What items are consistently vastly overpriced in Ireland compared to UK

reubenreuben

Toiletries especially dove brand.

reubenreuben

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120858320#Comment_120858320

Talk about poor!

Ireland is expensive but has poor of everything.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120890945#Comment_120890945

Do you realise how absurd that comment is?

cobham

Aspirin and paracetamol. Tesco and Superdrug do 'own brand' for pennies.... eg 38 pence for 16?

tjhook

Yeah, I'm probably the 6th person to say it, but toiletries.

Nivea roll-on anti-perspirant for men.

£1.45 on tesco.com, €3.50 in tesco.ie.

They're both normal prices, not special offers.

CH3OH

Lots of obvious ones

Toiletries

Chocolate bars

Biscuits

Cleaning products

Sauces

Fizzy drinks

Wine Beer and spirits

I could go on.. . You just need to know your prices

Some things can be on offer either North or South and that can make a big difference

One item that I've noticed is Paint

Just an example all on 3 for 2 offer

B&Q North £78 € 91

B&Q DUBLIN 1€138

Woodies €160

Imagine painting a whole house!

Dublin:

Woodies

CH3OH

Here's another quick example with Tesco

Mr Kipling Cherry Bakewell

£1.99 up North but a club card price of £1.50 €1.75

Here €4.29

pat_sconce

In Germany people tend to know the prices in several stores of most of their regular items and will shop in several stores to get the same price.

I lived there for a few years and got into the same habit.

Far too many Irish people blindly follow a single store and they pay for it.

When you get used to it, you can save 20%++ on groceries especially if you open yourself to switching brands / using own brands.

As for UK comparisons, generally the UK is more expensive on overall shop especially meat, dairy and fresh foods.

CH3OH

Just another example of Tesco price gouging Irish customers

£6 up North €7

€16 down here

Some difference

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023286#Comment_121023286

I was going to post the exact same… I buy those all the time.

suvigirl

I always go to the hairdressers down the North, last time got it done in Dublin it was over 370 euro😭.can get the same in Enniskillen for approx 100/110 sterling.

always buy toiletries and drugs down the North too, no comparison!

OKDublin

Pret A Manager, M&S Food and Mint Velvet (amongst others) for clothes - all about 30% more in Republic than London.

CrazyEric

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023341#Comment_121023341

😲 What in the name of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the little Donkey are you getting done for €370?? A transplant!! That's 2 years of haircuts for me, Admittedly I am old and there isn't that much to cut anymore, more a case of moving the strands to a better position.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121033161#Comment_121033161

I know! It's crazy. Highlights, roots, cut and blow dry. I nearly died 😳

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121033181#Comment_121033181

You don't need to go North to get that done for much less.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121033227#Comment_121033227

Well unfortunately I kinda do. That's a very good saloon in Enniskillen with top stylists, one third of the price of Dublin.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023373#Comment_121023373

And Ireland's GDP per capita is at least twice that of the UK. You can't live in an expensive economy had have cheap stuff, that does not exist in any part of the world.

Murph85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120842686#Comment_120842686

Which man pays that fir shower gel ? Its worthless , you can get it for 80c in aldi, lidl etc. That's all its worth...

CH3OH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120912111#Comment_120912111

It was shocking when the price was €4.29 in Tesco Ireland.

I just checked today.

Still £1.50 clubcard price up North

Price on Tesco.ie:

€5.55 Yes... €5.55

3.17 times the price up North

someone in Tesco must be having a laugh

CH3OH

I have to apologise to Tesco

SUPERVALU are selling them for a mouth watering € 5.75

They must be wetting themselves

Randycove

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121033276#Comment_121033276

So because Apple and Google etc divert all their profits through Ireland to avoid paying taxes and grossly distort our GDP, we can’t buy paracetamol for the equivalent of £0.60 a packet?

uli84

1£ in the UK

JVince

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121482758#Comment_121482758

Ireland has a different medical regulatory regime that means items like basic paracetamol are not available at cheap prices.

But the Brits would absolutely love to have all the prescription medicines for the family guaranteed not to cost more than €80 a month.

Interesting that there's little difference in price of brand name painkillers

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068651#Comment_122068651

Do they not have a similar drugs payment scheme in England?

GSBellew

What is consistently overpriced in Ireland v the UK?

Average Wage Ireland 2024 €45,000 v £ 34,900 So Labour is overpriced in Ireland v the UK

Unemployment Benefit € 232 v £ 90.50 So unemployed people are overpriced in Ireland v the UK

Pension Non Contributory € 266 - € 276 v £ 218.15 So non contributing pensioners are overpriced in Ireland v the UK

Pension Contributory. € 277.30 v £ 221.20. So Contributing pensioners are overpriced in Ireland v the UK

My takes, higher wages will equal higher costs to the employer which subsequently increases prices to the end consumer.

Unemployed people do a lot better here than the UK

Pensioners are only marginally better off than in the UK, considering the wage differential they are probably comparatively worse off.

Contributory pensioners in both are ripped off, there is no real return on the PRSI / social security payments v's those who have not paid in.

Sonic the Shaghog

Its long been a thing with Supervalue and the others are similar. For example they change their offers every 3 weeks, like clockwork.

If say as above something is normally €13.99 but it goes on "offer" for a week at €7, it's real price is about €7.

Theres no real offers anymore unless they genuinely are stuck with something and need rid, stuff coming up on date for example.

The idea is you see at €13.99 and think ah **** off will you. But when you see it at €7? You've lads buying 2/3/4 at a time stocking up. They are notorious with deodorants etc. It'll be on €3 for small one but then jumps to something ridiculous like €7.50 once the 3 week period is over.

Just look lately they were well able to seel 4 packs of Fanta cans for €2.50 with the real rewards, they are absolute gougers.

Id love to see the actual research and reasoning behind why they do this. Like do they actually sell more in the offer period Vs just keeping things at the realistic rate.

Its only the last few months Musgrave's are giving gen proper offers, I'd love to see behind the scenes cause them and others must be hurting someways or you wouldn't see it. Musgraves especially seem to be almost trying to price themselves out of the market. I've seen 25% increases on their own brand baby spuds in only the last couple weeks. Went from €1.05 maybe a year to 18 months ago, then €1.10, €1.15 and to €1.20 and has jumped now to €1.49 in the last few weeks. Rinse and repeat for a lot of the own brand.

Rows Grower

Fish and chips.

Got charged 30 euro for two fish and chips from a chip van in south Kerry last week, batter was soggy and saturated in oil.

I think it was £32 I paid in the UK a couple of months ago for 4 top quality fresh fish and chips, huge portions with light crispy batter.

Emblematic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120846964#Comment_120846964

A better comparison would be the price of things relative to average or median disposable income per person.

JVince

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122068855#Comment_122068855

You saw that on thick tok and pretend you experienced it.

I know the exact "van" that it was about - tell me what colour it was if you were really there?

Should be easy as it's quite striking

z80CPU

Small Credit Card sized PCs like the Raspberry Pi computers and associated accessories like power supply and keyboared mouse are a step more expensive here in Ireland. We're a captive audience and the market is too small.