Paphos People

We were in Tescos this afternoon after the footie getting the messages. I reckon they have increased almost every price across the range. Out total came to £128. Items that were previously been just below the £2, so £1.97 etc were up to £2.10, eggs, milk, chicken, cheese, all showed increases. Has anyone else found this, or has anyone seen this in other stores?

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Tanny chance would be a fine thing we dont have TESCO/ASDA/ SAINSBS/ALDI/NETTO/POUNDSTRECHER.in CY oooooheeer I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms Marj

Tanny,,,i too have noticed it also sell by dates with 2 days

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The other thing I have noticed is that many have removed altogether or reduced the ranges of products in general, and done the same with "small Quantity" products. Ie salt cannot be purchased in those weebottles anymore, gravy is in big tubs etc etc. This is to make you buy big sizes at what you believe to be a cost per kilo saving, not realising that you can only use half of it before it goes off, throw it out and buy another!

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Yes , Tesco down south are the same , some things defy logic .

I usually buy a sandwich for my lunch box , the selection has gone down and the price has gone up .

See if you can work out this logic , chicken and stuffing sandwich was £1-60 , now £1-80 , but you can buy a chicken bacon and lettuce for £1-68 .

How does that work then ?????

Most other things have also gone up , even the SO commented on it so I know it's not just me .

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Mike.

Live each day as if it's your last ,
cos one day it will be .

Think smart Frank , dig to the back of the shelf , usually the longer lasting things are back there . I've found things with a 4 or 5 day different date this way .

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Mike.

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cos one day it will be .

Mike i always dig from the back even lettuce never on top always take from tray below as they want to get rid of old stock first.Best bet is late night shop when stock rotated.Prison service buy bread which has 1 day left as used quick in prisons.

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We noticed the same thing. We shop at both Asda and Tesco and both supermarkets have put up prices recently. No wonder really, with fuel prices up to £1.10 for a litre of diesel.
However, if you buy things when they are on special offer, you can make savings. Bailey's Irish Cream, £9 a litre at Tesco, £13 at Asda.
Other things, like coffee, have also gone up. A year ago you could get two jars of Nescafe for £5.50, now the special offer price is £6.50. 400 grams of Cadburys Milk Chocolate used to be £1.78, now, around 6 monthe later, £2.48.

I hadn't realised that Tesco's were now in Paphos , or even Cyprus. Directions please and will they accept my clubcard , issued at The Twickenham store , here in Cyprus.

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The UK ex-pat obsession with Tesco is very sad, however the underlying point is that food prices are rising. The reason is the explosion in demand for grain and oil from China. Now that we have given the Chinese our jobs and manufacturing industry, they can afford to buy our food, and they are doing so in ever growing numbers. Add to this the fact that increasing amounts of agricultural land are being given over to growing crops to make fuel oil and you will see that the days of cheap food are gone. If this also means that people will be a little more discerning about the crap they put in their mouths (as it will always be cheaper to prepare your own meals from fresh ingredients than to eat pre-prepared stuff of dubious pedigree) it can only be a good thing for the health of the nation.

There on the up here so whats new. Marj

Nothing new marg, but this seems to have been a very quick, rather large series of rises. All of which have been well camoflaged by diversionary marketing ploys.

The increases exceed inflation and will therefore increase the rate of inflation, reducing the pressure to reduce interest rates!

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Tanny us here in CY are finding the same hike up after the €. its a bummer but not a lot we can do unfortunately. Even the Cypriots are finding it hard especially the old who are on very small "pensions. Marj

Of course Trooly the same thing happened when the UK wnet from LSD to £& p. And that is switching between our own currency, not an external one.

Theres always someone on the make trying to make a buck out of others misery.

However my main concer is that with tesco, asda, morrison, sainsbury being the main suppliers to the public, they effectively have a cartel and can drive prices up. This unspoken situation is or own fault for allowing the big boys to get away with commercial murder (as Taggart once said) and killing competition on the high street.

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Not everyone puts crap in there mouth graham.As stated their cost of fresh veg has risen very high ie one small red pepper 68p for instance.I never eat frozen ready meals as not enough cals in them.Full of water etc.

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We don't usually use Tesco but did go in on Good Friday. We bought a whole filletted salmon for £9. Good value.
All meats were half price so we stocked up with lamb chops,pork and beef.
We thought we'd got a bargain !
Gary

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Graham

Your abruptness is shocking

As a retired farmer - I supposed I jumped ship too soon - you've hit the nail on the head.

The days of cheap food are long gone, and maybe farmers can earn a decent living, although I'm sure they'll still be screwed by the likes of Tesco.

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J B

Call me sad if you want - and yes I am Scottish, but I keep a spreadsheet of our household expenditure, with a specific breakdown for houskeeping expenses.

On taking a 26 week (6 month) average, our food/toiletries/cleaning etc. expenses have gone up from a weekly average £115 in March 2007 to £136 in March 2008. That is for a household of 3, purchasing more or less the same items year on year, and taking it as a 6 month average, will smooth out any peaks and troughs in the figures.

Living in the UK with 2.5% inflation, someone is having a laugh at our expense

Brian

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The cost of food has also gone up alarmingly in New Zealand. Consider this we have 43.1 million sheep and 4 million people yet I pay NZ$50 (&25.68) a kilo for Lamb fillet. Beef fillet $59 kilo. Butter also produced here was $2 a kilo last year now is $5 a kilo because we have to pay the same as overseas for our own butter. The same applies to milk. I find the situation crazy we grow the stuff but many familes cannot afford it. Would not be so bad if the wages were high but they are not.

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The silence by our consumer chapmions is deafening on this situation.

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Who are they Tanny Who are these Chapmions

If you really want the names you can try Which? the consumer campaign group,
Sir martin Lewis esq. watchdog and all of that ilk. The people who make money from reporting on others misery.

Although I subscribe to certain of these sites myself they work on an Ideal world rather than the real world the majority of people live in.

Most people are concerned about the price of a loaf electricity, gas and feul. Far less are concened or have the funds to consider the carry forward of their AVC's on the personal pension sold to them before they became worthless and trying to squeeze the last pennies into the ISA allowance to see it eroded by the real price of a packet of Ginger Nuts.

Rant over, but you see my point.



I hope

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True enough, but the processed food industry is worth billions so someone is eating it. My point was that as food costs rise, people might be a little more circumspect about what they eat and that must be a good thing.
I never was one to pussyfoot around people's fragile egos If you were into arable farming, particularly of grain or oil crops then you probably did jump too soon, but I heard you were into dairy and as the supermarkets have shafted the dairy industry for years, you were probably wise to jump when you did.

I was Dairy

Only got out six months ago, just before the prices rose!

No regrets though, swallows and summers etc

I'm now in Florida typing this with not a care about whether it's raining/snowing at home.

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J B

That old phrase come to mind.

"Ive never seen a poor farmer or publican"

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Hmm ........... our village pub has been up for let for the last year - no takers!
The one in the next village burned down three years ago, it's still a shell, nobody wants to take it on!

I sold my farm, put the money in the bank and now earn more from the interest than I did from working 12 hours a day.

Maybe you need to get some new phrases and not use the old ones!

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J B

Absolutely, lets break the old ones and create a few more up to date ones, like.

"The mans a poliitician, he must be trustworthy"
"Men will never wear platforms again"

go on add some more.

ps I hope Florida is a bit warmer that Scotland!!

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It is, thank you, but not as warm as it should be unfortunately,

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J B

Was in Staples this evening, and again seems most items have had one hike or another. But one of my pet hates is items being wrongly priced on the shelves. Grrrrrr

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