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Post by Patrick on Jul 21, 2012 21:34:03 GMT
What have you noticed? Can't believe (for instance) that that sterling British Standby "Corned Beef" that cheaply fed a generation through the war has hit the heady heights of £2.79 for a fairly average size tin!
What about the kerfuffle over milk? Are our glorious Farmers being treated unfairly? Funny that the "Ethical" Co-op was named on the Farmer's advert for unfair treatment of them.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 22, 2012 8:24:03 GMT
I suppose the Co-op felt they had to pay what everyone else was paying. I saw yesterday that they had upped their prices now.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 22, 2012 8:26:25 GMT
Processed meat like corned beef and luncheon meat and Spam and those big cans of ham - especially those - are the only kind of meat I really feel like eating. Oh, and those big German sausages.  |
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Post by jean on Jul 22, 2012 11:29:15 GMT
What about the kerfuffle over milk? Are our glorious Farmers being treated unfairly? Yes. You cannot expect farmers to sell milk for less than it costs them to produce it. Prices for milk cannot keep going down while cost of animal feed and other related costs are going through the roof. (Where's Farmer?) |
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Post by Patrick on Jul 22, 2012 12:14:30 GMT
I'd like to know how much our local Spar pays for it. Ours is - like most Spar stores I imagine, a franchise, this one being owned by a 'company' along with most of the other Spar stores in the area. The cheeky sods sell their milk in litres. Currently 55p for 500ml 99p for a litre. Once upon a time you expected convenience stores like this to charge high prices for being open at "convenient" times for you, though I doubt the prices they charge find their way to paying those working there anything extra. If I tracked down Mr Lawrence Hunt (owners name), I expect I've find a very large house with stables and a swimming pool.
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Post by Patrick on Sept 13, 2012 9:38:45 GMT
Spar Milk up to a pound a litre. Maybe they too have upped their contribution. Evil old Aldi have put their milk prices down! On Friday we paid (Yes - we're surviving on about £50 a week for food and other groceries, so don't have a lot of choice) 98p for four pints in our store.
According to our Aldi manager, the takings at his store have more then doubled in the last few months alone. They're having trouble keeping stock levels topped up as a result. By contrast - the last few visits - sometimes at peak times on a Friday - to our Sainsburys show a far emptier shop than usual.
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Post by Weyland on Sept 13, 2012 16:39:50 GMT
Spar (Yes - we're surviving on about £50 a week for food and other groceries, so don't have a lot of choice) Groceries that aren't food? Pray tell. (Beer counts as food, by the way.) I've been a faithful patron of Aldi and Lidl since I first discovered them in the 1980s. In Holland. Apart from lower prices, they both have (usually German) products you can't get elsewhere in Britain in supermarkets. |
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Post by Patrick on Sept 13, 2012 16:47:38 GMT
Oh, cleaning stuff and washing powder etc. We're also doing a lot of "Double Meals" - Tonight it's the other half of last nights cottage pie for instance. First Lidl I came across was a dark blue walled depressing affair in the late 90's (one of the first sold off Safeway stores). I see they've improved from those days. Both shops are imminently better than the "Lo Cost" I once ventured into in Hereford in the eighties. I'm sure it had straw on the floor!  It'll be interesting to see how much longer Aldi can keep up it's £2.99 range of wines! |
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