Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

Yeah I but some Sure the other day. Arctic blast or some bollixoligy like that. Scans in a 8 quid but the clubcard does it for 3. An absolute scam. The psychology of the Tesco Clubcard is massive.

Onions and potatoes keep rising in Dunnes !!

If the rain doesn't stop they won't be there at all.

Dunnes doing 18 cans of coke for €10 including deposit worked out at €12.60

They sell em for 18c in Newry, so can't be a weather issue

Don't drink them often but nice to have in house when parched . Broken down it works out at .70c a can price above.

The supermarkets here agreed to stop doing the under 20c promotional veg a number of years ago as it was giving a very inaccurate idea of how much the food actually cost.

Its below cost selling; as are the Super6 and equivalent in Aldi. This used to be outright illegal here; as it puts other food prices up - the supermarket has to make a profit somewhere - and supermarkets put pressure on wholesalers and manufactuers/farmers to take some of the hit too.

No need for pots soon the summer will be here soon,haha Then it's pasta all the way!

Farmers kicked off first I thought.

Yeah, mix of some getting paid less by onward distributors due to a % deal and general opposition to people being made think you could actually get a bag of carrots for 6c - think that was the cheapest they got that Christmas, the undercutting started at 9c so there wasn't a large amount to cut by!

All 9c/69c/99c/whatever discount deals being offered are loss leaders that you will end up paying for in dearer costs for other food.

Tesco are getting ridiculous these days with the constant dropping of decent brands. There is so little choice now it's pathetic. I've had the delivery saver thing for about 5 years now, but once it's up in a few weeks, I am 100% going to Dunnes. I put together a basket of similar items from Dunnes just to check, and it is marginally a little more expensive even with the 10 off every 50, but I was genuinely shocked at the absolutely massive range of choices you have compared to tesco. Why have tesco done this? All the 'this product has been removed from our range' notices on so many everyday things is infuriating. Also, the quality of the stuff that actually gets delivered has gone way way downhill. Short best before dates that were never an issue now has become the norm. It feels like a company that is doing a last cash grab before jumping ship big time.

TK maxx are the worst for this. Over 50% of their stock is under their own faux brands or brands make to the price point tk maxx want.

I had a creamfields yogurt once. It was utter muck. Full of stabilisers and artificial flavouring.

Ive spoken to a few drivers about this, the online business is separate to the in store business they were saying.

They have different ranges of products, alot of the stuff removed from online is still available in store.

There is no logic to it either, for example, 2 litre bottles of 7 Up Free were unavailable for me to buy for over a year, always out of stock online. Bizarre.

I even spoke to customer support and they said they would resolve it, they didnt.

I had a creamfields yogurt once. It was utter muck. Full of stabilisers and artificial flavouring.

The natural Greek yoghurt was very nice and didnt have much additives.

i've seen the price of sparkling water go up in aldi, but that is'nt all this is about. i wanted to touch on water and how super markets are using the whole return label excuse to bump up their own prices on products before even adding the deposit.

with this example sparkling water what i assumed to be €3.15 is now gone up to €4 + €1.80 deposit = €5.80 total!

i feel the same is gonna happen soon with regular bottled water in aldi, as soon as they've gotten rid of the non-logo non-deposit stock or as soon as june 1st (whichever happens sooner), it's gonna be around the same price as its sparkling counterpart if not more, i'm calling it.

They seem to no longer have any regular lid 12x500ml bottled water, next closest thing is 12 sports cap 12x500ml. The websites list 24x500ml normal lid packs of bottled water, but been to 3 aldi's today and rang up 5 more, none have it. Lidl's and tesco already have return logo's on their own bottled water and put the prices up too.

Too many places are taking advantage of this return scheme and using it to their advantage to bump up the price on their own items. This return scheme should only be the price of the deposit added to what we would normally play for the product. What we would normally pay for the product has now been increased! Stores are free to do this in ireland as no price commish etc, but they're clearly doing it alongside the return scheme. This picture with price difference when in comparison of sportscap normal water 12x500 vs sparkling water 12x500 is a lovely example that shows supermarkets are deliberately doing this alongside the return/deposit scheme. Otherwise non-logo water would have been bumped up in price too otherwise. BIG DIFFERENCE €3.15 VS €5.80!!