Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

Tonesjones · 25-08-2022 8:19pm

I posted a couple of weeks ago about the "special " in supervalu where 4 chicken breasts cost 7.50.

The new "special" is 3 for 6.50.

One chicky less but only a euro cheaper. Not special at all

Pussyhands · 25-08-2022 10:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119522067#Comment_119522067

I saw in Lidl a special offer for next week. 5 chicken breasts (1kg total) for 8:49 down from 9.99. I am pretty sure they're the same Chicken breast packs I used to buy for years for 7.49

3d4life · 25-08-2022 10:32pm

As the last two posts were on Supervalu & Lidl allow me to make it three in a row NOT about Tesco :)

Aldi do not have uniform pricing across their Dublin shops !

Question of the day :

Why is UHT milk in this country more expensive than in The Canaries ?

Doesnt Lakeland have a big UHT plant in Killeshandra ?

Just Why ?

I mean, Why ?

3d4life · 25-08-2022 10:46pm

Irish UHT milk in Spain

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Irish UHT milk in Ireland

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If you can bring yourself to use Spainish UHT milk when in Spain then go for this

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26-08-2022 2:21am

Tesco jaffa cakes up from €1.09 to €1.45

☹️

Pussyhands · 26-08-2022 11:28am

Lost all trust of Tesco. A lot of their clubcard prices seem to be just regular prices...and it makes the non clubcard price extra, essentially adding a non clubcard user fee.

antimatterx · 26-08-2022 1:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119524243#Comment_119524243

Get a club card then

Pussyhands · 26-08-2022 1:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119524766#Comment_119524766

I did. Doesn't mean a clubcard 'offer' is actually an offer though.

Villa05 · 26-08-2022 5:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119522685#Comment_119522685

This fresher :-)

road_high · 27-08-2022 10:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119524243#Comment_119524243

My attitude with “Loyalty” cards is they are there so might as use them all and get whatever back you can from them than not at all.

zell12 · 01-09-2022 5:34pm

T part baked rolls 300g was ~~59c~~ ~~69c~~ ~~75c~~ 79c

Stephen_Maturin · 02-09-2022 11:00am

Fresh herbs gone from 99 to 1.09c

crayon80 · 02-09-2022 3:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119558724#Comment_119558724

Potted herbs are 1.49, I think they were 1.29.

Chia seeds, sunflower seeds and similar gone from €1 to €1.39.

freshpopcorn · 02-09-2022 6:45pm

Not sure if it's being on here Tesco Sourdough was 99c then €1.15 and now €1.29.

lmimmfn · 04-09-2022 8:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119522053#Comment_119522053

Tbh, it's so easy to make your own homemade pizza that the frozen ones arent worth it even on price, the dough is a bit of hassle to make but you can freeze it.

The only time we would get a frozen one is if we're coming home after a 4+ hour drive and don't feel like cooking, the lidl ones have seriously suffered from shrinkflation the past year.

delboy85 · 06-09-2022 10:29pm

Coca Cola 500ml bottles - were €1.60, now €1.89.

06-09-2022 11:16pm

Tesco luxury Soft Toilet Roll. 9 rolls now 6 "long" rolls, price increase from €4 to €4.75 / 28c per sheet to 33c per sheet.

walterking · 07-09-2022 2:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119522754#Comment_119522754

Economies of scale and retail costs.

Economies of scale - UHT milk is as popular as fresh milk over there. You will see shelves of it. Here you might see one row. So a supermarket there will buy pallets of the stuff, here they will but a couple of boxes.

Transport to canaries is cheap. A full 40ft container will be less than €2500 and that can carry a huge amount of uht milk. So shipping from ireland to canaries is a couple of cent for carton

Then the retail costs. All the staff of the supermarket are paid about 40% less than what they are paid here, that make a difference.

BTW a litre of fresh milk is €1.39 in lidl in Tenerife. - But you forgot to say that

sasco · 07-09-2022 2:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119582181#Comment_119582181

Thought something like this was coming, those are out of stock for the last few weeks. Seems like with their own brand products go out of stock for a while and then come back either a different price or change to sizing.

muffler · 07-09-2022 3:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119582181#Comment_119582181

It's 3 Euro Clubcard price

07-09-2022 4:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119585146#Comment_119585146

They must have added that later. Still think I'd prefer the old pack!

They'd gone as thin as two-ply already, now I wonder how much longer this so-called "long" roll is...

3d4life · 07-09-2022 11:38pm

"BTW a litre of fresh milk is €1.39 in lidl in Tenerife"

@walterking I guess that might be an issue if you are German. I mean, Lidl is more or less a last resort supermarket there. A place to go if you are stuck for something on a Sunday - 'cause the greasy till rules Lidl GMBH. So they ignore the societal norm of Sunday being a day of rest

Dino & Murky have a much better offering ( and cheaper fresh milk ) than Lidl

P.S. I dont buy your attempt at justifying the excess pricing of UHT milk in Ireland

gmisk · 08-09-2022 4:24pm

Those one litre bottles of flavoured fizzy water used to be 35c I am pretty sure...now up to 55c

crayon80 · 10-09-2022 10:26am

Bananas now €1.35 /kg in tesco and lidl.

Mav11 · 16-09-2022 4:16pm

Tesco Farmhouse wheaten bread was €1.09 then €1.20 now €1.45!

I can kind of understand these rises, given the amount of energy that a bakery must use. I wonder will the prices drop when energy price decreases???

17-09-2022 7:13pm

Tesco own brand 12 can multipack of cat food has been more or less unavailable for the last few weeks. Which was a sure sign they were going to change them. Sure enough, now all they seem to have are 6 can packs, which obviously works out more expensive, plus they've changed some of the flavours. But even those were out of stock again this week.

So I headed down to Maxizoo earlier, as they used to like their cat food, only to discover HUGE price increases right across the board, and the food I used to get them has gone up from €1.09 a tin (maybe 3 months ago?) to €1.69 a tin. I ended up buying single cans of Whiskas at €1.12 a tin. Never buy pouches, they are just a total rip off.

Think I'll take the bells of their collars and let them start catching their own dinners. 😾