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17 May 17
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I was getting a bus for 70p ten years ago. It's now £2.10 a single trip over four stops.
Daily local travel £4.50.
Food has been shaved down - this is classic hiding of inflation.
Instead of your favourite sweets being the usual size you get smaller bars?
i recently bought a turkish delight, it lost a quarter of it's size the ridges on the top were gone.
chocolate paper thin? they do this with everything.
They are hiding inflation. repeat - they are hiding inflation. Now suddenly it's free? out of the box.
Stop lying you ********************************************
Daily local travel £4.50.
Food has been shaved down - this is classic hiding of inflation.
Instead of your favourite sweets being the usual size you get smaller bars?
i recently bought a turkish delight, it lost a quarter of it's size the ridges on the top were gone.
chocolate paper thin? they do this with everything.
They are hiding inflation. repeat - they are hiding inflation. Now suddenly it's free? out of the box.
Stop lying you ********************************************
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in ancient times with gold and silver coins, they shaved the edges of the coins.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11532019/Cadburys-drops-two-chocolate-Fingers-from-packs.html
article 2015 - pre brexit stop lying you ******* ***** ** * *** *** ***************** * |
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Confectionery is a flavoured lump of sugary fat, pure energy. You don't need this unless you are trekking across Antarctica. Cut it out.
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Ironically, I'm off to Bournville later today to meet some friends.
If they knew what I just posted I would be banned. |
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Hope you're taking appropriate protection.
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They will be pelting me with crème eggs from the factory windows. I think that's all they make there now.
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Back of the purple chocolate factory yesterday.
Not much activity, perhaps the new owners have moved production to Poland already.  |
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it's not just choco - it's across the board, with food. used the choco as an example.
pepsi - £2.50 for a two litre bottle? gtf. tin of red grapefruit was 30p - 57p in one jump. pineapple 30p now 50p in one jump (tesco) how is that 3 percent inflation? liars fkin *** ** * ********* *********** **************** |
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Felix cat food you used to get 48 pouches for around a tenner. Then it went to 44 and now it's 40. Amazingly the box that holds them is still the same size.
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Shrinkflation
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same as the currency situation. The pound was overvalued for years and had been on a downward trend (market correction) trend v the USD for a long time before Brexit.
lying koonts. |
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ever heard of VAT?
entry to common market was conditional on us introducing it. Now running at 20 percent I do believe. A huge con. An even bigger con is you have to calculate it and collect it for the government. The rules etc around it are draconian. |
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Not worth buying crisps anymore. The bags are 2/3rds empty.
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bread up by 50 percent since 2004, rice 60 percent. butter 13 percent, margarine 70 percent?.
meat by 50 percent. quote from a baker in 2008 - I'm frugal. I've watched the cost of flour go up 50% in less than a year. I'm now paying 30¢ a pound (50 lb bag of enriched bleached bread flour from Costco $14.99) it's went up by more since 2008. |
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For most people, levels of inflation are largely irrelevant unless compared to the relevant rise or fall in earnings.
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Modern inflation started with................................Dolly Parton, apparently.
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