Milking it again

[CallMeCurious]

So we went from a pint of milk (568 ml) for 55p to 500 ml for 55p (shrinkflation of 13.6%). If it had been honest then it should have dropped to 48p for 500 ml. Now up to 80p in January.

I make that a grand total of 67% increase in 2 years. Or you could say 33% a year. Inflation rate at 10% my arse. No doubt cheese, cream cakes and cafe coffees will rise again too.

Watched prices in supermarkets rise in leaps and bounds, £1.00 food items now £1.20 or £1.45 in some cases in about a year. Then there are household brands selling 36 sheets where it used to be 40 for the same price. New 'green package' roughly the same size as the old plastic one but 194g shrinks down to 176g at the same price. 

Pretty soon 1p and 2p will be abolished. Already noticing a lot more £2 coin in circulation.   

 

[2112]

It’s all milk products which are rising in price small medium and large. No mention of price increases for cheese but you can safely assume that will increase. 

[Banker]

Why is this a topic, obviously prices are going up, inflation in Uk 11.1%.
are you going to start a toot for every shopping item?

[TheTeapot]

This long warm autumn should be doing the farmers some good, the grass continues to grow.

[Gizo]

2 minutes ago, TheTeapot said:

This long warm autumn should be doing the farmers some good, the grass continues to grow.

This. I doubt I’ve seen any chopping done in months. 

[Ringy Rose]

It's funny how a 33% payrise for farmers is handed over no questions asked, but how dare teachers ask for 10%.

Arla are a co-operative and don't charge this much.

Edited November 16, 2022 by Ringy Rose

[Gladys]

3 minutes ago, Ringy Rose said:

It's funny how a 33% payrise for farmers is handed over no questions asked, but how dare teachers ask for 10%.

Not quite the same though is it? 

[Asthehills]

27 minutes ago, Ringy Rose said:

It's funny how a 33% payrise for farmers is handed over no questions asked, but how dare teachers ask for 10%.

Arla are a co-operative and don't charge this much.

33% pay rise?  Please show your working out.

[offshoremanxman]

9 hours ago, CallMeCurious said:

Then there are household brands selling 36 sheets where it used to be 40 for the same price.

You count how many sheets of bog roll is on a roll? 

[John Wright]

2 hours ago, 2112 said:

It’s all milk products which are rising in price small medium and large. No mention of price increases for cheese but you can safely assume that will increase. 

The packet size has been reduced.

[hissingsid]

The spreadable spread has gone up weekly depending on where you shop it as £2.25 now £2.85 in some places.    I just hope the farmers are getting their fair whack out of this rise and it is not getting spent on their all singing all dancing new biogradable cartons that they are spending fortunes on advertising on the Nations Station, the only ones in the British Isles would you believe!!!

[Mercenary]

5 hours ago, 2112 said:

It’s all milk products which are rising in price small medium and large. No mention of price increases for cheese but you can safely assume that will increase. 

Well cheese is set by market prices unlike the state mandated cost of (local) milk.

Do we really need price controls on milk in 2022? 

[Ringy Rose]

5 hours ago, Asthehills said:

33% pay rise?  Please show your working out.

8% in Jan, 15% in July, 7% now, all compounded, as the OP says literally at the top of this thread.

Edited November 16, 2022 by Ringy Rose

[Utah 01]

I noted Tesco's 'Pilgrim Choice' cheese had increased 25p since last week.

I cannot help but feel that many are profiting quite handsomely under the guise of 'inflation' while others are genuinely suffering.

[Banker]

1 hour ago, Ringy Rose said:

8% in Jan, 15% in July, 7% now, all compounded, as the OP says literally at the top of this thread.

But the farmers aren’t getting all of rise as it does actually cost to get the milk from farmers into carton & to retailers/customers.

Milk has gone up 48% in Uk WTH cheese at 27% so not sure what the whining is about here 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63641414