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Anyone notice the steady price increase on everything lately?

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  • #32
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    kneemos wrote: »
    Which is better economically,deflation or inflation?

    Deflation is normally quite a bad thing - it causes a reduction in consumer spending (why buy things when they'll be cheaper in two months?), which has negative effects to business. It also increases the debt burden as the real value of debt increases.

    High inflation is also bad - it removes purchasing power by devaluing money. Prices go up rapidly and exports get less attractive. There's many other reasons for both of these things but I'm being simplistic.

    The best situation for an economy is generally to have inflation rates of 2-5%.


  • #33
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    A general bicycle cost 200e to 400e, bring in a tax incentive bull**** thing, tell people they're getting a great deal, now they cost 1000e....


  • #34
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    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 :(
    That's how I was reared. Done me no harm.


  • #35
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's how I was reared. Done me no harm.

    Give over, you turned out backwards. :p


  • #36
    billie1b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,924 ✭✭✭billie1b


    Last week in Tesco, SMA gold cap for the baby €10.19, this week €12. Absolutely disgraceful


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  • #37
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's how I was reared. Done me no harm.
    At what age did you indulge in other foodstuffs or are you still on the spud and milk diet?


  • #38
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭flutered


    Doom wrote: »
    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.
    moviesdownloads6.com is free.


  • #39
    robertxxx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    Upc
    Car insurance
    Health cover
    Petrol
    Tesco


  • #40
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Doom wrote: »
    A general bicycle cost 200e to 400e, bring in a tax incentive bull**** thing, tell people they're getting a great deal, now they cost 1000e....

    You can still get a decent bike in Ireland for €400. They cost more here for the same reasons most things cost more: VAT, geographic location, size of market, disposable income. The suggestion that a €400 bike now costs €1000 in Ireland because of a - frankly great - scheme is preposterous.


  • #41
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    Dunnes are being real sneaky. Taking 50mg of meat out of the prepackaged stuff & charging the same price, hoping you wont notice


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  • #42
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,300 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    poppyvally wrote: »
    Dunnes are being real sneaky. Taking 50mg of meat out of the prepackaged stuff & charging the same price, hoping you wont notice

    To be honest, when buying 500g of mince, I won't miss the 50mg (0.05g) - they can have it.

    Serious note though, a few tips people would do well to remember:

    1. Buy MEAT in a BUTCHER. It's cheaper, and better quality. Tenfold.

    2. Buy everything else in the supermarket. Not LIDL or Aldi, yes they're cheaper, but it's British/European imports (for the most part) and we should all be buying Irish. It'll come back to benefit us in the end.


  • #43
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    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..."

    CSO data only go back to 1998 for earnings but average earnings have outpaced inflation since then by around 25%, though measuring inflation over a long period of time like that is tricky.


  • #44
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭pablo128


    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 are being robbed here. I was in England last weekend, and the missus got a headache. I wandered around to a nearby shop and bought a box of 16 paracetamol and a bottle of water, both own brand.
    Combined cost of the 2 items? 45p.


  • #45
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    billie1b wrote: »
    Last week in Tesco, SMA gold cap for the baby €10.19, this week €12. Absolutely disgraceful

    Any chance that its the same week that welfare pay out on single mothers allowance etc.....so they (tesco) can cash in.


  • #46
    SouthTippBass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭SouthTippBass


    sdeire wrote: »
    €1 increase only applies to new members, existing customers still being looked after at €6.99
    .


    Existing customers only pay €6.99 for another year I think, then its €7.99 for everybody.


  • #47
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    pablo128 wrote: »
    We are being robbed here. I was in England last weekend, and the missus got a headache. I wandered around to a nearby shop and bought a box of 16 paracetamol and a bottle of water, both own brand.
    Combined cost of the 2 items? 45p.

    Yip...over there last October, packed up on Boots own brand med stuff, saved a small fortune... felt like a drug dealer :-)


  • #48
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    sdeire wrote: »
    To be honest, when buying 500g of mince, I won't miss the 50mg (0.05g) - they can have it.

    Serious note though, a few tips people would do well to remember:

    1. Buy MEAT in a BUTCHER. It's cheaper, and better quality. Tenfold.

    2. Buy everything else in the supermarket. Not LIDL or Aldi, yes they're cheaper, but it's British/European imports (for the most part) and we should all be buying Irish. It'll come back to benefit us in the end.

    Completely agree with you on point 1, not on point 2 though. Price competition is good for Irish producers. If everyone adopted your policy, Irish exports wouldn't be doing so well. Plenty of Lidl and Aldi produce is Irish anyway.


  • #49
    billie1b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,924 ✭✭✭billie1b


    Doom wrote: »
    Any chance that its the same week that welfare pay out on single mothers allowance etc.....so they can cash in.

    No idea, I go everyweek to Tesco on a Friday to get baby wipes, baby food and coffee, then on to Aldi to get my shopping. Got the baby food in Aldi last friday, €10, will be getting it there this week too


  • #50
    its me_330
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭its me_330


    What's this about adverts charging. Wen did this happen and wats it about. More information gratefuly appreciated


  • #51
    thebomb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭thebomb


    Yeah big time... toothpaste, cleaning products body washes and toilet roll get all that now in the choice store... as for tescos really gone up it's a joke... the price of chicken breasts are a joke and orange juice the 1.5 litIer of Tropicana almost 5euro, and what I find is ceral has gone up a considerable amount.
    As for other things car insurance driving 10 years and have 10 yrs no claim bonus and payin 185 per month on insurance! It's a joke...
    Another huge thing I've noticed is hairdressers like when did a hair wash and cut cost 75 euro I don't know at the rate thanks are going up are diets are going get worse and worse as we won't be able afford a decent shop... and not to mention then having bad hair lol


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  • #52
    OriginV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭OriginV


    Can of coke in Centra €1.07!! Madness all together..


  • #53
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    upc too, that just seems to keep going up and up, and then what option do you have, you're stuck in a contract that you chose for the bandwidth and price at the time, ye you might have higher bandwidth now but you're sure paying for it, then you have to pay to change it to a lower bandwidth, it's like the contract is meaningless.


  • #54
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Small inflation in the cost of goods and services is an extremely healthy sign.


  • #55
    SparkySpitfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭SparkySpitfire


    thebomb wrote: »
    Yeah big time... toothpaste, cleaning products body washes and toilet roll get all that now in the choice store... as for tescos really gone up it's a joke... the price of chicken breasts are a joke and orange juice the 1.5 litIer of Tropicana almost 5euro, and what I find is ceral has gone up a considerable amount.
    As for other things car insurance driving 10 years and have 10 yrs no claim bonus and payin 185 per month on insurance! It's a joke...
    Another huge thing I've noticed is hairdressers like when did a hair wash and cut cost 75 euro I don't know at the rate thanks are going up are diets are going get worse and worse as we won't be able afford a decent shop... and not to mention then having bad hair lol

    No joke - I buy my toothpaste in Penneys. They have massive tubes of Colgate near the counters for a euro. :D


  • #56
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    I need to pay myself a wage increase with all the rises in items in these posts.


  • #57
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Vito Corleone wrote: »
    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.

    Vito, old bean! Are you in the early stages? I remember when they were 4d. That's when there were 240 pennies in the pound.

    Sooooo, 60 bags of Tayto for an old Irish Pound


  • #58
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    OriginV wrote: »
    Can of coke in Centra €1.07!! Madness all together..

    Out here: 12 X 12ozs cans for under $4.99 (Euro 3.61)

    E 1.07 = $1.48

    If the volume is the same then $4.99 in USA = $17.76 in Ireland :eek:


  • #59
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    WilyCoyote wrote: »

    If the volume is the same then $4.99 in USA = $17.76 in Ireland :eek:

    Quite ironic but our gallon volume is bigger.


  • #60
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    I can get 6 cans of coke in the Londis by me for €3.
    2 litre pepsi is 1.19 in Dunnes this week.
    You can get good broadband (in urban areas anyway) for around 30 per month.
    2kgs of potatoes were a euro in Aldi last time.
    16 roles of toilet paper is a few euro in Dealz.
    A big tin of beans is 30cent in Lidl.
    I can get a big striploin steak from the butchers for 4 euros.

    I will complain about price rises more than most but a little bit of awareness of what to get what where goes a long way. :)


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  • #61
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    Out here: 12 X 12ozs cans for under $4.99 (Euro 3.61)

    E 1.07 = $1.48

    If the volume is the same then $4.99 in USA = $17.76 in Ireland :eek:

    OK. Multiply $4.99 X 1.2 = %5.99 approx


    = $5.99 versus $17.76


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