Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

Is operating a business that much more expensive in Ireland than the UK that they are selling a lot of products at 50%-100% more than in the UK? That's what always baffled me. What's that huge differential covering if their margins are so small.

Don't tell me @walterking is back yet again.

Are they in any of the other EU leaflets this week? It would be interesting to see the prices there.

seems anyone who mentions suppliers profits gets accused of being another poster.

Apologies for mentioning what is obvious. I dabble in shares (and post on the investment forum) and thus see the inordinate profits of suppliers such as Coca Cola, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble.

I'll avoid this thread from now on as it seems you have to be a member of a "I hate supermarkets" club.

bye bye

Lidl Cheese Puffs used to be 85¢ for 150gms. Now they've been repackaged and they're charging €1.29 for 130gms.

Aldi have done likewise, same 130gms will cost you €1.39 though.

I can remember a couple of years ago when they were 59¢ I believe for the 150gm bag.

The neck calling them "Giant", when the bag is smaller, maybe they mean the "new" price is "Giant". It's a 50% increase over the old price for 20% less product. Which is actually more than 50% when you factor in it's a smaller bag now.

Edit: I had another look at these in Aldi. They've gone from €5.67 per kg…

To €10.69 per kg.

That's an 88.5% increase in price per kg. Disgraceful!

You cant use the word "puff" anymore… its non-PC.

I notice Lidl have the fake Aero chocolate bar for sale at 159c…..a few months back it was 99c.

My SV used to be shocking for price discrepancy, every weekly shop there was always mistakes but you probably would not notice unless you checked the receipt. Special offers not being applied, etc. Strange that it was never under charging but always over charged. Has improved dramatically though over the last 12 months, can't remember last error.

It has been going on forever. It was covered in Leaving Cert Business Studies in the 1980s.

Before that it was dodgy weighting scales

seen this many times in the local SV. Always check your receipt!

Aldi are right. Such services are loss-making. This will help keep prices low. Clearly they are aggressively chasing more market share

You can get a whole salmon in Dunnes for €16. They cut it up for you to whatever size you need. I get it cut into 6 pieces, around 200g each which is 2.60 a portion.

Meat accounts for around 40% of my shop price wise. It's **** expensive.