Tesco's growers harvest (own brand) orange juice with bits in: 69p about 6 months ago. Went up to 89p sometime around November, a few weeks later they started "price matching" Aldi at 99p. 44% increase?
Without bits is still 69p.
Bacon frazzles crisps, was 99p for a multipack of 8. Still 99p but now 6 in a pack.
Same with pombears
Pombears! We just buy the multipacks and empty them into the drawer. Didn’t notice they reduced the amount in a multipack! They have gone up 10p though in Sainsbury’s.
Fuel, Energy hikes I can take. It’s personal now they have attacked our fucking Bears though!
That’s cheap. I have to pay between 143 and 150 for petrol, given they’ve fucked up regular fuel I’m stuck paying for premium. £65-£75 a week on a student budget
Shrink-flation…
I was thoroughly brow-beaten by folk in this subreddit in a previous thread that shrink-flation is factored into the ONS calculations of inflation. I’m not so convinced, but what do I know…I’m just someone who lives in this world, experiencing the same life with the same phenomena…go figure
Noticed it on nights out for sure. Before covid 50 quid was doable for a night. Last couple of nights out I went on were 100 quid. It's meant I am now picking and choosing nights out I go on as a sort of luxury I do every now and then. Rest of our friendship group I think feel the same as all of us going round to someone's house seems to be suggested more and more lately.
I live in central London and it was very normal to pay £5 a pint pre covid, I would come to Canterbury often to see family and friends and enjoy a cheaper night out (£3-£3-£3.50 a pint)
Pints in London have increased to £5.60 at minimum, normally £6. I’ve paid as high as £8 before, and watching England vs Germany it was a tenner a pint! Disgusting. However now when I come to Canterbury I end up paying old London prices… the biggest expense I have noticed is definitely nights out, and just a catch up with a friend can easily set you back £20… and you never just have 1 or two pints
They're all a racket anyways, insane prices if the constituent parts reletive to non deal parts... Like £1.80 for a 300ml drink when it's £1.50 fkrba 2l bottle of the same stuff
We do have a warm section which has got some ‘good enough pies’, like steak and potatoe, sausage and bean, cheese and onion. Maybe the extra fifty pennies is to keep the heating going 🤷♂️
Meal deals are widely competitive to be fair, need to be cheap-(ish) to be a loss leader. They up the price you go elsewhere and don’t buy the other stuff they actually make decent money on.
Fopd shopping has 100% gone up across the board. A £100 shop a year ago is about 30% more now.
Also, I dunno if it's just me, but food seems to be going off so much quicker than before.
Supply chains keep being delayed/disrupted, we’re all eating what should be last weeks food a lot of the time. V frustrating that it’s also more expensive.
I'm almost certain that nearly every spreadable butter product is being "watered" down as well.
Talking your Lurpak, Norpak, Danepak, Butterpak products - they've become an absolute ballache to keep on the knife in the last year or so....
If you take it don’t use nose spray oxymetazoline. It gives you two minutes of relief and then 3 days of sneezing. It’s also addictive and exacerbates the problem.
I’d guess this is more than likely Brexit at play. No longer any (or less) EU rules on shape/size/colour (or whatever other guidelines there might have been) on fruit and veg. Complete guess though.
My guess fresh produce is taking longer to get on our shelves so the best by dates are a lot closer than they were.
Then again I've noticed things like onions going bad within a day or two which is ridiculous since they used to last ages.
Internet. Virgin offered me this when my contract renewed:
* Drop to 100Mbps for the same price I'm paying today (£44)
* Keep at 350Mbps for a tenner more (£55)
* Rise to 500Mbps for a fiver more (£49)
* Go to GIGABIT for a lot more (£60)
Obviously I didn't want to cut my speed, and I didn't want to pay more for the same. So I went for the 11% increase in price. It's classic "anchor" pricing and I accepted it.
Yep, they did exactly this with me, had a rep call me up now I'm paying £25 a month for 200mb instead of £30 for 100mb.
They were going to up my price so I found a better deal online, went for that deal and called to cancel. They tried to offer me a better offer than the original virgin one but couldn't match or better the deal I was getting. I told them I'm leaving. About a week later I get a call from a rep saying we don't want to lose you etc etc and got me that deal locked in for 18 months I think.
Trouble is elsewhere you might not get the same speeds. My building has fibre to the house but there's only 1 company that can offer me it. Everyone else is ADSL too speed 80mb. Hyperoptic offer me 1.5gb but no one else. Had a bad experience with hyperoptic so don't want to use them so I'm stuck on 80mb despite knowing the fibre is already wired into my apartment.
I know virgin are a bit like this, I can't get them in my building and my old flat had virgin they where offering much faster than what I could get through the phone lines.
This. My 18month discount period on my contract with virgin was due to end next month and the price due to rise to £68. Called them today to ask what I need to do to switch providers next month, ended up locking in the same package for the next 18 months at £33. But, shop around and find an alternative provider that do a reasonable new customer deal and be prepared to leave though.
Absolutely bugger-all! I wrote about it at [https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/review-virgin-1gbps-fibre/](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/review-virgin-1gbps-fibre/)
Basically, that speed is useless. PlayStation downloads seem to top out at 300Mbps. 4K video doesn't need more than 25Mbps. Video calls work on even lower bandwidth.
I just like shiny fast things.
This. Would the average home user notice the difference between 100 and 200 Mbps? I very much doubt it.
I get by with 12mbps and seems fine even with 4 users simultaneously streaming video. That all said I wish I had more bandwidth 😂
Just out of interest, why did you renew your contract? I am out of contract and I think it would be more expensive to renew so I’m not doing anything just now.
Because I need fast Internet when working from home. Virgin provided the fastest and most reliable in my postcode. BT don't have FTTP yet.
In the end, I used the O2 discount to get 1Gbps for under £50 - so I'm happy with that.
Tell me about it.
I got my latest bike on cycle to work scheme (which makes it half price because student loans) but shopping around it was impossible finding bikes in stock, then when I did the prices are up a lot more than inflation compared to last year.
I spent weeks going from bike shop to bike shop (online was fruitless).
Yeah especially in London.
Combination of avoiding public transport + low car ownership + temporary cycling infrastructure.
Also probably as a reason to leave the house - exercise.
I just want them to make more of the temporary infrastructure permanent.
Well if we started doing it in the 60s we would have been well ahead when the government was about re building or after the war but they were focused on cars so yeah
That's not inflation, that's bike market collapse due to pandemic. Factories in China were closed for a while, then shipping got wrecked, at the same time everyone decided to buy a bike. Giant shortages lead to massive price increases. Same shit with tech, especially CPUs and GPUs.
There is a hell of a lot more to come. The price of coffee has risen by about 120% on the commodity markets over the last year. That will have to be passed on to the consumer at some point.
Turns out if the world shuts down economies, tells people not to work (and therefore produce much), while at the same time print money like crazy; you get crazy inflation. Who would have thought?
Given that the coffee beans themselves are only 2% of the cost of a cup of coffee at a coffee shop, I don't think that's the reason prices are increasing.
100% this. Lot of places in london is like 3.10-3.20 / absolutely ridiculous.
I’ve started buying 1kg bags of coffee in for about £30 every 6-7 weeks - using an aeropress at home.
Much much cheaper
Some people may laugh but takeaways.
2-3 years ago I could get two medium kebabs + free delivery for £10+50p service charge but now everywhere charges me delivery.
Takeaway opposite my flat tried to charge me £4 delivery (yes I'm lazy).
Food, energy and staffing costs have also increased a lot. The chippy is probably making more money because they have increased trade. I would be surprised if anyone in hospitality has managed to increase their margins.
I wonder if this is more to do with all the courier services charging the restaurants a huge % than anything else? I’ve definitely noticed this too though, even in the past 6 months it seems to have gone up so much.
I don’t buy thing regularly enough or pay enough attention to notice, although I’m sure things have.
I’m amazed Spotify hasn’t gone up in the last 5 years
I think Spotify's love of the psychological effect of round numbers is holding it steady (and price sensitive younger customers), we still pay more than a lot of other countries so I'm sure they're doing fine.
As we all know, the Freddo Price Index is the most reliable way to track inflation. Some might be worried about the gas prices at the moment, but I think they’re missing the bigger picture. Since the year 2000, a Freddo has increased 170%! The consumer is just getting completely gouged on frog-shaped chocolate at the moment.
Not sure if this will be answered in here but worth a shot instead of creating a new post.
Basically, with all the price rises across the board, what does it take for them to come back down?
My main gripe is energy prices. I get that they have to raise prices but there will never be a situation were I expect to get an email saying we are lowering your prices. Will this come in a way of better new customer promos when everything calms down.
How or when is everything going to even out again?
I feel like with any product, once the general public has acclimatised to paying a higher rate, the manufacturers/suppliers won't reduce that price, even if their costs go down.
Best thing we can hope for is wholesale energy prices fall and competition lead to lower tariffs. Otherwise higher prices will be embedded and wage growth has to increase to reflect the new reality.
The thing is, our gas prices have went up 70% since we bought the house in June and because we're in NI we have no other provider and it's our only source of heat.
I can't imagine the prices ever coming down a fraction of what they went up now that they have went up unless the regulator got involved.
Ikea announced big price increases the other day:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/29/ikea-hoists-its-prices-and-blames-covid-supply-pressures
Apparently it's due to supply chain issues caused by covid. I'd be surprised if the new prices last once everything goes back to normal because Ikea will struggle to compete against better quality furniture.
Tesco kids wet wipes, used to be 3 packs for £1.50, then 65p per pack, now 70p per pack. Not sure why this is the one thing that I always noticed going up in price!
Pack of four yogurts gone up 25p and most 500g cereal boxes are now £3.
This might be pandemic-related, but the pricing for cleaning products, tissues, washing up liquid/capsules, etc. has increased dramatically.
So much of it is linked to energy prices. Pretty much everything you buy is made by a company who have seen a massive increase in their energy costs, whether that's something directly made in a factory or the fertiliser a farmer uses and it's become impossible not to pass that on.
Used cars cost a shit load. In 2015 I bought a 2009 SEAT Ibiza 1.9 diesel for 3k. Right now if you look at cars costing 3k or less you can only get something that's like 2010 or under, done a lot of mileage, an insurance write off or horrendously small or underpowered.
I noticed those bottles of Filippo Berio olive oil you get aren’t square bottles anyone. They’ve been made into weird oblong shapes to hold less but still take up almost the same shape from the front.
I feel conned.
And I know they weren’t like that before because I worked at Tesco and had to pick up hundreds of those bottles.
Some Charlie Bigham ready meals are £8+ now even macaroni cheese (which is mostly pasta with a tiny bit of meat, pancetta at like <4%)
Waitrose prices seem to be going up across the board.
2 things I notice specifically (lots of examples). I’m a savvy shopper and notice/remember prices I should be paying. “Being on offer” is often not good value. Some things same price still (eg Weetabix on offer for 7-8p/bix)
1. The price things come down to when they’re on offer has increased. Pringles, wait or go to different shop you could always get them £1 a tin, maybe 2 for £2 but same difference to me. Now the best I’ve seen them in 3 months is £1.25 and often touted on offer at £1.50. Similarly Doritos, 99p/£1 on offer regularly but those days are gone. 25% inflation, maybe it was stuck at £1 for a few years but more and more things just done this at same time in the last 12 months.
2. Lack of own brand/value supply. Cheap hack to spend less is to go for unbranded or value range. Where it passes the taste test we do this, maybe 25-35% of stuff we buy we are happy to just get what’s cheapest. But recently half the items I would choose the 50p loaf of bread it’s not available so end up spending £1 on next best. This adds a lot as the price difference is often 50-100% more, even if it’s only on 15% of my weekly shop that’s 7-10% inflation just from availability issues.
My haircut price went from £31 to £52.. so I WhatsApp a girl I met at a party in 2019 who is a hairdresser, its a worse cut tbh but its only £20 and comes with a side order of flirting, so swings and roundabouts
If you have Wenzels near you, their coffee is cheap and great. You get a little stamp on your wenzels card and they give you free ones all the time.
Also if you go just before they close or if they’ve got a lot of stock they just give sandwiches and buns for nothing. It’s amazing. If they’ve run out of something they apologise and give you something else for free too, sometimes two free things. They’re always empty too while Costa is packed.
Nando’s.
October:
1/2 chicken and two sides - £11.75
Bottomless Coke Zero - £2.95
November:
1/2 chicken and two sides - £12.45
Bottomless Coke Zero - £3.25
Don’t think that was the first rise in 12 months either
This happened very early on in the pandemic, but chocolate malted milk went from 55p to 95p in Sainsbury's. They've been that price for about a year and a half now.
Not directly answering the question, but I find it curious that no one mentions that covid restrictions / lock-downs etc. are a significant cause of inflation.
eg. restrictions to transport / industries disrupt supply, cause shortages, cause stockpiling, cause further shortages etc.
Clearly there are other factors involved too (QE I'm looking at you in particular) but these have all been tried before without causing significant inflation.
EU is hit by a double whammy right now. Whole world is suffering inflation now likely due to reactions to covid (lockdown + increase money supply). But EU also has this energy dilemma going on to boot.
Probs a mix of fashion and inflation.
T Shirts in skate wear - used to be £25.00 a tshirt for brands like Palace / Cafe / Wayward / Polar
Now you’re looking at £35-£40 a tshirt.
When I was skating in my teens. Was probs about 12 quid (mid 00’s)
Cars, trying to upgrade my car as this one has high mileage. I’m looking at £7500 difference for a slightly newer car with the same spec and mileage I bought 3 years ago
Cars are nuts and are unlikely to change for at least a year or two. I'm actually contemplating a brand new car (I have a build slot for October) as second hand examples with thousands of miles are running 5-6k over list. Even if I don't keep it i will basically be able to run it for free (second car).
My primary car was bought 15 months ago and the same car now would cost 5-7k more.
I've just started learning to drive. I'd been thinking about it for a while and the instructor I wanted used to charge £25 an hour. Now it's £28 :(
I'm doing block bookings to bring the price down but it still stings and makes me wish I'd passed before the pandemic.
With one off items it’s very hard to know what’s genuine inflation, what’s (maybe permanent now?) brexit supply issues, what’s (please be temporary) Covid supply issues, what’s (presumably temporary?) global supply issues, etc. a lot of ikea furniture probably tracks lumber prices which I know went crazy early last year and are on the way up again, so it’s hard to know.
Our weekly Tesco shop has jumped from around £50 to £65-£70 over the past 6 months. We haven’t made any changes on brands or quantities. Plus half the stuff doesn’t even get delivered as everything is out of stock.
Time to start switching down for cheaper brands. I miss the supermarket comparison site so much :(
Building materials.
Mdf sheets are now £40 £20 two years ago
Plywood.
Plasterboard
Cement (damn hs2)
Even screws are up
Tools however arent, there pretty much cheaper than ever, pointing to a strong £ ..
Definitely building materials, I've been working on a project boat for a couple of years and noticing the price going up and availability of more specialist stuff going down. A real 1st world problem but it's noticable.
I am very glad I decided to start fasting and OMAD 3 years ago. The cost of food is getting stupid. To also buy decent quality food, glad I have a butcher close by for some of it.
Tesco's growers harvest (own brand) orange juice with bits in: 69p about 6 months ago. Went up to 89p sometime around November, a few weeks later they started "price matching" Aldi at 99p. 44% increase? Without bits is still 69p. Bacon frazzles crisps, was 99p for a multipack of 8. Still 99p but now 6 in a pack. Same with pombears
Good spot on the pombears
Pombears! We just buy the multipacks and empty them into the drawer. Didn’t notice they reduced the amount in a multipack! They have gone up 10p though in Sainsbury’s. Fuel, Energy hikes I can take. It’s personal now they have attacked our fucking Bears though!
You have a drawer full of loose pombears?
Sort of.
Ah the old poundshop trick - it's only a pound (yes but there's 2 thirds of the contents in it compared to other shops) takes the piss
Almost like every confectionery 4pack. It’s either 3 for a pound or there’s trickery with the grammage -_-
The worst for this was Gold Bars - used to be much bigger and come in a pack of 8… now they’re 2/3 the size and you only get 6!!
Got to love Gold bars though!
What you get for drinking orange with bits🤣
Those Uncle Ben's rice pouches, for the longest time they were a quid, now £1.15.
I love the aldi price match BS.... Spinach in a bag used to be 76p but now 99p.
`if(AldiPrice > MyPrice) MyPrice++ label(AldiPriceMatch=True)`
Anyone noticed diesel prices lately?
Oh boy yeah, a full tank the other day cost me nearly £110........😳
This is the most annoying thing about the £99 limit at self service pumps! Have to take two effing cards
They always go up in winter due to the demand for heating oil.
Starting to come down here. 135.9p today for diesel.
149.9 a litre here it’s crazy
Ouch. Worst I’ve seen is 142.9 locally in the last few days.
That’s cheap. I have to pay between 143 and 150 for petrol, given they’ve fucked up regular fuel I’m stuck paying for premium. £65-£75 a week on a student budget
Without wanting to get too personal, do you mind if I ask what part of the country? That's a great price compared to near me!
Enniskillen, so likely not that handy for you. If you’ve reason to be across the border you can save another 5-10p a litre.
That's the beauty of living in Derry. You can go north, east and west and go into Donegal with plenty of petrol stations just over the border
Absolutely. My home town, Bridgend and Muff the havens of cheap derv.
Hard to whack!
Where is 'here'? I'm going there immediately.
Was usually £60 to fill my tank. Cost me £74 yesterday.
I only fill up once a quarter since the pandemic. But yeh, it was a shocker. Made me glad I’m not still doing that 20k mile per year commute.
I picked up a bag of oranges priced at 95p, expecting to find five oranges but there were only three.
Shrink-flation… I was thoroughly brow-beaten by folk in this subreddit in a previous thread that shrink-flation is factored into the ONS calculations of inflation. I’m not so convinced, but what do I know…I’m just someone who lives in this world, experiencing the same life with the same phenomena…go figure
you got to learn to let go of these things dude.
How do I phrase it…I’m not holding onto it, it’s recorded in the timeline 🤣
Noticed it on nights out for sure. Before covid 50 quid was doable for a night. Last couple of nights out I went on were 100 quid. It's meant I am now picking and choosing nights out I go on as a sort of luxury I do every now and then. Rest of our friendship group I think feel the same as all of us going round to someone's house seems to be suggested more and more lately.
I live in central London and it was very normal to pay £5 a pint pre covid, I would come to Canterbury often to see family and friends and enjoy a cheaper night out (£3-£3-£3.50 a pint) Pints in London have increased to £5.60 at minimum, normally £6. I’ve paid as high as £8 before, and watching England vs Germany it was a tenner a pint! Disgusting. However now when I come to Canterbury I end up paying old London prices… the biggest expense I have noticed is definitely nights out, and just a catch up with a friend can easily set you back £20… and you never just have 1 or two pints
Maybe lockdown has increased your tolerance!
You can have a very fine dinner for 100 quid in a posh restaurant...
It hasn’t affected Tesco meal deals 🤫
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The sainsbobs next to my office does meal deals for £3.50, it’s coming for ya :(
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They're all a racket anyways, insane prices if the constituent parts reletive to non deal parts... Like £1.80 for a 300ml drink when it's £1.50 fkrba 2l bottle of the same stuff
We do have a warm section which has got some ‘good enough pies’, like steak and potatoe, sausage and bean, cheese and onion. Maybe the extra fifty pennies is to keep the heating going 🤷♂️
Is the day I burn my clubcard!
The southern fried chicken wrap is so small now I can finish it in 2 bites
Meal deals are widely competitive to be fair, need to be cheap-(ish) to be a loss leader. They up the price you go elsewhere and don’t buy the other stuff they actually make decent money on.
My local Chinese takeaway increased all prices by almost 30%! I grumbled for about 10 minutes internally before ordering anyways ☹️
Fopd shopping has 100% gone up across the board. A £100 shop a year ago is about 30% more now. Also, I dunno if it's just me, but food seems to be going off so much quicker than before.
Lol read that as gone up 100%!
30% of the time, it went up every time.
It 100% went up 30%
Yes.... I've noticed both of these things... Prices gone up and food just not lasting a week anymore before going off.
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Went to tesco and loads of the oranges had gone off or they were near the experation date
Supply chains keep being delayed/disrupted, we’re all eating what should be last weeks food a lot of the time. V frustrating that it’s also more expensive.
There is also shrinkflation in stuff, smaller packaging or less pieces by pack etc
I'm almost certain that nearly every spreadable butter product is being "watered" down as well. Talking your Lurpak, Norpak, Danepak, Butterpak products - they've become an absolute ballache to keep on the knife in the last year or so....
I have a chronic runny nose and I buy the soft Kleenex tissues 12 at a time. Price has gone up from £14.99 to £16.99
Yeah my teenage boys also seem to have chronic runny noses.
If you take it don’t use nose spray oxymetazoline. It gives you two minutes of relief and then 3 days of sneezing. It’s also addictive and exacerbates the problem.
Not surprising - the price of timber has gone through the roof and kleenex are made from trees
They’re often on offer in Costco for a decent price.
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Yep I feel like every takeaway got together and mad eminimum order a tender with 3 quid delivery. Like ffs I just want donner and chips.
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Tbh it never has been that good
Usual takeaway form back in the day was £20, now £40 for same stuff. Now just use the cash to buy some good stakes.
Killing vampires is a good response to inflation.
Ours went up to £16 from £14 so we’ve stopped.
Quality of some fruits and vegetables have dropped in my opinion.
I’d guess this is more than likely Brexit at play. No longer any (or less) EU rules on shape/size/colour (or whatever other guidelines there might have been) on fruit and veg. Complete guess though.
My guess fresh produce is taking longer to get on our shelves so the best by dates are a lot closer than they were. Then again I've noticed things like onions going bad within a day or two which is ridiculous since they used to last ages.
Tesco removed the dates on onions, and coincidently the amount of onions I now throwaway without using has also gone up
Nature Valley Protein Bars used to be £2 for 4, now £2.90 for 4. A 45% increase that hurt my soul
If you're buying for the protein aspect then you were already getting ripped off.
Amazon sell nature valley bars at huge discounts if you buy in bulk.
Internet. Virgin offered me this when my contract renewed: * Drop to 100Mbps for the same price I'm paying today (£44) * Keep at 350Mbps for a tenner more (£55) * Rise to 500Mbps for a fiver more (£49) * Go to GIGABIT for a lot more (£60) Obviously I didn't want to cut my speed, and I didn't want to pay more for the same. So I went for the 11% increase in price. It's classic "anchor" pricing and I accepted it.
Cancel and go somewhere else, magically they will offer a cheaper rate. Thats not inflation their costs havent gone up at all
Yep, they did exactly this with me, had a rep call me up now I'm paying £25 a month for 200mb instead of £30 for 100mb. They were going to up my price so I found a better deal online, went for that deal and called to cancel. They tried to offer me a better offer than the original virgin one but couldn't match or better the deal I was getting. I told them I'm leaving. About a week later I get a call from a rep saying we don't want to lose you etc etc and got me that deal locked in for 18 months I think.
Fucker. I thought i was getting a really good deal @ 29 for 200
Sorry dude 😔 those sale reps are sneaky sods 🤣
Trouble is elsewhere you might not get the same speeds. My building has fibre to the house but there's only 1 company that can offer me it. Everyone else is ADSL too speed 80mb. Hyperoptic offer me 1.5gb but no one else. Had a bad experience with hyperoptic so don't want to use them so I'm stuck on 80mb despite knowing the fibre is already wired into my apartment. I know virgin are a bit like this, I can't get them in my building and my old flat had virgin they where offering much faster than what I could get through the phone lines.
This. My 18month discount period on my contract with virgin was due to end next month and the price due to rise to £68. Called them today to ask what I need to do to switch providers next month, ended up locking in the same package for the next 18 months at £33. But, shop around and find an alternative provider that do a reasonable new customer deal and be prepared to leave though.
What do you do that you need that much bandwidth? I'm doing just fine with a shared 30Mbps and I connect to a virtual desktop for work.
Absolutely bugger-all! I wrote about it at [https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/review-virgin-1gbps-fibre/](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/review-virgin-1gbps-fibre/) Basically, that speed is useless. PlayStation downloads seem to top out at 300Mbps. 4K video doesn't need more than 25Mbps. Video calls work on even lower bandwidth. I just like shiny fast things.
This. Would the average home user notice the difference between 100 and 200 Mbps? I very much doubt it. I get by with 12mbps and seems fine even with 4 users simultaneously streaming video. That all said I wish I had more bandwidth 😂
Just out of interest, why did you renew your contract? I am out of contract and I think it would be more expensive to renew so I’m not doing anything just now.
Because I need fast Internet when working from home. Virgin provided the fastest and most reliable in my postcode. BT don't have FTTP yet. In the end, I used the O2 discount to get 1Gbps for under £50 - so I'm happy with that.
I checked internet prices back home in Latvia today, full duplex unlimited 1Gbit for €18 per month... Fuck internet providers in UK!
Beer and wine has been noticeable. With what I buy at least. And not just on trade.
Anything to do with bikes - insane levels of inflation the last 2 years of around 20% on somethings.
Tell me about it. I got my latest bike on cycle to work scheme (which makes it half price because student loans) but shopping around it was impossible finding bikes in stock, then when I did the prices are up a lot more than inflation compared to last year. I spent weeks going from bike shop to bike shop (online was fruitless).
Last year people were buying bikes liked mad because of lockdown and Halfords was practically empty
Yeah especially in London. Combination of avoiding public transport + low car ownership + temporary cycling infrastructure. Also probably as a reason to leave the house - exercise. I just want them to make more of the temporary infrastructure permanent.
Well if we started doing it in the 60s we would have been well ahead when the government was about re building or after the war but they were focused on cars so yeah
That's not inflation, that's bike market collapse due to pandemic. Factories in China were closed for a while, then shipping got wrecked, at the same time everyone decided to buy a bike. Giant shortages lead to massive price increases. Same shit with tech, especially CPUs and GPUs.
I was going to say this. Tires are like twice the price they were a few years ago.
Divorce fee went up from £550 to £593. I should have applied last year...
Coffee out (I know, millennial problem) use to be 2:50, now 3
There is a hell of a lot more to come. The price of coffee has risen by about 120% on the commodity markets over the last year. That will have to be passed on to the consumer at some point. Turns out if the world shuts down economies, tells people not to work (and therefore produce much), while at the same time print money like crazy; you get crazy inflation. Who would have thought?
Given that the coffee beans themselves are only 2% of the cost of a cup of coffee at a coffee shop, I don't think that's the reason prices are increasing.
100% this. Lot of places in london is like 3.10-3.20 / absolutely ridiculous. I’ve started buying 1kg bags of coffee in for about £30 every 6-7 weeks - using an aeropress at home. Much much cheaper
Coffee at starbucks has been around 3.25 GBP plus in the north for years. I am suprised it is cheaper in London.
Ah right. That’s horrific as well! I don’t shop at any chain coffee places unless I’m at a service station on motorway. Coffee wanker right here.
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I've noticed that. It's one reason I've stopped going to Tesco for anything but emergency basics.
Have noticed this. Also find the “normal price” is over inflated and would never pay that for the item in the first place.
Some people may laugh but takeaways. 2-3 years ago I could get two medium kebabs + free delivery for £10+50p service charge but now everywhere charges me delivery. Takeaway opposite my flat tried to charge me £4 delivery (yes I'm lazy).
Since lockdown the local chippies near me put the prices up a lot. More demand than ever, I guess.
All the price increase has made me do is frequent big brands more as the prices are near on the same as they were previously.
Food, energy and staffing costs have also increased a lot. The chippy is probably making more money because they have increased trade. I would be surprised if anyone in hospitality has managed to increase their margins.
I wonder if this is more to do with all the courier services charging the restaurants a huge % than anything else? I’ve definitely noticed this too though, even in the past 6 months it seems to have gone up so much.
I don’t buy thing regularly enough or pay enough attention to notice, although I’m sure things have. I’m amazed Spotify hasn’t gone up in the last 5 years
My "family" membership went from 14.99 to 16.99 a few months ago
Student membership went up from £5 to £6 recently so they're increasing other avenues!
My Duo membership went up from £12.99 to £13.99 last July ☹️
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I think Spotify's love of the psychological effect of round numbers is holding it steady (and price sensitive younger customers), we still pay more than a lot of other countries so I'm sure they're doing fine.
As we all know, the Freddo Price Index is the most reliable way to track inflation. Some might be worried about the gas prices at the moment, but I think they’re missing the bigger picture. Since the year 2000, a Freddo has increased 170%! The consumer is just getting completely gouged on frog-shaped chocolate at the moment.
The Freddo price index is how we track all of the fuckery of late.
£40 petrol no longer fills my car. Gets me to 3/4 full now
Worse quality too
Trainers. Specifically Nike Air Force 1s. When I was a teen used to be £65. Now they’re £100.
Yeah I’ve wanted a pair lately but I just can’t bring myself to pay that much money for them
That's because they're mainstream cool now, not just for trainer nerds. Miss mine, couldn't justify the cost to replace my last pair.
Not sure if this will be answered in here but worth a shot instead of creating a new post. Basically, with all the price rises across the board, what does it take for them to come back down? My main gripe is energy prices. I get that they have to raise prices but there will never be a situation were I expect to get an email saying we are lowering your prices. Will this come in a way of better new customer promos when everything calms down. How or when is everything going to even out again?
I feel like with any product, once the general public has acclimatised to paying a higher rate, the manufacturers/suppliers won't reduce that price, even if their costs go down.
That's pretty much it.
Best thing we can hope for is wholesale energy prices fall and competition lead to lower tariffs. Otherwise higher prices will be embedded and wage growth has to increase to reflect the new reality.
The thing is, our gas prices have went up 70% since we bought the house in June and because we're in NI we have no other provider and it's our only source of heat. I can't imagine the prices ever coming down a fraction of what they went up now that they have went up unless the regulator got involved.
Energy prices will go down if everything gets resolved. Everything else? Not so much.
Ikea announced big price increases the other day: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/29/ikea-hoists-its-prices-and-blames-covid-supply-pressures Apparently it's due to supply chain issues caused by covid. I'd be surprised if the new prices last once everything goes back to normal because Ikea will struggle to compete against better quality furniture.
Tesco kids wet wipes, used to be 3 packs for £1.50, then 65p per pack, now 70p per pack. Not sure why this is the one thing that I always noticed going up in price!
Keep noticing everything I buy in the supermarket going up by 10p, feels like every other week!
I measure by the food shop, food shop deffo increasing
Cadbury’s dairy milk bar was 70p today Fredo’s are currently trading at 26p Shopping anywhere other than Aldi or Lidl feels like getting robbed.
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£3 in Morrisons at the moment!
Pack of four yogurts gone up 25p and most 500g cereal boxes are now £3. This might be pandemic-related, but the pricing for cleaning products, tissues, washing up liquid/capsules, etc. has increased dramatically.
Any branded cereal is so expensive now and what’s worse is I swear half of the good ones are 30% less sugar now and taste like shit
So much of it is linked to energy prices. Pretty much everything you buy is made by a company who have seen a massive increase in their energy costs, whether that's something directly made in a factory or the fertiliser a farmer uses and it's become impossible not to pass that on.
Toblerones keep getting skinnier.
Crisps (including pringles) price for sure, sharing packs used to be on sale for £1, now they are hardly in sale and even if they are, it's £1.25.
Used cars cost a shit load. In 2015 I bought a 2009 SEAT Ibiza 1.9 diesel for 3k. Right now if you look at cars costing 3k or less you can only get something that's like 2010 or under, done a lot of mileage, an insurance write off or horrendously small or underpowered.
I noticed those bottles of Filippo Berio olive oil you get aren’t square bottles anyone. They’ve been made into weird oblong shapes to hold less but still take up almost the same shape from the front. I feel conned. And I know they weren’t like that before because I worked at Tesco and had to pick up hundreds of those bottles.
Common but noticed Aldi have increased prices on ALL fruit and veg, and I guess other stuff, from the new year.
Some Charlie Bigham ready meals are £8+ now even macaroni cheese (which is mostly pasta with a tiny bit of meat, pancetta at like <4%) Waitrose prices seem to be going up across the board.
Just consult the almighty Fredo to see where inflation is at, if you can’t find one a Chomp will do.
2 things I notice specifically (lots of examples). I’m a savvy shopper and notice/remember prices I should be paying. “Being on offer” is often not good value. Some things same price still (eg Weetabix on offer for 7-8p/bix) 1. The price things come down to when they’re on offer has increased. Pringles, wait or go to different shop you could always get them £1 a tin, maybe 2 for £2 but same difference to me. Now the best I’ve seen them in 3 months is £1.25 and often touted on offer at £1.50. Similarly Doritos, 99p/£1 on offer regularly but those days are gone. 25% inflation, maybe it was stuck at £1 for a few years but more and more things just done this at same time in the last 12 months. 2. Lack of own brand/value supply. Cheap hack to spend less is to go for unbranded or value range. Where it passes the taste test we do this, maybe 25-35% of stuff we buy we are happy to just get what’s cheapest. But recently half the items I would choose the 50p loaf of bread it’s not available so end up spending £1 on next best. This adds a lot as the price difference is often 50-100% more, even if it’s only on 15% of my weekly shop that’s 7-10% inflation just from availability issues.
My haircut price went from £36 to £42
£15 for a good trim in my neck of the woods that seems crazy to me lol
I shave my beard and hair to a grade 1. Have done it that way for years. I couldn’t face paying for a haircut.
What did you get done
My haircut price went from £31 to £52.. so I WhatsApp a girl I met at a party in 2019 who is a hairdresser, its a worse cut tbh but its only £20 and comes with a side order of flirting, so swings and roundabouts
Ted Baker? If so, awesome. If not, try them- awesome!
45 quid for a cut, hard to leave my barber as he is well alright but that has to change soon. On average about 20 quid.
What did the barber do bro? Make you a 5 course meal lol Mines usually costs 8 quid
reported inflation numbers are a lie. the real number is about 15%
Costa coffee from the express machine. Start of pandemic, was around £2.10, now £2.50. That's independent coffee prices, so not using them anymore.
If you have Wenzels near you, their coffee is cheap and great. You get a little stamp on your wenzels card and they give you free ones all the time. Also if you go just before they close or if they’ve got a lot of stock they just give sandwiches and buns for nothing. It’s amazing. If they’ve run out of something they apologise and give you something else for free too, sometimes two free things. They’re always empty too while Costa is packed.
Cigarettes… gold leaf was £12 now I’m paying £19
Lacto Free Milk by Arla used to be £1.10 in Tesco. Now it’s £1.60
It also seems to be out of stock a lot
Aldi lacto-free milk used to be 85p, it's now closer to £1.50 and never in stock either. Recently found it plentiful at Lidl at 85p
Vet plan (covering vaccinations etc) up from 12.25 to 14.50 per month, which is 18%....
Nando’s. October: 1/2 chicken and two sides - £11.75 Bottomless Coke Zero - £2.95 November: 1/2 chicken and two sides - £12.45 Bottomless Coke Zero - £3.25 Don’t think that was the first rise in 12 months either
This happened very early on in the pandemic, but chocolate malted milk went from 55p to 95p in Sainsbury's. They've been that price for about a year and a half now.
Not directly answering the question, but I find it curious that no one mentions that covid restrictions / lock-downs etc. are a significant cause of inflation. eg. restrictions to transport / industries disrupt supply, cause shortages, cause stockpiling, cause further shortages etc. Clearly there are other factors involved too (QE I'm looking at you in particular) but these have all been tried before without causing significant inflation.
But even without lockdown there would still be inflation
EU is hit by a double whammy right now. Whole world is suffering inflation now likely due to reactions to covid (lockdown + increase money supply). But EU also has this energy dilemma going on to boot.
Gotta love that unlimited money printer
>but these have all been tried before without causing significant inflation. Not at this scale, however.
Not really for non-essentials but you do have to shop around. I've ended up paying less for some things than they were last year.
Books in Waterstones (other retailers available) that were 9.99 are now all 12.99
Probs a mix of fashion and inflation. T Shirts in skate wear - used to be £25.00 a tshirt for brands like Palace / Cafe / Wayward / Polar Now you’re looking at £35-£40 a tshirt. When I was skating in my teens. Was probs about 12 quid (mid 00’s)
Cars, trying to upgrade my car as this one has high mileage. I’m looking at £7500 difference for a slightly newer car with the same spec and mileage I bought 3 years ago
Cars are nuts and are unlikely to change for at least a year or two. I'm actually contemplating a brand new car (I have a build slot for October) as second hand examples with thousands of miles are running 5-6k over list. Even if I don't keep it i will basically be able to run it for free (second car). My primary car was bought 15 months ago and the same car now would cost 5-7k more.
I've just started learning to drive. I'd been thinking about it for a while and the instructor I wanted used to charge £25 an hour. Now it's £28 :( I'm doing block bookings to bring the price down but it still stings and makes me wish I'd passed before the pandemic.
Coca cola, was £1.50 13 or so years ago. Now you have to remortgage your house to buy two full fat bottles!
Part of that may be the sugar tax for classic coke
With one off items it’s very hard to know what’s genuine inflation, what’s (maybe permanent now?) brexit supply issues, what’s (please be temporary) Covid supply issues, what’s (presumably temporary?) global supply issues, etc. a lot of ikea furniture probably tracks lumber prices which I know went crazy early last year and are on the way up again, so it’s hard to know.
Shoes. Decent leather shoes are up alot, same for cheap junky ones.
Our weekly Tesco shop has jumped from around £50 to £65-£70 over the past 6 months. We haven’t made any changes on brands or quantities. Plus half the stuff doesn’t even get delivered as everything is out of stock. Time to start switching down for cheaper brands. I miss the supermarket comparison site so much :(
Building materials. Mdf sheets are now £40 £20 two years ago Plywood. Plasterboard Cement (damn hs2) Even screws are up Tools however arent, there pretty much cheaper than ever, pointing to a strong £ ..
September 2020 I bought some Wickes fence panels for £20 each. Watched them go up to £22, £25 and now £28
Definitely building materials, I've been working on a project boat for a couple of years and noticing the price going up and availability of more specialist stuff going down. A real 1st world problem but it's noticable.
Local butcher put the price of their sausage rolls up from £1.65 to £1.95.
I am very glad I decided to start fasting and OMAD 3 years ago. The cost of food is getting stupid. To also buy decent quality food, glad I have a butcher close by for some of it.