Anyone feeling the inflation?

Chojin

Chojin

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I've just signed up for a new dual fuel deal and based on last year's usage I'll be paying around 15% more.

A few times I've wanted to buy a snack and picked up a chocolate bar for example only to realise how light it was and promptly put it back down.

Anyway just a few examples but the list goes on. Personally I'm finding the quoted 3% inflation doesn't reflect what I'm seeing in the real world. How is everyone else affected?
 
3 % is an average, with brexit the odd thing might be cheaper, while some things are significantly more expensive.
 
As us usual companies will use any excuse to raise prices but are very slow to reduce them. The utility companies have made this into an art form. I can see no reason to be concerned about 3% inflation and I am pretty much on a fixed income these days.
 
The quoted 3% figure is based on the CPI which is something completely irrelevant to 99% of consumers, most people will be seeing a >10% increase in the cost of their essential goods and services.
 
I've actually got a far cheaper dual fuel deal by moving.

However I do agree that over the past few years, it feels expensive to live any kind of decent lifestyle. I've been cutting a lot of unnecessary things back but it still irks me how I feel I should have more to spare before payday.
 
Yep, im feeling the pinch. Thankfully Im in a job where I get a payrise every year. But doing my shopping you are paying more or the same for less. Iceland were £3 for 40 fish fingers. Now it's £3 for 35 fish fingers.

Packs of M&Ms were 160g now it's 120g and costs 10p more. Stopped buying them now.
 
Some stores are going crazy with price hikes, for instance some items in Sainsbury's have increased by over 33%. Hardy shop there any more, far cheaper options around.
 
I don't really notice it because my spending is sporadic and not routine, sometimes I shop for a week, sometimes I shop for a day, sometimes I just pick up a couple of essentials etc.
 
Martini1991 said:
Expenditure has increased since the referendum on the same goods.

Feeling dat benefit for the working class.
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All that sovereignty battering down prices and stabilising things for the proletariat. Magic. Good work Boris and Nigel, we'll create statues to you soon, in all the gold we'll be able to save.

As for the OP, yes prices in supermarkets for food and other essentials have risen dramatically, things we source in work, our stock has increased massively also.
For inflammation to be 3% there must be an absolutely magnetic way of switching things around to keep the figure seeming so artificially low.
 
Several things have increased quite significantly and apples in particular have seen a big hike in prices over the past month even at Lidl and Aldi. We get our bread and softies (baps) from Asda and while the price of a Hovis loaf has remained the same the price of softies has increased significantly. We buy their lovely Deli Rolls which used to be two packs of four for a quid but shop up to 80p a pack around 6 months ago. There are no deals on even their standard rolls and softies anymore. Add in increasing costs of rent, power, fuel and loads of other stuff and things can get pretty tight. It doesn't help when my RAF disability pension and War Pension is frozen at 1% a year if I am lucky. Since 2008 there has been three or four years when I didn't get any increase at all.
 
What I don't get is why are we, as consumers, being penalised with these price increases? I'm talking about us as normal consumers as opposed to those who spend outside of their means and stick everything on credit / credit cards.

Food's gone up, Virgin Media goes up 10-15% year-on-year, rail fares up 3%+ every year, VAT at 20%, higher taxes on house insurance, flagship handsets are now £70/month instead of £35/month.

Through no fault of our own.

I guess the one good thing we have going though is personal allowance before 20% tax is now at £11,000. It doesn't offset the above though.
 
This is what happens after years of EMERGENCY interest rates and lots of Quantitative Easing. It'll get a lot lot worse as well over the coming 2 - 3 years unless interest rates are forced up. Thankfully, it looks like that day will be arriving in the not too distant future.
 
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