I prezzi della spesa dell’Irlanda sono ancora impennati. Come può essere?
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/06/16/grocery-prices-are-still-soaring-how-can-that-be/
di jonnieggg
I prezzi della spesa dell’Irlanda sono ancora impennati. Come può essere?
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/06/16/grocery-prices-are-still-soaring-how-can-that-be/
di jonnieggg
30 commenti
Easy, greed.
Poultry and beef prices are just mental at the moment, there’s very little you could print a price list for in food that won’t be obsolete next week
Greed
I am fortunate enough that I don’t need to worry about the cost of my weekly shop, but I still keep an eye on the prices and try to get the best value I can.
I have really noticed how much prices have increased in the last 2 or 3 months, an example is a pork fillet in Dunnes used to be €3.69 but now costs €5.
Our weekly shop for a family of 2 adults and a 1 year old has increased by about €50 in the last few months.
In the UK they found that Tesco were having a huge impact on inflation figures via their clubcard
Over there inflation is calculated off the ‘normal’ price. It does not take clubcard discounts into account. Tesco have been known to jack up the normal price of items to make the discounted price look better. This in turn fucks up inflation figs and the price that most people pay is actually less than what they are tracking for inflation
Unsure if we track it the same way, but I wouldn’t be surprised
Here is an article on it: https://www.ft.com/content/61164629-9b9a-472b-aaae-9d850da1291e
Tesco are taking the piss altogether now, the increases aren’t just a few cent but fairly significant hikes at this point.
4 years ago it was €30 for a box of 25 chicken fillets, last week I paid 50 for 30 fillets,
mad money
Because the government the country voted in, does not care about its population, it cares about profits, but don’t fret gang the same kind of people will be in power in Ireland until the end of time
The government simply don’t care.
They’ve shown this time and time again.
They won’t go hungry on their salaries.
Neither will most of their mates.
So they don’t need to care.
The people of Ireland will keep voting them in
It’s ironic to say at this time that I’m grateful I’m a single dude working in a place with a canteen. Having to pay 5 euro for a main, 2 sides and Veg daily is a blessing in disguise because with the greed of these supermarkets if I was to make the same dish 5 days a week it’d be 50-60 euro.
I was in a Centra yesterday, 1:45€ for Tayto. I ain’t buying it. I remember when they were 20p, and the package was full. Less than half a spud in them these days.
In the UK, Irish goods like KerryGold and Baileys are cheaper than in Ireland.
Why defuq is that?
Transportation? No.
Taxes? Kinda.
Retailer greed? Absolutely.
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Let’s compare the landscape here compared to the UK –
Ireland –
High-end retailers:
– M&S, Dunnes, Supervalue, Spar
Mid-Tier Retailers:
– Tesco
Low Tier Retailers:
– Aldi, Lidle
UK –
High-end retailers:
– M&S, Spar, Whole Foods Market
Mid-Tier Retailers:
– Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Cosco, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Iceland
Low Tier Retailers:
– Aldi, Lidle
Obviously, lack of competition is clear, but for such a small market, what we have should be enough. The problem is that on the middle end, we have nothing to compete with Tesco.
We’re well proven to be easily taken advantage of and won’t kick up a fuss when we are.
Had a laugh (a wry one though) on Friday as our local butcher has a food truck in front of his shop that day, he does lovely steak sambos, burgers and hot dogs, so I went for a steak sambo, which used to be 10Euris so already quite pricey for a ciabatta size sambo, and when I went to pay I was priced 11Euro . I was about to tell the lad he got the price wrong, until I noticed the butcher added “.99” in tiny print next to the “10” on the board 😂 cheeky bastard
It seems like weekly something jumps in price
We’re literally being priced out of being able to live normally.. the gap between wealthy and poor is just going to keep getting bigger and bigger and we’ll just continue to suffer..
This is largely being driven by meat prices as far as I’m aware which arguably _should_ be more expensive than what they even are now, given the severe impact of their production versus other calorie and protein sources.
That being said most of these shifts are a result of the fact that we’re an island whose primary market for goods produced on this island is not on this island. Poultry exports, for example, have increased more than 50% compared to 2023 and are on track to increase again in the next few years as demand in other markets increase and as we remain blissfully free of a major bird flu outbreak devastating our farms. Additionally places where we import poultry from, despite producing more than enough on this island to satisfy the consumption of this island, have seen serious impacts from bird flu and other issues with their supply chain so our access to “cheaper” stock is limited.
As for beef my understanding is that some of it is the same problem, we have a strong domestic supply and a product that is in demand in other markets. We export a majority of what we produce and our import sources have seen supply constraints emerge which is reducing our access to cheaper meat. Additionally we have a strict regulation on how many head of cattle can be slaughtered in a given year, intentionally to avoid over supply.
Get everyone on loyalty card schemes and drive prices up for everyone who doesn’t sign up. Once everyone is on it, mine the shit out their data, see what people are buying the most regularly, and slowly increase the most common items by a few cent every few months. Clearly display outrageous non-loyalty scheme prices so customers think their getting a good deal. Profit.
Greed?
Turns out the supermarkets are doing very very well, but they are super shy about sharing profit numbers.
* Tesco Ireland: For the financial year ending February 2024, Tesco Ireland reported sales of €3.3 billion, a 9.4% increase from the previous year. After-tax profit rose by 10% to €94.7 million, with a dividend of €100 million paid on February 6, 2024.
* Dunnes Stores: No specific profit figures are publicly available for Dunnes Stores’ Irish operations, as the company does not disclose this data. However, it held a 24.8% market share with 6.9% year-on-year sales growth in the 12 weeks to December 2024.
* Musgrave Group (SuperValu, Centra): Musgrave Group, the leading retail and wholesale business in Ireland, reported a turnover of €4.5 billion in 2022, but specific profit figures for its Irish supermarket operations (SuperValu, Centra) are not publicly detailed. SuperValu had a 20.4% market share with 4.5% sales growth in the 12 weeks to February 2025.
* Aldi Ireland: Aldi reported a turnover of €2 billion in 2021, but no recent profit figures are available.
* Lidl Ireland: Lidl recorded a turnover of €1.56 billion in 2022, but profit data for 2024 or 2025 is not publicly available. Lidl’s market share and specific profit margins remain undisclosed.
* SPAR Ireland (BWG Foods): SPAR, operated by BWG Foods, also had a turnover of €1.56 billion in 2022. No profit figures for 2024 or 2025 are available.
This is the true cost of poorly managed energy and agriculture policy.
The Competition and consumer protection commission are getting money for nothing and their checks are free of any effort to hold industry to account.
I suppose you could eat cake if you could afford it.
An unmitigated clusterf@ck
I’m currently on maternity leave, which isn’t topped up by my employer, so I’ve just been getting the state payments. At the beginning of this year, my husband got a big promotion and his salary jumped to just a few grand below what we were previously earning combined, which allowed me to take the 16 weeks unpaid. We were really grateful, because I couldn’t do that with our first and I found going back to work incredibly difficult the last time.
However in the past 6-8 weeks with everything jumping so much in price, we’re really starting to feel the pinch and it’s looking like I’ll need to go back to work earlier than planned.
We have a small mortgage of less than €1000 a month and still we’re struggling now.
It’s gone crazy. 4 quid, FOUR FUCKING QUID! for a stick of butter in tesco. And that’s not even kerrygold mind you
What better way to reduce the populations carbon footprint then the market mechanism. Serfs up kids.
Shops will take the piss just as long as you buy the goods at the piss taking prices. They will further take the piss until you stop paying the piss price.
They don’t call it Treasure Ireland for nothing! It’s the case with everything throughout the decades.
We pay more, and we complain, but just to each other. We don’t shop with our feet.
See also motor insurance. Internet providers.
Because they can.
Unfortunately when prices go up it’s very very hard to get them down.
Do we have the redditors here that say if you buy from store X of course it will be expensive. You should buy from Lidl or Aldi if you want cheaper prices.
As it turns out actually all grocery store chains in Ireland gauges prices, it only takes a bit of more time for others the follow price increasing trend.
I don’t know about anyone else, but my diet has become more plant based as meat has shot up over the years. It just represents worse and worse value vs quality.