Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

Conspiracy theories forum is elsewhere…

No, coffee and cocoa producers are not generating storms or heatwaves to destroy their crops and sometimes make their land effectively useless forever (landslides).

Its not naivety to be able to observe actual occurrences. It is conspiracy theorist behaviour to try pretend they aren't happening.

The massive reduction in production is down to climate change, and it's going to continue.

You're "harping on" with your ridiculous conspiracy theory nonsense - which you've been pushing since your first post. You don't get to espouse conspiracy theories and try claim someone else is acting strange.

I'm not going to reply any further on this as you're just going to come back with same stuff again and again.

I’m gonna spell this out for you as you don’t seem to understand this.
I didn’t mention any conspiracy theories- I asked for stats to show coffee production was down due to whatever reason and you suggested (not suggested- categorically stated) crop production being down was because of land loss due to climate change.
I asked for stats you provided none.

I then stated how OPEC work together to keep oil prices high and suggested that this may be a possibility with other commodities, to which you said I was a conspiracy nut so I said you were naive.

Your completely out of order but it’s no skin off my nose tbh I’m not the one getting upset.

Thanks for the link @zell12

The way things are going, we'll all be switching to covfefe

Chocolate products shrinking again

Bags of Crunchie Rocks, Bitsa Wispa and Oreo Bites have all shrunk from 110g to 100g, Cadbury Twirl Bites bag from 109g to 100g. Galaxy Minstrels are down from 125g to 118g – or from 217g to 195g in a ‘more to share’ pouch bag – with peanut M&M's reduced from 125g to 112g, and Maltesers down from 102g to 93g.

more examples

Packages getting smaller, less cocoa being used and yet prices either staying the same or going up

I won't be buying the 12 pack of Cadbury Snack Sandwich in Supervalu

I find their F&V prices the most expensive of the lot.

Their alcohol section is on par or cheaper than most of the others and has a bigger selection.

They have their own bakery which is expensive but a lot of it is reduced to half price from about 5pm and it really is lovely.

This is only since I've moved though. The one in my last town were pure greedy feckers.

Theres a plethora of articles.

This article specifically links climate change to the droughts:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122024/todays-climate-droughts-coffee-prices/

As does:

https://www.business-standard.com/industry/news/coffee-prices-soar-to-50-year-high-as-climate-change-drives-costs-up-125022300761_1.html

This article specifically links extreme heat and drought to cocoa production and coffee:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/15/extreme-weather-likely-to-cause-further-food-price-volatility-analysts-say

This article links it to crop yield in Africa:

https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-coffee-robusta-arabica-excelsa-climate-change-b6efff83f2ff89ccc63033dcec071783

Finally, this Nature Journal Paper outlined the effect climate change has on inflationary pressures and covers a range of different areas. Its not always crying wolf, sometimes it just makes sense:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01173-x

climate change thread now is it?, as if we didn’t already have enough on boards 🙄🙄

Name them! Is there less powder in each sachet too? Erin?

The knorr ones. Quick soup, I think they're actually called.