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03 Jan 23
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Can't believe the huge price increases over the past year, for what possible reason have basic food items shot up so much?
I live on my own and i am relatively ok in terms of money and what i need as don't live extravagantly but wonder how on earth poor people, unemployed, folk on a basic minimum pension cope.
Used to buy 2 chicken fillets to make a curry for £1.68 now £3, a medium Chicken was about £2.65 now £5, a Rib eye steak was about £3.50 now £5.
4 small choc bars in a pack was £1 now £1.25 just a few of the items i noticed but virtually everything gone up at least 25% and most about 40/50%, how can they justify these swinging price increases.
On the plus side just read that Weatherspoons have lowered a lot of their food and drink prices quite drastically for the next 2 weeks, how can they do it, ie) Ruddles 99p, Worthingtons 99p, Bells Whiskey 99p but i get the impression we are being ripped off on Fuel and Food!
I live on my own and i am relatively ok in terms of money and what i need as don't live extravagantly but wonder how on earth poor people, unemployed, folk on a basic minimum pension cope.
Used to buy 2 chicken fillets to make a curry for £1.68 now £3, a medium Chicken was about £2.65 now £5, a Rib eye steak was about £3.50 now £5.
4 small choc bars in a pack was £1 now £1.25 just a few of the items i noticed but virtually everything gone up at least 25% and most about 40/50%, how can they justify these swinging price increases.
On the plus side just read that Weatherspoons have lowered a lot of their food and drink prices quite drastically for the next 2 weeks, how can they do it, ie) Ruddles 99p, Worthingtons 99p, Bells Whiskey 99p but i get the impression we are being ripped off on Fuel and Food!
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My missus gets all our shopping online and delivered so I don’t really know the prices that well. I do pop into our local supermarket every Sunday for my pack-up and the dogs food. He has chicken thighs that have gone up around 50% and he loves Morrisons own brand hot dog sausages. They’ve gone from 99p a pack to £1.99. That’s a massive increase on just two items.
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Energy goes up, everything goes up.
Thats why its one of a list of areas the UK Government have completely betrayed the public by not securing our own source of energy and relied/hoped on despots to do the right thing until now |
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They blame covid….but during covid they made a killing
Petrol prices are also disgusting Forecourt’s used to make around two grand on a tanker delivery….some get one a day Motorways can get 10 over a weekend….work it out… Milk going down the drain yet up 0.50 a carton …. Farmers market….dreadful prices…. |
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Similar to Ken here , all shopping delivered so never bothered to examine bill.
Like Morrison's range so they'll do for me. Wife gets a couple of her fav bits from M & S visits on occasions but that's about it. Don't care about cost discrepancies as long as i can have my fav things and never have to visit any shop. |
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Well that's nice for you Hayden but what about people who are on a basic unemployment benefit of £76 a week, can they afford to shop at M @ S, poor people have the same energy price increase as everyone else, how on earth do they cope?
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Some say its a shake down of the middle class and by design, and the more I look at it the more I tend to agree.
(the poor been told of the next support package for the next year....an extra 900 a year) Pensionsers get some extra benefit too. Rest get nowt |
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Small businesses going to the wall inc 50% in the last year
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Never mind, if you're looking for a holiday this summer and on a budget, Simon Calder who the BEEB wheel out to give us travel advice says the places to go will be Portugal, North macedonia, Montenegro...and wait for it......
Albania  No irony there is there  |
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Yes sorry Stew a disgusting post in hindsight , was just giving a personal view without thinking it through.
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The problem with this country is our parliamentary system and the short termism it creates. Which govmnt is goint to pump billions into any policy when they could be out of office in 5 years.I know its not popular but if parties were aligned slightly to left or right of center then maybe we coud get policies that could benefit the country over the long term without much political upheaval every time there is an election.
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Thank you hayden, we all occasionally put up posts we regret and decent of you to apologise. as i said initially, i'm ok financially but see a lot of elderly ladies and gentlemen looking to buy basic food items and just feel so sorry for them, £40 wouldn't buy 20 items.
Thank you hayden, we all occasionally put up posts we regret and decent of you to apologise. |
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I don't eat fresh meat /fresh fish / And the only sugar in once in a blue moon chocolate or beans. Saves a fortune.
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It's best to avoid the Co-Op -as I typed elsewhere that company is a modern day highwayman.
How anyone shops there is a complete mystery. It's best to shop around if you can, if you need to financially. Living on your own, as is the case with OP, you can hit those yellow stickers and freeze what you can't use that day. |
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Think the most important part of haydens post is not visiting any shop which I can relate to,but I will go for a(message)pint of milk or a loaf and observed prices increased which are beyond belief.
Went for a meal last Thursday we had 2 10oz sirloin with chips pepper sauce 3 onion rings each for £19.90 each and free dessert as it's Thursday offer we had same in October and didn't know it was still going. So if some can do this why can't others cheapest comparison locally was £25 for 8oz sirloin with chips but nothing else no onin rings or sauce so it can be done. So yes we are being ripped off |
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I've noticed incredible price rises & reduction in product size or number. Tassimo coffee pods reduced from 8 to 6 just an example. Also increasingly shopping in Aldi. Got a lot for £20 this morning. However, how the ordinary working person can afford to live is totally beyond me. With my high edumacation & very good working life & pensions I'm very fortunate. But my days of shopping in M & S & Waitrose for top quality are coming to an end because Aldi & others are almost as good at half the price.
It's time for a revolution with the state of the UK. As a lifelong Tory I'll never vote for them again. A friend of mine got a utility bill for £1200 for 1 month for a 5 bed house. Immediate hospital beds for those criminals landing at Dover from a sinking boat & 15 hour waits on trolleys & cancelled operations for our people. This government finds 7 million a day to feed & house the criminals but won't give the nurses a living wage. Thankfully I'm at the right end of my life not to see the completion of the change from Great Britain to Grate Britain. |
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A lot of pensioners like ( or "need" ) to socialise a hell of a lot. Trips out. Meals out. Even the younger ones that are capable of making food and washing up prefer to let someone else do it. Not knocking it because not everyone likes to be glued to sports tv /other stuff on you tube etc 16 hours a day. But on £200 a week there's no way you should struggle with food/bills unless you have to top up rent.
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Those struggling could possibly think about eating more Pasta, I find it cheap and delicious.
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As mentioned short term govt poilicy has a lot to answer for.
Though as a nation everyone wants tax cuts but moan about investment and NHS. So that is what happens, even labour would just massively increase national debt and kick the can further down the road. I really feel for anyone who works full time and has to use a food bank. As a society we need supermarket shelf stackers, cleaners, fast food staff etc. Society is fundamentally wrong when that happens. Are the multi millionaires/billionaires contributing enough? Or do they all use offshore accounts/tax exiles etc? It needs stopping. The likes of Lewis Hamilton make my blood boil, giving it all of this and that and avoids taxes! |
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Tesco Dolly Mixtures
They did them for 50p or 3 for £1 Stopped the 3 for £1 about 3 months ago Today they are now 60p a pack so 3 would cost £1.80 which were £1 3 months ago. 80% increase |
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I really feel for anyone who works full time and has to use a food bank.
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Does the above not happen Cider? I have read quite a few articles in various press that it does.
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Agree swad. Many older people won't eat "foreign" food pasta /rice etc. Just traditional English meat dishes /fish & chips etc. Makes eating very expensive.
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I agree and concur I find it sorry for anyone that works full time and needs a food bank.
Little sympathy for those that could work and dont, infact I would take a bit more from them and raise the min wage. |
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Agree Swaddle.
That needs stopping as well. |
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I don't live on a basic budget (shop @ Ocado), I do live in a nice part of the country, I own my own property (paying a mortgage). My heating is set to 23.5C.
My living costs are around £1K a month, and that's not even trying, and before any gambling winnings. No way in the world does a full time worker 'have' to use a food bank. NB, I don't receive any handouts apart from the domestic energy stuff every household receives. |
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I also run a car, although to be fair, running costs down due to mostly wfh.
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Yet wasn't it recently reported that 25% of hospitals had foodbanks for staff?
Don't know whether that's nationwide with it most likely being london given the cost of existence in that particular region. |
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cider " a nice part of the country" so not London
 Plenty working there after paying rent and bills have nowt left. |
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It's totally untrue leif. I believe food banks started popping up in hospitals to help patients. Any allegation that a NHS worker 'needs' to use a food bank is even more absurd. They might have zero financial competence and have wasted money on unnecessary spending/got into debt problems, which is obviously an entirely different topic.
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Born and raised in London, howard. Couldn't wait to leave, I was in a nice part there as well at the time, Dollis Hill, but mostly a crap hole elsewhere and got far worse since I left. I'm in Bucks.
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Set up for both patients and staff apparently
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/exclusive-11-nhs-trusts-in-england-have-opened-food-banks-for-staff-as-unions-demand-fair-pay-3929178 |
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Being set up for staff is different to staff 'needing' them. That's all part of the propaganda, the NHS is good at that, less so at arranging the medical care that people need.
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Set up anything for 'free' and there will be people willing to demean themselves and take it these days. But the last 20 years or so, society has developed an entitled portion of the population. Which is not going to be reversed any time soon, alas. People used to be too proud to beg, now it's de rigueur.
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£1k a month would only cover about a months rent and council tax and I’m further north than you (leics), Cider. There will be loads of people earning minimum wage and living on their own who will struggle like feck.
I’ve no doubt there are sh1th0les in London being rented out for far more than that too. |
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Doing a quick calculation on the back of an envelope and pretty basic cost of living for a median wage leaves around 4500 a year 'personal'
Thats before any entertainment, vehicle expenses, fuel/travel costs or clothes purchases are taken into account (all from memory of many years ago the citizen advice class as justified costs) So its pretty supercilious of cider again (I agree with some things you say, but a lot I dont) |
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...and not a penny is taken into account for an dependents a person might have like children
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They need to move heaven and earth to get on the property ladder and not pay someone else's mortgage.
This tax year their net pay will be circa 1500 pcm. Which is doable. Everyone has to live their own life, but they shouldn't be in that position in the first place, ideally. Worst case scenario is to rent a single room for a few years and work more than one job. |
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I know two recent rentals in London
Greenwich 2 bedroom terrace house , went on the market for £2,000 a month in September and rented a day later at £2,315 Hounslow 3 bed Semi £1,950 let mid December |
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Food banks are a scourge on society.
Sixties and seventies when there was only one wage going into a family home…average family size of six Wages were poor Not many spoiled brats in the country No food banks Parents were proud and worked hard…. Kids accepted what they were give How many go to a food bank with a £12 packet of **** in the pocket….and booze in the house….ffs |