Morrisons price hikes

Just my observations from my regular purchases over the last month or two alone:

Cheapest bread 39p - 54p
Baby wipes 45p - 50p
Cleaning wipes £1 - £1.25
Disinfectant 30p - 40p
Tinned chilli con carne 70p - £1.39!
Tinned veggie curry 65p - £1.49!
Tinned beef curry 80p - £1.49!
Fresh mushrooms 99p - £1.09
Kitchen roll 2 decent rolls £2 - £2.65
Cheapest dry dog food £1 - £1.25
Mince £1.89 - £2.19
Cheapest bottom shelf wine (it wasn’t a bad one tbh) £3.89 - £4.65
Steam veg £1.50 - £2
Cheapest bog roll 6 pack £1 - £1.25

The tinned stuff was especially annoying as at 65p etc it was good emergency food. Now unaffordable in that role.

Most of these rises are way beyond 10%. Wages aren’t going up like that are they?

These are literally just the ones that instantly come to mind, there are hundreds more hikes like this. Had to start splitting my shop between several places in town to extract the best value for each product out of each.

With home fuel and car fuel rocketing, how much longer are we going to keep functioning before inevitable collapse? Many of us have already had to cut out luxuries - what happens when we are forced to forego necessities?

I’m blessed to be in a relatively safe position these days, but I worry for us all if this keeps up. It’s not like rent or mortgages are going down either.

 

Morrisons have gone rubbish. I love their four pack of lemon muffins which wasn't long ago were a quid and squashing on the packaging.

Now they charge around £1.29 and the muffins barely rise above the paper cups they come in, but they haven't made the plastic packaging they come in smaller to try and give the impression they haven't shrunk the product.

 

Can’t imagine buying curry or chilli in a tin. Works out much cheaper to buy the ingredients and make a big pan full, and it’s not difficult.

Could then be frozen in individual portions or just put it in the fridge and eat it over several days.

 

Aldi is the place to go!

 

That’s what I do. Get about 8 tupperwares of the finest vindaloo out of my big pot. Used to just buy 2 or 3 tins to keep as emergency backup food in the cupboard for a rainy day. Power cuts ruined one batch once, or for if in a rush (90 secs to heat vs 10 minutes) etc.

 

Shop at Aldi, like we do.

 

It’s a trek for me with no car and bus now costing a fiver return. Managing between Quality Save, Lidl, Iceland and Pound Stretcher in town

 

Can't beat Aldi!

 

Lol ....is that in reference to you and your lass or the club.....lol

 

Or lidl

 

Red Leicester 400g £1.79 now 350g for £2.19.

 

It’s the future Dunt know how we manage d in cudeth bart it

 

We shop at Morrison’s and were shocked yesterday at how much things have gone up. Having lived through inflationary times before, we expected inflation to be used as an excuse for profiteering, but this is blatant by any standards.

 

For those that can access it without inconvenience there is a place called Barnsley Markets which sells allsorts. Fruit & veg, meat, fish, can even get you're nails done and that. Sit darn wi a cup of tea and watch the world go by. Shoes, socks, carpets also available. There's even a bloke sells quality garden ornaments.

 

Jazz shopping!! hahaha brilliant

 

Aldi is good as stated above, but a lot of their stuff has gone up too, understandably.

 

Its cheaper, but only if you have the cash to buy all the ingredients. If you've only got £2, you can buy some onions and some mushrooms, or you can buy a tin of curry - Morrison's microwave rice has also gone up from 65p to 75p recently, so you'd struggle for anything to go with your rice...

This is the proper poverty trap. People with £1-2 to spend per day can't buy the herbs, spices, curry paste, tomato puree, etc that you need to batch cook a cheaper, healthier meal - nor can they afford to run a freezer to store the batches...

 

Maybe I just dropped on bad luck, but when I went in a few weeks ago and bought a bunch of veg it had sadly gone slimy and horrible within 2 days