What I find baffling is the motorway services… yea they got you over a barrel if you have to stop and your not preplanning.
I did not take a snap but I swear at one MSA a bottle of Pepsi Max 500ml was just shy of £4…
But yea, MSA prices…
Maybe it is time to do the weekly shop in Aldi/Lidl.
How are you guys finding it?
I mean, we could even go on about mortages prices, fuel prices and energy prices… its all nuts. Also for me as a HGV driver wages have levelled off since the pandemic they have not gone up with inflation at all.
I’m not buying that! £10 for a small 75ml toothpaste? I don’t think they expect to sell any at that price, they’ll just reduce it to £5 next month with a big 50% off sticker.
How much was the toothpaste on offer with clubcard prices?
Just checked, it’s £5 at boots on offer and same at Sainsbury’s with nectar prices. If one wanted to pay £10 they’re just an idiot.
It’s gone beyond inflation and well into the realms of blatant profiteering. Companies have seen other companies do it and have decided that they want a slice of that particular pie.
Wonder if it has impacted Harry when he goes to buy his log chunks / coal whatever he uses to keep warm.
Be curious to know how it has impacted on the prices on cannisters of calor gas. I suspect they have shot up a lot.
adam277:
Wonder if it has impacted Harry when he goes to buy his log chunks / coal whatever he uses to keep warm.
Be curious to know how it has impacted on the prices on cannisters of calor gas. I suspect they have shot up a lot.
I’ve just paid £30 for a little 3.9kg refill (flogas agent). While I feel like I have been stung, it’s not as painful as using campingaz…
I can’t use anything bigger in the space I have for it.
Companies are trying to take advantage of too much free cash chasing too few manufactured goods and services…
Thing is, the “services” are on the back foot already, and find themselves losing customers to their cut-price competitors IF they try and ramp-up THEIR prices…
Look what happened to Purple Bricks recently, with their “Flat Fee” house sale commissions…
Read an article recently,that claimed the average price of a trolley full of shopping…had risen to £320.
Absolute ■■■■■■■■.
You need greedy boards on…to fit 80 quids worth in(at lidl)
The difference in price between shopping at ASDA ,Morrisons etc to Aldi/Lidl is huge, I save a fortune shopping at Aldi/Lidl. Being the chief cook & bottle wash I do all the cooking. Always been a dab hand in the kitchen & buy all separate ingredients to make big batches of dishes, pork/meat Pies, Burger patties, Lasagnes, cottage pies, corned beef hash,casseroles, soups, Fish dishes, Curries, Rhubarb crumble & freeze them in portions for two of us. Costs way way less doing it that way.
I grow all my own vegetables Calabrese, Potatoes,Onions, Carrots, Herbs, Peas. Celery, Shallots, Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Cucumbers, Spring onions, Chilli’s, Brussels sprouts, Grapes in raised beds & my two greenhouses along with strawberries, raspberries, Gooseberries, blue berries & rhubarb. Most of the root vegetables are dry stored in my garage & last me around nine months. Being retired I’ve got the time to do this admittedly.
No Asda for me, too many self service tills and the staff.
Lidl’s OK, but i still shop regularly at Morrisons because they have lots of offers of things that you will use over time so i stock up when the offers appear, i’m fairly good at working out the values and the staff are also friendlier than at other supermarket, this showed massively during the recent covid scam where several of the Morrisons checkout girls were glad to have a human face to face exchange of normal pleasantries with someone else who wouldn’t wear the face covering, such times and behaviour need to be remembered.
There’s a good butcher in the town who does special offer packs, a world of difference between steaks and sausages from the butcher and the stuff sold at the supermarkets, especially sausage skins where you need sharks teeth to deal with supermaket sausage skins and don’t get me going on supermarket burgers where you’re forever digging bits of bone out from between your teeth.
Seems to be a levelling out in the ridiculous prices some people were prepared to pay for cars in the last 3 years, and hopefully there will continue to be a downshift in house prices, something else that can be directly attributed to unchecked deliberate mass immigration which causes unnatural demand.
On the rare occasions I do supermarkets, I’m purely there on an assistant/co.pilot/minder/ basis with the wife, and in a docile state of boredom…I just supply the means of payment.
Yep, I have noticed prices have risen, but not to the point where I can do a housewife esque discussion on it and reccomend where to get the bargains.
Now if you want to talk football, (and other butch stuff ) I’m your man.
In fact last time I was in Asda was with one of my lovely little granddaughters, I remember it well,.because as we kept walking up and down the aisles, each time we kept meeting a particularly attractive and younger woman,.who each time gave me a nice seductive type smile.
I said to my little girl…,.‘We’ll play a game’’
‘When we get to check out pet,.don’t call me Granda Rob,.call me Daddy instead’
So the Labour leader David Cameron… Sorry I mean Keir Starmer has spoken.
No mention of unfreezing housing benefits despite sky high rents. Refusing to promise more money for public services or a better wage for doctors / teachers.
Let’s be real he is David Cameron in all but name.
God knows what will happen if he ends up in a coalition.
So the Labour leader David Cameron… Sorry I mean Keir Starmer has spoken.
No mention of unfreezing housing benefits despite sky high rents.
Housing Benefit can help you pay your rent if you’re unemployed, on a low income or claiming benefits. It’s being replaced by Universal Credit. You can only make a new claim for Housing Benefit if either of the following apply: you have reached State Pension age you’re in supported, sheltered or temporary housing
I’m pretty certain that criteria would not include you, me, nor most of the people on TN, so, “so what?”
You’re (seemingly) a lot younger than the average TN membership, but I’d be willing to bet the average TN member (white, male 50-something) thinks too many people get too many benefits already.
You’re (seemingly) a lot younger than the average TN membership, but I’d be willing to bet the average TN member (white, male 50-something) thinks too many people get too many benefits already.
Stu 675,much easier to have a bigger bag delivered. 
) I’m your man. 