Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

Try your local eastern European shop. My local one stocks monastic herbs green tea, exact same as the one i used to buy in supervalu, but less than half the price.

That really is sneaky.

The next price option for 1 Litre DS own brand orange juice (from concentrate) is €1.59 or €1.65 (not from concentrate).

Well spotted.

I had a look and it says "drink" on the small single cartons that parents are probably buying for the kids for school as well. Though maybe it was always like that….?

I don't have kids of school going age any more, but I wouldn't be keen on giving them a lot of sweeteners….

I'm reminded of:

Noticed this a while back, and thought yep that is paying for those money-off coupons

Small, in-store baked, apple tart in Dunnes (that was €1.25 not so long ago) is now €3.50

€9.99 in Aldi - have to shop around. Typically same price with the online petstores I use too.

What are other EU countries doing that our donkeys running the economy aren't?

The median and average wage is a lot higher than the EU average in Ireland too.

Things cost more money here but we also earn more money. The above graphics don't really offer any insight.

Are we 46% above EU average and 2nd only to Luxembourg for median wage after tax, USC etc? Im going to go ahead and say not a chance. Anyway just thought it was an interesting graph. Surprising to see where we sit compared to rest of EU. It looks like the only solution from government is giveaway budgets which will just make things worse without tackling any root cause.

High cocoa prices being felt now. Noticed Lindt 100g bar has recently increased to €4.25. Outrageous!

Kinda proves the point, you're happy to call our politicans donkeys based off an infograph without any actual knowledge of the average persons purchasing power compared to the rest of the EU.

In news actually related to the thread, I see Tesco have their 18 cans of Pepsi Max back down to €10. How is it €14 one week, €10 the next, and (I presume) back to €14 soon enough?

Average wage is 49% higher as per Eurostat (50,172 v 33,627).

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/NAMA_10_FTE__custom_4232263/bookmark/table?lang=en&bookmarkId=fafb4e3b-f3aa-4907-9102-16be8df6f775

Its pretty darn obvious the average wage in Ireland is higher than the rest of the EU. Surprised you'd need that backed up.

EDIT: Didn't see they had the 2022 numbers in the dataset, 51869 v 35329 or a 47% difference.

I've provided the 2022 figures and I doubt Eurostat have published the 2023 figures.

I stated: "the median and average wage is a lot higher than the EU average in Ireland too". The metric people use for this is gross income when comparing to other countries and not disposable income.

The specific figures you're looking I doubt exist anywhere. However, Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) would be a fair metric of peoples ability to spend and similar to disposable income. The figures here show Ireland is well above the EU average too. However, these stats are old and an update is due in January 2025. The last set of figures are from 2018 and while the specific numbers I would consider as irrelevant, it would be pretty stunning if we somehow fell below the EU average in that time. Especially factoring in the more up to date average wage figures. All of which can be found here:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Earnings_statistics#General_overview

Are you honestly trying to argue Ireland doesn't have a higher average/median wage than the EU average? I would have assumed everyone would accept that as a fact. I personally think this is just derailing the thread now. Happy to provide you with as many links as needed via PM and let people discuss supermarket ripoffs.

Gross wage stats are entirely relevant. My statement was: "The median and average wage is a lot higher than the EU average in Ireland too" which I've pretty comprehensively backed up. If you don't think gross wage stats are relevant, we can agree to disagree. My comment was not about disposable income, it was about wages which I think nearly everyone quotes before tax.

So PPS. Yeah looks like a fairer metric. Ireland 36% above EU average according to your link. Still not 46% though is it.

I made zero comment on the number itself. I made a comment that "Things cost more money here but we also earn more money. The above graphics don't really offer any insight." and that graphic doesn't offer any insight. The above is true. Things cost more here but we also earn more money here. That 36% is from 2018 and I think its kinda irrelevant.

Nonsense brought up by you and you only.

I'm really not sure what bit is nonsense here. Are you honestly trying to argue Ireland doesn't have a higher average/median wage than the EU average? It very much appears you are asking for stats to back up the statement and disputing that statement. Things cost more here but we also earn more…. ← I never really said any more than that.

Luxembourg a lot wealthier than Ireland and everyone heading off into the sunset as regards supermarket rip offs here in Ireland