“Ho sinceramente paura quando arrivo alla cassa”: i nostri lettori su come aumenta il prezzo del cibo li influenzano
https://www.thejournal.ie/grocery-food-drink-pub-wine-eating-out-prices-6714916-Jun2025/
di Jaisyjaysus69
“Ho sinceramente paura quando arrivo alla cassa”: i nostri lettori su come aumenta il prezzo del cibo li influenzano
https://www.thejournal.ie/grocery-food-drink-pub-wine-eating-out-prices-6714916-Jun2025/
di Jaisyjaysus69
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The examples are always dumb in these articles
> “TAKE JACOB’S RICE cakes,” a reader writes.
> A packet of six chocolate-covered rice cakes cost €3 at the start of this year, she recalls.
A packet of six own-brand are a euro. Why would you pay nearly 4 euro for Jacob’s ones.
https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/en-IE/products/305973297
> One reader, whose regular sun cream now costs €25 from Tesco, said this essential product appeared to be priced for the privileged.
You can get much cheaper sun cream in Tesco or any of the shops (especially lidl)
In the first line the person states Jacobs rice cakes are gone from €3 a pack to €3.75 and their kids eat three packs a day .
It’s hardly essentials and Tesco brand rice cakes are a euro, if you’re drowning and someone throws you a life ring you don’t throw it back because you don’t like the colour.
I know there’s inflation but try to help yourself at least.
The advice is to shop around and vote with your feet. Plenty of great value out there. For instance, buy shop branded products instead.
You should know what’s in your basket. If you’re arriving at the till with no idea of the ballpark figure then you’re doing it wrong.
It’s easy to say, but have a budget. I’ve been known to mooch around the shop with the phone calculator open. 😬
A lot of people moaning here about how the shoppers in the article are just dumb and it’s easy to shop around.
But I shop at Lidl, I buy mainly lidl own brand, I shop around, I get any more expensive brand name items (mainly my hair products) when they’re on sale/3 for 2 offers, etc.
And the cost of my shopping has gone up and up in the past couple of years.
Yes, Jacob’s Rice Cakes are a stupid example – it’s typical of the Irish press that they only interview upper middle class people and use expensive examples. But the problem is across all groceries – Dunnes and Lidl; brand name and own brand.
I used to be able to afford a few brand name items (ie, my husband prefers Chef ketchup, and my kids preferred proper Cheerios). But chef ketchup is nearly €5 a bottle now and a big box of Cheerios nearly €7 so it’s off brand all the way!
Absolutely branded items have rocketed by cost per kg or shrinkflation and it looks dramatic to show as a %, but for people truly struggling it’s the price of true essentials. No matter how you stretch them or bulk out meals with veg you’ll still need things like own brand milk, tinned tomatoes or pasta.
Even on the cleaning side of things, you’ll see the advice to save money is use white vinegar for everything. The price of it has flown up now that more people have switched. My local Supervalu does a 5L drum, but it’s more expensive per L than the pint bottles in Tesco or Aldi. If you’re counting pennies you could spend all day Saturday going to each of the different supermarkets for the best deals.
I wouldn’t normally be shopping at 9-10am but sometimes will pop into Tesco on the way home after a night shift.
In the fridge section beside the meats, they have a small ‘reduced to clear’ section where short dated foods can be reduced, and a couple of times now I’ve seen people just loitering around there, and looking at phones and browsing, looking at shelves of rashers and sausages etc, but with empty baskets, not actively shopping.
Didn’t really notice tbh, till one day a guy arrived with the trolley of reduced food and it was like what you see at the bus stop when the bus arrives. The crowd just came alive, everyone clambering for the fridges to save a few € on dinner. I was a bit stunned. I never seen people queue like that to save a few € on food. Not here in Ireland, not in this age.
It’s really sad to see, there are people struggling out there. We’re lucky enough to not feel the pinch, but seeing it in real life hit home. There are people living on your street, in your community, who are really struggling.
I use the self scanners in Tesco, so I know exactly how much I’m paying throughout my shop.
Has our money just become weaker?