What price hike has made you wince recently?

Twofold betrayal:

Sainsbury's Bakery Shortbread

Risen near a pound

Swiftly preceding

The Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Seventy P hike

No amount of poetry will cure my broken heart.

This comment should have had trigger warnings 😢
- I apologise. I literally tutted out loud, put my pasta back on the shelf (in its correct place of course) and walked out of the shop when I saw the oatmeal raisin price hike. That was a week ago. I haven't had anything for dessert since.

Shrinkflation annoys me deeply, and even more so when they try to hide. Which would be most cases. Package looks the same, volume is conveniently where you don’t notice it, the price might be only slightly higher, but you get 20% less.

The other day I saw the supermarket had big tubs of roses etc for sale. For SEVEN POUNDS.

Related image. Same price, less content.
- Oh they are beautiful
- Remember growing up and those tubs were 1kg... I saw one recently that was 560g, and they've been getting smaller and smaller for years.
  Stopped buying them entirely... The last time we bought a tin of quality street was when we where in John Lewis xmas shopping before going away over xmas and they had a 1.5kg tin, you could choose what you wanted in it, and they had 2 new sweets you could add too as a special JL exclusive... We dumped the toffee ones obviously along with a couple of others and got lots of extra orange/strawberry/caramel ones. I think the tin was about £20 though, but only a couple of £ extra over buying 3 tubs of the others, whilst getting better ratio of the good choccies.

£5 triangle sandwiches from Pret near a busy station. Walked in hungry, did a "ha!", walked out suddenly not hungry

Maybe it's my luck with what branches I'm near. Pret seems to have gone from moderately pricy but with a decent range, to limited and unreasonably expensive.
- right?

Used to buy the frozen large beer battered haddock from Aldi, it was £3.19, and then during the price gouging, it rose to £4.79... then they had the cheek to lower it 10p and put a big label on on it proclaiming the reduced price.

It's now back up to £4.79 and it's often missing from the freezers because I think people have stopped buying it... like we did.

Their nice sausages, used to be £1.79, now £2.59.

We used to spend around £200-220 a month on groceries for 2 people... Now we spend £300-320 a month whilst cutting back on a lot of the treaty stuff we used to buy. We've also switched where we can to local shops (butchers, bakers) for a few things which is more expensive, but the quality is 500% better.

We stopped shopping in the big supermarkets entirely because the grocery bill would be closer to £400 a month otherwise... So as much as I complain about price rises in Aldi/Lidl, they're still better than anywhere else.

Plus, if I want to go to a Tesco, it's a 15 mile round trip now, Morrisons at least a 30 mile round trip, M&S is a 50 mile round trip... we do at least have a B & M, Home Bargains, Lidl, Aldi, Farmfoods & Iceland within a few miles. Most of them less than a 3 mile round trip... The downsides to moving to a more rural location... But the upsides to being nearer to the sea and mountains are immeasurable... So I suck it up and grumble to myself about food prices, stick to the basics from the supermarkets and buy my treaty stuff from local stores... Nice dry cure bacon and the occasional bit of steak for example, sourdough loaves of bread.

If we want some nice fish and chips, there's a large number of local eateries that do great meals, all of the local chip shops are garbage, the only good one is a 30 mile round trip, same for a decent kebab shop... But almost all of the local cafes and pubs do excellent food at reasonable prices. So we treat ourselves more that way now. Moving here and going mortgage free has lead to a massive quality of life improvement as well as improving mental health and stress levels.

Solidarity from Japan. The price of some simple chocolate bars has basically tripled in recent years. Japan was always averse to price increases and they would literally make the news. Corona + Russia (which impacted fuel costs) opened the floodgates and prices that remained stable for ages went nuts. Still at least once a month there's a new list of stuff increasing in price, now with extra weak yen goodness(tm).

Buscopan reducing pack size from 28 to 20, effectively a 28% price increase