Costo della spesa al “punto di svolta” man mano che i prezzi aumentano al doppio del tasso di inflazione
https://m.independent.ie/business/money/cost-of-groceries-at-tipping-point-as-prices-rise-at-double-the-rate-of-inflation/a2035012602.html
di WearingMarcus
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Presume our recent green taxes are having an affect on this as well. Making it more expensive to produce and transport our food has to be compounding this issue
The advice is as relevent now more than ever. Shop around and vote with your feet.
We really need something to change in this Country.
Just imagine you’re earning the average 44k salary in Ireland, paying 2k in rent and now groceries are going up to the point where you are just eating exactly what you need.
I am seeing multiple articles about pubs being empty and I would say the cost of living is stopping people going. Why pay 7 euro a pint when you can stay in your 2k house with your 9 other roommates drinking cans
We ordered Chinese on Saturday evening, I think the last time I ordered food was sometime last year! It came to €38.90 and we collected it. 2 main dishes with sides and an extra chips, and prawn crackers! It was muck as well. Threw most of it in the bin. Never again.
The chase is pointless
Honestly, I thought Irish grocery prices were pretty cheap in comparison to what I pay here in Canada. My definition of what’s ‘cheap’ may have been warped by the fucking ridiculousness of Canadian grocery prices though.
It sounds like nonsense but we are living in the end-times of this particular socio-economic era.
People roll their eyes because people can only remember what they’ve lived through but this era of prosperity has been very very short. To believe it to be permanent is arrogant in the extreme.
The social contract between capitalism and its workers has been torn up.
Unfortunately I don’t see a benevolent political hero swooping in to change course and reinstate it.
I dunno what’s next but it’s going to be turbulent that’s for sure
And yet people on here will still try to claim cost of living is somehow not that bad because “inflation isn’t actually that high” as if they haven’t noticed the price of shopping has doubled or worse over the last 5 years or rent has doubled.
I swear people only see “inflation is 2%” or whatever and just ignore the fact everything has gone fucking insane price wise.
I’m beginning to notice that the supermarket’s own branded stuff is becoming just as expensive as the branded products.
corporatism
Alot of them discovered during COVID that they could just say the raw materials were more expensive and hike prices to the moon…
….and hope no one noticed the record profits reported the following year.
Now, no one cares. Everything to the moon.
Sure, the likes of Tesco have been found multiple times to be charging 50% plus for the same products in ROI vs the UK. The island has the absolute piss taking out of it by retailers
The couple there and their two sprogs seem happy enough with things. Having a great time doing their shopping.
Even takeout is mental.
We bought a pizza stone for the bbq.
Start making your own pizza folks.. roughly 10 euros will make you 2 or 3 €16 ordered pizzas.