Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

Also purple snack bars- buy a six pack for €2:50 or 12 pack for €5:50.

Then next week a 12 pack Costs €3.99.

Ye must be obsessed with Coke lads and shite chocolate and fairy liquid🤣. Ye should be buying elderflower cordial, organic chocolate amend Ecover washing up liquid. It’s better for the planet and your taste buds!

It's that time of night.

deposit return will add €3 to that package - which you will get back.

But prices are artificially high to give discounts. Tesco will have a discount every bank holiday weekend - so expect a chance next week to load up without the 15c per can deposit.

I'd call that a 50% increase

With regards to toilet roll in Dunnes, this has been the case for quite a while. I recall nothing noting these exact 2 packs last Summer, with the same discrepancy (2 * 9 pack equal to price to 1 * 16 pack).

They're very expensive for toilet roll regardless, Supervalu (who would hardly be considered a cheap place to shop) have 18 rolls of 3-ply toilet roll for €6.37 (https://shop.supervalu.ie/sm/delivery/rsid/5550/product/supervalu-luxury-toilet-tissue-18-roll-18-roll-id-1675182000).

Funnily enough, this scenario (of the larger pack not necessarily being better value than multiple smaller packs) is why we never let one of our housemates do the shopping when we were all living together, because he'd just grab the biggest of everything under the assumption that it was always the best value.

God almighty for the first time this week, I actually noticed the price of toothpaste! Over €7 fecking euro for Colgate are they having a laugh!

Of of course they now call it an XL pack as if we are fooled, I'll be waiting till its in special offer.

It's like the Rice Crispsy 'Extra large pack' that used to be 720g but now something like 670g, funny it was never called extra large when it was actually bigger!

Yes, like the other poster says, use Amazon.

I bought two dozen tubes as a Black Friday special. Came in at roughly €2 each for a good quality type of Colgate.

Here's an example https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hammer-Sensitive-Care-Professional-Toothpaste/dp/B01G6TYOFU 4 tubes costing a total of about €8.58.

Even Boots own brand, much better value including shampoo, conditioner - such good value has a tendency to go out of stock alas.

SuperValu have totally lost the plot recently.

For instance, bags of logs for the 🔥.

All winter they have been charging €4.99 per bag in my local whereas Lidl were €5.99.

It's a small town and both shops are equidistant for most people. SV had sold out by 4pm most days as a € is a good saving and we would buy our other bits n' pieces while we were there.

A couple of weeks ago Lidl dropped their price to €5.49.

Now, any business with a bit of cop on would at least look at their margins and think is there any way they could maybe knock ten or twenty cent off their price and hopefully keep the regular custom.... But no, not SuperValu 🙄. Two days later they INCREASED the price of their logs to €5.25 making the difference between them and Lidl negligible.

With parking much handier all the log buyers have moved to Lidl and SV have only had to restock once in the last two weeks as opposed to every day previously.

Never has the phrase "shooting themselves in the foot" been so apt.

Thanks everyone for the special offers on toothpaste.

I never noticed the price because we are very fussy about the auld toothpaste so the one we like it just gets thrown into the trolley.

Remember though it's XL so I'm sure it will last me for years!

Doesn't anyone just buy the cheapest own brand ? Does it really make a difference unless you particularly love the flavour of ccolgate or need sensitive stuff?

Cheapest own brands were 69- 79c for ages and jumped to €1.50 everywhere. I bought it in Tescos for €1.15 last week. That's not on website anymore and prices are up again . The Cheapest now is a pro sensitive one for €1.30. https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/en-IE/products/276919314

Still less expensive than branded unless amazon has better value