Inflation

In dunnes today for my daily fruit shopping. Up till yesterday you could buy raspberries 150g container for €2. Replaced today with 125g for same price.

Blackberries were two 125g containers for €5. Today ….. €5.50.

Hate doing it but Lidl (Germans) next door is getting my business from now on.

Lidl have the best quality fruit and veg anyway I find.

Lots of subscription things are a waste of money and it all adds up like death by a thousand cuts.

on a most important note sounds like the price of chicken is about to explode .. maybe double even.. time to eat as much as possible before it is too late !!!

Already in UK - Catering giant Compass, which provides food for offices and schools, said chefs are switching to cheaper proteins to avoid some of the steepest price rises..

I think we have been underpaying for food for a while now and in isolation I don't mind food prices going up if it meant the producers were getting a bit more but absolutely everything is gone up and less offers on consumer goods. Like we've been able to buy 16oz of rib eye steak and a whole chicken for less than the price of a pint each. Aldi and Lidl are still very good value even with prices creeping up, I cook all my meals from scratch, its really the only way. Met a client for lunch the other day, cost me €15 for a toastie and coffee, its just totally unsustainable.

The horsebox, shipping container coffee outlets will be in trouble.

I bet the Pandemic toilet roll hoarders are feeling pretty smug right now.

It's an absolute joke, isn't it.

Someone very close to me under extreme mental and physical stress to try and get high points from leaving cert to get a good job so they can move out of home and live an independent life.

Meanwhile people getting accommodation like these for free. Would make your blood boil.

This.

We were potentially looking to stay in Dublin for a weekend the next few weeks and wouldn't have had much change from €800 for a normal hotel for two nights.

It's a slow motion car crash what's happening; people are now starting to tighten their belts because prices are rising and then businesses will start to make cutbacks due to reduced consumer spending (which was due to rising prices of these businesses) and jobs will start to go and consumer sentiment will sour. The real effect of the inflation being experienced is that people are getting poorer by the day and, even though we are all still working, it does not feel like the current situation can continue without something giving.

The Budget will come around and instead of the government announcing new, large scale infrastructure, education and housing investment programmes funded largely by borrowing, the government will be telling us that they need to balance the books blah blah. This will then be a self-fulfilling economic crash as the money won't be invested to start to build an economy for "after the crash". We are once again staring at an economic shock like we had in 2008 and the warning signs on MNC corporate taxes have been there for years. Heads will be scratched and people will ask what happened to the cash and there will be no accountability for the waste of public spending of our exchequer windfall.

Time to jump ship while one can!

I'm a coffee addict, I don't buy takeaway coffee like ever but surely they are starting to feel the pinch. Takeaway coffee would be one of the first things to go if I'm struggling with bills, fast food also.

The last recession though didn't have record inflation to go with it. It'll be absolutely ugly for these businesses if it does come to pass.