitroses around the country! 😁

Yes, the one we go to is in the town.
But it is quite a distance away.

I see a business opportunity here. 😂

I love a bit of Waitrose. Kitty - you and I could do a Waitrose crawl- like a pub crawl but with a free coffee in every store.

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Looks like prices are going up faster than pensions! 🫠 Even basic staples aren’t spared. Might have to start checking sites like subwaymenuprice.co.uk for better deals on meals!

I bought a wee box of Mr Kiplings French Fancies last week. I love them and they are a treat. They used to be £1 if you got them on offer, which they were quite often. Well, in Asda they were £2.85!!!!

There seems to me, and going by a post with a link, that someone posted a couple of weeks ago, there is not that much difference in price between supermarkets now.

I went into as Asda last week. I go there from time to time, but not regularly.
It was half empty compared to usual.
It could have been an unusual reason for that.
But it was in a "poorer" town. And usually has lower prices, being Asda. But I came away thinking of several things I could get as cheap or cheaper, in other supermarkets.
I think Asda will suffer if it cant keep up with it usual lower prices.