Just done our Asda shopping and despite cutting back on our shop we ended up paying £20 more than we did 3 weeks ago. We have for many years done a monthly shop at Asda but over the last 6 months or so we now have to go every three weeks but spend the same or more than we did monthly. But now it's getting silly the bast*rds want more n more profit each month its really crazy. It won't be long before we go every two weeks and spend double in a month compared with 6 months ago.Inflation my ars* these big companies are pushing prices up regardless of what the inflation price is ...can only see mega poverty coming our way very very soon.

The big brands are taking the piss, why people buy them god knows, found out Aldi’s soups are produced by Baxter’s, big saving compared to,Heinz.
We don’t use any of the big supermarkets anymore ….Lidl and Iceland for us and saved money by not doing a big shop anymore either, just pop in when we need it, like they did years ago.
Our lass has went one step further, I built her a green house and now she’s growing her own……bit of a carry on but she likes it.

I go to Lidl every Monday (if Bank Holiday then Tuesday) and waiting for the store to open at 8am.

I find their pricing and range of products very good. The normal staples of Milk, Bread, Butter are very competitive. They also reduce prices by either 30% or 60% as the products get close to use by date. Today I got 3 punnets of strawberries for 76p each.

I even today got one of their boxes which contains a myriad of fruit and veg that are close to use by date for £1.50.

Spent £40.24 and my bills seem to be reducing?

I shop at Sainsburys at my weekly bill went up by about 20% but now its dropped back down to where it was before it all went mental

Prices at the local branch of Sainsburys have dropped back a bit but it's still worth a 10 minute drive to the Stockton Tesco for bigger savings with the club card. Both are rubbish compared to Aldi but the nearest branch is a half hour drive away.

Think we've all forgotten where prices were at the beginning of last year before Putin invaded Ukraine. They were way lower than now.

If or when inflation or energy prices go down do you honestly believe the butcher will reduce the price of his pies or the fish shop reduce the cost of fish and chips?

I can’t for the life of me work out why fish shops are so expensive apart from energy costs…. and I mean really expensive.

[quote="Leggie43"].Inflation my ars* these big companies are pushing prices up regardless of what the inflation price is ...
they are all making up for what they lost in the covid period. not just food shops but every single item you can buy or services you use. holiday prices in this country have gone crazy and have gone up more than there owners bills have. we had to take a hit during covid but these buggers are not prepared to do the same. Had a new stop solanoid fitted a few weeks ago on my car which has gone up in price over 3 times than the 2020 price was for the same article. i,d like to bet it was new old stock anyway made at least 5 years back. robbing load of bastards.

they have gone up in price more than any other take away foods i can think of. never buy em anymore even down my way because as the prices have gone up the taste of them seems to have gone in the opposite direction. are they actually using other types of fish i wonder.

well i,m doing my bit to put my two fingers up to the supermarkets. anything growing wild thats edible i pick it. have had loads of raspberries, some gone in the freezer for later, and now its blackberries. very few seem to do this anymore but will bleat on about the cost of them in the shops. come september it will be apples. what we do not eat gets passed to local horse stables to help them a bit. not sure about mushrooms as i do not know which is which with no wives to test em on.

they,ll end up winning a business award when its finished voted by their shareholders who shop at harrods and waitrose.

as mad as it sounds i managed to get more for 25 bats in M&S than i did Asda this week.

Tesco too are taking the pesh

Yes western food very expensive in Koh Samui too. However, my mrs was complaining about blisters on her hands. She feels she is hard done by, because she has to climb
some trees to fetch some coconuts for our Thai curry. Some women are never happy!

A load of pollocks

Cat n Dog food gone up 100% in 18 months.
The Putin excuse is wearing thin now.

Any wheat based product will continue to go up as Russia and Ukraine both supply tonnes of it same as sunflower cooking oil. Gas, electricity and fuel prices have levelled out so that can’t be blamed, it’s down right profiteering. The way the retailers view it is people get used to paying the higher prices so they are never reduced again.

Now call me a cynic, but ever get the impression that businesses are trying to recoup all they lost during Covid?
Also the big supermarkets haven’t a leg to stand on as they had a ‘good Covid’..also how come energy and petrol prices go up like a rocket but come down like a falling leaf in a parachute, they really are taking the piss.

Flight prices have more than doubled in some cases, staff shortages and fuel cost blamed but the airlines laid staff off and can’t get them back and the price of fuel is below what was pre Covid. 23 Taxi increased the return journey from Newcastle Airport, whilst the flight landed on time passengers were having to wait for ever for there luggage due to a shortage of baggage handlers meaning the taxi was having to wait for the passengers.

India has just banned the export of certain types of rice to calm the rising domestic price therefore any food product using rice will rise in price.

if it had not been putin it would have been another excuse rolled out. whats a war in ukraine to do with increased parking charges and pick up charges at airports.

The products in dog and cat food have to be cooked then canned all using energy wether it be gas or electricity which have both rocketed in price.

Pick up at the airport is nothing to with Putin, it was staff shortages, when the staff got laid off they found other jobs and never returned. You try getting a taxi Hartlepool at peak period, 23 Taxis laid of the majority of his drivers. They found other jobs like delivery drivers and realised they didn’t need to work the unsociable hours of a taxi driver. I got a yellow cab from the Railway Station las November the Bishop Cuthbert, nearly £10 for a very short journey of just over 5 minutes.

you are making a really good case for the boat people to get the rubber stamp if all these jobs are available and firms cannot fill them. then if there was a better bus service there would be less need for taxi drivers. when all towns had these we never thought of a taxi apart from weddings, funerals or real emergencies.

Bus services in Hartlepool are poor. Getting out of town on a bus is even worse.
Every one horse town in the North East Has a direct bus service to Newcastle…except Hartlepool. Two of the wife’s friends went to Sunderland by bus for an afternoon performance at Sunderland Empire…after coming out they went for the bus back at 6 to be told it doesn’t run after tea time and if you get a bus to Peterlee you can get a connection to Hartlepool, apparently Arriva are wanting to cut services from the town but they only go to Durham or Sunderland anyway.
Stagecoach running all services south of the town…funn6 when they privatised the buse they said there’d be competition for customers, there was briefly then the big boys took over and created monopolies…there is no competition.

the competition mostly consisted of companies buying older vehicle with a c of f and running them in large towns and cities on the most lucrative routes due to the amount of out of work people who had a PCV licence at the time. Once their c of f and /or mot ran out they made their money and dissapeared.

I think food prices could start going up again October because of the new border checks . Thanks Brexiteers

Coming in in October I think

Where did I mention the boat people, not every one lives on a bus route either or can get directly get to where they want to be, not because the bus service.

The bus companies made a fortune when they bought the bus companies as most of the bus stations were prime sites in town centres, first thing they did was sell them off.
I might be wrong but doesn’t the Council give the bus company a lump sum and they work out their schedule from that ?

Various opinion polls show most people regret voting brexit, both sides at fault but were taken in by Farage and co. Amazingly Johnson was a remainer but seen an opening to be PM and all of a sudden he was a brexiteer.
All parties now realise we still need a connection with the EU, the BS Kite mark was going to be reinstated but there was to much ‘paperwork’ so now the U.K. will retain the C.E stamp.

Implemented by who…the EU
Do some research first…the new checks also apply to all EU countries who are not in the Schengen area so even if we were still in, we’ d be having these checks.
Incidentally we will not be applying these rules to EU nationals visiting this country.

there was no will from day 1 in parliament for it to ever work with the vast majority of them being remainers. was a bit pointless voting to leave when those in power would put anything in the way of making it work.

if they had not done that they would be paying for every route that the company said was non profitable if the council wanted it to continue. not a bad position to be in where anything you do is a guarenteed profit and you cannot lose. this happened pre privatisation where once the profitable kept the non profitable going.

Don’t you mean ‘seleceted’ opinion polls…naughty boy

Not selected opinion polls Snowy, Google it.

I only google technical stuff, never politics…..

I paid 57p for a beef tomato today from Aldi which is below what they were for the past year or two.
Will Rishi claim this as proof he has got to "grips" with food inflation?

Get the big vine tomatoes from Lidl, lovely.

The fruit and veg at Lidl does seem to be better ( and the low GI break is great)and lasts longer but for other items i find Aldi better.

Just had some with my tea and they were lush! Iv'e stopped going to Aldi for veg and fruit most of it has gone mouldy before even getting back home, Lidl's seems to be better quality and fresher and their bread is good too.

back in the days of old you could shop around for the cheapest or best value items. problem now is its pointless as what was cheapest last week might not be this with most prices increasing but still the odd ones coming down.

Try the Lidl sour dough baguettes, with tomatoes and garlic and herb soft cheese.

spare a thought for people like me and her in the kitchen. we both have an allergy to garlic. finding any tinned or pre cooked ping meals that do not contain garlic anymore is getting close to impossible. why this is i never know and if you want garlic powder on everything you can put it on like you do with salt and pepper.

I’m not a big fan, but this is so mild it’s just nice….alternatively have it with their plain soft cheese.