Rising food prices

[condor]

I bought a block of English butter from the supermarket yesterday and was surprised that the cost had risen to 99p. I'm sure last month and the preceeding years it's stayed fairly constant at about 75p.

Anyone else notice a large percentage rise in specific food prices?

[Gretchen]

Yes. I've noticed a 30p hike in Butter too! Also Bread, i'm paying up to £1.72 a loaf in some places, pasta around 7p extra per 500g. And a few other things I can't recall as I have a hangover.

It would appear all major stable foods are suffering, a few friends have noticed too.

The dog food I buy had gone up £1 per sack recently.

I've taken to sourcing offers and scouring the 'reduced section' for bargains to load my freezer with...Bought an Aberbeen Angus joint reduced from £14 to £3 the other day, Lamb chops for 50p from a fiver. Quality sausages for 10p, also they were buy two packs save £1, so they took that off my shopping too. Bargain.

[i want an aero]

the price of wheat trippled last year. so food to animals and other stuffs has risen,also the cost of fuel is increasing weekly

[Gretchen]

i want an aero said:

also the cost of fuel is increasing weekly

Are you having a laugh?

[condor]

Rather surprisingly, was in Tescos ealier today and one of my favorite breads ( Allinson's sunflower and multigrain) was priced at 50p instead of the usual £1.20 - no shelf barker to say it was a special offer...it was just 50p.
I wouldn't believe it till I got to the checkout...but the price stayed valid.

[Ordinary Bloke]

Yup, food prices are going up. The livestock feed is costing more, wheat is costing more, energy is costing more. So everything will go up 10-20% apparently.

The only answer I can think of is to eat everything now, quickly, while you can...

[UKbob]

Ordinary Bloke said:

The only answer I can think of is to eat everything now, quickly, while you can...

The same applies to any alcohol. The sooner you can drink it all, the better.

What I have noticed, my entrepreneurial brain ticking away, its Tesco the way in which Tesco pleases its shareholders.

There must have been a dozen occasions over the last year or two in which I noticed a tesco specific product reduce in quantity or quality, and increase in price. I state the obvious, but there surely have a very clever team in place scrutinizing every product imaginable, from bread knives and kebab skewers to the food in every isle, lowering quality (most noticeably in the non-food goods) and hiking up the price.

From a business perspective, they are a very clever and well managed/marketed company.

Another clever marketing strategy which has emerged in recent years/the last decade, employed by supermarkets, is forced quantity buying. In the old days, you could buy just one wooden spoon. Now you have to buy a pack of several, and of course the price goes up accordingly. Everyone does it, its become the norm, so none of us complain.