Supermarket Price Increases [Groceries]

Same with me with the milk- always push past the cartons at the front with only a couple of days left on the use by date and hit the ones at the back with a near 1 week date

Let's preserve the absurdity…

Anyone fancy chatting to them for a reason behind this? 😄

[EDIT]

And for good measure… today's exchange rate on Revolut:

Without UK VAT @ 20%, £34.99 is £27.99, which converts to €33.12

Without IE VAT @23%, €64.99 is €50.04

(which would be £42.28 for those converting the other way)

So basically Lidl's sending each and every microwave from its supplier to Ireland on its own Ryanair flight.

But wait, THERE'S MORE!! (and at this stage I'm just throwing numbers at a calculator)

£34.99 includes UK VAT…

That equals €41.40 at today's exchange rate…

€41.40 plus Irish VAT would be €50.92

€50.92 plus Irish VAT again…

…would be €62.60, a difference of €2.39, enough to take exchange rate fluctuations into account? 😬 🤔

Even if it's not that at all, a 23% logistics cost/markup difference is absurd.

(the £/€ pricing would likely have been set months ago, but even then, I don't think the exchange rates got that bad)

For what its worth here's what they just sent me about it. It's a 57% increase in price for us compared to UK. Complete spoofers.

EDIT: @oneweb Just seeing your calculations above. I did a straight 23.59 / 41.40 * 100 based on your revolut conversion to give the 57% increase on UK pricing. I indeed pointed this out to them and just got a reply:

I expect to see the price of the microwave in Irish stores amended to 45 euro by COB today. 🤣

Just beware that stock rotation is a forgotten skill these days, staff often just put fresh stock at the front and push the older stuff behind. I took a back-of-shelf bottle of milk home only to realise it had a Use By of the day before 🤦‍♂️

I absolutely always reach to the back. I was in Tesco on the 25th. Picked up mince at the front of the shelf. Luckily at the till I realised mince was the 23rd. They are well able to have the pickers going around doing home delivery etc but feck all quality control these days.

Yet they don't all open here

That's what I don't understand.

We are in a bad need of a Costco or a big wholesaler where you can actually save money.

Interesting on the meat at the front door

Makes sense that they'd be putting the slops at the front door where you'd see them

Used to deliver bread 😁 so reaching into the back of shelf is second nature

Is operating a business that much more expensive in Ireland than the UK that they are selling a lot of products at 50%-100% more than in the UK? That's what always baffled me. What's that huge differential covering if their margins are so small.

Don't tell me @walterking is back yet again.

What sometimes surprises me about all this shrinking is why manufacturers never thought about it before.

Are they in any of the other EU leaflets this week? It would be interesting to see the prices there.

seems anyone who mentions suppliers profits gets accused of being another poster.

Apologies for mentioning what is obvious. I dabble in shares (and post on the investment forum) and thus see the inordinate profits of suppliers such as Coca Cola, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble.

I'll avoid this thread from now on as it seems you have to be a member of a "I hate supermarkets" club.

bye bye

Lidl Cheese Puffs used to be 85¢ for 150gms. Now they've been repackaged and they're charging €1.29 for 130gms.

Aldi have done likewise, same 130gms will cost you €1.39 though.

I can remember a couple of years ago when they were 59¢ I believe for the 150gm bag.

The neck calling them "Giant", when the bag is smaller, maybe they mean the "new" price is "Giant". It's a 50% increase over the old price for 20% less product. Which is actually more than 50% when you factor in it's a smaller bag now.

Edit: I had another look at these in Aldi. They've gone from €5.67 per kg…

To €10.69 per kg.

That's an 88.5% increase in price per kg. Disgraceful!

You cant use the word "puff" anymore… its non-PC.

I notice Lidl have the fake Aero chocolate bar for sale at 159c…..a few months back it was 99c.

My SV used to be shocking for price discrepancy, every weekly shop there was always mistakes but you probably would not notice unless you checked the receipt. Special offers not being applied, etc. Strange that it was never under charging but always over charged. Has improved dramatically though over the last 12 months, can't remember last error.

It has been going on forever. It was covered in Leaving Cert Business Studies in the 1980s.

Before that it was dodgy weighting scales

seen this many times in the local SV. Always check your receipt!

Lot of small towns Svalu is the only supermarket

A lot of dodgy pricing with them

Aldi are right. Such services are loss-making. This will help keep prices low. Clearly they are aggressively chasing more market share

I used to do 90% of my shopping in Aldi and 10% in Dunnes. Now it will be reversed. Click and Collect is important to me, and a big loss, as I find shopping instore extremely difficult due to mobility issues.

Between not paying Aldi's click and collect charge and Dunnes 10 of 50 voucher offers, with free click and collect, I reckon it will balance out.

But I understand that is not part of Aldi's market strategy, and they don't care about the loss of some customers.

You can get a whole salmon in Dunnes for €16. They cut it up for you to whatever size you need. I get it cut into 6 pieces, around 200g each which is 2.60 a portion.

Meat accounts for around 40% of my shop price wise. It's **** expensive.

Dunnes €9.99 for two good quality sirloin steaks is great value.

It started during C-19, it made sense then.

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is set to discontinue its c&c, marking the end of a four-year trial that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Our focus is on providing customers with high-quality products at the lowest possible prices. One of the ways we keep our prices low is by running the most efficient supermarket business. We've made the decision to bring our c&c to an end so we can focus on doing just that."