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Post by SILENCED on Jul 20, 2022 7:53:28 GMT
It is July's figure that will be used, so hopefully we will see a bit of a drop next month But we are still at RPI +1% so I’m expecting at least a 12% increase. For a bus fare that could at least 20p extra to £1.85 Yeah it is looking likely that a single bus fare will go up to £1.85 next year. |
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Post by WH241 on Jul 27, 2022 16:48:31 GMT
The below has got social media all worked up today!
McDonald's puts up price of cheeseburger for first time in 14 years
It reminds me a bit of London bus fares and the outrage when they increase after many years frozen.
"If the price of a McDonald's cheeseburger had increased in line with inflation it would now cost £1.42. "
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Post by ServerKing on Aug 4, 2022 14:46:48 GMT
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Post by northlondon83 on Nov 2, 2022 13:54:41 GMT
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Post by WH241 on Nov 2, 2022 14:59:39 GMT
To be expected everything is going up! Bread has gone from £1 to £1.50 in the space of a few months. All the basic essentials like eggs and milk have also increased and likely to get worse. Pack sizes of products are also getting smaller with less and less in them. Even though these increases are linked to inflation and fuel costs they will probably not go down again once things settle down. |
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Post by southlondon413 on Nov 2, 2022 15:58:08 GMT
To be expected everything is going up! Bread has gone from £1 to £1.50 in the space of a few months. All the basic essentials like eggs and milk have also increased and likely to get worse. Pack sizes of products are also getting smaller with less and less in them. Even though these increases are linked to inflation and fuel costs they will probably not go down again once things settle down. To be fair shrinkflation in food packaging has been happening for years, it’s not a new thing. |
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Post by WH241 on Nov 2, 2022 16:12:49 GMT
To be expected everything is going up! Bread has gone from £1 to £1.50 in the space of a few months. All the basic essentials like eggs and milk have also increased and likely to get worse. Pack sizes of products are also getting smaller with less and less in them. Even though these increases are linked to inflation and fuel costs they will probably not go down again once things settle down. To be fair shrinkflation in food packaging has been happening for years, it’s not a new thing. Yes but it’s getting silly now! Some packs of food used to have maybe 10 now down to 7. |
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Post by southlondon413 on Nov 2, 2022 16:22:16 GMT
To be fair shrinkflation in food packaging has been happening for years, it’s not a new thing. Yes but it’s getting silly now! Some packs of food used to have maybe 10 now down to 7. Don’t forget the sugar tax has also affected these products as well, so when combined with the standard shrinkflation it does add up. My local Sainsburys has been completed rearranged so all the affected products are in one area. Think about how big Big Macs were in the 90s, Quality Street tins, it’s all shrinkflation. |
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Post by SILENCED on Nov 2, 2022 16:24:36 GMT
To be expected everything is going up! Bread has gone from £1 to £1.50 in the space of a few months. All the basic essentials like eggs and milk have also increased and likely to get worse. Pack sizes of products are also getting smaller with less and less in them. Even though these increases are linked to inflation and fuel costs they will probably not go down again once things settle down. To be honest the price of the loaf I like to buy was £1.15 before things went crazy, went up to £1.65, now £1.55, so has fallen a little from the peak. |
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Post by enviroPB on Nov 2, 2022 19:49:15 GMT
The ironic thing is I have bought more sandwiches from Tesco in the past few days since the price increase than in the past few months combined!! Mind you just the sandwiches and wraps as more are on discount, presumably as customers respond adversely to the price increase. There´s also research which Eastlondoner62 has mentioned excellently in a past post stating people psychologically won´t respond well to paying a price that isn´t a round number. Interestingly individual prices have pretty much only gone up for drinks, which seems to suggest Tesco cannot use their bargaining power to keep costs down for that element of the meal. |
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Post by WH241 on Nov 27, 2022 20:23:09 GMT
It's a like a lucky dip when you go shopping now. Prices are changing almost daily on basic essentials.
I don't wish to judge people but I am slightly staggered just how crazy people are still spending on non essentials, this weekend shops are crazy I think Christmas will be no different to any other year!
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Post by Paul on Nov 27, 2022 21:39:04 GMT
It's a like a lucky dip when you go shopping now. Prices are changing almost daily on basic essentials. I don't wish to judge people but I am slightly staggered just how crazy people are still spending on non essentials, this weekend shops are crazy I think Christmas will be no different to any other year! I suspect there are a lot of people putting Christmas on a credit card and will worry about it come January. I can’t blame them personally - Christmas is the one time of year that the vast majority of us look forward to and many people won’t want to scrimp on what they normally do |
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Post by MKAY315 on Nov 3, 2023 11:43:58 GMT
I'm actually fuming. Fuel that usually cost me about 50 pounds to fill up. How can I top up nearly 90 pounds and already it's gone down to empty quickly. This is madness and they keep upping the prices. How the [redacted] are people supposed to live like this. This is [redacted] [redacted] Nearly a year and a half later I'm still singing this!! |
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Post by MKAY315 on Nov 15, 2023 11:57:27 GMT
A friend of mine told me how his insurance went up considering he's had more than 15 years of driving with a clean record. I honestly thought he may have been stretching it by a small amount but when I did a test search for myself. I had to scream Blood of Jesus (I don't like to say God's name in vain) because what the hell is with these prices.
Honestly it genuinely feels as though everyone is getting slapped ridiculously.
Even looking at used cars that's more than 10 years old. There's no way in this life it should cost more than it should.
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Post by WH241 on Nov 15, 2023 12:22:12 GMT
A friend of mine told me how his insurance went up considering he's had more than 15 years of driving with a clean record. I honestly thought he may have been stretching it by a small amount but when I did a test search for myself. I had to scream Blood of Jesus (I don't like to say God's name in vain) because what the hell is with these prices. Honestly it genuinely feels as though everyone is getting slapped ridiculously. Even looking at used cars that's more than 10 years old. There's no way in this life it should cost more than it should. My insurance company wanted about 300 or 400 pound extra this year! I called them they offered a £70 discount and this is with 20 years no claims. In the end I went on a comparison site which I don’t usually do and managed to find a renewal around what I paid last year! I’m paying £800 on a ten year old car. My post code doesn’t help matters. |
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