Extortionate Prices Warning Please!

[piggynose]

As i will travelling to the uk next week just for a week(1st time in 3 years), what surprises are in store for me? what price increases have forced you to go without or buy less of?
tia

[Buenchico]

I've cut back on buying store own-brand 'premium' yogurts a bit. (I used to eat a couple every day). A year ago Morrison's 'The Best' yogurts were nominally priced at 60p but, as there was a permanent '4 for £2' offer on them, the 'real' price was only 50p. They're now priced at 95p (and with no special offer for buying in quantity), so that's a 90% price hike.

Many other dairy products have gone greatly in price. At the start of the year a pint of milk in Morrisons cost 59p (if I recall correctly)). It now costs 89p. So that's roughly a 50% increase.

Cheese has similarly shot up in price.

Chicken used to be a lot cheaper than beef but it's now nearly twice the price of it.

I used to eat in Morrison's café at least once a week but I rarely, if ever, venture in these days. It's not so long ago that one could buy a meal and a drink for £5.50 after 3pm. Now it's around £8.50 and, if (for example) fish & chips is the dish of choice, the portion size is much smaller than it used to be as well.

It doesn't seem that long since one could buy a decent pub meal for £8.50 or £9.50. Nowadays (other than in Wetherspoons, or perhaps Yates) the 'base price' for the most basic of pub meals tends to be around £14.50, with £19.50 not being uncommon. (There are some 'gastro pubs' here in Suffolk where the cheapest meal costs around £23.50).

A round of three drinks in a very basic pub cost me £19.50 a fortnight ago. (One pint of bitter and two glasses of Shiraz). That's part of the reason that I don't drink in pubs much these days!

[Canary42]

As you're staying for as long as a week, a change of Prime Minister might be one surprise in store.

[DTCwordfan]

How do you like your PM, rare, medium or well-done? Rare is the cheapest as less energy is needed to cook them.

[gingejbee]

Don't forget that price increases are not unique to this country...just about everywhere has the same problem.

[pimplyteen]

There are still good buys to be had. Some stores are milking it. Look round before buying.

[lankeela]

Stick with McDonalds - the best value now for a takeaway meal.

[Buenchico]

Lankeela clearly knows how to push the boat out ;-)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/27/mcdonalds-uk-raises-price-of-cheeseburger-for-first-time-in-14-years

[goodgoalie]

The cheese I've been buying every week for ages in ALDI at £1.89 was £2.65 last week - a rise of 40%. Eggs and milk up a similar amount; and don't get me started on the rip-off that is gluten-free bread (and it is utterly tasteless)

[gness]

Had dinner tonight with some friends back yesterday from the Sweden and the UK. We thought things were bad everywhere but they were shocked at price increases in the UK. Way above anything here in Ireland.

I'll be interested to read your experiences when you return if you don't mind.

[Maydup]

Petrol might be the biggest shock depending on what it costs where you are. No doubt this will have affected taxi prices but I haven’t used one for ages.

Coffee is a crazy price as are the well known brands of any food product. I think most of us buy the supermarket budget ranges now. I can’t imagine Heinz surviving this current crisis.

As a visitor you might not notice too much but the cost of energy and raw materials is affecting the small businesses the most. So a couple of sausage rolls, a pastie and a hot drink might have been less than £5 when you were here last, now it will set you back £10 or more in an independent bakery.

[emmie]

the cost of milk, i don't usually buy it as i don't take it in coffee, but buy it for friends who might drop by, cost before was 45p now 89p
also bread has gone up in price a lot.

[davebro]

Nothing much has shocked so far - maybe food prices for eating out seem appreciably higher. My local pub (not "fine dining") is advertising Xmas day dinner at £50. I'm assuming that's per head not per couple.

[Spicerack]

Mmm. You're visiting the UK for a week and you're concerned about the price of groceries?

[piggynose]

06.24..i wouldn't say i'm concerned,curious maybe. Anyway i haven't got off lightly living in northern Spain. The price of most fruit+ veg has doubled. I'm not affected so much cuz I eat a wholesome meal for free at work, mon-fri. Where I tend to eat out at weekends, the price increases haven't been that much!

[royfromaus]

More absolute tosh from virtually everyone.
Having recently visited Ireland (north and south) Scotland, France and Germany I can confirm that England has the cheapest groceries.


DON'T PANIC!
DON'T PANIC!

[youngmafbog]

Havn't gone without anything or bought less of anything, well apart from Cider but thats because I prefer beer this time of year. A bottle of Ringwood still a £1.00 and milk £1.55 for 4 pints I notice.

Probably more expensive in Waitrose but then I dont have my head shoved up my jacksie.

[davebro]

Food prices have probably been kept artificially low for years now. Apart from the obvious causes prices were bound to rise eventually.

[douglas9401]

A perhaps unintended saving tip from YMB there, for keeping your ears warm when the north wind doth blow.

[ToraToraTora]

No worse that your own country unless you've been living in North Korea, Russia or China. Where are you travelling from?

[youngmafbog]

Actually my nephew in China has told us prices in China on many items have shot up.

It really is a Global issue. Unless Brexit scuppered China I suppose, expecting Hymie along any minute now!