diamond lil wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 8:50 am
Not sure where to post this one really - butis anybody else noticing the constant sneaky and awful rise in prices? I get Lavazza Rosso coffee beans from Sainsbugs often. A few weeks ago £12.50. Last week £14.50. Today's price is £18.50

And it's not the only thing that's going steadily up. Hard to prep when you're on a tight budget
Oh yes my favourite tipple Stella regularly goes up to £18 a case of 18... Then between the supermarkets one random week it drops back to £12. I must look like a p155 head buying 4 packs at the reduced price of they can afford to knock £6 off at random I wonder what their mark up is
Same with lots of other stuff we had a Aldi open recently in town it was very cheap for the first month then the prices equalled Lidl which is as good as opposite ... Go in now and it's mostly empty/ quiet ... Once people start watching the pennies you start loosing customers / sales .. aldis cheddar biscuits copies were 49p now 95p. I only pop in there now if there's something in the middle isle I want / need / don't need

or want the chocolate rich tea biscuits fir my pack up
Mrs Andy is a good watcher of prices .. from our house within 2 miles theres Asda / B&M then Tesco then Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi it's no hardship to shop about
That's before you take Iceland & farm foods (they seem to have stopped the vouchers / fliers that got posted monthly after lockdown there really jacked the prices .. go in now its like a ram raided lidl. They had kayaks by the door last week

... ) and the little European mini markets which are great for fruit / veg and obscure beers some of which are very nice

If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine