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06 Nov 16
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Walkers and Birds Eye are set to raise the prices of some items due to the falling strength of the pound.
The pound has fallen 18% against the US dollar since June's UK Brexit vote.
Walkers, owned by US giant PepsiCo, says "the weakened value of the pound" is affecting the import cost of some of its materials.
Birds Eye, owned by New York-listed Nomad Foods, says its products are priced in dollars, so the pound's fall means sterling costs have risen.
Walkers and Birds Eye want to increase the price they charge retailers for their products, but it will be up to the supermarkets whether or not to pass these onto consumers.
crisps currently £15 a kilo set to rise
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The pound has fallen 18% against the US dollar since June's UK Brexit vote.
Walkers, owned by US giant PepsiCo, says "the weakened value of the pound" is affecting the import cost of some of its materials.
Birds Eye, owned by New York-listed Nomad Foods, says its products are priced in dollars, so the pound's fall means sterling costs have risen.
Walkers and Birds Eye want to increase the price they charge retailers for their products, but it will be up to the supermarkets whether or not to pass these onto consumers.
crisps currently £15 a kilo set to rise
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baxters soup 50p in asda reduced from £1.09.
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Iv'e just discovered Lidl jaffa cakes, better than the original ones at half the cost, feck the premium brands.
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The global agenda is off and running.
Hopefully the other companies will make inroads into the markets. |
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Unlucky Walkers & Birds Eye, your products aren't essentials so you need us more than we need you.
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I remember as a kid if you got a bag of Walkers you were sorted & would barely eat your tea , Huge bag of Beef & Onion was the nuts!
Bought 2 x 6 packs £1 each recently & the packets are wafer thin like little envelopes that have been auto packed , not even given air to breath , they say 25g but may as well just tell you how many crisps are inside instead  |
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I'll live without their products. I'm sure others will too.
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Saddo.....I've been telling my son of Jaffa Cakes, and other Aldi products, since I became a convert early this year.
I'm guessing the Lidl ones are the same product! Admitted, I do have to go elsewhere also, as the range of products is somewhat limited. Heinz soups have been at 50p, from Morrison's and Tesco, for several weeks..... As for Walkers and Bird's Eye, I can't remember when I last bought any of their products |
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Beware the Lidl mini stollen AP, quite addictive.
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demand for certain things will go up which will only mean having to import more or putting the price up....no doubt british companies will react to demand and put prices up accordingly.
would help if we actually made a lot more and didnt have to import materials to make them. |
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with so many other brands of crips who gives a fck about walkers.?
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It's that nasty footballer bloke wot is of a doing it
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Crisps must be the dearest way you can find of eating potatoes.
Walkers appear to be cutting their own throats here. |
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Lidl have also started selling their seasonal chocolated-covered gingerbread lebkuchen
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=lebkuchen  |
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For mmcoys crisp fans, the tesco own brand of ridge cut crisps at half the cost are at least as nice
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mccoys
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Walker's smacks of pure profiteering, what are they having to import that increases the cost by 10%? it isn't the potatoes because they are proud of the fact they are all UK produced.
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Walkers snack foods own by PepsiCo
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They've just lost half of their market in the UK ... e.g. Mrs mememe not buying anymore.
Ratners over again. Muppets |
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brexiters boycotting everything, living off cobweb soup, taking back control.
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If it's the price we must pay for 'freedom', then so be it.
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Dave ...
not boycotting anything. Just Mrs mememe will buy somebody else's crisps, like a lot of people I suspect. Walkers just stupid to put prices up IMO. Did you vote to remain, then?  |
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saddo 07 Nov 16 09:14 Joined: 04 Dec 05 | Topic/replies: 28,391 | Blogger: saddo's blog
Beware the Lidl mini stollen AP, quite addictive. ^ I concur !  |
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Spot on BB. They agree they use UK spuds, but say that all the extra ingredients they have to import from abroad has necessitated the price increase.
WALOFS. |
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What with the odious Gary Lineker promoting their products (and insulting a large chunk of their customer base with his BBC PC utterings),
and their price increase and the BBC linking it to Brexit their sales are only going to go one way. |
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Why is Gary Lineker odious mememe ?. I always thought he seems quite personable .
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Each to their own ... you think him personable, I think he's odious.
Fine footie player in his day, but now sycophantic BBC gravy trainer (to me). |
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Ido have a bag of walkers about one every month
dont do marmite cant remember last birds eye thing i bought as tend to make my own stuff from veggies and sundays left overs as working for the railways cant afford all that posh food. Last night and tonight have swede/potato/carrot/onion/garlic soup with some chilli powdwer/worcester sauce/oregano and granary bread yum yum My chilli baked bean soup is a masterpiece. |
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Stick to Brannigans, by far the best. (Beef and mustard)
5 bags for £1 in poundland, a real bargain. |
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Totally agree maleuk01, Brannigan's beef and mustard are my favourite crisps, I can't be doing with Walker's at all.
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pound up again
are walkers bringing prices back down ? |
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Who cares, Walkers are on my sanction list, Birds Eye I never bought anyway.
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who cares ?
all the other firms ready to use brexit as an excuse to rip us off ! |
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Eat a bit less, do a bit less donny, we'll get by.
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Own brand fish products from each supermarket I've tried are easily on par or better than birds eye.
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I instructed Mrs mememe to avoid buying Walkers crisps after they put the prices up (and insulted the intelligence of every customer).
So Mrs mememe (in a fit of pique, I imagine), bought me Aldi Ridged Crips. Absolutely wonderful and easily the best crisps I have eaten (well, except those poncey expensive kettle crisps). So, fook you Walkers |
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Lidl's salmon fillets in lemon sauce are tastier than Birds Eye
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Captain Birdseye facing mutiny
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