Anyone notice the steady price increase on everything lately?

Doom

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start


Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

wazky

Doom wrote: »

Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50

Maybe start drinking your own piss then?, tastes the same as most craft beers but cheaper.

Renegade Mechanic

I saw a Fry's Turkish Delight today for the first time in a long time. Where did it all go so wrong.:(

entropi

The Netflix increase is tiny compared with what you get out of it. The only decent things on RTE amount to the likes of wildlife shows and Nationwide and look at how much they steal want from you. Buy your chocolate as a multipack in a supermarket, much better value.

As for craft beer, its better than drinking piss...I mean its better than drinking half of the swill out there like Budweiser/Carlsberg.

Doom

wazky wrote: »

Maybe start drinking your own piss then?, tastes the same as most craft beers but cheaper.

I don't drink it, my friends were telling me what they paid in the Salt house in Galway recently.

Doom

Netflix is white, tried the free month, watched all of breaking bad and then dumped it.
Fck all good films on it, as far as I know, they have issues with getting some suppliers on board in Europe, I believe the US one is much better.

Vito Corleone

Crisps are over the euro mark in some cases. I remember when you could buy a decent pack of crisps for 50 cent. Freddo bars that have 20 cent written on the pack cost 50 cent in some places. Being charged for Ketchup sachets. These are dark times we're living in, dark dark times.

Arthur Beesley

entropi wrote: »

The Netflix increase is tiny compared with what you get out of it.

What percentage?

Cantremember

Doom wrote: »

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start


Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

Never. To business you are just someone to be bled dry.

wazky

Cantremember wrote: »

Never. To business you are just someone to be bled dry.

Imagine that, and here I was thinking they were charities and should just hand out their products all willy nilly.

kneemos

Which is better economically,deflation or inflation?

Doom

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

What percentage?

Up by a euro...6.99 to 7.99.but I think they are going to charge this to new customers only

Arthur Beesley

kneemos wrote: »

Which is better economically,deflation or inflation?

Dunno. Ask the Germans.

dxhound2005

Doom wrote: »

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start


Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

Inflation is good. It used to be bad when it was around 20%. That was real price increases, not your measly €1 on Netflix. And mortgage interest rates were 18%. Could you cope with that? Now after years of inflation being a bad thing it turns out it is a good thing and deflation is a bad thing. So rejoice.

Doom

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Inflation is good. It used to be bad when it was around 20%. That was real price increases, not your measly €1 on Netflix. And mortgage interest rates were 18%. Could you cope with that? Now after years of inflation being a bad thing it turns out it is a good thing and deflation is a bad thing. So rejoice.

If I'm paid 25k per year with no inflation related payments to protect the value of my salary, how can inflation be good, as year on year my pay is eroded?

Sam Kade

Doom wrote: »

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start





Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

We'll be all reduced to eating home grown spuds and milk next and we all know how that worked out last time

doolox

...is considered good for the economy in most western countries because it allows "adjustments"to be made over a long period in wages across different sectors to encourage "labour migration" to sectors which need it most.

In other words by witholding pay rises to more obsolescent sectors the bosses can force workers to move from their previous sectors to new sectors or maybe none at all if they are unlucky enough to be near retirement age when the redundancy decision is made.

In societies where paycuts are very difficult to implement, de facto paycuts can be done by not implementing cost of living payrises. This becomes difficult if not impossible if zero inflation exists in an economy. It becomes a big problem when deflation occurs as most companies will let some people go or completely reorganise rather than implement across the board paycuts in an existing organisation.

High Inflation is of no interest whatsoever to low paid workers with little or no cash reserves to fall back on to cushion sudden cost of living rises. To companies with high debts or people with high debts high inflation can reduce the real size of their debt but only if pay rises happen and interest rates on the debt are kept low otherwise high inflation is good for nobody.

entropi

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

What percentage?

1 euro. For 30 days, paying 84 euro (soon to be 96) a year at the moment is less than half I think than the current tv licence payment or household charge....whatever they're changing it to, and is much better value if you don't have a digital tv package.

Doom wrote: »

Up by a euro...6.99 to 7.99.but I think they are going to charge this to new customers only

They did say that current customers will be put on that newer plan within a year or something though, so it will even out.

Stavros Murphy

Doom wrote: »

If I'm paid 25k per year with no inflation related payments to protect the value of my salary, how can inflation be good, as year on year my pay is eroded?

Which is what has happened. Prices have risen, wages have not. Have a think, we pay €100 a day, take-home, pretty much -that's the current going rate in our industry for a worker and from talking to a lot of people, that's considered pretty alright money, tax and stamps etc paid. Throw the head back a few years to pounds, and that's what, £87.00 a day?

When I started in business, i paid £50 a day take-home, tax and stamp paid, which was also the going rate. That's well over twenty-five years ago..a packet of crisps was 10p give or take and houses were €25k..going by the price of houses/crisps, pay should be £500 a day, or €600, give or take, to keep pace with inflation..so something's not right..show me people taking home 3k a week - normal, ordinary working people. Few and far between I'd say.

dirtyden

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Inflation is good. It used to be bad when it was around 20%. That was real price increases, not your measly €1 on Netflix. And mortgage interest rates were 18%. Could you cope with that? Now after years of inflation being a bad thing it turns out it is a good thing and deflation is a bad thing. So rejoice.

1 euro as a percentage of 7 euros is not that far from 20%.

sdanseo

Doom wrote: »

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.

Which is fair in itself, albeit they've gone about it a funny way. It's a service, they're a profit-generating company. If you don't want to pay, then don't.

Doom wrote: »

Netflix = price increase

€1 increase only applies to new members, existing customers still being looked after at €6.99

Doom wrote: »

Sky= prices rose this year.

Give them a ring, they jumped at the chance to take €30 off our bill for 9 months and I have the lad in the local kiosk working on them to get me a second HD box for nought (haven't heard from him yet though).

Doom wrote: »

Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar

Don't buy them in Spar

Doom wrote: »

Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.

Saving % is linked to central bank / ECB, save with An Post over 5 years and they'll give you 4%

Doom wrote: »

Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50

Depends on the beer and the place, funnily enough Craft Beers are 4 for €10 in my local Spar.

Doom wrote: »

Tesco= where do I start

Shop in an Irish store.

Sh1tbag OToole

Sam Kade wrote: »

We'll be all reduced to eating home grown spuds and milk next and we all know how that worked out last time

Then they'll bring in a tax for growing spuds

Doom

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Which is what has happened. Prices have risen, wages have not. Have a think, we pay €100 a day, take-home, pretty much -that's the current going rate in our industry for a worker and from talking to a lot of people, that's considered pretty alright money, tax and stamps etc paid. Throw the head back a few years to pounds, and that's what, £87.00 a day?

When I started in business, i paid £50 a day take-home, tax and stamp paid, which was also the going rate. That's well over twenty-five years ago..a packet of crisps was 10p give or take and houses were €25k..going by the price of houses/crisps, pay should be £500 a day, or €600, give or take, to keep pace with inflation..so something's not right..show me people taking home 3k a week - normal, ordinary working people. Few and far between I'd say.

That really puts it in perspective, I remember when crisps were 6p... :-(

dxhound2005

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Which is what has happened. Prices have risen, wages have not. Have a think, we pay €100 a day, take-home, pretty much -that's the current going rate in our industry for a worker and from talking to a lot of people, that's considered pretty alright money, tax and stamps etc paid. Throw the head back a few years to pounds, and that's what, £87.00 a day?

When I started in business, i paid £50 a day take-home, tax and stamp paid, which was also the going rate. That's well over twenty-five years ago..a packet of crisps was 10p give or take and houses were €25k..going by the price of houses/crisps, pay should be £500 a day, or €600, give or take, to keep pace with inflation..so something's not right..show me people taking home 3k a week - normal, ordinary working people. Few and far between I'd say.

The price of houses is not relevant to day to day inflation. Mortgage interests rates are and they are historically low. If the price of houses was the deciding factor everything should be half the price it was 7 years ago. Some things are cheaper in real terms than ever before, including alcohol and clothing and shoes.

Doom

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Then they'll bring in a tax for growing spuds

And tax famines too

kneemos

Online shopping has reduced the price of a lot of things quite dramatically I would have thought.

RED L4 0TH

Doom wrote: »

Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar

Pink Snack bars from 3 fingers to 2 fingers last year and not surprisingly the price didn't go down by one third............

W**kers!

Mickey H

Doom wrote: »

Up by a euro...6.99 to 7.99.but I think they are going to charge this to new customers only

So a 14% increase then...

Stavros Murphy

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The price of houses is not relevant to day to day inflation. Mortgage interests rates are and they are historically low. If the price of houses was the deciding factor everything should be half the price it was 7 years ago. Some things are cheaper in real terms than ever before, including alcohol and clothing and shoes.

Ok. Pick a different index - go for "price of a pint index" - that 4*... or whatever index you want to choose. Any you pick, you'll come to the same conclusion, average wages have not kept pace with real costs of living. Or am I wrong? If so, show me how. I'll tell you now, a lot of people will read what I posted above and go "fcuk me, yeah....jasus, I remember I was on..."

carraig2

Sam Kade wrote: »

We'll be all reduced to eating home grown spuds and milk next and we all know how that worked out last time

Post of the year:)

Doom

Mickey H wrote: »

So a 14% increase then...

For **** all, its a **** service in my opinion.

Amirani

kneemos wrote: »

Which is better economically,deflation or inflation?

Deflation is normally quite a bad thing - it causes a reduction in consumer spending (why buy things when they'll be cheaper in two months?), which has negative effects to business. It also increases the debt burden as the real value of debt increases.

High inflation is also bad - it removes purchasing power by devaluing money. Prices go up rapidly and exports get less attractive. There's many other reasons for both of these things but I'm being simplistic.

The best situation for an economy is generally to have inflation rates of 2-5%.

Doom

A general bicycle cost 200e to 400e, bring in a tax incentive bull**** thing, tell people they're getting a great deal, now they cost 1000e....

The Backwards Man

Sam Kade wrote: »

We'll be all reduced to eating home grown spuds and milk next and we all know how that worked out last time

That's how I was reared. Done me no harm.

Stavros Murphy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

That's how I was reared. Done me no harm.

Give over, you turned out backwards.

billie1b

Last week in Tesco, SMA gold cap for the baby €10.19, this week €12. Absolutely disgraceful

Sam Kade

The Backwards Man wrote: »

That's how I was reared. Done me no harm.

At what age did you indulge in other foodstuffs or are you still on the spud and milk diet?

flutered

Doom wrote: »

Netflix is white, tried the free month, watched all of breaking bad and then dumped it.
Fck all good films on it, as far as I know, they have issues with getting some suppliers on board in Europe, I believe the US one is much better.

moviesdownloads6.com is free.

robertxxx

Upc
Car insurance
Health cover
Petrol
Tesco

Davarus Walrus

Doom wrote: »

A general bicycle cost 200e to 400e, bring in a tax incentive bull**** thing, tell people they're getting a great deal, now they cost 1000e....

You can still get a decent bike in Ireland for €400. They cost more here for the same reasons most things cost more: VAT, geographic location, size of market, disposable income. The suggestion that a €400 bike now costs €1000 in Ireland because of a - frankly great - scheme is preposterous.

poppyvally

Dunnes are being real sneaky. Taking 50mg of meat out of the prepackaged stuff & charging the same price, hoping you wont notice

sdanseo

poppyvally wrote: »

Dunnes are being real sneaky. Taking 50mg of meat out of the prepackaged stuff & charging the same price, hoping you wont notice

To be honest, when buying 500g of mince, I won't miss the 50mg (0.05g) - they can have it.

Serious note though, a few tips people would do well to remember:

1. Buy MEAT in a BUTCHER. It's cheaper, and better quality. Tenfold.

2. Buy everything else in the supermarket. Not LIDL or Aldi, yes they're cheaper, but it's British/European imports (for the most part) and we should all be buying Irish. It'll come back to benefit us in the end.

sock puppet

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Ok. Pick a different index - go for "price of a pint index" - that 4*... or whatever index you want to choose. Any you pick, you'll come to the same conclusion, average wages have not kept pace with real costs of living. Or am I wrong? If so, show me how. I'll tell you now, a lot of people will read what I posted above and go "fcuk me, yeah....jasus, I remember I was on..."

CSO data only go back to 1998 for earnings but average earnings have outpaced inflation since then by around 25%, though measuring inflation over a long period of time like that is tricky.

pablo128

Doom wrote: »

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start


Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

We are being robbed here. I was in England last weekend, and the missus got a headache. I wandered around to a nearby shop and bought a box of 16 paracetamol and a bottle of water, both own brand.
Combined cost of the 2 items? 45p.

Doom

billie1b wrote: »

Last week in Tesco, SMA gold cap for the baby €10.19, this week €12. Absolutely disgraceful

Any chance that its the same week that welfare pay out on single mothers allowance etc.....so they (tesco) can cash in.

SouthTippBass

sdeire wrote: »

€1 increase only applies to new members, existing customers still being looked after at €6.99
.

Existing customers only pay €6.99 for another year I think, then its €7.99 for everybody.

Doom

pablo128 wrote: »

We are being robbed here. I was in England last weekend, and the missus got a headache. I wandered around to a nearby shop and bought a box of 16 paracetamol and a bottle of water, both own brand.
Combined cost of the 2 items? 45p.

Yip...over there last October, packed up on Boots own brand med stuff, saved a small fortune... felt like a drug dealer :-)

Amirani

sdeire wrote: »

To be honest, when buying 500g of mince, I won't miss the 50mg (0.05g) - they can have it.

Serious note though, a few tips people would do well to remember:

1. Buy MEAT in a BUTCHER. It's cheaper, and better quality. Tenfold.

2. Buy everything else in the supermarket. Not LIDL or Aldi, yes they're cheaper, but it's British/European imports (for the most part) and we should all be buying Irish. It'll come back to benefit us in the end.

Completely agree with you on point 1, not on point 2 though. Price competition is good for Irish producers. If everyone adopted your policy, Irish exports wouldn't be doing so well. Plenty of Lidl and Aldi produce is Irish anyway.

billie1b

Doom wrote: »

Any chance that its the same week that welfare pay out on single mothers allowance etc.....so they can cash in.

No idea, I go everyweek to Tesco on a Friday to get baby wipes, baby food and coffee, then on to Aldi to get my shopping. Got the baby food in Aldi last friday, €10, will be getting it there this week too

its me_330

What's this about adverts charging. Wen did this happen and wats it about. More information gratefuly appreciated

thebomb

Yeah big time... toothpaste, cleaning products body washes and toilet roll get all that now in the choice store... as for tescos really gone up it's a joke... the price of chicken breasts are a joke and orange juice the 1.5 litIer of Tropicana almost 5euro, and what I find is ceral has gone up a considerable amount.
As for other things car insurance driving 10 years and have 10 yrs no claim bonus and payin 185 per month on insurance! It's a joke...
Another huge thing I've noticed is hairdressers like when did a hair wash and cut cost 75 euro I don't know at the rate thanks are going up are diets are going get worse and worse as we won't be able afford a decent shop... and not to mention then having bad hair lol