Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

muffler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283042#Comment_119283042

This thread is about prices not quality. Start your own thread on the quality aspect and give the rest of us some peace.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119273570#Comment_119273570

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119274006#Comment_119274006

I like the lidl yogurts...... I knew they were in or around 39c, on Sath morning Mrs Mc Carthy for some reason asked for a paper receipt ( usually just a digital receipt on her phone)........you're 100% right......theyve jumped from 39c to 59c!!! Like 50%??? One other thing she got a shock off was butter........ now at 3.95c for 1lb. Kerrygold butter......that seems very inflated..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119280317#Comment_119280317

" shrinkflation" is a beautiful word.....i like that...... prior to the Ukraine invasion for years every Easter the Easter eggs were getting hit with ' shrinkflation'

Dempo1

Whilst not trying to deflect from prices to quality I have to say (and with some experience) own brand quality has improved dramatically since the days of Quinnsworth Yellow pack . From a taste and quality perspective looking at Own Brand , compared to Premium brand Butters , I see no discerning difference and I know my Butter.

Sliced bread too which is essentially water that can stand up , quality is similar. Actually one of the best brands of bread on the market IMO is the Soft Batch / wholegrain sliced loaf from Ballymore Crust , sold in Aldi and more than half the price of Premium brands.

Admittedly own Brand cereals may not be as good as Premium brands but Aldi's Weetbix as good as weatabix and a 3rd of the price and their Honey Crunch cornflakes equally as good as Kellogs equivalent.

Obviously personal choice plays a factor in people's choice, I was a snob about Tea for years , now only buy Aldi Gold blend for half the price of Barry's or Lyons, actually worth pointing out, I've seen no price increase in Aldi's tea prices , YET 😏

Shauna677

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283213#Comment_119283213

And Lidl pushed up the price of

Weetabix to €5.25 couple weeks back, they just over €4 a box every place else. They still have their own brand selling beside them at €1.89, it just does not make sense.

And I stopped to look at the ingredients of both boxes, they were both exactly the same, like for like, it's not that the Weetabix brand was any bit more superior.

zell12

Stock up on Aldi tea this week Dempo1

It's forecast that food inflation will persist for at least another year. Get used to it!

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283264#Comment_119283264

I hate you 🤣🤣🤣

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283225#Comment_119283225

Yep and I'm outraged at how shrinkflation has impacted on the size of flakes being used for 99's , had one last week and shop assistant using a twizzer to place the flake in place, it's disgraceful 😏

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283278#Comment_119283278

Jesus....so on a nice summer's day you grab a sweet 99 & you gotta get microscope to see the bit of flake????? Disgraceful is too mild a word

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283404#Comment_119283404

Being Sunday, I was be Christian 😁 but admittedly purchased an extra tiny flake so as not to feel , hard done by 😁 next they'll be charging for the syrups 😏

macvin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119280264#Comment_119280264

I can provide links to everything that you claim is crap and mis-informed. Maybe this will inform / educate you?

Check the CSO for inflation from 2008-2021. https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/cpicalculator €100 in January 2008 had a cost of €101.50 in January 2021. That's a combined cumulative total consumer price index of 1.5% over those 14 years. Not 1.5% a year, but a grand total of 1.5% for the entire 14 year period.

Check here on boards for farmers saying that fertiliser has dropped in price and still dropping (30% from peak)

Check any international commodity site and see what the timber prices are per ton. 40%+ off their peaks

Check Kingspan's press release to the market saying that building market is slowing and they expect price pressures in the market (they are saying they will have to reduce prices)

Check numerous sites about the mountain of food waste we have. Its the reason supermarkets stopped doing Buy one get one free on fresh foods and moved back to price reduction promotions.

Commodity Prices jumped far too much - kneejerk reaction. This has been feeding into retail. Its subsiding now and hopefully the forward expected increases will not now happen.

and finally - there has never been a market slowdown / recession where oil prices did not drop. There are signs of demand destruction in the energy market. A drop in oil and gas prices will follow as world economies slow.

macvin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283000#Comment_119283000

Your article is 5 weeks old. A lot has changed in that 5 weeks.

The Wall Street Journal (July 1, 2022). Khan and Horner explained that, “Benchmark wheat prices are down by more than a quarter from their post-invasion peak, and the commodity trades for around $9 a bushel.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283477#Comment_119283477

Ah lads, give the bitchy ' handbags at dawn' crap a break on a Sunday morning.......the THREAD is " Tesco price increases" ......... not the " variables of bushel prices in the wall street journal ".

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283240#Comment_119283240

I have been completely converted from a more expensive branded bread to Ballymore Crust - their multigrain loaf is my pan of choice.

€1.19 for an 800g loaf, (though admittedly it was 89c a few weeks ago). Toasted with some (own brand) real butter and a (standard) boiled egg, is my go to brekkie.

Also makes a very tasty sandwich with some salad and roast chicken (left over from my dinner). 😋

Tonesjones

2 litre low fat milk is gone above 2 euro in supervalu. Own Brand

Not sure how much it costs in tesco

MakersMark

If only these evil shop managers weren't forcing us at gunpoint in to their shop to buy their products.

Then we'd be able to shop elsewhere and force prices down through supply and demand.

Those rotters!!

The facts are that we've had it too easy for too long. The country is richer than its ever been.

New cars are bought up to a year in advance of being delivered, many of them costing 50k or more.

We are awash with imported food and drink from all over the world.

People need to objectively look at our lives now compared to those Irish people had in the 70s and 80s.

Tonesjones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283640#Comment_119283640

But the milk, cheese chicken , beef etc come from Ireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283640#Comment_119283640

That's totally off-point.........i took my first mortgage in 1988........ the rate was @ 6.9% & I borrowed the princely sum of 42K punts...... but what's that got to do with the topic at hand????? Yeah, a 4 bedroom house in rural roscommon is a fraction of the same house in D4 but we're discussing the massive ( abhorrent really) gouging in filling the weekly basket last few weeks

road_high

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119210564#Comment_119210564

I’m not a fan of the clubcards but yes I have every one of them as I reckon if you’re shopping there anyhow you might as well take whatever is going

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283640#Comment_119283640

Everyone has to shop somewhere, and there doesn't seem to be any escaping these increases.

And though when I started this thread I titled it "Tesco" Price Increases (because I was annoyed at Tesco increasing a packet of crumbed ham by €1.01 at the time) the fact is, this thread has shown that it is going on everywhere, though Tesco is (imo) the worst for it.

I have moved 90% of my shop from Tesco to Aldi, but of the staples I buy every week, bread and fresh chicken have seen an increase in Aldi in the last two weeks. My ham slices also went up in Aldi this week - but by 0.30c, not €1.01.

0ph0rce0

Thing I find with Tesco is one week I can grab a couple of bags and it'll cost me 100 quid.

But the next week or few weeks running everything I buy is on a special, reduced to 1 euro, 2 for 1's , 3 for 2 euro etc... and the same bags will cost me 60 - 70 euro.

These items go back to normal price and on special all the time so price goes up and down.

But if I were to go driving around looking for cheaper in 4 other stores it makes no sense really as the money saved (is it really money saved??) over the year from the specials 30 one week, 40 the next week probably far outweighs all the driving to save .10 - .50 cent on a few items each week.

It's more luck I guess what's on offer or not.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283863#Comment_119283863

Shop online then click and collect.

Mimikyu

I wouldn’t shop in Tesco often, usually just popping into the local Express for some of the branded specials but won’t be bothering anymore since, as I found out recently, the new Clubcard prices aren’t in the Express stores.

Bottles of Diet Coke for example are nearly always on special 2 for €4 or 3 for €6 but now this is a Clubcard price and they’re €2.93 each.

Another thing I seen on special online for €2 was €4.59 in the Express. I realise the Express stores are slightly more expensive because they’re like convenience shops but they used to have the same offers as the main Tesco stores.

zell12

T Mouthwash was 59c now €1 +69% 😯 Aldi version was 59c now 67c +14%

crayon80

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119284063#Comment_119284063

Can we have more posts like this please - specifics with actual prices.

It'll improve the thread greatly IMO

road_high

The way to shop in Tesco, dunnes or super valu is to shop the special offers. That’s what I do plus a few other things I like

JTMan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119284754#Comment_119284754

A significant percentage of Tesco's offers are just junk food. The rest is typically branded items that are cheaper with Aldi equivalents anyway.

Mav11

Tesco Finest Strawberry / Raspberry / Blackcurrant Conserve was €1.49 for 340g. Now €2.20 for 320g.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119285576#Comment_119285576

So, a 45% jump in price for a 6% reduction in size............. a bit like Zimbabwean " Hyperinflation " in the late naughties🤣

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119285576#Comment_119285576

My doggies love the tinned stuff out of lidl.... used to be 99c for the 1kg tin.......i noticed a couple of weeks back it was gone to €1.39c......now, after reading your post I just went & checked a tin.......... yes .......900grms..........sneaky

odyssey06

I'd rather have a price increase or shrinkflation (hmm but both is pushing it!) than the dreaded messing with the formula \ ruining the product with different ingredients so it's un-buyable.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119285686#Comment_119285686

100% agree with this.

Tonesjones

Keelings Berry mixed punnet gone from 5 euro to 5.50. Weight still 360g but strawberries seem to be of a less quality

deandean

Tesco 2L sparkling water is up from 55c to 70c!

Addmagnet

Milk has gone up again, now 1L of skimmed is 1.05.

road_high

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119284974#Comment_119284974

That is true I think I, a lot of the offers seem to be sweets or biscuits. Go up the fruit veg aisle the offers seem far less prevalent though I think they do 2 for €5 on some fruit items but the saving is smaller

Tonesjones

I buy the big tub of meridian peanut butter. It's 1kg or maybe 1.5 I think. Anyway it was 9.40 the last time I bought it . I saw it yesterday for 10.80.

zell12

T chicken dippers was 1.39 now 1.55, Aldi version was 1.39 now 1.59

macvin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119284060#Comment_119284060

Don't know what tesco you are in but diet coke is 2.65 online in in my nearest tesco. They are also on offer at 3 for €6. Offer until 22nd July and has been the same for at least the last 2 weeks.

They state very clearly that many offers are not applicable to express stores. That has always been the case.

macvin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119283522#Comment_119283522

I'm just trying to say that there is an end to the increase in sight as the raw material / commodity costs have peaked and started to drop and this will feed into pricing over the next 6-12 months and may also mean some companies will decide to minimise increases knowing that their costs will drop back a bit.

and world wheat prices dropping 30% from peak (but still 40% above last year) and fertiliser prices dropping 35% from peak is connected to Tesco price increases as they are the primary driver of these increases combined with energy prices.

Apologies if it's too positive for some people.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119291967#Comment_119291967

Before the clubcard deals were a small range of 10-12 items. It hasn't always been the case that almost all their deals are under the Clubcard umbrella and if the Tesco express doesn't do the Clubcard deals, that's a significant change.

macvin

Buy your butter now - it keeps for months.

Lurpak butter gone to £9.35 in the UK for 1kg

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/lurpak-butter-cost-of-living-b2115877.html

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119292323#Comment_119292323

A lb of keyygold butter now @ €3.95c in dunnes...... like 4euro for a pound if butter????? Seems extortionate

kirk.

50c microwaveable potatoes is good

Just happened to buy them and not the usual inedible stuff either very tasty

The price of every random thing seems to have jumped massively , must be price gouging going on somewhere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119291997#Comment_119291997

Yet we're being told to expect food inflation to continue like this for at least another year?

Quackster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119292713#Comment_119292713

454g of butter in Dunnes is €2.99, as it is in the other supermarkets.

If you want to pay an extra €1 for a Kerrygold wrapper, that's another story!

beachhead

Tesco 2L milk e1.49 in late April,now e2.09 went up 20c jumps!! Last 20c increase in last 10 days.Dunnes sticking on e1.89 for now.

Tesco Butter Me Up 1kg e1.49 in late April now e1.89

Could be to pay for staff pay increase of 10% agreed earlier this year because cost inflation is not as high as the price increases overall.

Time for all retailers/manufacturers/service providers to cash in.

head82

My main 'bugbear' with Tesco and their pricing is the price of their own brand 1L bottle of flavored sparkling water. It's always been 35 cent. But in the last 4~6 weeks, it's increased to 60 cents!

Now I get there's an increase in inflation, fuel increases, transportation costs etc. But we're talking water here.. carbonated water with some flavorings. It's not Lourdes water or some rare Ukrainian water! An increase of 5~10 cents might be justifiable but a 25 cent increase on a 35 cent item.. can only only be seen as 'gouging'.

Muahahaha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119292756#Comment_119292756

I think there is gouging going on. One thing Ive noticed over the years is that over in the UK they often implement price increases in odd pennys, so its not unusual to see an increase of 22p for example and end up paying something odd like £1.58 for the product. But here they often seem to just lurch to increasing it to the next biggest number so the increase will be 50 cents or a euro straight off the bat.

Anyway rare I shop in Tesco as I dont live near one but the one item I always buy is smoked applewood cheese. It went up from 1.37 to 1.79 on the last visit.

Also as a rare Tesco shopper with no clubcard Id be put off going in if they are now using price discrimination for non-clubcard holders. Yeah I could get one easy enough but I just couldnt be arsed carrying a card around for the odd time Im in Tesco which is once a month at best.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119293069#Comment_119293069

???? Not like for like is it???? I drive an Audi a4........i understand a Ford fiesta is a fraction of the price but I don't want a fiesta