What Is It With The 20% Increases On Food?

[iansheff 88]

On 15/06/2022 at 14:10, Dromedary said:

Iceland is another expensive food store that's why they can now offer a 10% discount to those over 65. 

Just been in Iceland, I got a box of 8 Greggs sausage rolls, I think they were £4 when I last bought some about a month ago, now they are £4.75 which is an 18.75% increase, unless they were on offer last time.

[Anna B 1,414]

I've started saving my supermarket receipts and checking them week by week to see what's increased in price. It's pretty much everything, and some things well beyond 20%.

And that's not counting shrinkflation - stuff that's same price but reduced in weight or volume. 

[cressida 1,570]

I buy Warburton's Toastie bread and the blue wrapped thin sliced bread,  

I'm sure the slices are now smaller.

[Padders 2,866]

Bread is usually 800g for a large loaf, and 400g for a small loaf.

[HumbleNarrator 286]

Good thing for me I quit butter ages ago because the tubs  of Lurpak  I  used to buy are now over £7

[hackey lad 3,979]

Just now, HumbleNarrator said:

Good thing for me I quit butter ages ago because the tubs  of Lurpak  I  used to buy are now over £7

Show off 

[HumbleNarrator 286]

2 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Show off 

My butter intake was ridiculous, I was a heart attack waiting to happen so I stopped having it.

[hackey lad 3,979]

1 minute ago, HumbleNarrator said:

My butter intake was ridiculous, I was a heart attack waiting to happen so I stopped having it.

Was talking about buying Lurpak  😁

[Guest sibon]

25 minutes ago, HumbleNarrator said:

Good thing for me I quit butter ages ago because the tubs  of Lurpak  I  used to buy are now over £7

Were you running a sandwich shop?

[HumbleNarrator 286]

1 hour ago, sibon said:

Were you running a sandwich shop?

It was the big pack we used to get from Costco for around £4.99. On one of the news channels today I'm sure  it mentioned they were £7 in some places - or were predicted to be soon.

Edited June 29, 2022 by HumbleNarrator

[iansheff 88]

17 hours ago, cressida said:

I buy Warburton's Toastie bread and the blue wrapped thin sliced bread,  

I'm sure the slices are now smaller.

Have you checked the weight,  most large loaves are 800g, 

Edited June 30, 2022 by iansheff

[cressida 1,570]

6 minutes ago, iansheff said:

Have you checked the weight,  most large loaves are 800g, 

I shall next time,  I buy the small ones but I can't recall what weight they were before in order to check the weight they are now,  🙂