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Devastating effects of the R*cession

  • 03-04-2010 4:58pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm just after having a quick stroll down to Tesco to buy a cheap t-shirt - turns out I forgot my wallet, but whatever.

    So there I stand in the middle of the shop, with just over a quid's worth of change. I'm not going to walk out of the shop empty-handed like a loony, so I go to the confectionery section, my brother wanted some sweets so I got them him, and a Freddo and a small pack of Haribo for myself.

    Get to the self-serve checkout (why do the always scream 'Unexpected Item in the bagging area'? It makes my blood boil, and the 'checkout assistant' - probably the least apt name in the world considering their obvious hatred of assisting anyone - always looks at me like I'm a thief.


    Anyway, it turns out this Freddo was.. wait for it.... 17p. Seventeen fucking pence! It's not that long ago it was just 10pence - and a normal chocolate bar (previously around 30p) is now upwards of 50p.

    I don't understand banks amazingly well, but if they're to blame for the rise in the price of a Freddo... I'm going to have to kill every last banker on the planet.



    The Haribo were nice though.
    Anyone else noticed any other small products 'sneaking up' in price?


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    I love the caramel freddos :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Mr.S wrote: »
    We use the euro here.
    We don't here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Mr.S wrote: »
    We use the euro here.

    Oh, how little you know.

    Preach on brummy, preach on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 walshkvn


    just about everything ... I feel another trip to the north coming on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    brummytom wrote: »

    ...Get to the self-serve checkout (why do the always scream 'Unexpected Item in the bagging area'?....


    maybe there was an expected item in the bagging area

    :confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    Reminds me of the days of the punt. If you had a pound you were sorted for at least a bag of crisps, bar of chocolate and some sweets. Plus the coins were massive not like the shíte we have today!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    brummytom wrote: »
    I'm just after having a quick stroll down to Tesco to buy a cheap t-shirt - turns out I forgot my wallet, but whatever.

    So there I stand in the middle of the shop, with just over a quid's worth of change. I'm not going to walk out of the shop empty-handed like a loony, so I go to the confectionery section, my brother wanted some sweets so I got them him, and a Freddo and a small pack of Haribo for myself.

    Get to the self-serve checkout (why do the always scream 'Unexpected Item in the bagging area'? It makes my blood boil, and the 'checkout assistant' - probably the least apt name in the world considering their obvious hatred of assisting anyone - always looks at me like I'm a thief.


    Anyway, it turns out this Freddo was.. wait for it.... 17p. Seventeen fucking pence! It's not that long ago it was just 10pence - and a normal chocolate bar (previously around 30p) is now upwards of 50p.

    I don't understand banks amazingly well, but if they're to blame for the rise in the price of a Freddo... I'm going to have to kill every last banker on the planet.



    The Haribo were nice though.
    Anyone else noticed any other small products 'sneaking up' in price?

    You're not old enough to remember when they were 10p :pac:

    When i was young,10p used to get you a ten penny bag of sweets that would last you..well a whole of two minutes the way i ate sweets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Wah Wah Wah old man


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    phasers wrote: »
    Wah Wah Wah old man
    Oi Phasers, us old men need to stick together


    EDIT: Not in a 'meatspin' way


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Lucky to get a bar for less than around a euro at this stage.

    Think I remember bars costing 20p back in the day.

    Inflation, what a load of crap.
    They are just purposely ripping us off, because they can.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    penny sweets were the shiz, and toffee logs for 2p. and a packet of monster munch cost 12p. think they're about 60c now.
    anyway, when i started working in england, there was a fair bit of talk about bringing in the euro there, and one of the girls i worked with said that there was no way she was paying 40c for the sun, that 30p was the most she could afford at the time. bless her cotton socks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Reading that opening post makes me picture a gentleman of advancing years, hobbling away from the checkout complaining about the prices!

    "17p for a fudge! ITS CRIMINAL, I tell you! In my day you could buy a weeks groceries with 17p! BAH!" :D


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Everytime I go to the UK, I don't realise when I'm being ripped off because it 'seems' to be less.

    For example, bars of chocolate are 50p (approx) in the UK. Here, you would commonly pay 80-90c for a bar of chocolate (I kid you not - it's a rip off).

    Maybe the lower VAT rate has something to do it, but in reality it's just because the shops in Ireland are fcuking greedy, still thinking they are living in the days where people had a lot of money to spend on luxury/non-essential items.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    You would think that with the recession things would be getting cheaper, not more expensive.

    Suppose they see it that now people want to eat more chocolate (cheap comfort food,recession), that they might as well charge higher prices.
    And of course, they make the bars smaller. That way you pay more for smaller bars and they make more money...

    I remember when there were a rake load of bars etc that cost 10p and 5p.
    Mint and Cola Woppa bar, Wham bars, Macaroon bars.
    Big chunky Refresher sweets for 3p.

    I need a time machine, stat.

    Edit: I also need some punt currency. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Surely its not the recession to blame tho, the recession resulted in deflation, I wouldnt see the two as being related


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    Should've went for a Tazman.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Freddo.... spawn of the Anglo bankers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    rabble rabble

    i blame brian cowan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    sam34 wrote: »
    rabble rabble

    i blame Gordon Brown

    Fixed.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,272 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I can remember when penny sweets cost 1p :mad:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭TheInquisitor


    The cocoa price is about $US3276/tonne, after hitting a nominal 30-year high in December on the weak US dollar, strong demand and concerns about supplies in the Ivory Coast.

    The price of cocoa has doubled from its average price of around $1600 / tonne. That is why there has been a sudden increase in chocolate prices. For easter , easter eggs did not increase in price because all the chocolate companies SIGNIFICATLY reduced the amount of chocolate in their eggs. Cadburys giant milk egg fell from almost 1000g of chocolate to 740g.

    Many bars of chocolate have also lost weight. If not for this the price of chocolate bars would be even higher

    Just so ye know...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I blame Drogba!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I can remember when penny sweets cost 1p :mad:

    Yeah, now you get these bags of sweets for like €3, that are basically the equivalent to bags which would have been previously on sale for 50p.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    I can remember when penny sweets cost 1p :mad:
    Did you ever hear the expression "Ten a penny"? And that was old pennies, none of your new fangled pees.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Remember the He-Man chocolate bars that used to be 5p or.........ooh, ooh.............Chomp bars for 10p!!

    What a horrible future we live in :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    DibDabs for 12p.

    And then of course there was crisps...

    The selection of 10p crisps was bigger than the other selections of crisps put together.
    Hot Lips, Bikers, Meanies, Burger Bites, Chickatees.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    The selection of 10p crisps was bigger than the other selections of crisps put together.
    Hot Lips, Bikers, Meanies, Burger Bites, Chickatees.

    Back in the day when they WERE actual tasty crisps, not the piss-poor quality ones we get today! They've ended up changing how they make them thus making them taste like crap.

    I had an unhealthy obsession for Burger Bites!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce




  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The cost of all raw materials is going up, but in reality the value of money is going down and your wages are paid in money!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    brummytom wrote: »
    I'm just after having a quick stroll down to Tesco to buy a cheap t-shirt - turns out I forgot my wallet, but whatever.

    So there I stand in the middle of the shop, with just over a quid's worth of change. I'm not going to walk out of the shop empty-handed like a loony, so I go to the confectionery section, my brother wanted some sweets so I got them him, and a Freddo and a small pack of Haribo for myself.

    Get to the self-serve checkout (why do the always scream 'Unexpected Item in the bagging area'? It makes my blood boil, and the 'checkout assistant' - probably the least apt name in the world considering their obvious hatred of assisting anyone - always looks at me like I'm a thief.


    Anyway, it turns out this Freddo was.. wait for it.... 17p. Seventeen fucking pence! It's not that long ago it was just 10pence - and a normal chocolate bar (previously around 30p) is now upwards of 50p.

    I don't understand banks amazingly well, but if they're to blame for the rise in the price of a Freddo... I'm going to have to kill every last banker on the planet.



    The Haribo were nice though.
    Anyone else noticed any other small products 'sneaking up' in price?

    Man, I'm all broke up after that terrible encounter.

    I'm bent out of shape.


    Grow the fcuk up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Man, I'm all broke up after that terrible encounter.

    I'm bent out of shape.


    Grow the fcuk up.

    Unexpected item in the posting area?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Like what pal?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Like what pal?

    An announcement that alarms Brummytom, no more than that...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    brummytom wrote: »
    We don't here
    Location: Behind You

    Does not compute


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    SV wrote: »
    I love the caramel freddos :)

    They are nothing compared to the Taz Bars, long bless them! :D


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  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    biko wrote: »
    Location: Behind You

    Does not compute

    The hint is in the username! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    Man, I'm all broke up after that terrible encounter.

    I'm bent out of shape.


    Grow the fcuk up.

    i wonder if you would be so quick to pick on token if he were a six-foot, 18 stone bearded bloke standing right in front of you, rather than a sixteen year old lad in another country posting on an internet forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭friendface


    When I was in secondary school, we would always get a bag of 20 penny sweets for 20p obviously. When the euro came in, it was 20 "penny sweets" for 40c. I don't know what price they are now.

    Anyway. Have a look at the following video which explains inflation and rising prices of consumer goods pretty effectively;



    "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Albert Allen Bartlett


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    friendface wrote: »
    When I was in secondary school, we would always get a bag of 20 penny sweets for 20p obviously. When the euro came in, it was 20 "penny sweets" for 40c. I don't know what price they are now.

    Anyway. Have a look at the following video which explains inflation and rising prices of consumer goods pretty effectively;



    "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Albert Allen Bartlett

    Great video, seen it before - it does get the message across though.

    Insist on getting paid in gold! you can't go wrong. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Man, I'm all broke up after that terrible encounter.

    I'm bent out of shape.


    Grow the fcuk up.

    Leave the lad alone. Your only claim to fame is scatological threads.

    America has the Eagle, we have a Shíte Hawk.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    brummytom wrote: »
    I'm just after having a quick stroll down to Tesco to buy a cheap t-shirt - turns out I forgot my wallet, but whatever.

    So there I stand in the middle of the shop, with just over a quid's worth of change. I'm not going to walk out of the shop empty-handed like a loony, so I go to the confectionery section, my brother wanted some sweets so I got them him, and a Freddo and a small pack of Haribo for myself.

    Get to the self-serve checkout (why do the always scream 'Unexpected Item in the bagging area'? It makes my blood boil, and the 'checkout assistant' - probably the least apt name in the world considering their obvious hatred of assisting anyone - always looks at me like I'm a thief.


    Anyway, it turns out this Freddo was.. wait for it.... 17p. Seventeen fucking pence! It's not that long ago it was just 10pence - and a normal chocolate bar (previously around 30p) is now upwards of 50p.

    I don't understand banks amazingly well, but if they're to blame for the rise in the price of a Freddo... I'm going to have to kill every last banker on the planet.



    The Haribo were nice though.
    Anyone else noticed any other small products 'sneaking up' in price?

    :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Man, I'm all broke up after that terrible encounter.

    I'm bent out of shape.


    Grow the fcuk up.

    You spend far too much time in The Thunderdrome.

    Seem to have forgot what manners are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭friendface


    :rolleyes:

    :rolleyes:

    By the way, why do we have two of these guys :p :P (Stick out tongue and Stick out tongue2) Is there a difference? I don't see it...:confused:


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    friendface wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    By the way, why do we have two of these guys :p :P (Stick out tongue and Stick out tongue2) Is there a difference? I don't see it...:confused:

    one is
    :P and the other is :p
    
    :P and the other is :p

    (capital P and lower case p)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    1st wrote: »
    Leave the lad alone. Your only claim to fame is scatological threads.

    America has the Eagle, we have a Shíte Hawk.



    And your claim to fame it what Mr Superman?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Well la de da de da, Brummytom's got a wallet.

    If I bought a wallet, I'd have nothing to put in it, because Wallets R'us would have all my cash.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Well la de da de da, Brummytom's got a wallet.


    to keep the jonnies that he might use sometime!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,676 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    The price of cocoa has doubled from its average price of around $1600 / tonne. That is why there has been a sudden increase in chocolate prices. For easter , easter eggs did not increase in price because all the chocolate companies SIGNIFICATLY reduced the amount of chocolate in their eggs.

    The 250g Dairy Milk has been quietly lightened to 230g aswell.

    Disgraceful. :mad:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom



    Grow the fcuk up.


    How... write a story about excrement?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    brummytom wrote: »
    How... write a story about excrement?

    worked for south park. call it Mr Fanky.


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