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Cost of Living - Shrinkflation is speeding up at an alarming rate
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Afrikan boy - one day I went to Lidl
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That does not sound like a slave wage to me.
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Where is this? I think you mentioned before.
Really, if you are on minimum wage you would get much more benefit living somewhere cheaper. Before someone jumps in and says you shouldn't have to. Doesn't matter. It is the way it is. Personally I'd move.
Problem, rent far to high for average wage.
The whole system favours landowners, they should have never allowed international investors to own residential property. The biggest problem now is financial companies are buying up entire new build buildings, then renting them out.
The government seems to be pushing out mum and dad landlords , so that these massive financial companies such as asset management companies to take over, scoop up properties.
Bank of England economist says people need to accept they are poorer
Huw Pill, chief economist for the Bank of England, says asking for pay rises contributes to inflation.
www.bbc.co.uk
Bank of England: 'Accept' you are poorer remark sparks backlash
Unions and small businesses react with outrage to comments that people need to accept they are poorer.
www.bbc.co.uk
Don't know if this has already been posted on the forum, understandably it caused a backlash in the second link.
RIP V will be able to tell the children we used to have 250g packs of butter until BorisBre***- now 200g ... eggs next ?
do use quite a lot of the easily spreadable watered down variety on toast
didn't realise sugar was increasing - energy costs for sugar beet/cane processing ?
Here are the ten food items that have risen the most over the last month: Mar23 YoY
- Olive Oil: 49.2%
- Sugar: 42.1%
- Low-fat milk: 38.8%
- Whole milk: 37.9%
- Pasta products and couscous: 36.8%
- Margarine and other vegetable fats: 33.9%
- Sauces, condiments and spices: 33.7%
- Cheese and curd: 33.6%
- Eggs: 32%
- Frozen vegetables other than potatoes and other tubers: 30.2%
Don
I would imagine turning sugar beet into sugar is fairly energy intensive, plus it might have been a bad growing season last year?
Soldato
Changed from ee to smarty Since 14% price rise made it worth it. Ee phone me up, offer similar terms (but in contact instead of monthly). I my said Im uninterested due to your in contact price rises, he tried to tell me its a government rule and they have to do it,so smarty will do it too. Even though smarty specifically advertise that they don't.
Either someone needs training, or they need to stop lying. I vote it's incompetence, And because its based on the "government inflation rate of cpi" +3.9% he somehow thinks they have to do it, as everyone does, and has no idea is something companies snuck in a while back.
Either someone needs training, or they need to stop lying. I vote it's incompetence, And because its based on the "government inflation rate of cpi" +3.9% he somehow thinks they have to do it, as everyone does, and has no idea is something companies snuck in a while back.
Usually stuff like that gets handed down from upper management to floor management with some half-truths and hints as to the direction they want pushed, which gets laid on thick at the "daily" (which rarely happen daily) briefing of regular staff which then turns into staff trotting it out as if fact with a line of deniability if they ever get taken up on it :s
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It's not just that food prices have increased, the quality has also gone down. I'm convinced they are using cheaper ingredients.
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This.
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I used to pay 6 pence for train from Bordsley Green to New Street - Not been on a train for about 40 yrs now. Are they still steam
Since pandemic- Lidl loo rolls have gone up from £3.99 for 24 to £13.99 - Had to cut back on sheets from 3 to 2 and use a gentle touch
Bank of England economist says people need to accept they are poorer
Huw Pill, chief economist for the Bank of England, says asking for pay rises contributes to inflation.www.bbc.co.uk
Bank of England: 'Accept' you are poorer remark sparks backlash
Unions and small businesses react with outrage to comments that people need to accept they are poorer.www.bbc.co.uk
Don't know if this has already been posted on the forum, understandably it caused a backlash in the second link.
Got to love the rich telling the poor that they need to accept they are going to be permanently poorer. Such a depressing time we live in economically for the past 10 years. Massive wage stagnation for the middle class, skyrocketing house prices, now higher interest rates to foolishly combat high food and energy prices.
In that respect interesting that monoplies commission rejected the Microsoft Activision purchase it's the only way, for UK, to hang onto things, till death us do part, like ARM, too.
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25% of children born today will be obese by age of 10 ... so perhaps price is of hidden benefit
It's not like we have been in a particularly good place to start with. It's been austerity Britain since 2010.
Sadly there is a point to what they are saying though - theses demands and attempts at trying to equalise things will actually result in the worst off being hit even harder over the longer run, although that doesn't excuse the fact that is due to the way things are being run with the ever concentration of wealth away from the bulk of the population.