What really struck me was the budget retailers, Aldi, Farm foods, Heron foods were not that cheap. Yet in some more expensive places like M&$ they had better value deals
Slovak lodger of mine worked as a Strawberry picker in Kent.... The most uniform of size and colour went to M&S / Waitrose, the least uniform went to the cheaper supermarkets.... The price saving was miniscule but on a massive buy, yes the likes of M&S paid more but the differences between quality were very narrow. However, M&S and Waitrose paid their bills on time, the others would keep them hanging around.
Tesco has the Club Card scheme but they have increased the prices in order to convince you of the bargains to be had using the card. Most of the items can be bought at other Supermarkets for the same price without a card.
You're spot on Gareth (sorry!). I shop at Aldi all the time. Not long ago, a cheap week was £70, and a dear week about £85. The cheapest week I have had over the last 2 months was £90, and most weeks now it is £105 ish. Plus, I have cut out some of the luxuries. This is why, in Yorkshire anyway, there are people who have full time jobs having to use food banks. On the news last night, there was what looked to be an ordinary sort of woman who said that her mortgage was now £1600 a month and was set to go up to about £2650. What sort of earnings must you have to afford that? It has to stop or maybe civil war is next.
begs the question though, why that woman got such a huge mortgage during zero interest rates, when the risk rates were going to go higher were huge. Lock downs, printing money and war means massive inflation and int rate hikes. We all knew this 3 years ago.
@stuart207 so who are the these "share holders" , I bet you can't name one share holder. Which means you have absolutely no idea what you are on about.
You are not wrong Gareth. All the supermarkets had it right off during Covid and rather reward their customers they are sticking it right up them with these prices. There's stuff that goes up every week, Putin and Brexit my @rse.
Yes, you’re deff talking about Tesco and they are dirty Bastards. Basically, now, everything is massively overpriced and if you get the free clubcard, then you can buy at regular price and they all try make it look like you’re saving. It’s basically a way to get more money out of people like me that can’t be bothered with clubcard. Like the card is free so why the pudding about with prices? I wouldn’t mind if you had to pay for the card to get savings. For instance Tesco meal deal has been £3 forever and now it’s about £4 unless you have clubcard. I hardly use tesco. It just annoys me seeing the £4 price or £3 with clubcard. Scamming fuckers.
People don`t know that wholesale food prices have been coming down at least for the past couple of months but all supermarkets have been putting up their prices sometimes weekly. I do the weekly shop using Lidls and Aldis and have seen increases of 40p to 60p in a week on some items. Mostly the increases are in the 10p to 30p range that is per week. I have to drive 15 miles to these shops , 30 mile round trip as well which makes a shopping trip fairly expensive as there are seven in our family and none of us drinks or smokes. I look out for offers too but all the supermarkets are guilty of sheer unadulterated profiteering and we know that these inflated prices will not come down. Great video as usual.
Prices are going up, salaries aren't. Something will have to give somewhere if this carries on. My elderly parents are far worse off today than they were a year or so ago, on government pension. Whatever people want to blame (Brexit, war, pandemic,...) it all boils down to bad management in the government, and look at all the wasted money over the past few years. It doesn't bother them, they just put up taxes.
@@tedthesailor172 pushing up wages, my arse - my wage back in 2009 was around £27,000 per annum, according to the BOE' inflation calculator that would be worth £40,954.04 - the highest in the same banding of the NHS now is £35,099 - a shortfall of £5,855. So nearly £6 grand a year worse off than 2009 = ffycin tories !
Agree, it's mainly down to poor government. Some things out of their control but we import the majority of our food and the pound has fallen in value over the past few years
They get you into these budget supermarkets because they were cheap, and they were at first, but now they're virtually on par with the likes of Sainsbury's! I'm going to my nearest local producers and farm shops (not so local unfortunately) and their prices no longer seen expensive! And the quality is better and I'm supporting small businesses! Like your bins, btw, Gareth!
As someone who lives alone and has enough storage space for many tins and dry groceries as well as enough space for frozen food that for the most part can last me 2 months. I usually do one big shop every couple of months so I keep stocked up. And recently I have noticed huge leaps from each previous time to the point I have almost stopped buy any of the bigger name branded products as they have gotten in some cases to ridiculous prices. The thing is from what I am reading once all of the energy prices drop back down food prices will stay as they are which just seems mad. As much as the supermarkets are increasing these prices though it is just as much the suppliers who are charging them more to for the transport costs. The ones not profiting tend to be the farmers and the ones producing all the stuff as it's the chain of people that comes after.
I was made redundant due to ill health three years ago, so I don't have a lot of money coming in. I do though, do a big shop of cheap food now and then, and store it somewhere. Dried food, beans, rice, pasta etc., and tinned veg. (Not tinned tomatoes...they don't keep) We've got about a years worth of food, and six months of water. We live near a river, so I think we're OK if prices around the world get more ridiculous.
@@lat1419 👍🏻 We had loads, but there was an alert from the shop with the big green sign, that the pasta cheese sauce wasn't edible. I suspect they were lying, but my family's welfare comes first.
They did a lot of price gouging during Covid. Morrisons by far the worst, but Aldi is getting that way now. People call it a discounter but its getting mainstream now.
We were told inflation was fuelled by the price of Petrol/Diesel. Well the price of those has been back to normal for months. So what's their excuse now
It would be interesting to see how much of the increase in goods gets to the producers. I'm thinking in particular of farming, which has incredibly small margins.
Unfortunately, this is the decade and a half of 0% interest rates coming home to roost, as well as spending £1trillion on COVID which did nothing to increase GDP.
@@paulpaintshop103 i dunno about all that and trumps been out of the Whitehouse for years. I guess putin is certainly making things hard with mining wheat feilds and such
I bet the farmers don't get a cut from these price increases, the supermarkets will still be ripping them of. I suspect there's a fair bit of profiteering going on. They say inflation at 8.7%... but food inflation is probably at 25% - 50%, sometimes 100%.
Yes, food inflation is no where near 8%. It can vary by 8% from one day to the next. Austrian smoked cheese in Sainsbury’s used to be 1.25 for a sausage. Earlier this year it hit £1.95 and I stopped buying it. I noticed it’s now 1.75. That’s a change of 50p which is far higher than 8%.
I can speak for Southern Italy and here food has gone up by AT LEAST 50% in the span of one year, and that is lowballing it. Obviously wages have gone slightly downhill 😢
I bought a jar of kenco coffee from a Tesco express in Jan 22 for £2.75. I've seen the same product now go for £7.15. there can be no justification for that whatsoever, it's just a blatent cash grab.
Our local egg farmers now sell direct and deliver as the supermarkets won't pay them the cost of producing. There never was a shortage, the big guys just wouldn't pay up. They'd rather pretend there weren't any to be had. If you don't mind odd shaped eggs, they don't cost a lot either.
Interesting "pound land" state that the name of the store isn't a reflection of the price of the goods sold but a name that promotes the savings and value offered by the chain
Really cracking video. You did a brilliant job of capturing the obscene price hikes that supermarkets are currently getting away with. My heart sincerely goes out to all those having to survive on a limited budget !
We are not just heading for a recession, it's more like the greatest depression. Banking and finance is all a confidence game as well so the narrative is always going to maintain everying is headed in the right direction when it's not.
It was all the free money given out during the pandemic - I know people who didn't work for over 12 months and they'd never been as comfortable financially.
We have been in a recession for over 12 months the government are not telling you the truth on how bad things really are . If I said the government is bankrupt would you be surprised . We have hit the bottom now but it's a bumpy road ahead . We all just need to try and hang on for the next 18 months .
I am a recent subscriber to your channel and i think your videos are fun, informative and spot on. Some time ago i read an article on supermarkets that said if they knock 10p off a product they add 10p to another product so that all their total income is almost always the same each week. So when they advertise cut price bargains on telly and you go and shop there they are hoping you will buy a few products they have raised the price on while you are there.
I heard there was to be a meeting tomorrow (Wednesday 28th June) between supermarkets and politicians to find out exactly why the food prices are rising because the media and politicians suspect profiteering in a time of crises.
I agree and it’s even worse for those of us that live in more rural areas where the choice is limited for shops. I’m considering returning to online shopping and looking for deals as at least I can see how much my checkout bill will be as I go along and amend accordingly.
Covid and the war are definitely a factor. Brexit on the other hand has been so mismanaged by the government as it really didn't want to do it in the 1st place. But we are paying the price for the over reaction to covid with the shutdowns and the 80% payments for staying home. I believe we'll be paying for that for the nxt couple of decades at the least.
All planned nothing do do with Covid that was just an excuse and brainwash people....They want people to own nothing and he happy...The food prices will continue to go up and up over the next few years...All planned....I can’t believe how much the prices are going up....They also want us to get used to using self service.
If Aldi products are really from England, ie without import costs then prices shouldn’t be escalating so much. Yeh, feels like Aldi are following the major supermarkets lead, keeping their prices fractionally lower than their rivals but still maintaining a slight differential to the major profiteers.
Thank you verymuch for all you have done gaz over the last few years to keep us all with happy mindset godbless u and family and the same to all the lovely people on here
I’ve just done my weekly shop in ALDI. My bill is £20 higher this week. I was quite concerned until I took into account the case of lager, the pack of stout, a bottle of Port and the case of Dr Peppers.
Its scary times, i really feel for families trying to feed kids and themselves. The prices these days are getting out of hand and their is nothing we can do because we need to eat 😔
@@BaldFoodieGuyThe price of bourbons went up in Tesco Express stores just over a week ago from 55p a packet to 75p, I thought what a rip off, turns out they went up by 15p in the main stores, so are only 5p different in price, still a rip off, as they are no longer match the price like they used to, much like most of the prices of things in their Express stores, so have you over a barrel if that's the only store near to you, luckily I have got an Aldi nearby so can save a bit on things, but they don't carry the range of things I normally buy (outside of the usual staples). So I have to pay bus fare to go anywhere with decent shops, though I do have a Morrisons nearby, so I will have to dig out my More card as some of their deals are as good as Tesco's if not better.
Thank you. I have stashed away foods since a couple of weeks before the first lockdown as I was watching closely what happened in China then Italy. We started to stock up to have enough basics for three months but as shortages started, we just carried on. Of course, over time the stuff needs using before the use by dates. We managed to keep it up until early this year and I have kept a keen eye on price rises as most stuff that stores long term is pretty limited so that's not too hard to do. We grow a lot of our fresh food and so are focusing on spending on soil, beds, maintaing and re-doing things like the polytunnel and greenhouses and making waist high beds where possible and we have done that since 2020 but this year we have had to make a choice between stocking up and making thing for growing because the food is so much more expensive. We mostly buy what we need for the week now and perhaps buy 12 tins of beans or a massive box of washing powder to put away. You could diversify and meet this challenge by, say, making your own batter for frozen fish you can do in the air frier and compare the price with shop bought. You could do the same with pies by buying pastry and making the filling matching ingredients in a bought pie. You could do the same with pizza, sausage rolls, curry or 'kentucky fried chicken'...you'll come out a great chef AND quids in !!!!
I understand that it seems we can do nothing, but I think it's a bad idea to fully accept that. As mentioned by @dacelticcross, there's the grow your own option. That's not a full solution, but it's a helpful choice. We could perhaps start sharing our leftover/near end date food with others in the community who need it, instead of throwing it away. In the bigger picture: the government *could* introduce a mandatory price cap system on essential food items. They could, if they really wanted to. They have already talked about a voluntary scheme. If necessary, we could make life sufficiently unpleasant for our senior politicians, in peaceful ways, so that they will take action.
I shop for groceries online. It started because I moved to UK for marriage during Covid lockdown and my husband is often away for work leaving me home alone without my UK driving license, so delivery was the only option. But now, we prefer it because I can open tabs for the different shops and compare prices of everything. So I fill up a cart with one shop and get extra of the things that are cheaper to hold me over for the next week when I build an online shopping cart for the next week with the things that are cheaper at the other shop. You can get delivery for £1.50. That’s not bad if I’m saving money by comparing prices. Certain things are anywhere from .10p to .50p or more cheaper, so if you search each item at each shop online, you can really save a lot. It’s surprising because even at Morrison’s there are some things cheaper than Asda, they have some good deals on meat and dairy in their savers line. Sainsbury’s currently has the best deal on frozen chicken portions. They used to be sold at Tesco but they’ve been discontinued there. Asda has coffee for £2.30 which is reduced from £2.50. Its £3 everywhere else. Sainsbury’s has frozen lamb chops which are same price as Iceland but only if you buy 3 at Iceland. If you only want one bag, Iceland costs more than Sainsbury’s. So yeah it’s helpful to shop online so you can compare everything one by one and get the best price!
@@BaldFoodieGuy Yeah and cheers back at ya for the tip on black pudding at Iceland! That’s how I found your channel! I was actually having restless leg issues and found it can be caused by iron deficiency (and the doctors will say iron levels are fine!) so I was looking up black pudding because of its high iron content and your video came up 😁 so now I’ve got a shopping cart for Iceland waiting for me to get it in the rotation. Iceland delivery is FREE if you’re spending £40 😎
All ripping us off mate and blaming everyone, but the greedy owners. Went to Iceland the other day and walked out at the shock of the prices in there! Used to be a shop if you were a bit skint you could get a few cheap things in there,. They have us over a barrel mate, they know we can't do without food so they charge whatever they like. Great video Gareth, nice to see one filmed outdoors and a little tour of your neighbourhood.
No, but it is hard to get it: Just don't buy that stuff. Buy as less as you can. The prob is only, that old grannies and their stupid daughter (or sons) will still buy overprized sh i t.
I enjoy your videos where you compare things like baked beans or sausage rolls. They are entertaining and I have changed some items in my shopping Trolly and saved a few pence here and there. But these videos are another level - you are doing an important service - like a journalist - telling us what’s going on. I doubt you intended this to happen and that makes it so real. You speak for us - thank you.
They’re all taking advantage and actually contributing to the inflation we currently have. They’ll report billions in profit at the end of the year, people will say their margins are small etc. It doesn’t matter how small the margins are, if you’re making a billion pound profit you can cut it for the good of everyone.
@@thelion43 a fair one. Companies need to make profit, no problem with that at all. But 1bn profit when half the country are on their a**e is not fair. They could easily make 500m profit and still provide value to shareholders. Maybe a windfall tax is the way forward.
Same as the Energy and Fuel companies, all to drive inflation (everything is made and transported using energy and fuel) to allow the banksters to join in re profiteering, all to ensure “by 2030 🫵🏻 will own nothing have no privacy and be happy”
So true the bank of England want to hault spending but we can't stop spending on food most of us don't have any money left to spend after food and utility bills the b o E and gov are totally ignorant bring food prices down now!!!! they can't even add 2+2 let alone run this country
Makes me laugh when you hear a supermarket is slashing the price of something like a pint of milk by 5p. That's little consolation when they hiked up the price by 50p in first place. They are taking the piss.
Thanks for taking us with you. I bought some of those new Walkers crisps for £1.65 in Iceland and then went next door for a mooch in B&M. They were £1.50 in there! I wish I’d done the shopping the other way around!
" Dad goes to Iceland "... I have done the family shopping for over 40 + yrs and even before Brexit the was a change in Jar sizes and packet amounts from supermarkets that I noticed even then. I have watched this increase the most in Iceland. Some items have gone up over 50% and to the point where I even called to complain and was told delivery fuel costs are the reason for increases. But if you calculate just 5 popular items rising 40% and the amounts sold it comes to £Millions & millions, which far exceed any rise in transport costs.
They always make excuses. These companies go on about using biofuel and electric powered trucks now, yet the prices go up. The government are about to bring in a new tax on tyre wear with bs papers which say tyres do more damage to the air than exhaust does. I predicted this as soon as new tech comes in to heavily reduce the pollution of something or the cost of something it should mean we get taxed less but instead they invent something new to add more tax onto the last standard tax so while they save on efficiency and environmental policy (which brings in gigantic levels of funding) they make a killing in extra tax money going to the coffers. It's just more free money for literally no reason other than sounding like they care.
I was standing next to my Town Centre open air greengrocer lock up stall. The stall has been there for years. When a customer said that she was shopping there now, because our nearest big weekly market doesn't have one greengrocers stall left. When for as long as I can remember, there used to be at least 3 of them.
Isn't it strange, I was thinking about this the other day, when was the last time you ever knew all shops were charging the same set price for milk?? I never ever remember that happening across all stores!
I look at stuff on the shelves, regular stuff what ive been buying for years and in, lets say the past two years, most have at least doubled in price. Stuff that was 99p, is now £1.99. A weekly shop for me in Aldi around £120 now, used to be around £80. And thats me rationing stuff, buying cheaper options and having to go without, if i didnt, it would be £150+. Utter ridiculous, i should start lubing my behind whenever i go shopping, as it hurts getting shafted everytime.
We have a similar problem with our supermarkets here in Australia too. Our main supermarkets are Woolworths. Coles and Aldi. As i do most of the food shopping in our house I am fully aware of the price hikes that seem to be coming almost monthly. As most of our shopping is done in Aldi, I have noticed their price rises most. For instance, a small tin of tuna that six months ago cost 89c, now costs $1.09. That is almost 25% more. And that is fairly typical of the price rises of all other items across the board. How is this justified? I'm damn sure that my pension hasn't gone up anywhere near that amount. Nice to be able to have a whinge with someone who thinks the same way as I do Gareth. Keep up the good work.
Iceland used to be the cheapest for me but I now find it to be the most expensive. It’s becoming so hard to shop financially for a family of 4, It’s gone from trying to eat healthy to just trying to afford eating.
Loved this video & it's format. But genuinely, however bad you think things are in England, prices in N Ireland are another step up again. We've always paid more for our groceries than Britain but things are really out of control here now. It's disgusting that supermarkets around the UK are all colluding now. I thought ALDI & LIDL were here to disrupt things but now they're established, they too have succumbed to greed.
Being a lot more careful about what I buy at the supermarket these days. Also noticed that at my local Sainsbury’s the home branded stuff has started to disappear. Trying to force customers to buy top branded items?
Supermarkets cut the price of milk paid to dairy farmers by about 30% this year -From 50 pence a litre to about 30 pence.Looks like they are not passing those savings to the public !
A loaf in my local supermarket is £2.30 The Iceland stuff sold where I am is sold under license and is double what it costs in the UK. My sister bought a Sainsbury ready meal (also sold under license) which costs £3.15 in Sainsbury. Here the same meal was £6.00. A pint of milk is 85p. You think you have problems.
@@daveuns that milk is local. The local meat is again more than double what it costs in the UK. If you want to buy local bread it will cost between £3 and £5 a loaf. The bread that cost £2.30 is pretty bog standard stuff from Yorkshire. And a small rock between Cumberland, Scotland and Ireland.
It reflects the pricing strategy we have hear, too, in Saskatchewan, Canada. I was interested to see a very large concrete structure behind the shops as you were about to visit iceland.😊
I'm not sure if people actually realise how things work it's not simply the stores raising prices but suppliers across the board and it's usually thanks to one that causes a domino effect
I was in Tesco yesterday and noticed that a pint of milk is 90p regardless of what type it is ie skimmed, semi skimmed or full fat. Everything is stupidly priced now, I've also noticed that things are being reduced in size but price remains the same, even cans of beer are being reduced in alcohol content yet price remains the same.
It’s crazy gaz, I paid £1 in Aldi for some jives ( aldis twix) they used to be like 50p last year and I paid £10 in Iceland for a tray of fantas they were like £8 last month lol
You should see the prices in Canada, mate. 3 can dollar (1.80 pound) for good bread, 1.20 pound for store brand bread. Most of the frozen entrees and pizzas range 3-6 pounds (4-10 dollars can), its nuts. Milk is about 1.75 to 1.90 pound after exchange rate depending on brand, just craziness here too, not just UK
Enjoyable to watch good to see you out and about. Everything is going up and if the price doesn't go up the quantity you get is less and they think we don't notice. Same size box but nothing in it. Like you just said crisps 24g or 25g in one packet that's about half a potato for around 27p it's just crazy. I guess it's the cost of making all these products with the energy prices going up like crazy it all has a knock on effect which we have to pay for which was already expensive to start with.
Erect aaaaaaand square to the front! Not heard that said in a very long time! Having flashbacks to better times & a bit of a nostalgia overload here 🤣🤣 gonna have to watch the video again now. Thanks for the memories 👍
I hear you!! We had run out of sugar the other week and I was in Tesco at the time so I thought I’ll get some while here ….. £1.09 a bag! I ve NEVER paid more than a pound for sugar (usually 69 to 89p) some things seem to go up in price every week atm and you get less for your money - look at 4 packs of chocolate bars, their practically fun size bars now!! 🤦🏻♀️ Fab vid, subd 👍🏻
I was a regular shopper at Lidl and Aldi but they have increased prices probably more than our regular Supermarkets ... Lately I have returned to Morrisons to shop .. In fact their 'Savers' range are reasonable prices and the quality is pretty good . (as for Iceland , won't go there again)
The problem with food prices is down to anything that is ready prepared, from ready meals to bread, basically ready meals. All the Supermarkets have price rises because the suppliers are the same for most of them. If you look out for recalls you will see that recalls always cover a number of Supermarkets from Aldi, Tesco, Waitrose, Asda, Lidl etc. That's because the same supplier supplies them or a couple of suppliers supply them all. Some years ago a food preparation factory that we covered was making food for a number of supermarkets, often the only difference was packaging, presumably there may have been slight differences in various recipes but they were made in the same place. The only difference then was that Marks and Spencers insisted that their production line ran when no others were in use and they were screened off so visitors couldn't see what was going on next door. They tried to have the factory supply them exclusively and drop the rest but they had a reputation for doing that and then pulling out so the manager wouldn't and Marksies went elsewhere. Hence same production costs for them all... so same price rises
Where is all this going to end? People cannot carry on paying these extortionate prices. I too have found Aldi's prices to have gone up considerably. Morrisons own makes are fairly good value. Thanks Gareth, appreciate your research and vlog xx
Love these videos, everything’s a rip off or to get a small discount you have to buy 2 or 3 of something and it looks like no one’s regulating it, thanks for the video ❤
BM can be really cheap, but what they do is import from other countries to keep the price down. But main supermarkets are price matching each other. But they control the pricing. Which is naturally inflated because the companies are posting nice profits still.
Brilliant video. Its almost like a cartel going on with these supermarkets. But what can we do? - Nothing. Thanks for making us aware of this price hype everywhere. Nicely filmed and presented in your usual wonderful way. 👍.
I noticed Asda is more expensive on some items compared to Waitrose. Sainsbury’s is very expensive and similar to Waitrose. Tesco is ok but manufacturers are shrinking the products and charging more.
The biggest shock I saw was in Tesco, a squeezy bottle of Hellmans mayonnaise was priced at £5.15 and sat right next to it was the same size Heinz equivalent priced at £3.45. I would normally have bought the Hellmans but went for the Heinz instead and it tasted better so if and when Hellmans reduce their price I will be sticking with Heinz from now on.
We live next to a big tesco extra and things have gone up a stupid amount. cat food up over 2 quid!!! Theres a new advert out now it goes...thats why mums go the food bank!!
What makes me laugh, I went to Savers the other day and purchased an item which was clearly marked at £3.49, then went to the checkout and I was charged £4.49. I complained to the Manager that the price hadn't been changed and he refunded me the £1.00.
A large grocery chain in Ontario blamed their suppliers for their increase in prices but they also had record profits ! By the way, the prices you showed are cheaper than here in Ontario.
I get the basic Pepperoni pizzas from Asda that were 66p but have now gone up to 90p, and I add jalapenos, onions and a sliced up cooked sausage (cheap Asda that are now £1.60 for 20) and they're not too bad. You can add whatever you like of course, including some hot sauce if you have any. They also do a deep pan Pepperoni for £1.30 which is better and still a reasonable price considering how prices have gone up.
Gareth, i absolutely agree with & everyone else that has commented. The continuing price rises are now boarding on the ridiculous. However i think somewhere down the line there will be a phoney price war, where the supermarkets look like they are trying to undercut each other, but prices will still be above what was thought to be acceptable 🤷♂️
Greetings from Germany. It's the same with us, prices have gone up by at least 30 to 50 percent everywhere. That doesn't sound bad for the individual product at first, I won't die either if I have to pay 1.5 euros for a piece of bread instead of 1 euro, but the total sum for the entire purchase makes the difference. I can hardly afford anything anymore, let alone put money aside to make any major purchases or go on vacation.
One of the things driving up prices us the massive increase in shoplifting. It costs retailers £2.5 billion per year. The police not interested in cases where people are stealing to eat, unless items are high value
Thanks for the ride Gareth, as usual we are being told one thing when in fact it is the opposite, had a laugh thought @4:40 thought you said the GIN Group 🤩😂👍
Asda's now on the site of the first house I bought, and the instore bakery is where my house stood. As I conceived my first baby there, you could say, I had a bun in the oven long before they did! 🤣
I think prices have been so low, for so long I think the sudden rise has just taken us by surprise, that Aldi bread used to be around 45p for ages, even at the current price, it's still nearly half the price of a loaf of hovis. Although if you think think our prices are high, you should see the prices in the US, even taking the exchange rate into consideration, a lot of stuff is nearly twice as much, over there a lot of people just accept it, and the more they accept it, the more they put prices up
In Asda I was buying the essentials hot chocolate which was £1.02 and it went up to £1.10, then the following week it went up to £1.40! To me it seems like pure profiteering as none of the other hot chocolates have gone up and 39% in a couple of weeks is ridiculous.
@@Matty12333 popped in there today, i don't tend to shop there but was passing by, was shocked how the prices now weren't cheaper than Sainsburys, always used to be....i had mexican salsa on my list, £2.55 for a small squeezy tub, so thought I'd look for a cheaper Asda brand, oh, nothing Mexican in their own brand, forced to take the 2.55 rip off stuff, shelves of Mex products pretty much full up, not surprised given the prices...just one example that is
Gareth I did a Iceland shop Friday because they deliver for heavy stuff the prices are shocking yes every were is sky high some thing needs to be done. People are struggling hard. It’s not right. Thanks Gareth great video xx👍👍👍👍👍
Sound video Gareth. Fully agree about the supermarket profiteering going on. I read yesterday diesel in Morrisons in Birmingham is £1.34.9 a litre. My local one, liskeard in Cornwall is £1.5o.9! Same company, 72p a gallon dearer! Thieves. Government happy to let it all happen.
Have you ever thought about growing your own veggies, even simple quick stuff like Spinach, lettuce and radish etc? I do and it's surprising how much you can save with a small bit of time spent. Nice vlog as always, Thank you 😀👍
@@BaldFoodieGuy I agree as I only have a small back yard but crammed alot in and even built a 6ft wide cold frame 6ft in the air for some things to get lots of sun, it's a pain but works. My father has a large allotment but too much work for my spare time with full time work. Micro greens in a windowsill are cool too. Thank you 😀👍
@@BaldFoodieGuyEvery little helps! We grow herbs on the kitchen window sill and little planters of salad things, it's amazing how much that simple thing saves over the months. If you buy your guinea pig a bag of spinach every a week, that's 3.40 a month or forty quid a year. You can save that with a one pound pack of seeds. Now times it by same basic salad stuff, add some spuds in a couple of grow bags and you are into saving hundreds in a year. My grandad had a huge plot of land behind his cottage. He was nearly self-sufficient with what he grew plus raising chickens, ducks, bees and rabbits for food. But it was dang hard work and no rest at all. I settle for growing a bit just to keep the bills down.
Choose your purchases carefully set a budget and stick to it. Supermarkets are not on your side. There are always alternatives available when you shop around. Good to see a man who knows his stuff discussing this issue. Well done. 👌
Impossible, every week the boss, sits down and works out what we want vs what we can afford, without fail she checks the prices and is boiling with rage, 20p rise from last week, 40p rise, 15p rise, we end up with a list of what we need, rather than what we want, almost impossible when laundry products are needed, She went back to an older shopping list, it now runs at 140 pounds when we shopped it was 78 pounds, every week prices rise, they show a loss-leader, so people don't notice the smaller rises on the rest. We are all falling for this, someone I worked with ripped into me for going to B & Q for some paint, claiming he always went to the Range, cheaper, I was an idiot. Range 21.80, B & Q 18.90, people end up going to the Range convinced 'everything' is cheap, I will concede it's not worth going from shop to shop picking the cheapest item, with fuel costs, but it pays to look if your budget is tight.
@Taz6688 I don't travel around. Most stores have online price lists. Other alternatives, such as local butchers who have multi buy options. Discount warehouses like costco, etc. The need to be more frugal and home cook in batches for freezing is another alternative way of saving money. Great reply, thanks. 👍
This could be a big opportunity for the small retailers to make a come back, I have even turned away from supermarket fuel. Although is a touch more expensive, you get more miles to the gallon when using BP, Shell, Esso. I get 5 or 6 miles to the gallon more.
I only buy filtered milk. It tastes better and it lasts a week after opening. Not long ago it was £1.70 for two litres. This week it was £2.95 in Sainsburys. Most places I can get it for £4 for four litres. I like Warburtons “Toastie” bread. That used to be £1. It’s £1.55 now. Iceland is good for Greggs sausage rolls. They do an OAP discount on Tuesdays. So always pop your mum in the car, and send her in to do your shopping for you! 😂
I have recently been buying salad bowl yellow sticker had to be eating on the same day bought it was £0.34 we have to learn to shop around… Heron are brilliant when comes to every day deals
How do these supermarkets get away with this!! Imagine your rent going up every other week they can’t do it so why can supermarkets?? Great video as usual 👍🏻
@@BaldFoodieGuy Sorry to hear that about ya mortague hike,, I live on a boat which cost me £10k 6 years ago, now worth around £16/17k BUT I am not selling it, life is sooooo much cheaper on the water, total mooring and boat licence fees are only 160 a month, ok not a good option for many but for some like me it works well.
What really struck me was the budget retailers, Aldi, Farm foods, Heron foods were not that cheap. Yet in some more expensive places like M&$ they had better value deals
Yes fair point
Slovak lodger of mine worked as a Strawberry picker in Kent.... The most uniform of size and colour went to M&S / Waitrose, the least uniform went to the cheaper supermarkets.... The price saving was miniscule but on a massive buy, yes the likes of M&S paid more but the differences between quality were very narrow. However, M&S and Waitrose paid their bills on time, the others would keep them hanging around.
@@MagicMuffin-nt2kp heron foods used to sell the same pizzas you get in Morrisons for £3 less
that's why I just shop at Mark's and Sainsbury's now
Tesco can take up to 3 months to settle with suppliers.
Tesco has the Club Card scheme but they have increased the prices in order to convince you of the bargains to be had using the card. Most of the items can be bought at other Supermarkets for the same price without a card.
Possibly the worst supermarket of all Tesco !
@@helennoble9587 I think you're right. Tesco were once my default-setting, now I hardly bother with them...
Totally agree. I've seen my Tesco shopping double and more in a couple of years.
Exactly.
This is deliberate.
Tesco want you to have a clubcard so they can track what you buy, and then sell that data to advertisers.
Mo' money etc.
You're spot on Gareth (sorry!). I shop at Aldi all the time. Not long ago, a cheap week was £70, and a dear week about £85. The cheapest week I have had over the last 2 months was £90, and most weeks now it is £105 ish. Plus, I have cut out some of the luxuries. This is why, in Yorkshire anyway, there are people who have full time jobs having to use food banks. On the news last night, there was what looked to be an ordinary sort of woman who said that her mortgage was now £1600 a month and was set to go up to about £2650. What sort of earnings must you have to afford that? It has to stop or maybe civil war is next.
Get a weekly home delivery..tenner more now for nearly the same order
Your right same here.
Went into my local co-op the other day and a demi baguette cost me 70p,the very next day it was 90p 😂😂😂😂
begs the question though, why that woman got such a huge mortgage during zero interest rates, when the risk rates were going to go higher were huge. Lock downs, printing money and war means massive inflation and int rate hikes. We all knew this 3 years ago.
@@scottanderson3751 Serves u right for shopping at the co-op. They've been expensive for many years.
It’s called profiteering and the government stands by and let’s the greedy supermarkets do it.
If you haven't noticed the Government are in on it, they don't serve the people just those who CON TROLL the money supply.
Do you mean a price-fixing cartel? That would be illegal, but very unlikely to be true.
Only when you finally figure out that any and all governments are nothing more a mafia, only then will this stop.
Shareholders
@stuart207 so who are the these "share holders" , I bet you can't name one share holder. Which means you have absolutely no idea what you are on about.
You are not wrong Gareth. All the supermarkets had it right off during Covid and rather reward their customers they are sticking it right up them with these prices. There's stuff that goes up every week, Putin and Brexit my @rse.
Crazy isn't it
@@BaldFoodieGuy Look up grand solar minimum. Consider what's happening now a dress rehearsal.
@@blackmud get ya foil hat made first though.
What gets me is you have to join a club just to get the true price for what you buy.
Yes, I hate that, special prices for 'members'.
Yes, you’re deff talking about Tesco and they are dirty Bastards. Basically, now, everything is massively overpriced and if you get the free clubcard, then you can buy at regular price and they all try make it look like you’re saving. It’s basically a way to get more money out of people like me that can’t be bothered with clubcard. Like the card is free so why the pudding about with prices? I wouldn’t mind if you had to pay for the card to get savings. For instance Tesco meal deal has been £3 forever and now it’s about £4 unless you have clubcard. I hardly use tesco. It just annoys me seeing the £4 price or £3 with clubcard. Scamming fuckers.
They are being taken to court by the Consumers Association, misleading customers on the Clubcard prices items.
@maynardssoblue3839t
I refuse to shop in Tesco because of this ; I don’t want a card ; plus members are only paying the real price anyway ; not some mega bargain
People don`t know that wholesale food prices have been coming down at least for the past couple of months but all supermarkets have been putting up their prices sometimes weekly. I do the weekly shop using Lidls and Aldis and have seen increases of 40p to 60p in a week on some items. Mostly the increases are in the 10p to 30p range that is per week. I have to drive 15 miles to these shops , 30 mile round trip as well which makes a shopping trip fairly expensive as there are seven in our family and none of us drinks or smokes. I look out for offers too but all the supermarkets are guilty of sheer unadulterated profiteering and we know that these inflated prices will not come down. Great video as usual.
Cheers Martin
How can wholesale food prices go down if pound lost its value because of quantitative easing?
Prices are going up, salaries aren't. Something will have to give somewhere if this carries on. My elderly parents are far worse off today than they were a year or so ago, on government pension. Whatever people want to blame (Brexit, war, pandemic,...) it all boils down to bad management in the government, and look at all the wasted money over the past few years. It doesn't bother them, they just put up taxes.
Yes good point
Average UK pay has risen 6.5% in 2023 so far. State pension rose 10%...
People should have been saving in the good times
@@tedthesailor172 pushing up wages, my arse - my wage back in 2009 was around £27,000 per annum, according to the BOE' inflation calculator that would be worth £40,954.04 - the highest in the same banding of the NHS now is £35,099 - a shortfall of £5,855. So nearly £6 grand a year worse off than 2009 = ffycin tories !
Agree, it's mainly down to poor government. Some things out of their control but we import the majority of our food and the pound has fallen in value over the past few years
They get you into these budget supermarkets because they were cheap, and they were at first, but now they're virtually on par with the likes of Sainsbury's! I'm going to my nearest local producers and farm shops (not so local unfortunately) and their prices no longer seen expensive! And the quality is better and I'm supporting small businesses! Like your bins, btw, Gareth!
Cheers Nellie
I can see in a year or two, new supermarkets opening that will undercut Lidl and Aldi. Might start one myself at this rate!
@@davidbowie2046 yeah, they were saying the same in other countries about Aldi and Lidl for years. And nothing happened.
Sainsbury's is actually cheaper than aldi
Sainsbury budget section is cheaper and price matched on alot of others.
As someone who lives alone and has enough storage space for many tins and dry groceries as well as enough space for frozen food that for the most part can last me 2 months. I usually do one big shop every couple of months so I keep stocked up. And recently I have noticed huge leaps from each previous time to the point I have almost stopped buy any of the bigger name branded products as they have gotten in some cases to ridiculous prices. The thing is from what I am reading once all of the energy prices drop back down food prices will stay as they are which just seems mad. As much as the supermarkets are increasing these prices though it is just as much the suppliers who are charging them more to for the transport costs. The ones not profiting tend to be the farmers and the ones producing all the stuff as it's the chain of people that comes after.
Cheers Freddie
I was made redundant due to ill health three years ago, so I don't have a lot of money coming in.
I do though, do a big shop of cheap food now and then, and store it somewhere.
Dried food, beans, rice, pasta etc., and tinned veg. (Not tinned tomatoes...they don't keep)
We've got about a years worth of food, and six months of water. We live near a river, so I think we're OK if prices around the world get more ridiculous.
@@thegeordieweatherman8460😢
The jars of pasta sauce keep longer than tins òf toms, and over time will probably be good value too.
@@lat1419 👍🏻 We had loads, but there was an alert from the shop with the big green sign, that the pasta cheese sauce wasn't
edible.
I suspect they were lying, but my family's welfare comes first.
@@thegeordieweatherman8460 yes, not the cheese sauce, the tomato sauces are fine though. Many different brands and prices.
They did a lot of price gouging during Covid. Morrisons by far the worst, but Aldi is getting that way now. People call it a discounter but its getting mainstream now.
Gotta agree. Aldi was once known for value, not any more
I used to shop in Iceland but it worked out very expensive when you take into account the Air fare !
😁😂
Haha brilliant 👏
And I bet everything had defrosted by the time you got back Home 🏡 😩
It would probably be cheaper to fly there and shop at the moment.
We were told inflation was fuelled by the price of Petrol/Diesel. Well the price of those has been back to normal for months. So what's their excuse now
public apathy.......
It would be interesting to see how much of the increase in goods gets to the producers. I'm thinking in particular of farming, which has incredibly small margins.
I hope farmers get a cut of the profits.
They aren't. Feed cost, well for my birds has went up from £22 for a bag to £38 a bag.
Unfortunately, this is the decade and a half of 0% interest rates coming home to roost, as well as spending £1trillion on COVID which did nothing to increase GDP.
It's the decade of exploitation, wasting money on wars in other countries while our own suffer massive price rises. Simple!
Not only that brexit and global financial instability isn't helping. But companies are taking advantage and uping prices far beyond need.
@@richard-gn3esyou forgot Trump/Putin
@@paulpaintshop103 i dunno about all that and trumps been out of the Whitehouse for years. I guess putin is certainly making things hard with mining wheat feilds and such
@@richard-gn3es I take it you don't get sarcasm, if in doubt blame Brexit
I bet the farmers don't get a cut from these price increases, the supermarkets will still be ripping them of. I suspect there's a fair bit of profiteering going on. They say inflation at 8.7%... but food inflation is probably at 25% - 50%, sometimes 100%.
Yes don't get me started, poor farmers 😢
Yes, food inflation is no where near 8%. It can vary by 8% from one day to the next. Austrian smoked cheese in Sainsbury’s used to be 1.25 for a sausage. Earlier this year it hit £1.95 and I stopped buying it. I noticed it’s now 1.75. That’s a change of 50p which is far higher than 8%.
I can speak for Southern Italy and here food has gone up by AT LEAST 50% in the span of one year, and that is lowballing it. Obviously wages have gone slightly downhill 😢
I bought a jar of kenco coffee from a Tesco express in Jan 22 for £2.75. I've seen the same product now go for £7.15. there can be no justification for that whatsoever, it's just a blatent cash grab.
Our local egg farmers now sell direct and deliver as the supermarkets won't pay them the cost of producing. There never was a shortage, the big guys just wouldn't pay up. They'd rather pretend there weren't any to be had.
If you don't mind odd shaped eggs, they don't cost a lot either.
Poundland has a lot less products for £1 should change the name
£1 or more store ?
Yes good point. 👍 I went in there last week. No longer the store it was.
The "£1.50 shop" as i now call it.
Interesting "pound land" state that the name of the store isn't a reflection of the price of the goods sold but a name that promotes the savings and value offered by the chain
Great point that
Thank you Gareth 😊 price gauging is everywhere 😮 we are being systematically fleeced
Tell me about it
I think so too
Really cracking video.
You did a brilliant job of capturing the obscene price hikes that supermarkets are currently getting away with.
My heart sincerely goes out to all those having to survive on a limited budget !
Glad you enjoyed it!
We are not just heading for a recession, it's more like the greatest depression. Banking and finance is all a confidence game as well so the narrative is always going to maintain everying is headed in the right direction when it's not.
It's the Great Reset.
If you look back to history you will see the pattern clearly.
How can we have a recession with 5 million immigrants.? I thought they were such a wonderful boost to our economy?
It's all pantomime.
It was all the free money given out during the pandemic - I know people who didn't work for over 12 months and they'd never been as comfortable financially.
We have been in a recession for over 12 months the government are not telling you the truth on how bad things really are . If I said the government is bankrupt would you be surprised . We have hit the bottom now but it's a bumpy road ahead . We all just need to try and hang on for the next 18 months .
I am a recent subscriber to your channel and i think your videos are fun, informative and spot on. Some time ago i read an article on supermarkets that said if they knock 10p off a product they add 10p to another product so that all their total income is almost always the same each week. So when they advertise cut price bargains on telly and you go and shop there they are hoping you will buy a few products they have raised the price on while you are there.
You're welcome thank you 😊
I heard there was to be a meeting tomorrow (Wednesday 28th June) between supermarkets and politicians to find out exactly why the food prices are rising because the media and politicians suspect profiteering in a time of crises.
Oh nice one. Cheers for the information 👍
You’re an absolute star buddy. It’s time something was done regarding these profiteering greedy people.
I agree and it’s even worse for those of us that live in more rural areas where the choice is limited for shops. I’m considering returning to online shopping and looking for deals as at least I can see how much my checkout bill will be as I go along and amend accordingly.
Blaming Brexit, Covid and war.. they are disgusting
Covid and the war are definitely a factor.
Brexit on the other hand has been so mismanaged by the government as it really didn't want to do it in the 1st place.
But we are paying the price for the over reaction to covid with the shutdowns and the 80% payments for staying home.
I believe we'll be paying for that for the nxt couple of decades at the least.
Iceland burger buns are lovely
@@dorothycullen7689buy fresh and freeze them
It is somewhat that making costs higher. But they are then Adding a bit more on top. Profiteering if you ask me
All planned nothing do do with Covid that was just an excuse and brainwash people....They want people to own nothing and he happy...The food prices will continue to go up and up over the next few years...All planned....I can’t believe how much the prices are going up....They also want us to get used to using self service.
You don’t know what’s happening? It’s all by design.
Want to elaborate on that at all?
@@pingu8666 thanks
It’s the government trying to do something about the obesity crisis.
@@keegan773 lol yeh right
@@pingu8666you’ll own that tin foil hat though
Makes you think if a little price fixing is going on or it's just profiteering while they can.
Yeah because a cost of living crisis is the best time to profiteer right? When no one has any money! lol.
If Aldi products are really from England, ie without import costs then prices shouldn’t be escalating so much. Yeh, feels like Aldi are following the major supermarkets lead, keeping their prices fractionally lower than their rivals but still maintaining a slight differential to the major profiteers.
Both and worse.
Thank you verymuch for all you have done gaz over the last few years to keep us all with happy mindset godbless u and family and the same to all the lovely people on here
You're welcome
I’ve just done my weekly shop in ALDI.
My bill is £20 higher this week.
I was quite concerned until I took into account the case of lager, the pack of stout, a bottle of Port and the case of Dr Peppers.
Haha
I bet you're 20 pounds higher this week, too!
In this hot weather you have to keep your fluids up 😉
Now there's honesty and I bet a quick look at the trolleys of other people would reveal a lot of stuff we could all give up if we need to!
@@missmerrily4830 supermarkets are full of stuff we don't need
Its scary times, i really feel for families trying to feed kids and themselves. The prices these days are getting out of hand and their is nothing we can do because we need to eat 😔
Yes Lisa not good is it. 😮
People here in Ireland are going back to old ways and growing their own food again!
@@BaldFoodieGuyThe price of bourbons went up in Tesco Express stores just over a week ago from 55p a packet to 75p, I thought what a rip off, turns out they went up by 15p in the main stores, so are only 5p different in price, still a rip off, as they are no longer match the price like they used to, much like most of the prices of things in their Express stores, so have you over a barrel if that's the only store near to you, luckily I have got an Aldi nearby so can save a bit on things, but they don't carry the range of things I normally buy (outside of the usual staples). So I have to pay bus fare to go anywhere with decent shops, though I do have a Morrisons nearby, so I will have to dig out my More card as some of their deals are as good as Tesco's if not better.
Thank you. I have stashed away foods since a couple of weeks before the first lockdown as I was watching closely what happened in China then Italy. We started to stock up to have enough basics for three months but as shortages started, we just carried on. Of course, over time the stuff needs using before the use by dates. We managed to keep it up until early this year and I have kept a keen eye on price rises as most stuff that stores long term is pretty limited so that's not too hard to do. We grow a lot of our fresh food and so are focusing on spending on soil, beds, maintaing and re-doing things like the polytunnel and greenhouses and making waist high beds where possible and we have done that since 2020 but this year we have had to make a choice between stocking up and making thing for growing because the food is so much more expensive. We mostly buy what we need for the week now and perhaps buy 12 tins of beans or a massive box of washing powder to put away.
You could diversify and meet this challenge by, say, making your own batter for frozen fish you can do in the air frier and compare the price with shop bought. You could do the same with pies by buying pastry and making the filling matching ingredients in a bought pie. You could do the same with pizza, sausage rolls, curry or 'kentucky fried chicken'...you'll come out a great chef AND quids in !!!!
I understand that it seems we can do nothing, but I think it's a bad idea to fully accept that. As mentioned by @dacelticcross, there's the grow your own option. That's not a full solution, but it's a helpful choice. We could perhaps start sharing our leftover/near end date food with others in the community who need it, instead of throwing it away.
In the bigger picture: the government *could* introduce a mandatory price cap system on essential food items. They could, if they really wanted to. They have already talked about a voluntary scheme. If necessary, we could make life sufficiently unpleasant for our senior politicians, in peaceful ways, so that they will take action.
I shop for groceries online. It started because I moved to UK for marriage during Covid lockdown and my husband is often away for work leaving me home alone without my UK driving license, so delivery was the only option. But now, we prefer it because I can open tabs for the different shops and compare prices of everything. So I fill up a cart with one shop and get extra of the things that are cheaper to hold me over for the next week when I build an online shopping cart for the next week with the things that are cheaper at the other shop. You can get delivery for £1.50. That’s not bad if I’m saving money by comparing prices. Certain things are anywhere from .10p to .50p or more cheaper, so if you search each item at each shop online, you can really save a lot. It’s surprising because even at Morrison’s there are some things cheaper than Asda, they have some good deals on meat and dairy in their savers line. Sainsbury’s currently has the best deal on frozen chicken portions. They used to be sold at Tesco but they’ve been discontinued there. Asda has coffee for £2.30 which is reduced from £2.50. Its £3 everywhere else. Sainsbury’s has frozen lamb chops which are same price as Iceland but only if you buy 3 at Iceland. If you only want one bag, Iceland costs more than Sainsbury’s. So yeah it’s helpful to shop online so you can compare everything one by one and get the best price!
Cheers for the information 👍
@@BaldFoodieGuy Yeah and cheers back at ya for the tip on black pudding at Iceland! That’s how I found your channel! I was actually having restless leg issues and found it can be caused by iron deficiency (and the doctors will say iron levels are fine!) so I was looking up black pudding because of its high iron content and your video came up 😁 so now I’ve got a shopping cart for Iceland waiting for me to get it in the rotation. Iceland delivery is FREE if you’re spending £40 😎
All ripping us off mate and blaming everyone, but the greedy owners. Went to Iceland the other day and walked out at the shock of the prices in there! Used to be a shop if you were a bit skint you could get a few cheap things in there,. They have us over a barrel mate, they know we can't do without food so they charge whatever they like. Great video Gareth, nice to see one filmed outdoors and a little tour of your neighbourhood.
No, but it is hard to get it: Just don't buy that stuff. Buy as less as you can. The prob is only, that old grannies and their stupid daughter (or sons) will still buy overprized sh i t.
You're welcome 😊
the same thing at asda..used to pop in a few times a week and always bought something, nowadays like you..I walk out, you can't do it can you
i did the same thing in iceland and never went back, the frozen salmon was £3 for a bag of 4 but now the same item is £4.50 but is only a 3 pack !!
Iceland ceo is becoming an tory mp
Cheers Gareth, I enjoy your field trips. It's not just food that prices rocketed, everything has seen a significant increase.
You're welcome
I enjoy your videos where you compare things like baked beans or sausage rolls. They are entertaining and I have changed some items in my shopping Trolly and saved a few pence here and there. But these videos are another level - you are doing an important service - like a journalist - telling us what’s going on. I doubt you intended this to happen and that makes it so real. You speak for us - thank you.
Glad you like them!
Loved this little spin around town shopping! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
They’re all taking advantage and actually contributing to the inflation we currently have. They’ll report billions in profit at the end of the year, people will say their margins are small etc. It doesn’t matter how small the margins are, if you’re making a billion pound profit you can cut it for the good of everyone.
Cheers Dave
Question is what profit margin would you allow 5% 10% more or less
@@thelion43 a fair one. Companies need to make profit, no problem with that at all. But 1bn profit when half the country are on their a**e is not fair. They could easily make 500m profit and still provide value to shareholders. Maybe a windfall tax is the way forward.
Same as the Energy and Fuel companies, all to drive inflation (everything is made and transported using energy and fuel) to allow the banksters to join in re profiteering, all to ensure “by 2030 🫵🏻 will own nothing have no privacy and be happy”
So true the bank of England want to hault spending but we can't stop spending on food most of us don't have any money left to spend after food and utility bills the b o E and gov are totally ignorant bring food prices down now!!!! they can't even add 2+2 let alone run this country
Makes me laugh when you hear a supermarket is slashing the price of something like a pint of milk by 5p. That's little consolation when they hiked up the price by 50p in first place. They are taking the piss.
Thanks for taking us with you. I bought some of those new Walkers crisps for £1.65 in Iceland and then went next door for a mooch in B&M. They were £1.50 in there! I wish I’d done the shopping the other way around!
You're welcome 😊
Iceland ceo is becoming an tory mp
You get about 8 crisps in a packet now
@@longshanks1978 depends what brand you buy.
Walkers crisps used to be £1.00 for a pack of 6
" Dad goes to Iceland "... I have done the family shopping for over 40 + yrs and even before Brexit the was a change in Jar sizes and packet amounts from supermarkets that I noticed even then. I have watched this increase the most in Iceland. Some items have gone up over 50% and to the point where I even called to complain and was told delivery fuel costs are the reason for increases. But if you calculate just 5 popular items rising 40% and the amounts sold it comes to £Millions & millions, which far exceed any rise in transport costs.
They always make excuses. These companies go on about using biofuel and electric powered trucks now, yet the prices go up. The government are about to bring in a new tax on tyre wear with bs papers which say tyres do more damage to the air than exhaust does. I predicted this as soon as new tech comes in to heavily reduce the pollution of something or the cost of something it should mean we get taxed less but instead they invent something new to add more tax onto the last standard tax so while they save on efficiency and environmental policy (which brings in gigantic levels of funding) they make a killing in extra tax money going to the coffers. It's just more free money for literally no reason other than sounding like they care.
Cheers for sharing
I was standing next to my Town Centre open air greengrocer lock up stall. The stall has been there for years. When a customer said that she was shopping there now, because our nearest big weekly market doesn't have one greengrocers stall left. When for as long as I can remember, there used to be at least 3 of them.
Cheers pal, crazy isn't it.
Isn't it strange, I was thinking about this the other day, when was the last time you ever knew all shops were charging the same set price for milk??
I never ever remember that happening across all stores!
Yes makes your think doesn't it.
I look at stuff on the shelves, regular stuff what ive been buying for years and in, lets say the past two years, most have at least doubled in price. Stuff that was 99p, is now £1.99. A weekly shop for me in Aldi around £120 now, used to be around £80. And thats me rationing stuff, buying cheaper options and having to go without, if i didnt, it would be £150+. Utter ridiculous, i should start lubing my behind whenever i go shopping, as it hurts getting shafted everytime.
Haha
😂😅😂 it's a wonder They've not already got lubing stations installed At the end of Our road's Before we venture out ❤🎉
Haha for a family if three we would spend 60 ish quid.. now we are spending atleast 90
We have a similar problem with our supermarkets here in Australia too. Our main supermarkets are Woolworths. Coles and Aldi. As i do most of the food shopping in our house I am fully aware of the price hikes that seem to be coming almost monthly.
As most of our shopping is done in Aldi, I have noticed their price rises most. For instance, a small tin of tuna that six months ago cost 89c, now costs $1.09. That is almost 25% more. And that is fairly typical of the price rises of all other items across the board. How is this justified? I'm damn sure that my pension hasn't gone up anywhere near that amount.
Nice to be able to have a whinge with someone who thinks the same way as I do Gareth. Keep up the good work.
I’m an Aussie too and on a pension. Thankful I only have me to feed.
Cheers David, sorry to hear that. It was expensive in 09 when I was there. All the best pal. 👍
Every time I go into Coles more prices have gone up. Every time!
@@annettewalter2273 I honestly don't know how you do it. Energy prices, food prices, petrol prices the list goes on.
I remember buying sweet oranges from Spain in Aldi. What's out now are bitter, not nice. We've also cut back on treats like McDonald's etc. Thanks
You're welcome
Iceland used to be the cheapest for me but I now find it to be the most expensive. It’s becoming so hard to shop financially for a family of 4, It’s gone from trying to eat healthy to just trying to afford eating.
Yes not anymore unfortunately 😕
Loved this video & it's format. But genuinely, however bad you think things are in England, prices in N Ireland are another step up again. We've always paid more for our groceries than Britain but things are really out of control here now. It's disgusting that supermarkets around the UK are all colluding now. I thought ALDI & LIDL were here to disrupt things but now they're established, they too have succumbed to greed.
Very true, you're welcome
Being a lot more careful about what I buy at the supermarket these days. Also noticed that at my local Sainsbury’s the home branded stuff has started to disappear. Trying to force customers to buy top branded items?
Here in Northern Ireland our milk is 2
Litres and it’s £1.75! The prices are just going up and up and it’s just ridiculous, especially on basic items!
I'm sorry to hear it 😮
2 litres of milk in NZ is wait for it $4.50 and upwards!
Surely it should be clear to everyone what's going on.
Supermarkets cut the price of milk paid to dairy farmers by about 30% this year -From 50 pence a litre to about 30 pence.Looks like they are not passing those savings to the public !
A loaf in my local supermarket is £2.30
The Iceland stuff sold where I am is sold under license and is double what it costs in the UK. My sister bought a Sainsbury ready meal (also sold under license) which costs £3.15 in Sainsbury. Here the same meal was £6.00. A pint of milk is 85p.
You think you have problems.
Where is here and why not buy local?
@@daveuns that milk is local. The local meat is again more than double what it costs in the UK. If you want to buy local bread it will cost between £3 and £5 a loaf. The bread that cost £2.30 is pretty bog standard stuff from Yorkshire. And a small rock between Cumberland, Scotland and Ireland.
Crazy mate
@@SimonTBamwhere do you live?
@@SimonTBam Simon comes into the kitchen: "What's for tea love?"
Mrs Bam, "Oh usual Saturday, love. Seagull on toast."
It reflects the pricing strategy we have hear, too, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
I was interested to see a very large concrete structure behind the shops as you were about to visit iceland.😊
Great suggestion!
I'm not sure if people actually realise how things work it's not simply the stores raising prices but suppliers across the board and it's usually thanks to one that causes a domino effect
Great documenting all this, thanks for sharing! Watching from AU and prices are doing the same here
Thanks for watching!
I was in Tesco yesterday and noticed that a pint of milk is 90p regardless of what type it is ie skimmed, semi skimmed or full fat. Everything is stupidly priced now, I've also noticed that things are being reduced in size but price remains the same, even cans of beer are being reduced in alcohol content yet price remains the same.
It’s crazy gaz, I paid £1 in Aldi for some jives ( aldis twix) they used to be like 50p last year and I paid £10 in Iceland for a tray of fantas they were like £8 last month lol
You should see the prices in Canada, mate. 3 can dollar (1.80 pound) for good bread, 1.20 pound for store brand bread. Most of the frozen entrees and pizzas range 3-6 pounds (4-10 dollars can), its nuts. Milk is about 1.75 to 1.90 pound after exchange rate depending on brand, just craziness here too, not just UK
Crazy mate, thanks for keeping me informed 😊
Enjoyable to watch good to see you out and about. Everything is going up and if the price doesn't go up the quantity you get is less and they think we don't notice. Same size box but nothing in it. Like you just said crisps 24g or 25g in one packet that's about half a potato for around 27p it's just crazy. I guess it's the cost of making all these products with the energy prices going up like crazy it all has a knock on effect which we have to pay for which was already expensive to start with.
You're welcome
Erect aaaaaaand square to the front!
Not heard that said in a very long time!
Having flashbacks to better times & a bit of a nostalgia overload here 🤣🤣 gonna have to watch the video again now.
Thanks for the memories 👍
Haha cheers brother 👍
I just wanted to say a big thank you love this video are used to live in Dalton for many years, but I moved to Essex. It was to see Barrow. Lol
Glad you enjoyed it!
I hear you!! We had run out of sugar the other week and I was in Tesco at the time so I thought I’ll get some while here ….. £1.09 a bag! I ve NEVER paid more than a pound for sugar (usually 69 to 89p) some things seem to go up in price every week atm and you get less for your money - look at 4 packs of chocolate bars, their practically fun size bars now!! 🤦🏻♀️ Fab vid, subd 👍🏻
Normal bag of sugar here in New Zealand $3.60 at Woolworths!
Yes crazy prices. All the best and welcome to the channel 😊
I was a regular shopper at Lidl and Aldi but they have increased prices probably more than our regular Supermarkets ... Lately I have returned to Morrisons to shop .. In fact their 'Savers' range are reasonable prices and the quality is pretty good . (as for Iceland , won't go there again)
Cheers pal
The problem with food prices is down to anything that is ready prepared, from ready meals to bread, basically ready meals. All the Supermarkets have price rises because the suppliers are the same for most of them. If you look out for recalls you will see that recalls always cover a number of Supermarkets from Aldi, Tesco, Waitrose, Asda, Lidl etc. That's because the same supplier supplies them or a couple of suppliers supply them all. Some years ago a food preparation factory that we covered was making food for a number of supermarkets, often the only difference was packaging, presumably there may have been slight differences in various recipes but they were made in the same place. The only difference then was that Marks and Spencers insisted that their production line ran when no others were in use and they were screened off so visitors couldn't see what was going on next door. They tried to have the factory supply them exclusively and drop the rest but they had a reputation for doing that and then pulling out so the manager wouldn't and Marksies went elsewhere. Hence same production costs for them all... so same price rises
Cheers Eddie
Just found your channel I can see I'm going to watch a lot. Brilliant. Keep it up. Glad I've subscribed.
Welcome aboard! All the best pal 👍
Thank you for your review of these products. My first stop in any store is the markdown counter and if I can they go in the freezer to I need it.
You are so welcome!
Where is all this going to end? People cannot carry on paying these extortionate prices. I too have found Aldi's prices to have gone up considerably. Morrisons own makes are fairly good value. Thanks Gareth, appreciate your research and vlog xx
Tell me about it
Hi Gareth, enjoyed this video because its so true and depressing about the unnecessary rising costs of everything...new subscriber now 😊
You're welcome thank you and welcome to the channel 😊
Love these videos, everything’s a rip off or to get a small discount you have to buy 2 or 3 of something and it looks like no one’s regulating it, thanks for the video ❤
Glad you like them!
You think this is bad you ain't seen nothing yet.
BM can be really cheap, but what they do is import from other countries to keep the price down. But main supermarkets are price matching each other. But they control the pricing. Which is naturally inflated because the companies are posting nice profits still.
I like it when you do these videos Gareth. It shows how many people can't afford to eat.
Brilliant video. Its almost like a cartel going on with these supermarkets. But what can we do? - Nothing. Thanks for making us aware of this price hype everywhere. Nicely filmed and presented in your usual wonderful way. 👍.
Cheers Miles
I noticed Asda is more expensive on some items compared to Waitrose. Sainsbury’s is very expensive and similar to Waitrose. Tesco is ok but manufacturers are shrinking the products and charging more.
Thank you for sharing
The biggest shock I saw was in Tesco, a squeezy bottle of Hellmans mayonnaise was priced at £5.15 and sat right next to it was the same size Heinz equivalent priced at £3.45.
I would normally have bought the Hellmans but went for the Heinz instead and it tasted better so if and when Hellmans reduce their price I will be sticking with Heinz from now on.
Hellman's used to be my preference but now i just buy a bulk bucket.
@@richard-gn3es I've used bulk catering buckets but can't stand the taste of it.
@@KarenaDashfield Polish mayo is the best! Doesn't come in a squeezy bottle though.
Geez. Tesco own brand mayo at £1.15 or Lidl Batts mayo at 85p for me. Both are great.
Crazy prices 😮
We live next to a big tesco extra and things have gone up a stupid amount. cat food up over 2 quid!!! Theres a new advert out now it goes...thats why mums go the food bank!!
Good video Gareth, good to see something a bit different other than toiling away in the kitchen 👍
Thanks 👍
What makes me laugh, I went to Savers the other day and purchased an item which was clearly marked at £3.49, then went to the checkout and I was charged £4.49. I complained to the Manager that the price hadn't been changed and he refunded me the £1.00.
Yes that happened to me with the pizza. They tried to charge me 4 quid when it was marked at 2 quid lol
A large grocery chain in Ontario blamed their suppliers for their increase in prices but they also had record profits ! By the way, the prices you showed are cheaper than here in Ontario.
I get the basic Pepperoni pizzas from Asda that were 66p but have now gone up to 90p, and I add jalapenos, onions and a sliced up cooked sausage (cheap Asda that are now £1.60 for 20) and they're not too bad. You can add whatever you like of course, including some hot sauce if you have any. They also do a deep pan Pepperoni for £1.30 which is better and still a reasonable price considering how prices have gone up.
Why don't you just buy a pizza from the counter at Asda instead of flaffing around adding toppings that's daft
@@stuartpace6111 I buy online and it's cheaper to do it that way. Simples!
Good idea
V unhealthy
@@gerrypippin2263 If you say so. 🤣
We stopped going to asda when they started roll back malarkey price fixing . It was enough to give you a headache.
Food prices are crazy mate a 1.25litre bottle of pepsi for example used to be £1 in my local Tesco just last month, it is now £1.99
Gareth, i absolutely agree with & everyone else that has commented. The continuing price rises are now boarding on the ridiculous. However i think somewhere down the line there will be a phoney price war, where the supermarkets look like they are trying to undercut each other, but prices will still be above what was thought to be acceptable 🤷♂️
Greetings from Germany. It's the same with us, prices have gone up by at least 30 to 50 percent everywhere. That doesn't sound bad for the individual product at first, I won't die either if I have to pay 1.5 euros for a piece of bread instead of 1 euro, but the total sum for the entire purchase makes the difference. I can hardly afford anything anymore, let alone put money aside to make any major purchases or go on vacation.
Oh dear same in Germany. I'm sorry pal
We're all suffering and the time will come when we just will not accept it.
There's only so much we will tolerate.
What choice has anyone got? We all need to eat and the supermarkets know this.
same here in australia wtf
@@juliagregory5696
I totally get you. And Australians are sticklers for fair deals, like we are here in the UK.
One of the things driving up prices us the massive increase in shoplifting. It costs retailers £2.5 billion per year. The police not interested in cases where people are stealing to eat, unless items are high value
No it isn't. Thats called spillage... Supermarkets are insured for it..
Thanks for the ride Gareth, as usual we are being told one thing when in fact it is the opposite, had a laugh thought @4:40 thought you said the GIN Group 🤩😂👍
Glad you enjoyed it, you're welcome 😊
Asda's now on the site of the first house I bought, and the instore bakery is where my house stood. As I conceived my first baby there, you could say, I had a bun in the oven long before they did! 🤣
I think prices have been so low, for so long I think the sudden rise has just taken us by surprise, that Aldi bread used to be around 45p for ages, even at the current price, it's still nearly half the price of a loaf of hovis. Although if you think think our prices are high, you should see the prices in the US, even taking the exchange rate into consideration, a lot of stuff is nearly twice as much, over there a lot of people just accept it, and the more they accept it, the more they put prices up
Cheers Dave
Their living wage is 3 times higher than ours
In Asda I was buying the essentials hot chocolate which was £1.02 and it went up to £1.10, then the following week it went up to £1.40! To me it seems like pure profiteering as none of the other hot chocolates have gone up and 39% in a couple of weeks is ridiculous.
Asda is no longer the value supermarket. It's probably one of the most expensive supermarkets
@@Matty12333 popped in there today, i don't tend to shop there but was passing by, was shocked how the prices now weren't cheaper than Sainsburys, always used to be....i had mexican salsa on my list, £2.55 for a small squeezy tub, so thought I'd look for a cheaper Asda brand, oh, nothing Mexican in their own brand, forced to take the 2.55 rip off stuff, shelves of Mex products pretty much full up, not surprised given the prices...just one example that is
A very interesting video on the escalation of food prices. Thanks for sharing Gareth.
Glad you enjoyed it
Gareth I did a Iceland shop Friday because they deliver for heavy stuff the prices are shocking yes every were is sky high some thing needs to be done. People are struggling hard. It’s not right. Thanks Gareth great video xx👍👍👍👍👍
Cheers Frances, hope you're well 👍 x
@@BaldFoodieGuy fine Gareth thanks appear from this muggy weather x😩
Sound video Gareth. Fully agree about the supermarket profiteering going on. I read yesterday diesel in Morrisons in Birmingham is £1.34.9 a litre. My local one, liskeard in Cornwall is £1.5o.9! Same company, 72p a gallon dearer! Thieves. Government happy to let it all happen.
Thanks for sharing
Have you ever thought about growing your own veggies, even simple quick stuff like Spinach, lettuce and radish etc? I do and it's surprising how much you can save with a small bit of time spent. Nice vlog as always, Thank you 😀👍
That's a great idea! Yes we have in the past but not enough to survive on need an allotment. Cheers pal
Then that makes you thankful for farmers that do the hard work and the animals too
@@BaldFoodieGuy I agree as I only have a small back yard but crammed alot in and even built a 6ft wide cold frame 6ft in the air for some things to get lots of sun, it's a pain but works. My father has a large allotment but too much work for my spare time with full time work. Micro greens in a windowsill are cool too. Thank you 😀👍
@@James_Doyle83 thanks farmers of Lincolnshire for not farming paid not to farm thanks Mr Dyson Hoovers
@@BaldFoodieGuyEvery little helps! We grow herbs on the kitchen window sill and little planters of salad things, it's amazing how much that simple thing saves over the months. If you buy your guinea pig a bag of spinach every a week, that's 3.40 a month or forty quid a year. You can save that with a one pound pack of seeds. Now times it by same basic salad stuff, add some spuds in a couple of grow bags and you are into saving hundreds in a year. My grandad had a huge plot of land behind his cottage. He was nearly self-sufficient with what he grew plus raising chickens, ducks, bees and rabbits for food. But it was dang hard work and no rest at all. I settle for growing a bit just to keep the bills down.
Choose your purchases carefully set a budget and stick to it. Supermarkets are not on your side. There are always alternatives available when you shop around. Good to see a man who knows his stuff discussing this issue. Well done. 👌
Impossible, every week the boss, sits down and works out what we want vs what we can afford, without fail she checks the prices and is boiling with rage, 20p rise from last week, 40p rise, 15p rise, we end up with a list of what we need, rather than what we want, almost impossible when laundry products are needed, She went back to an older shopping list, it now runs at 140 pounds when we shopped it was 78 pounds, every week prices rise, they show a loss-leader, so people don't notice the smaller rises on the rest.
We are all falling for this, someone I worked with ripped into me for going to B & Q for some paint, claiming he always went to the Range, cheaper, I was an idiot. Range 21.80, B & Q 18.90, people end up going to the Range convinced 'everything' is cheap, I will concede it's not worth going from shop to shop picking the cheapest item, with fuel costs, but it pays to look if your budget is tight.
@Taz6688 I don't travel around. Most stores have online price lists. Other alternatives, such as local butchers who have multi buy options. Discount warehouses like costco, etc. The need to be more frugal and home cook in batches for freezing is another alternative way of saving money. Great reply, thanks. 👍
This could be a big opportunity for the small retailers to make a come back, I have even turned away from supermarket fuel. Although is a touch more expensive, you get more miles to the gallon when using BP, Shell, Esso. I get 5 or 6 miles to the gallon more.
Thank you
Easy listening. staring at an Excel document, little bit of relaxed background waffle helps get the mundane work done for me.
Haha yes love waffles 🧇 😋
I only buy filtered milk. It tastes better and it lasts a week after opening. Not long ago it was £1.70 for two litres. This week it was £2.95 in Sainsburys. Most places I can get it for £4 for four litres.
I like Warburtons “Toastie” bread. That used to be £1. It’s £1.55 now.
Iceland is good for Greggs sausage rolls. They do an OAP discount on Tuesdays. So always pop your mum in the car, and send her in to do your shopping for you! 😂
Don't think I've had it. 😊
I picked a watermelon up the otherday from lidl didnt realise it was being sold by weight the fucker came to 5.50! and it was crap lol...
Full of water 💧
Wow
100% agree Gaz, no cheap supermarkets anymore, but I must say love this type of content mate, great vid and great information 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I have recently been buying salad bowl yellow sticker had to be eating on the same day bought it was £0.34 we have to learn to shop around… Heron are brilliant when comes to every day deals
You used to be able to get 4 or 5 bags of shopping for 20 quid, now your lucky if you get 1 or 2 bags for 40 quid!!!
How do these supermarkets get away with this!! Imagine your rent going up every other week they can’t do it so why can supermarkets??
Great video as usual 👍🏻
My mortgage has gone up over 200 quid 😮
@BaldFoodieGuy Wow. When I first got married my mortgage was 15%. Sorry, but it's a lot easier today!
@@ellemetcalf110 House prices back then were a lot lower to compensate. It is a lot harder now with the increased interest rates.
@@BaldFoodieGuy Sorry to hear that about ya mortague hike,, I live on a boat which cost me £10k 6 years ago, now worth around £16/17k BUT I am not selling it, life is sooooo much cheaper on the water, total mooring and boat licence fees are only 160 a month, ok not a good option for many but for some like me it works well.
My rent has actually gone up by £72 per month in recent months. 🥴🥴🥴.