I can get 1 basket of shopping for £20 depending on what I am buying of course. Went in today and paid £18 for half a bag of shopping £4.80 of that was the wife's 1 tin of hair spray
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then your clearly only ever buying food and don't spend enough time in the chocolates aisle
for 20quid your probably buying like 1 meal worth of stuff then eating that same meal for days?
most people aren't only buying food when they go to a supermarket.
detergent/washing powder, bin bags, washing up liquid etc it all ads up quickly
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gone to buy numerous things recently and walked away, cornetto's £6 for 3, picked onions £3 a jar... had only 2 or 4 take awaya in 3 months when it would have been 10 / 15.. eaten out twice when it would have been 10x that..
oh and i can afford it if i want.. but there is a point im not willing to pay more ...
oh and i can afford it if i want.. but there is a point im not willing to pay more ...
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I try to buy only what we use and yes I do buy other stuff in the big shop which is about £60 for a small trolley load. I also eat chocolate.
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i am in the fortunate position of not needing to worry about money (at least untill end of jan next year where i lose my job) however i dont think it would matter how wealthy i get........ i would not be paying £6 for 3 cornettos when i can buy sainsburys own brand version for 4 for £1.50ish iirc.
which does bring me to my next comment and cut me a little slack because i am well aware this will make me sound like 30p Lee but..........
i do face palm a bit when i see those daytime TV shows where people are uttlerly skint so a professional cost cutter helps them save money. I have seen people with barely a pot to pee in struggling to survive and yet they buy more expensive branded stuff than i ever have or ever would buy.
dont get me wrong, its buyers choice, but surely when you are skint you should not need to go on TV to realise that heinz baked beans are stupidly expensive (and not even any good) where as own brand ones are a fraction of the price.
(i must admit i am fussy with beans..... a bit of a guilty pleasure, but branston beans are still cheaper than heinz and infinitely better quality.)
Lovely Monday morning email stating our council tax has gone up 5%
I expect the same plus our green bin tax went up £3 (5%) as well in january and this is the first week we have used it.
Gotta pay for council excess.
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i dont mind that tho because that money goes to pay for our amazing recycling services and well maintained roads.......................................................
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Council tax has gone up 3-7% pretty much every year for as long as I have owned a house. I think only one year it didn’t go up and this years increase isn’t the largest by some margin.Lovely Monday morning email stating our council tax has gone up 5%
Or they need to replace all the funding the conservative government cut from the block grant paid to local authorities.
I don’t know if your council is the same but 47% of my councils funding is now spent on adult social care.
Yeah, but it's just one more thing on top of all the other recent increases. It doesn't matter if it's the biggest increase in percentage terms, because we probably didn't see big increases in things like energy bills, etc. during those years.
As I said, "members only" prices have been a thing since forever
And if you think preventing them from doing so would result in prices dropping, then you are very naïve, they would simply raise prices to offset the losses caused by their inability to harvest that data
Exactly what I am doing
Again, nobody is being forced to do so, they could just not participate in the loyalty scheme, and instead pay the higher prices - or are you suggesting that shopping at M&S is cheaper than paying the "standard" prices at places like Sainsbury's, Morrison's, Tesco, Asda, etc.?
At present we have the situation where people can pay less for certain items, in exchange for letting the supermarket track their shopping habits. Whilst not ideal, is this not the lesser of 2 evils when compared to them simply not being able to afford those items at all?
Lovely Monday morning email stating our council tax has gone up 5%
7.5% here, and we've not had a recycling collection in over a month
Honestly, I don't even mind the increase, in absolute terms it's a trivial amount (~£10/month), it's more the fact that we keep paying more every year, and get less back for it. I'd rather they put it up by a decent amount and in return we actually get reliable bin collections, roads that have fewer craters than the surface of mars, more police, youth services to keep the bored teenagers entertained rather than getting up to mischief because they have nothing better to do, etc.
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I think multi buy vs single buy as well as large sku vs small sku and the complete removal of some small sku's is a far bigger problem than member prices. I would like to see the differential capped by law to stem the abuse of single people.
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I caved in the other day at LIDL, i bought a 10x pack of those Nature oat bars for £3.50. Turns out that's not even a good price. Though it's good i'm bitter about it as it'll get me baking more.
Pretty bad situation when i'm moaning about £3.50
Pretty bad situation when i'm moaning about £3.50
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i hear what you are saying and you have a point.
however large SKU products use less packaging so less waste and on top of that are surely cheaper to manufacture and distribute as well and so OTOH i do think they should be cheaper.
As a compromise maybe items with a short use by date as well as "loose" goods should be strongly encouraged not to try to strong arm people to over buy to save a few quid.
but items with a long shelf life, or items where the large packs using less packing i have no problem "family sized" packs being better value. just because you are single doesnt mean you wont eventually make use of a 100pack of washing machine tablets or a giant refill pack of liquid soap for instance
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I only every buy the largest, best value version of a product.
The trick is not to consume more of it than you ordinarily would.
The only exception is fresh fruit and vegetables.
I don’t think I’ve paid full retail price for things like washing power ever. There is usually a promotional price on the biggest version of it every 3 months, I just buy enough to last me until the next time it’s on promo.
It often features in the slightly bashed reduced section for half off or less. I’ve got a good years supply at the moment thanks to this.
The trick is not to consume more of it than you ordinarily would.
The only exception is fresh fruit and vegetables.
I don’t think I’ve paid full retail price for things like washing power ever. There is usually a promotional price on the biggest version of it every 3 months, I just buy enough to last me until the next time it’s on promo.
It often features in the slightly bashed reduced section for half off or less. I’ve got a good years supply at the moment thanks to this.
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lol i have fallen foul of that myself a few times.. esp with stuff like giant bags of crisps and chocolate
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i guess they made them smaller because they are no longer "not for girls"
the thing which grinds my gears is how they market the reduction in sizes or stopping selling discounted multi buys.... like they are doing us a favour thinking of our health.
in which case lets have a percentage reduction in RRP to mirror the reduction in size as well then!.
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And wagon wheels!