Hi Colin,
I'm really suprised that you're griping about prices. When I was in the UK I thought the prices were ridiculously low! I had a heyday in Barnsley and even brought back 11 footballs to Brazil. The same footballs across here cost around seven times more. And when I bought them the lady in the store told me that the week before they were being sold for 99p!!
I thought that meat was really cheap, it's even cheaper in some cases than over here. Woolworths, we know has gone under, had incredible bargains. There's a shop near to where my sister lives that sells twenty choc ices for a pound!
Fruit and veg I thought was reasonable. I thought the price of cigars was extremely high. That's tax for you. Also the other little devil, petrol was expensive. But on the other hand middle distance travelling was really cheap. I paid twent six pounds for a return National coach ticket from London to Barnsley. I could have got an off peak rail ticket for the same journey for thirty five.
Snacking out is expensive. The first thing I did when I got into London was to get that traditional English food that we all know and have come to love, a donner kebab. That came to over four pounds.
Is a return trip to Barnsley worth five or six donner kebabs?
I think you must go with the flow and take advantage whenever offers come along and adapt to the situation. I think the being faithfull to a certain shop or brand name has become a thing of the past and this has just began to sink in to the shops and manufacturers.
The staples are there and cheap if you buy in season and try to buy locally. Buying potatoes (old potatoes - not the spring ones) and turnips will always be cheap, whereas imported products like mangos and the such will fluctuate depending on season, exchange rate (the UK is getting hammered at the moment), quantity and where you buy from.
Cheap, me? You bet!
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by Colin
I was in my local Tesco's this morning & noticed a huge increase in the price of essential foodstuffs - fruit, veg, milk, meat (especially fresh vegetables)
For example, last Monday a head of fresh Brocolli was 45p, today it's 79p - that's a 75% increase in one week!
...and, fair enough as the silly season is almost upon us you'd expect certain things to go from the shelves pretty quickly....
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