Anyone notice the steady price increase on everything lately?

Doom · 24-04-2014 10:28PM #1

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start

Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

wazky · 24-04-2014 10:31PM

Doom wrote: »

Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50

Maybe start drinking your own piss then?, tastes the same as most craft beers but cheaper.

Renegade Mechanic · 24-04-2014 10:31PM

I saw a Fry's Turkish Delight today for the first time in a long time. Where did it all go so wrong.:(

entropi · 24-04-2014 10:36PM

The Netflix increase is tiny compared with what you get out of it. The only decent things on RTE amount to the likes of wildlife shows and Nationwide and look at how much they steal want from you. Buy your chocolate as a multipack in a supermarket, much better value.

As for craft beer, its better than drinking piss...I mean its better than drinking half of the swill out there like Budweiser/Carlsberg.

Doom · 24-04-2014 10:43PM

wazky wrote: »

Maybe start drinking your own piss then?, tastes the same as most craft beers but cheaper.

I don't drink it, my friends were telling me what they paid in the Salt house in Galway recently.

Doom · 24-04-2014 10:45PM

Netflix is white, tried the free month, watched all of breaking bad and then dumped it.
Fck all good films on it, as far as I know, they have issues with getting some suppliers on board in Europe, I believe the US one is much better.

Vito Corleone · 24-04-2014 10:48PM

Crisps are over the euro mark in some cases. I remember when you could buy a decent pack of crisps for 50 cent. Freddo bars that have 20 cent written on the pack cost 50 cent in some places. Being charged for Ketchup sachets. These are dark times we're living in, dark dark times.

Arthur Beesley · 24-04-2014 10:49PM

entropi wrote: »

The Netflix increase is tiny compared with what you get out of it.

What percentage?

Cantremember · 24-04-2014 10:49PM

Doom wrote: »

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start

Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

Never. To business you are just someone to be bled dry.

wazky · 24-04-2014 10:50PM

Cantremember wrote: »

Never. To business you are just someone to be bled dry.

Imagine that, and here I was thinking they were charities and should just hand out their products all willy nilly.

kneemos · 24-04-2014 10:51PM

Which is better economically,deflation or inflation?

Doom · 24-04-2014 10:51PM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

What percentage?

Up by a euro...6.99 to 7.99.but I think they are going to charge this to new customers only

Arthur Beesley · 24-04-2014 10:53PM

kneemos wrote: »

Which is better economically,deflation or inflation?

Dunno. Ask the Germans.

dxhound2005 · 24-04-2014 10:55PM

Doom wrote: »

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start

Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

Inflation is good. It used to be bad when it was around 20%. That was real price increases, not your measly €1 on Netflix. And mortgage interest rates were 18%. Could you cope with that? Now after years of inflation being a bad thing it turns out it is a good thing and deflation is a bad thing. So rejoice.

Doom · 24-04-2014 10:59PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Inflation is good. It used to be bad when it was around 20%. That was real price increases, not your measly €1 on Netflix. And mortgage interest rates were 18%. Could you cope with that? Now after years of inflation being a bad thing it turns out it is a good thing and deflation is a bad thing. So rejoice.

If I'm paid 25k per year with no inflation related payments to protect the value of my salary, how can inflation be good, as year on year my pay is eroded?

Sam Kade · 24-04-2014 11:02PM

Doom wrote: »

FFS...all I see lately is fcking sneaky price increases and companies thinking that upping prices is OK, is it because the government and stupid rags we call newspapers are talking about the economy on the up and companies giving pay rises....

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.
Netflix = price increase
Sky= prices rose this year.
Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar
Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.
Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50
Generic meds= Same price as branded ones.
Gas and elect= all going up.
Tesco= where do I start

Would ye all fck off.....hungry bastrads

When will enough profit be enough?...

We'll be all reduced to eating home grown spuds and milk next and we all know how that worked out last time

doolox · 24-04-2014 11:06PM

...is considered good for the economy in most western countries because it allows "adjustments"to be made over a long period in wages across different sectors to encourage "labour migration" to sectors which need it most.

In other words by witholding pay rises to more obsolescent sectors the bosses can force workers to move from their previous sectors to new sectors or maybe none at all if they are unlucky enough to be near retirement age when the redundancy decision is made.

In societies where paycuts are very difficult to implement, de facto paycuts can be done by not implementing cost of living payrises. This becomes difficult if not impossible if zero inflation exists in an economy. It becomes a big problem when deflation occurs as most companies will let some people go or completely reorganise rather than implement across the board paycuts in an existing organisation.

High Inflation is of no interest whatsoever to low paid workers with little or no cash reserves to fall back on to cushion sudden cost of living rises. To companies with high debts or people with high debts high inflation can reduce the real size of their debt but only if pay rises happen and interest rates on the debt are kept low otherwise high inflation is good for nobody.

entropi · 24-04-2014 11:07PM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

What percentage?

1 euro. For 30 days, paying 84 euro (soon to be 96) a year at the moment is less than half I think than the current tv licence payment or household charge....whatever they're changing it to, and is much better value if you don't have a digital tv package.

Doom wrote: »

Up by a euro...6.99 to 7.99.but I think they are going to charge this to new customers only

They did say that current customers will be put on that newer plan within a year or something though, so it will even out.

Stavros Murphy · 24-04-2014 11:11PM

Doom wrote: »

If I'm paid 25k per year with no inflation related payments to protect the value of my salary, how can inflation be good, as year on year my pay is eroded?

Which is what has happened. Prices have risen, wages have not. Have a think, we pay €100 a day, take-home, pretty much -that's the current going rate in our industry for a worker and from talking to a lot of people, that's considered pretty alright money, tax and stamps etc paid. Throw the head back a few years to pounds, and that's what, £87.00 a day?

When I started in business, i paid £50 a day take-home, tax and stamp paid, which was also the going rate. That's well over twenty-five years ago..a packet of crisps was 10p give or take and houses were €25k..going by the price of houses/crisps, pay should be £500 a day, or €600, give or take, to keep pace with inflation..so something's not right..show me people taking home 3k a week - normal, ordinary working people. Few and far between I'd say.

dirtyden · 24-04-2014 11:17PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Inflation is good. It used to be bad when it was around 20%. That was real price increases, not your measly €1 on Netflix. And mortgage interest rates were 18%. Could you cope with that? Now after years of inflation being a bad thing it turns out it is a good thing and deflation is a bad thing. So rejoice.

1 euro as a percentage of 7 euros is not that far from 20%.

sdanseo · 24-04-2014 11:18PM

Doom wrote: »

Adverts.ie= charging a fee.

Which is fair in itself, albeit they've gone about it a funny way. It's a service, they're a profit-generating company. If you don't want to pay, then don't.

Doom wrote: »

Netflix = price increase

€1 increase only applies to new members, existing customers still being looked after at €6.99

Doom wrote: »

Sky= prices rose this year.

Give them a ring, they jumped at the chance to take €30 off our bill for 9 months and I have the lad in the local kiosk working on them to get me a second HD box for nought (haven't heard from him yet though).

Doom wrote: »

Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar

Don't buy them in Spar

Doom wrote: »

Banks= all reducing saving % and increased day to day charges.

Saving % is linked to central bank / ECB, save with An Post over 5 years and they'll give you 4%

Doom wrote: »

Beer= all of a sudden craft beers are €6 to €6.50

Depends on the beer and the place, funnily enough Craft Beers are 4 for €10 in my local Spar.

Doom wrote: »

Tesco= where do I start

Shop in an Irish store.

Sh1tbag OToole · 24-04-2014 11:19PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

We'll be all reduced to eating home grown spuds and milk next and we all know how that worked out last time

Then they'll bring in a tax for growing spuds

Doom · 24-04-2014 11:19PM

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Which is what has happened. Prices have risen, wages have not. Have a think, we pay €100 a day, take-home, pretty much -that's the current going rate in our industry for a worker and from talking to a lot of people, that's considered pretty alright money, tax and stamps etc paid. Throw the head back a few years to pounds, and that's what, £87.00 a day?

When I started in business, i paid £50 a day take-home, tax and stamp paid, which was also the going rate. That's well over twenty-five years ago..a packet of crisps was 10p give or take and houses were €25k..going by the price of houses/crisps, pay should be £500 a day, or €600, give or take, to keep pace with inflation..so something's not right..show me people taking home 3k a week - normal, ordinary working people. Few and far between I'd say.

That really puts it in perspective, I remember when crisps were 6p... :-(

dxhound2005 · 24-04-2014 11:20PM

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Which is what has happened. Prices have risen, wages have not. Have a think, we pay €100 a day, take-home, pretty much -that's the current going rate in our industry for a worker and from talking to a lot of people, that's considered pretty alright money, tax and stamps etc paid. Throw the head back a few years to pounds, and that's what, £87.00 a day?

When I started in business, i paid £50 a day take-home, tax and stamp paid, which was also the going rate. That's well over twenty-five years ago..a packet of crisps was 10p give or take and houses were €25k..going by the price of houses/crisps, pay should be £500 a day, or €600, give or take, to keep pace with inflation..so something's not right..show me people taking home 3k a week - normal, ordinary working people. Few and far between I'd say.

The price of houses is not relevant to day to day inflation. Mortgage interests rates are and they are historically low. If the price of houses was the deciding factor everything should be half the price it was 7 years ago. Some things are cheaper in real terms than ever before, including alcohol and clothing and shoes.

Doom · 24-04-2014 11:20PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Then they'll bring in a tax for growing spuds

And tax famines too

kneemos · 24-04-2014 11:24PM

Online shopping has reduced the price of a lot of things quite dramatically I would have thought.

RED L4 0TH · 24-04-2014 11:25PM

Doom wrote: »

Chocolate bars= smaller and now €1.15 at spar

Pink Snack bars from 3 fingers to 2 fingers last year and not surprisingly the price didn't go down by one third............

W**kers!

Mickey H · 24-04-2014 11:25PM

Doom wrote: »

Up by a euro...6.99 to 7.99.but I think they are going to charge this to new customers only

So a 14% increase then...

Stavros Murphy · 24-04-2014 11:26PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The price of houses is not relevant to day to day inflation. Mortgage interests rates are and they are historically low. If the price of houses was the deciding factor everything should be half the price it was 7 years ago. Some things are cheaper in real terms than ever before, including alcohol and clothing and shoes.

Ok. Pick a different index - go for "price of a pint index" - that 4*... or whatever index you want to choose. Any you pick, you'll come to the same conclusion, average wages have not kept pace with real costs of living. Or am I wrong? If so, show me how. I'll tell you now, a lot of people will read what I posted above and go "fcuk me, yeah....jasus, I remember I was on..."

carraig2 · 24-04-2014 11:27PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

We'll be all reduced to eating home grown spuds and milk next and we all know how that worked out last time

Post of the year:)

Doom · 24-04-2014 11:33PM

Mickey H wrote: »

So a 14% increase then...

For **** all, its a **** service in my opinion.

Anyone notice the steady price increase on everything lately?

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