What everyday thing in the UK has become stupidly expensive without people noticing?

Posted by vetaly87@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 689 comments

Not talking about the obvious stuff like rent or energy bills. More the random everyday things where you suddenly realise the price is nowhere near what it used to be. For me it’s probably basic supermarket stuff and takeaways. What’s yours?

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Super_Shallot2351@reddit

Based on my recent experiences, I'd say eating out. Stuff like a fry up, roast dinner, burger (chips cost extra!) etc in local restaurants have gone from being >£10 to closer to £20 in not that long. However, everyone knows that. So I'll say firewood. Stupidly expensive since the pandemic + Ukraine war.

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Dualyeti@reddit

Also we’ve silently accepted 20% tip - aka 20% service charge. We aren’t America, we pay a premium for restaurant food, and staff get paid accordingly. Why the fuck have we accepted paying 20% more.

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Jeffuk88@reddit

Ive never seen a tip expectation in a british restaurant over 10% in very fancy places...

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slade364@reddit

Isn't it usually 12.5%?

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DondeT@reddit

That’s 2025 talk.

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fray_bentos11@reddit

I always get excessive tips removed and then tip 8% instead of my usual 10% for the annoyance.

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cobweb1989@reddit

How much are you paying for firewood? I'm paying £80 for half ton bags.

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Dyalikedagz@reddit

Collect your own from the woods like I do!

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Whatafunnyusername@reddit

Oh god, I got mixed up here and thought you were replying to the person talking about sticky toffee puddings. Was very confused for a moment there!

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AcrobaticHedgehog599@reddit

It's the desserts that get me. I swear they used to be able £3-4. Nowadays a basic sticky toffee pudding or suchlike is really £7+. I always decline.

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alwaysasecretx@reddit

Paying £3.50 for a sauce with your steak ... i just cannot bring myself to do it!

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wrain10@reddit

Crisps

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IDKBear25@reddit

Carrier bags at the supermarket till.

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External-Praline-451@reddit

That's one good thing out of this thread. Plastic bag usage has dropped around 98% since the charge was introduced. That's a MASSIVE reduction in plastic waste. We have our trusty bags for life at the ready and I have one of those scrunched up ones for my handbag for "emergency" purchases.

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Speedbird1A@reddit

Yet all the food comes packed in plastic, and those plastic containers are wrapped in bulk in large plastic sacks. The only plastic you have to pay for is the plastic bag. It’s like banning plastic straws, more of a feel good policy, not to say it has zero impact, but it does have minimal impact.

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External-Praline-451@reddit

Also, as per your edit, how is it making a customer suffer to bring their own bags?

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Speedbird1A@reddit

Suffer by the bags being sold for well above cost price, price gouging. I use reusable bags, but I don’t always have them with me. Unless you drive everywhere or carry a large handbag with you (neither of which I do), you’re not always going to have them with you.

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External-Praline-451@reddit

That doesn't even make sense...it's not a choice between using a disposable plastic bag at checkout, or buying food wrapped in plastic. You're either buying food wrapped in plastic or not, if you use a reusable bag youre still saving plastic. Also supermarkets are being forced to use more biodegradable packaging for other stuff, it's already noticeably improved.

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Speedbird1A@reddit

If you think most of the food that comes loose isn’t wrapped in plastic when it enters the wholesale supply chain, you’re very naive. Like I said, the prices being charged now are simply price gouging people that happened to not be with their reusable bag at the time of entering the shop, for a minimal reduction in overall plastic waste. There could be a deposit system, but that wouldn’t make the supermarkets money.

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Lt_Muffintoes@reddit

The actual amount of plastic went up, because at least a third of the bags were being used as bin liners, which people now buy instead, and the thicker reusable bags take 10 times as much plastic to make. They also take much longer to break down

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External-Praline-451@reddit

Have you got a source for that?

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Effective-Cash7286@reddit

I work in a supermarket. Sadly people don't give a monkeys and still buy about 6x plastic bags each time they shop (they're 40p each) I tell them that the heavy duty bags work out cheaper... But they're not interested.

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External-Praline-451@reddit

Maybe where you are is an outlier, but overall there's been a 98% reduction, so that's good! Some people are just willfully dumb and wasteful out of spite and you just can't help those people.

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palacepaulse25@reddit

£2 today In frasers wtf

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sqkz69oioi@reddit

A lot of the times I'm going these days. They don't even have the cheap option. You can only get the proper bags and they cost an arm and a leg

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veodin@reddit

Tesco don't sell single-use carrier bags at all anymore. The cheapest is 40p. Supposedly it is to reduce plastic waste, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is avoid paying the 5p charity tax for single use bags.

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coffeexcoffeex91@reddit

Mcdonalds. Utter rip off merchants

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Zoboticus@reddit

The last Subway I got (the last I'll get, and I used to love them), the size of the bread was the same as an iced finger

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Independent_Ad_3469@reddit

I honestly thought they’d charged me wrong or for someone else’s meal the other day, nope it’s just been a while since I went and was shocked at the price rise

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tmr89@reddit

In a few years they hiked their prices by around 40%, above inflation. Greedy!

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Unable_Obligation_73@reddit

Belly pork used to be pennies now its a premium

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WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit

It's been gentrified unfortunately. Blame capitalism. It's still pennies, but they'll rip you off for it because they can. See also; corned beef.

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Jeffuk88@reddit

I lived in Canada for 11 years where you cant really get the sandwich slices of corned beef... moved back last week and its like 50p per slice now!?!?! Wtf happened

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Monsoon_Storm@reddit

glad to see someone else bring up corned beef. It's cheaper to buy fucking mince (and that's saying a lot). Corned beef hash was a staple for us growing up because we were poor. Corned beef pie, corned beef hash, corned beef sandwiches... I fancied some a few months ago and was floored by the price. I never thought I'd see the day where corned beef became a "special treat" food.

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JeevestheGinger@reddit

Chicken thighs...

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Justbecauselife82@reddit

They used to be the cheaper option, now they are more expensive than chicken breast often. Drumsticks and bone in thighs still low at the moment but watch this space...

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hussain_madiq_small@reddit

On what planet are chicken thighs more expensive than breast. You can get a kg for like £3. Thats enough for like 3 days of meals.

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Justbecauselife82@reddit

Skinless/boneless I mean, Tesco for example - 1kg chicken thigh fillets - £7.25/kg 1kg chicken breast fillets - - £6.49/kg

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hussain_madiq_small@reddit

So what system would you use to get cheaper pork belly instead of capitalism?

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slade364@reddit

Interestingly I was in Morrison's earlier and thought the bellt pork looked very cheap. Maybe just in comparison to other products. First time I've been in Morrison's, and I was very surprised by their range of fish and offal. Fair play to them I guess.

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dbxp@reddit

Might be due to Morrisons running their own abattoirs, same reason they often sell offal

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Same with beef bones.

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OudeArsenaal@reddit

And lamb shanks. And ox and pork cheeks. Thankfully the public still turn their noses up at chicken livers and lambs’ kidneys.

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Monsoon_Storm@reddit

I don't even look at lamb any more. Last time I decided to treat myself to a bit it cost me 8 quid and it was all fucking gristle. Chicken liver is becoming my weekly "iron booster" meal lol.

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Not to mention lambs hearts. Slice them and pan fry and they're delicious

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Unable_Obligation_73@reddit

Used to go to the local butchers and get free bones for the dogs

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Muggerlugs@reddit

My local butcher charges £3 for a dog bone now!

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WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit

Funny how throwaways are the new money grabs.

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supershinyshark@reddit

And oxtail

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tmr89@reddit

£20 for 800g of oxtail at my local butcher

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slade364@reddit

Yes - saw a pack earlier for a fiver. For bones!

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EmbarrassedPea208@reddit

Last week i managed to get 1kg of hot honey belly pork for £2,99 thanks to a 50% reduction at Lidl. Felt like winning the lottery, i haven't eaten it in so long due to the price.

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Voodoopulse@reddit

Blame Jamie fucking Oliver, in the 90s it used to be the dog meat my nan would feed you, then Jamie Oliver got everyone putting five spice on it

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Rusty_Tap@reddit

Jamie Oliver ruined my schooling too. How wondrous it was going from primary school up to secondary school, where existed burgers, pies, vending machines, deep fried chicken, cakes, cookies and ice cream all ripe for the taking (if you didn't spend your lunch money on fags in the local Mace). A year of such decadence, gluttony and joy, ended beautifully with 6 weeks of summer holiday, where we could frolick in the countryside, set fire to old cars in quarries and other children's activities. We return to school in September, stomachs rumbling, to discover that all of the prior deliciousness has vanished, replaced with a salad that wouldn't look out of place on council property after the first mow of the year, and sandwiches with no butter in them. All because of that ponce and his healthy eating bullshit. They had also erected a 7 foot fence around the school during the holidays, I'm surprised they didn't make us wear striped pyjamas.

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LeRages@reddit

L take

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missuseme@reddit

You used to also get 6 slices as a standard pack size in all the supermarkets, now it's more often four or five slices. Back in 2018 I would often buy a pack of 6 slices for somewhere between £1-1.50. Now it's like £5 for four slices.

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clemventure@reddit

Chippy tea, used to be a cheap meal. Now it’s easily a £15/20 quidder.

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Dissour@reddit

Audrey's Fish & Chips in Bridlington east yourkshire small fish and chips with gravy/curry sauce under £10. Was a satisfying portion. We were on holiday for the weekend and loved it

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MCDCFC@reddit

Fish and Chips upstairs at Audrey's with Bread and Butter. Happy days!

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clemventure@reddit

Bridlington is a bit rough though, flamborough lighthouse is cool though 🫶🏻

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Dissour@reddit

Its not as bad as Burnley 🤣. I enjoyed it only spent a day there but used to live there.

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clemventure@reddit

Burnley is hell.

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crazycatlady193@reddit

A full size fish supper (so a whole haddock and a portion chips) is less than £10 where I live. Mind you I live in the north of Scotland where fishing is one of our biggest industries so that could explain the price as I buy fresh fish from my local fish monger fairly cheaply too.

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clemventure@reddit

Plus it rains 345 days of the year so they probably carbon offset that too

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TheAngryBad@reddit

There's a chip van comes round my way, 2 sausage & a decent portion of chips for £5. I don't know how they're keeping it so low but I love them for it. Shame they only come round once a week.

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Desperate_Soup_8298@reddit

Puts the one that comes to my work every now and then. £5 for a chip barm and £8 for fish goujons and chips!

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clemventure@reddit

That is a bargain! What city is that!?

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TheAngryBad@reddit

City? Lol. This is semi rural Norfolk, closest city is Norwich, about 45 minutes away. That probably has a lot to do with it, plus the fact they're running it out of a van so don't have huge rental costs on a building. They just park outside the post office every Friday evening. But still, even a van operation has running costs, so it's still impressively cheap.

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clemventure@reddit

Yes I imagined with the diesel prices now that’d be an expensive lump to throw around

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Boaby-the-barman@reddit

The chip van round my way runs on biodiesel using their old cooking oil. It still costs £4 for a bag of chips though.

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TheAngryBad@reddit

Tell me about it! I'm a small business owner and run a transit van. Fuel prices are really starting to hurt. I put £120 in it the other day (max the pay at pump would allow) and didn't even get a full tank 😢

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clemventure@reddit

Bud I drive a HGV for a living! Putting in easily a grand a week. Madness

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tmr89@reddit

Cheap catering sausages are about 20p each, then the chips are about 50p, so it’s still a healthy margin when doing bulk

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TheAngryBad@reddit

Raw material costs are only a small part of their expenses. Diesel, trading licence, staff wages, insurance, etc etc, it all adds up. That said, I expect they're still making a decent enough profit, and I don't begrudge them that. They could have said 'everyone else is raising prices so we might as well too' but they didn't, and I respect that.

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katlaki@reddit

Am I right on thinking, sausage x 2 = 40p and chips 50p. Rounding it off to £1. Other costs £2 ( oil, diesel, wages etc) so £3 for each order. So a profit of £2 per order, if the cost of each order is £5. Again, if chips are about 50p why do our local Chinese charge £3.50 to £4.

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Watchkeys@reddit

Yes. Chips are no longer as cheap as chips.

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hidingbehindyoursofa@reddit

It used to be a working class takeaway but no longer. All takeaways are so expensive now.

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laughinggrvy@reddit

The local chippy used be queued right round the corner evenings - especially at weekends. You'd argue over who drew the short straw and had to go wait for ages to get the family order in. I can walk past it now 5/6pm on a Fri or Sat and there's maybe one or two customers inside, and the odd delivery driver popping in and out. Grim. The price has gone up a lot over the last several years, while the quality has reduced dramatically. I don't know how they're surviving.

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clemventure@reddit

It’s gone to piss

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NoTry8886@reddit

i mean a mcdonalds is now about a tenner, on what plant really?!

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mdmnl@reddit

Unfortunately it's gotten more expensive at the same time as it's gotten less convenient. I never liked McDonald's much, but my kids do, I could cope with it being cheap, quick and reliable (if not brilliant). These days it's slow, the orders are regularly wrong, and it is far from cheap.

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Jeffuk88@reddit

Ive given up on mcdonalds, doesnt matter how short the drive thru line looks, it takes forever. Half the time they ask me to pull into a spot just for a couple meals, takes forever, chips are never filled (no consistency, can get large but have less chips than a medium), drinks are never filled, sometimes cold etc. I worked out that I can stop at the chippy and get us all more food for less and its quicker plus we arent hungry again 2 hours later

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Emperors-Peace@reddit

They're basically too busy accomodating all the deliveroo fucks. I already feel like a lazy bastard because I'm at McDonald's instead of cooking. I dread to think who's getting it delivered to their house regularly.

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mdmnl@reddit

That's my other gripe - it travels fucking terribly. A Chinese takeaway, an Indian, a pizza? They're absolutely fine after 10 or 15 min in the car. McDonalds? By the time I've walked out it's cold, limp and bedraggled. Christ knows what it's like after being flung in the back of a Corsa or a moped.

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clemventure@reddit

It comes out cold and looks like they’ve had a game of netball with it, I stopped buying it years ago.

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sharpestcrayon87@reddit

The one and only time we deliveroo’d a maccies it came and wasn’t the hottest but thought, eh whatever, at least it’s here and I didn’t have to move my lazy arse. Wife got a cheeseburger and opens it up, takes a bite… on the other end of the cheeseburger was another bite… wasn’t from her! Complained to deliveroo who obviously didn’t refund us. Never ordered through deliveroo since! Grim!

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AmyStormborn@reddit

I’m heavily pregnant with McDonalds cravings so I have had it delivered way more than I’d like to admit. I do absolutely feel like a lazy bastard though

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ImmediatePiano6690@reddit

Might as well buy multiple cakes during the food shop.

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-Po-Tay-Toes-@reddit

The one near us has just been refurbed, they gave out vouchers in the local area and I got breakfast there this morning. The voucher was £3.50 for two sausage and egg mcmuffins, pretty decent. The full price before the voucher applied was almost £9. Without a drink or anything else, absolutely mental.

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clemventure@reddit

After last bite you’re back hungry again!!

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Riskrunner7365@reddit

One burp and your empty

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ContextRules@reddit

Or in the toilet.

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omgu8mynewt@reddit

The meal that has two normal burgers om it, with chips and drink is £6

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hitch21@reddit

I usually get one portion of chips now to share with my wife as it’s more than enough chips. Couple of sausages and a large curry sauce to share. Costs about a £10-11 which I think is reasonably cheap still considering a couple of ready meals would be £6-7. If I’ve had a good month at work I might treat myself to fish but it’s nearly £20 instead of close to a tenner.

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paul6057@reddit

In fairness, fish in fish and chips shops has been really expensive for at least 15 years.

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TheBlueprint666@reddit

Me and this woman I was seeing got fish and chips, fritters and a single portion of chips with gravy for £20.50 a few weeks back. In the 1990s when I used to get sent up the road to get the tea for four of us it was always less than a tenner and I used to skim a quid off the top of the change that went towards 20 tabs

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Megabecca18@reddit

It’s crazy! There’s one not far from me that’s changing £9 for JUST the fish!

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clemventure@reddit

£9 where’s the fish from Atlantis?

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Matchaparrot@reddit

I can still find old chippys that have been open for years selling fish and chips for £7. I reckon newer chippys have more overheads so that's why it's expensive

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clemventure@reddit

Where beloved, cause I ain’t seeing them here.

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Cornwall, tried finding it on Google maps but the name escapes me. It wasn't in the big towns it was on the side of a road and looked like it hadn't changed for the past twenty years. Fantastic fish and chips

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clemventure@reddit

Oh Cornwall certainly is gods country, sennen lands end is literally one of my favourite places in the world. I think I need to fire my campervan up and head out there again…what a place

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Bright blue water just like in Italy or the Carribbean. I loved the beaches and walking by sand dunes and seeing lizards running through the grass

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clemventure@reddit

Tintagel is one of my favourites, the colour of the sea, I close my eyes and can see its pure blue now. Thanks for reigniting that love for Cornwall for me. Stay blessed. 🫶🏻

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slade364@reddit

May depend on the fish and its size. About 13 quid for large fish and chips in Bromsgrove.

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clemventure@reddit

Once you add your curry sauce and your obligatory can of pop you’re at £20 nearly.

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slade364@reddit

Ha, I don't get either. I've sometimes made tartare sauce at home before going, but if I can't be bothered I'll just have ketchup. Heathen, I know.

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clemventure@reddit

I was dating a girl from my city before, we were in the Peak District she asked me to ask them if they do curry sauce, the look on the blokes face he was so offended by my blasphemy..

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Killybug@reddit

I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few years (or months) you’ll walk into a chippy for them to start auctioning off meals as lots.

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clemventure@reddit

People will be whispering behind you if you order haddock like you’ve just purchased a kg of gold. “He’s had the haddock Karen”

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escapingfromelba@reddit

Chip shop related street muggings due soon.

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FrazzledGod@reddit

Probably catfish.

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clemventure@reddit

Have heard about this catfish scandal.

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SgtBushMonkey69@reddit

Went to the chippy on Friday, 2 saveloys a small cod and large chips came to nearly 17 quid. World’s gone bloody mad.

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clemventure@reddit

Sorry for your loss (of money)

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SnackOverflow90@reddit

lol yep, I definitely noticed though. Honestly don’t eat it at all anymore and it’s a shame.

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adymann@reddit

Smoking seems to be getting a very expensive habit for me these days.

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TheBlueprint666@reddit

£2.50 for 20 Marlboro Red when I started. Now they’re about £18

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adymann@reddit

Mmm Marlboro. I was a rocker in my youth so they were my original sin so to say. Then in my early 20s I chopped off my long hair, became a raver and changed to b&h gold and still smoke them after all these years.

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

I literally have no concept of how much certain things should cost anymore. I live in London and buy bread from our local bakery. ~£6 a loaf. I’m so used to mentally factoring in a businesses’ labour costs, rent, energy bills, ingredients etc that I doubt they are making much of a profit, so I’m happy to pay for it as I like having a local bakery where I live. But I have no clue how much things should cost anymore.

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Darker_Midnite@reddit

Love your nick... I used to love Powerpuff Girls when I was younger.

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HenryHoover13@reddit

Individual cans of fizzy drink.

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ginbandit@reddit

FML, Tesco want £2 for a bottle of coke.

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slade364@reddit

Back in my day it was 50p a can, 80p a bottle. Christ, I'm 35 and I feel really fucking old.

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Newsaddik@reddit

Inflation is an unexpected indicator of age . Just wait till you reach your seventies like me. I can remember the five shilling pint (25 p).

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Wasps_are_bastards@reddit

I remember it being 29p for Pepsi. I’m 49

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Distinct-Lion4658@reddit

I was born in 2004 and remember chocolate bars being £1. I dread to think of how much they'll be when I'm 70

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ProperComposer7949@reddit

Fucking hell I don't even feel that old, I was born in '85 and a mars bar was 26p for me growing up

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Streamliner85@reddit

10p for a Freddo.

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ProperComposer7949@reddit

And they were as thick as your finger too

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Alert_Cover_6148@reddit

Born in 1980 and I remember fruit salad and black jack half penny sweets

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ClaraSepticVersion2@reddit

Yes, 1979 here. You could get a good haul of sweets for 10p.

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Hellolaoshi@reddit

Yes, I remember those days. At the local chip shop (now derelict), they also sold kids' sweets. There were ones an adult might like, such as bars of chocolate, and things like dolly mixtures, cola cubes, sherbet, and so on, for little kids. My dad sent my little sister there once to get bars of chocolate, but she got what seemed like a load of rubbish. She got loads of kids' sweets for just 15p.

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DameKumquat@reddit

Four for a penny when I sold them in the school tuck shop, 1989-91. All other sweets were a ha'penny (white mice and other crap ones) or a penny (fizzy cola bottles). Meanies were 5p, other crisps 10p.

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Pin1888@reddit

Meanies were the best.

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Alert_Cover_6148@reddit

Love me a white mouse

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Serious-Use4585@reddit

Same

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vetaly87@reddit (OP)

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aezy01@reddit

I remember chocolate bars being 23p

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emmmkaaay@reddit

I remember chocolate bars being actual chocolate

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bluejeansseltzer@reddit

And what was your experience of the war?

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Superb-Coyote-8608@reddit

Which one?

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SallyJaneCooper@reddit

Don't mention the war!

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Hellolaoshi@reddit

And then Fawlty started doing his goosestepping funny walks.

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Hellolaoshi@reddit

"Don't you know there's a war on?"

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annoianoid@reddit

Gulf war one or two?

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-FantasticAdventure-@reddit

War on drugs.

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sunkistandsudafed3@reddit

My experience is the drugs won.

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the-illogical-logic@reddit

The real answer to the OP's question.

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Mattechooo@reddit

I remember a Mars bar being 8½p

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TheBlueprint666@reddit

You could get a Mars Bar and that weeks Beano for about 20/25p

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Mattechooo@reddit

Remember the extra joy when that weeks Beano had a toffee bar taped to the front. 🎉

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Cleanshirt-buswanker@reddit

Or a drumstick.

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Hellolaoshi@reddit

I remember the Beano but not the toffee bar attached.

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Mattechooo@reddit

How about a miniature plastic frisbee that has warped in transit and will never fly straight?

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Oxygene13@reddit

Unless it was the last one in the shop and some said had half inched the bar and the only reason you know is the sad bit of cellotape still stuck to the front :(

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Extra-Sound-1714@reddit

I remember being outraged when they increased to 5p.

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TheAngryBad@reddit

I bought a king size mars after a flight the other day. Three bloody quid! Serves me right for buying anything at an airport shop, but still...

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TheClnl@reddit

Yeah, Mars Bar and a can of Coke was less than 50p

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Kittygrizzle1@reddit

I remember them being 2 1/2p

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OctopusofObfuscation@reddit

I remember them being 4d!

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BarNo3385@reddit

Mars Bar 27p!

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NinjafoxVCB@reddit

Can't even legally call the majority of them on the shelves chocolate now either

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iamuhtredsonofuhtred@reddit

I've got undies older than you. Fuck.

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zedexcelle@reddit

I remember a finger of fudge was 10p. I remember when a can of coke was 30p and a FIRST CLASS STAMP WAS 18P!!!! For Londoners I recall when a zone 1-2 weekly pass was under £14

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Honest-Possible6596@reddit

I’m 40 and remember a twix (my favourite) being 27p, so your £1 feels extortionate to me

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tjjwaddo@reddit

Well I'm 70 and remember when a chocolate bar was 6d. That's 2.5p in today's money.

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APithyComment@reddit

We used to get Chomps for 5p… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cadbury-Chomp-Bar-110-g/dp/B08HYR9PR7

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Novaportia@reddit

That is daylight robbery!

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Magic_mousie@reddit

I remember chocolate bars going up to £1, barely bought any individual ones since that outrageous move. Used to go to the shop with about £2 of pocket money and come away with two full size choc bars, a packet of polos, packet of refreshers, and still have some coppers left. Of course, my Mum will tell you of the days of 6 fruit salads for a penny.

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Terrible_Tap_4385@reddit

Born ‘77 and remember a mars bar being 23p

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Ok_Plankton_4150@reddit

Same - I paid £3.60 for a can of Fanta a couple of weeks ago. You can buy a slab of 24 at Costco for £7 - it’s not the wholesalers jacking up prices, it’s the retailers being greedy (or needing to because their bills are so high)

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clemventure@reddit

Ka black grape used to be 40p if you were feeling tight!

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Liquidfoxx22@reddit

I used to do the local shopping centre for £1. Bus was 25p each way, a can was 50p when we got there. I'm only 36.

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Honest-Possible6596@reddit

I’m 40 and remember a twix (my favourite) being 27p, so your £1 feels extortionate to me

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TheBlueprint666@reddit

I’m 47 and remember 10p Space Raiders

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DarkStanley@reddit

I remember 32p cans of coke quite clearly.

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Euphoric_Tradition37@reddit

43 and I remember it being 35p for a can and 75p for a bottle. Now I have to be desperate before I spend £2 - 3 on a bottle of coke.

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Djinjja-Ninja@reddit

This can be one of those comparative age contests, I remember a can of Coke being 25p, and I'm sure there'll be someone along after me who remembers cheaper. For reference I'm have just turned 50. Also 5p for a pack of Polos or Space Raiders, and Freddo weren't even a thing I remember as a kid (they were withdrawn in 79 and didn't come back until the mid 90s).

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CrazyLadyBlues@reddit

I'll bet you can a 2l bottle of coke for less than that.

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photism78@reddit

I blame meal deals, they inflate the cost to make the deal seem like better value; and get more profit from people who only want a drink. Supermarkets are causing food inflation IMO. Prices are confusing, shoppers pay a premium unless they use a loyalty card. It's idfficult to compare prices. And supermarkets are consistently making record profits. They're fucking us over.

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No_Skirt8776@reddit

Back when i was 15 and had the munchies you could buy 4 chocolate bars and still have change from a pound

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Boredpanda31@reddit

I was in a morrisons daily the other week and they were £2.60 for a wee bottle of Pepsi max!

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K1mTy3@reddit

1.25l bottles of Pepsi max are £1.75 in most places, including my local coop - yet 500ml bottles are £1.89!

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stu00c@reddit

This is the curse of the supermarket meal deal. The dopamine hit you get by maximising the saving when buying a main+drink+snack is balanced by the inflated cost of the individual items. Independant grocers are far cheaper if you just need a can of fizz.

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Scottish_squirrel@reddit

I've taken to getting a pepsi max these days because it's 85p. Actually tastes better than coke. Tesco's own brand cans which were like 6 for £2 seem to have vanished from shelves

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surreyade@reddit

They still do the diet versions, though they’ve stopped selling individual cans, they are now six packs and they’ve changed the branding. Still £2 and the lemonade is lovely.

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ihavetakenthebiscuit@reddit

Pure greed as well because its pence to manufacture these bottles.

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Metalsteve1989@reddit

Its £2.30 for one in shop near me. Cheaper most the time.buy a 2 litre bottle.

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Leachy06@reddit

I went to LEGOLAND, they wanted £3.5!

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thatanxiousmushroom@reddit

2.25 in Sainsbury’s local… buying a 2L bottle is cheaper but I don’t want it 💀

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Tildatots@reddit

Swear cans go up every time I visit a supermarket. Used to be able to get a coke at the corner shop for about 89p last year and now it’s over £1.20

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Able_Fault_2481@reddit

Just commented about this too 😂 sainsburys near me can of coke £1.80/£1.90 They were 50p 12 years ago in coop

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HollsHolls@reddit

Yeah I’m not even 18 till next month and I’ve noticed this too. The local corner shop sells most things at/very near rrp so if theres no price tag just look on the thing and so last week i noticed even coke themselves are marketing the cans at like 1.50 but luckily pepsi are like 85p still (for the max variety at least) which is lucky as i did not have more than like a pount on me

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ProzacJunkie@reddit

Cheaper off Amazon now.

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DeirdreBarstool@reddit

Not fizzy but Sainsburys Local are charging £2.60 for a bottle of Oasis. I know there’s a mark up for convenience but this is outrageous.

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DoubleHelicopter3072@reddit

Admittedly at a food festival, but I spent £7 on 2 cans of coke and a bottle of water last week.

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

Especially cans of safe stuff, most are made using toxic aspartame which means that I get maybe 3 options for drinks

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Johnnycrabman@reddit

Yes, I still expect them to be the 35p they were in the vending machine at school in the early 90s.

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Ok-Station6072@reddit

I bought a sodastream recently because it's gotten so out of hand. It'll pay for itself within 4 months.

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SeahorseQueen1985@reddit

I got charged just 90p less for a pint of diet coke than my dad's pint of beer.

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SubstantialPanic4253@reddit

In my local it’s £4 for a pint of thatchers or carling, £4 for a pint of Pepsi or lemonade. Crazy.

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NicolaiStrelitzia@reddit

£3.90 at the hospital the other day !! WHAAAATTT

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Still-BangingYourMum@reddit

Small local African shop 10 mins from me sells genuine cock acola for only £1.20 a can. Cheapest price in Corby for the real thing. But what's annoying me price wise is the cost of Butter, but not as bad as the constant rises of a left hand patternoster lift, it just keeps going up.

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tickledpickles69@reddit

In asda, the 500ml bottle of oasis is £2.08, the 1.5L is £2.07. Ludicrous.

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alanm1986@reddit

tell me about it, I take lunch to work, went out to buy a cold drink but didnt want to pay 2 pound or whatever it was for a drink so got a meal deal, basically ate shop bought sandwich, crisps and home made lunch for afters, need to take more fluids to work as its warming up

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superiner@reddit

Honestly. Sainsburys charges 1.65 for a full fat coke can!! It’s still 75p in poundland

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BiscuitCrumbsInBed@reddit

Absolutely! I often look at the the more expensive brands (Pepsi, Cola etc) and think that there is no way I'd pay £2-£3 on a bottle of 2l coke. But then I get lunch or a quick drink from the corner shop and i'm paying that for a can and not thinking twice!

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C0nnectionTerminat3d@reddit

This is the one. In school (mind you i only left 10 years ago) we used to opt for cans on the way to school and pour them into used bottles to save money as they were only 50p, whereas bottles were about 1.25. Now there’s not much difference between a bottle and a can.

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Pleasant_Tell8330@reddit

Mince I reckon it'll be tinned Tuna next

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Jeffuk88@reddit

We switched to beef and pork mix for things like spaghetti or chilli where youre mixing a bunch of stuff but the last couple times I did my shopping the pork mix has been pretty much same price!

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Monsoon_Storm@reddit

Interesting fact - minced beef is cheaper (pound for pound) than corned beef.

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blueincubus@reddit

Sardines are the way (also taste better)

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Speedbird1A@reddit

Also more sustainable (I think).

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Lt_Muffintoes@reddit

Less mercury and pcbs too

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ClaraSepticVersion2@reddit

Yes! And I now make puttanesca with tins of sardines as one of my weekly meals. Had to stop having salmon fillets weekly and switched to sardines. Salmon fillets are now knocking £5 for 2, so they are a treat, rather than a staple now.

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0-starlight-0@reddit

And mackerel

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Super-Progress2827@reddit

R/mincewatch

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boldstrategy@reddit

Tuna is already insane if you want chunks

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VegasButtercup@reddit

4 packs of chunks are £2.49 in Lidl, single tins 55p or so. By weight it's one of the cheapest meats and feels like it has been around that price for as long as I can remember tbh

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Free_Ad7415@reddit

I’m sure the tuna I buy is over £2 for a can….

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BladesMan235@reddit

Probably going for the branded ones coming out of the same factories as shop own brand ones. Even sainsbury own brand 4 packs are really nice at £2.85

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niallniallniall@reddit

That's a you problem for sure. Feel like I'd struggle to find a single tin for that much.

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cbrownmufc@reddit

Not been to Lidl lately?

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ClaraSepticVersion2@reddit

Used to be £2 for 4 tins a few of years ago. Before the last big inflation jump. I was clearing out a paperwork box and found some receipts from 2021. Tub of Tesco Hummus was 80p. Think they are £1.20 now.

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Key_Plum_99a@reddit

55p for a tin of tune, really? Seems cheap.

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red_nick@reddit

Do you mean steaks?

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Complex_Fragment@reddit

Me at the end of the pet food aisle: https://preview.redd.it/8nqf5hy2nd0h1.jpeg?width=642&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=434420e5997857241ae9dd2105a4eb6450f5aedc

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PLUMPUFFIN@reddit

My dog has to eat a diet of pretty much just fish and veg and actually yeah we are already seeing tuna and sardines (tinned, hes 75kg and still growing so has to be cheap) creep up in the last few months.

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SeaFruit2918@reddit

In some supermarkets the Mince doesn’t even look like Mince. The Mince looked vile, watery and vacuum packed.

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Pitandfroper@reddit

Can of drink. I still recall them being 40p out of the vending machine at school and knowing that was the expensive way of getting them. You're not getting a single can for under a quid these days. At least they've not reduced the size of them like all the other stuff.

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Venus_Gospel@reddit

Off licenses tend to have cans going for 49-89p sometimes, though it’s typically only the ones with the cans printed at that price and it feels like their hand was forced given other cans are £1.19

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Mr_Inconsistent1@reddit

Nothing. Everyone is moaning about the price of everything.

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mermaidqueen@reddit

Toothpaste… the toothpastes on OFFER at the moment are £3.50/4… full price is pushing a tenner

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F_DOG_93@reddit

That's why it's better to go online or just do unbranded.

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jinglesan@reddit

My local Sainsbury's (a mid-sized one, not a local) does not stock their own brand or even the budget versions of things like Colgate. This means the cheapest toothpaste they have is £30 per litre with a nectar card, or £33 without. Cheaper to clean my teeth with Tanqueray

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Fatbeau@reddit

Also some shampoos are around £8 - 10! It's absolutely crazy

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spritzreddit@reddit

the bright side of being a baldy

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MySparePersona@reddit

Colgate in Lidl £1.27

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Ok_Plate_9151@reddit

69p in Lidl today

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slade364@reddit

It's funny how experiences vary - toothpaste is the one thing I can always find for about a quid (colgate). And yet pesto always costs me a fucking fortune, whilst my girlfriend finds it reduced everywhere she goes.

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Key_Plum_99a@reddit

Oh yes, and toothpaste has all gone down from 100ml to 75ml tubes and therefore don’t last a month!

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FrazzledGod@reddit

89p in Aldi 😂

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Programmer-Severe@reddit

This. It's insane

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CicadaSlight7603@reddit

Ocado usually has tubes at £1, but then of course you have to shop at Ocado. However when I use Ocado it usually comes in cheaper than a sainsburys shop for me though my cousin has the opposite experience.

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Would_like_to_know@reddit

Soft drinks in pubs. Same price as beer for a pint of diet lemonade out of a gun. £4 for an appletise. Fucking ridiculous

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hedoesmore@reddit

I passed my test at 18 in 2006, and would regularly be designated driver as wasn't too fussed about drinking back then. Was always outraged that a pint of coke was the same price as a pint of beer even then, so this isn't a 'these days' thing for me. Its always been a pisstake.

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

£2.80 for half pint of lime and soda the other day. A wedge of lime and some bubbly water from a gun!!!! I was fuming

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Venus_Gospel@reddit

I was told by the bartender on my University campus that they legally can’t charge for Soda water since it’s technically just water in terms of ingredients, and I got pints of Lime and Soda inbetween lectures for 10p Not sure if that’s true or not

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TwoValuable@reddit

I was talking about this the other day, when I was a kid it was a pound for a soft drink. Lime and soda used to be 30p for the dash of cordial or some places would give it to you free with a round. When I turned 18 in 2011, there was even designated driver deals that if you went to the pub with your mates and at the bar said you were the designated driver (and showed your car keys) for the group they'd give you cheaper or free soft drinks as part of a safer driving schemes. You don't see that anymore as far as I'm aware.

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Advanced-Adagio-2071@reddit

Toothbrushes and toothpaste. Anywhere north of £6 for sensodyne I realise I’m using an electric toothbrush but £30 for TWO disposable plastic toothbrush heads?? The mark up must be insane.

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MissMoogie@reddit

Deodorant. I'll buy a few when it's on offer in Asda but £4 seems insane to me. Sadly the cheaper options aren't very reliable and I'm not a brand snob but I do like Sure and Nivea purely because it works.

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madpiano@reddit

I wait for super drug/ boots sales and stock up. My bathroom storage cupboard is starting to resemble Boots as I now stock up on any toiletry essentials for at least 6 months each time there is a deal.

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UnsuspectingNutella@reddit

Absolutely EVERY FUCK!NG THING. I used to spend £100 or so at Morrisons. Now? £150 EASILY for the same things. Aldi it is.

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Monsoon_Storm@reddit

Corned Beef. Grew up in a poor working class family and we lived on that stuff. It's more expensive than actual minced beef now, and that's saying something...

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sneltonexp@reddit

Co-op wanted me to pay 70p for a wham bar. Even the school black market sweet dealer wouldn't have the cheek to sell at those prices!

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Jeffuk88@reddit

Crisps. When tf did £2.75 become normal for a bag of 130g sensations?!

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FakeBotSimp@reddit

Frozen pizza

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Unhappy_Judgment_816@reddit

Fridge pizza’s are worse I swear they used to be £2-3 now the cheapest ones are £6!

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WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit

They used to be £1 in Iceland about 10 years ago. They're now £1.15.

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veodin@reddit

I lived off those at Uni. No idea how students cope these days.

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pussyseal@reddit

Pubs. £6-7 for a pint can easily cover daily groceries for one adult.

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Bus8082@reddit

Where are you only paying that for a pint? £8 minimum by my office. Also not sure I could get a full day of food for £7.

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bossanovasupernova@reddit

I live in London and have never had a pint for £8 or over except at stadiums. What tourist traps are you drinking in?

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MrTempleDene@reddit

In my local a pint of bitter is £4.10, I live in a suburb of Leeds

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pussyseal@reddit

I think £7 is the average cost of a pint in London. If you buy groceries in bulk, you can easily feed yourself for 50-60 quid a week.

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bluetooth_pizza@reddit

Still £6-ish in my local in South Wales, it's a very regional thing. Definitely can't get a full day of decent food for that though

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kylehyde84@reddit

Can still get a pint in scunny spoons for 2 quid

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TheAngryBad@reddit

And this is why pubs are closing down all over. Sneaking down the local for a couple of pints in the evening gets expensive pretty fast.

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a_young_gallant@reddit

I paid £8.20 for a pint in London the the day. Yes, that's EIGHT pounds 20p. Not even anything special - just some crappy branded lager. Bartender had already poured before I saw the price. Glad I don't live in London any more

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Connect-Lettuce4027@reddit

Corned beef invented for its cheapness now comes in a pack of 3 rather than 5 slices

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SocieteRoyale@reddit

Tomato puree which used to be about 30p is now pushing a pound. Garlic bulbs were 29p in ASDA, now they are 50p. Cheap pasta is now above a pound when it used to be about 20p a packet. It all adds up

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buzzylurkerbee@reddit

Fucking instant coffee.

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ambergriswoldo@reddit

Primark in general - I remember being able to get a few cheap basics for work for under £16 total, now it’s at least double that

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artfuldodger128@reddit

Even if you can afford their clothes they would fall apart after a couple of washes. The quality is so poor.

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SeaFruit2918@reddit

My son is grown with kids of his own. I remember when I could go to Primark and purchase good quality jeans for him for between £2-£4 for teens. And T-shirts £1-£2 This was when Primark first opened in Hackney. Over 20 years ago. Since then i shop online for me,my daughter and grandchildren. And purchase better quality clothes with brand names at Primark prices.

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Clevergirluk@reddit

Definitely! I remember getting a winter coat I loved in Primark for £12 and bags were always under £10. I saw a bag I liked the other day and it was £35! That feels like Next pricing to me but I dread to think what their bags cost now...

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Scottish_squirrel@reddit

I worked in Primark in 2000. We had giant sack carrier bags. People would leave with 2 of them and have spent about £100 total. We literally shared a delivery truck with new look and some of the items were the same but Primark was half the price. I can no longer afford to even shop in Primark.

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Nemariwa@reddit

Around 2005 I knew of two youngsters who were arrested for trying to shoplift from Primark by wearing £250+ worth of clothes out the store. I remember at the time thinking they must have looked like the Michelin man!

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Scottish_squirrel@reddit

Absolutely. I remember the hot theft item was branded sports socks which were like £4 a pack. Managers would literally chase shoplifters along streets like the start of trainspotting for these £4 socks.

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gogul1980@reddit

A cup of tea. They treat it like expensive coffee now in most places despite just being a cheap bag and a pot of hot water.

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Tomme599@reddit

In the Seventies I could mitch off school for 20 new pence. 2p for the bus into town, 4p for the the swimming pool (one my school didn’t use) 8p for lunch (bowl of soup and a roll) 4p for swimming again and 2p for the bus home.

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cat_kitty-kittenx@reddit

Coffee pods. Tassimo/ nespresso We're never cheap but now are hideous prices for less pods

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IslandPractical45@reddit

Deodorant, I payed £12 for two dove sprays 🤣

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HelloIamronswanson@reddit

4 packs of sweets, wispas and star bars etc, used to be a quid and now they are 2.40,

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Wild_Wolverine9526@reddit

And they are about 1/2 to 2/3s the size of the old full size bars.

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Round_Grand_4716@reddit

And the 'share bags'

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LJ161@reddit

Spam. Why the FFFF is it £3-£4 a tin? Corned beef too. 3 slices for £1-£2 in most shops. Thats one sandwich.

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Alternative-Ad3405@reddit

corned beef used to be cheaper than dog food. 🙃

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Front-Tear-7467@reddit

Cold. Cans. Of. Pop.

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owlracoon@reddit

Shower gel and shampoo. Bloody hell!!

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Pink_Fudge1988@reddit

Everything

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ProzacJunkie@reddit

I'm 53 and when I was a kid me and my sister got 30 pence (each) a week from our Gran. We would both leg it to the shops and get 2 choky bars each!

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Madgav1970@reddit

Butter!

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SiriusCyberneticCorp@reddit

All to do with how milk is upsold into cheese. Supermarkets and producers make much more from cheese over butter, so butter remains at a stubbornly high price. Seems impossible to find a 250 g block for under 1.99. Spreadable is now priced like a luxury item. Make it yourself at home!

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en0x99@reddit

Or buy a butter bell! Love them.

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columnradiator@reddit

I quit buying coffees much when it got much above £2.50. Now it’s pushing £4 I can’t believe they’re still queuing up

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bonshui@reddit

Cucumbers - 99p for a single cucumber.

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SdanoG@reddit

Wife says its worth it

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anderped@reddit

Aye and she's buying the mini ones

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

That’s mad, was 50p as standard not long ago

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Traditional-Leg-1122@reddit

Pret is insane now. You can drop nearly a score on a sandwich, drink and crisps.

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DefiantArm9@reddit

Car parks, specifically the parking apps. The machine in a car park wasn't working yesterday so I had to use the app. Machine was £5.30 for 2 hours, the app was £8.30. Absolute rip off for 2 hours of parking.

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Euphoric_Rough_5245@reddit

A bar of chocolate. Not only is the price ridiculous but the size now.

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tinned_peaches@reddit

It’s more economic to buy a pack of 5 now.

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Charyou_Tree_19@reddit

It used to be a pack of 6

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IDoMathsNotMath@reddit

I wouldn't be as salty about the price increasing if the size stayed the same, but the fact a 'full size' Mars bar now is about the same as a snack size from a few years ago is taking the mick. I only tend to buy them as part of meal deals now.

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sparky4337@reddit

Think most of the price hike is thanks to the "Sugar Tax". Duo bars are so much cheaper per gram because of this since they're considered as two portions.

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wormrage@reddit

bars are 80g as opposed to 100g often, there is less chocolate often used too... just 35% can be considered dark chocolate, i used to find 60-80% chocolate easily, now its more difficult, while the bars are also smaller and cost less.

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noodlesoup1997@reddit

And none of it contains actual chocolate anymore.

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Benificial-Cucumber@reddit

Here's the thing, I wouldn't mind if it didn't taste like shit as well. I totally get luxury goods being expensive, but they actually have to be *luxury* for that. We're being ripped off in every corner of life and I'm so sick of it.

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twonaq@reddit

Oh man, remember how big a king size was back in the 90s?

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Character-Bid-5089@reddit

Like a brick

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POPUPSGAMING@reddit

We have stacks of easter eggs still in the house because the quality is so bad that none of us can stand it. Cadburys chocolate always hit the spot but it seems like its all chalky texture and turbo artifical flavour

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ToastedCrumpet@reddit

After the quality the last couple of years I just couldn’t bring myself to waste any money on eggs. Even those I usually bought some for I just gave money instead. I’ve not heard a single positive comment about Easter eggs this year either

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green-chartreuse@reddit

And a bag of crisps too. On the plus side at least it’s making me think twice before grabbing a snack on the way home from work. Probably for the best.

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Saltysockies@reddit

Cocoa butter shortage is the cause, it's easing off but increased the price by around 500%

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JC_vee@reddit

Funny thing, though, once prices go up, they never go down again.

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Saltysockies@reddit

Terrible world isn't it. I work in procurement so see the prices rise and drop. The finished product always rises.

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Amazing-Heron-105@reddit

It's also mostly gross

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0-starlight-0@reddit

And the quality. Is it even chocolate

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Character-Bid-5089@reddit

Shrinkflation

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lychee48@reddit

I think chocolate for me as well. A lot less in terms of quality and quantity but prices have rocketed

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IShouldBeSoLucky81@reddit

I phone my elderly neighbour every evening to see if he needs anything from the shop. The other day he fancied a Mars Bar. £1.20 from the Co-op!!!

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Key_Plum_99a@reddit

That’s really nice of you.

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tinned_peaches@reddit

Getting your keys cut at Timpsons is pricey these days. Think it was nearly £20 for two keys.

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Penster78@reddit

Lapdances

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cbrownmufc@reddit

Quarter Pounder meal from McDonald’s. Seems like not long ago it was less than a fiver. Now it’s about £7.60

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GastricallyStretched@reddit

They also shrank the Big Tasty! It used to have a 1/3lb patty not long ago, but now it's just a Quarter Pounder with a different sauce. The price increased as well, so now you have the privilege of paying significantly more for a smaller product.

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charliechopin@reddit

Went for a special meal deal a few weeks ago, one of those they promote on TV as time limited. Think it came to around £12. Just a burger, a few fries and a coke! Not even supersized. Still hungry after!

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safefart@reddit

Spending a penny

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Eire-head@reddit

Tins of tuna

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CrinklyPacket@reddit

Washing powder. I ended up bonding with an eighty year old main in the laundry detergent aisle of my local Tesco over it.

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madpiano@reddit

You can order it online in bulk. If you buy actual washing powder, it works out much cheaper anyway, not only because it's cheaper than the tabs/liquid squishy things, but because you can adjust the dose to your needs. I stick to Persil and Ariel and buy a large box once or twice a year. It's gone up from around 15 pounds to 26 pounds but it lasts me as a single person for 6-8 months. Actually here is a good deal https://www.charlies.co.uk/persil-colour-protect-washing-powder-150-washes/ Much much cheaper than Tesco.

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andtib@reddit

The real wake-up for me was when they started putting it in safety boxes in my local sainos because it was being shoplifted so much because the price was too high for people to afford

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twonaq@reddit

People nick it because they can sell it on, same with coffee, chocolate and beef.

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Toilet paper too. Prices went up when people were pandemic hoarding, they have never come down

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columnradiator@reddit

Fish and Chips. Feeding my family of 5 is £50-60. A portion of chips is a few quid. Madness

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Minimum_Age_1466@reddit

Plastic bags!!!! They were free since the beginning of time, but then stores started charging 10p to encourage us to use less - which I guess is fair enough. But they seem to go up by 10p every few months. I think Tesco is 40p a bag and and M&S something like 60p. I'd love to know how much these supermarkets are making on them. Probably the most profitable thing in the store at 99% margin (and increasing exponentially).

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gholt417@reddit

Going for a swim. The council pool that my sister works at charges £6.50 per adult to swim in a 25m rectangular pool. I found a pool by me in Southport that charges myself and my wife £14 in total to swim. Granted the pool is tiny in comparison but we get the whole pool in private (it’s at the rear of someone’s house).

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BoardroomStroke@reddit

I can't think of many things that end with less than 40quid minimum spend when you do it as a family. Dominos, cinema, 'spoons...

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Cute_Swimming9940@reddit

Agreed, £45-60 per month around my area for a swimming membership. No wonder everyone's fat and miserable now, exercise should be free it's healthcare.

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fernofry@reddit

It would be quicker to ask what is still cheap. Everything has gone up

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Guilty-Struggle5028@reddit

Used to go to the tuck shop ~1972, I'm sure I only had 2pm tuck shop money and could buy a Mars bar.

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Wild_Wolverine9526@reddit

I mean people have definitely noticed this one, but I feel like it needs mentioning. Freddo’s used to be 10p and really thick chocolate. Now they are 35p and thinner (google is trying to tell me they now weight 1g more, but my brain isn’t having it).

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Humble-Package-8000@reddit

mcdonalds, family of three not much change out of 30 quid,

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BoardroomStroke@reddit

It's shit, and you have to wait, unless you pay deliveroo to wait for you. It's still shit though and not worth the wait, even if you pay someone to wait for you. Probably quicker to get frozen from supermarket on way home, cook it yourself. Better portion sizes too.

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Crispy116@reddit

I don't understand McDonalds anymore. It isn't fast, or cheap - so what is it they are giving us for this price?

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yourshelves@reddit

And who the fuck is paying to get their shit food *delivered*?

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halfdressednow@reddit

Hungover people.

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BassIck@reddit

It's their fault I always have to wait.

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Crispy116@reddit

And cold

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GlitteringEbb7363@reddit

Memories of when we used to eat there and enjoyed it

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Man-down90@reddit

Popcorn at the cinema. Almost passed out when the cashier said "That'll be £8." after asking for a small popcorn.

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Mean-Aside1970@reddit

picturehouse do a deal where it’s a tenner for a large popcorn and large drink

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TumTiTum@reddit

Why on earth aren't you taking a bottle of pop, sweets and popcorn from the supermarket in with you Also, kids club is awesome. £3/seat? Like being a teenager again.

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Man-down90@reddit

The cinema in my city started being super strict on what you can and can't bring in. They even checked my water bottle one time and I've seen them confiscating other people's stuff. Can't be arsed with the drama but I still do sneak in snacks when I can.

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CunningOctopus@reddit

Where is this?? The Vue and Cineworld near me don't do this.

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Man-down90@reddit

Vue. They do bag checks and everything.

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TumTiTum@reddit

What the actual fuck?? Time to find a new cinema. That's outrageous.

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Few_Jello2541@reddit

A packet of crisps with about 20 pieces is almost £1.

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ncltrees@reddit

I used to live in the UK from 2010-13, this whole thread sounds dreadful. I'd still come for some cheap gear tho

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fwendy123@reddit

crisps

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Able_Fault_2481@reddit

Cans of coke at £1.80/£1.90 in sainsburys I left school in 2014 they were about 50p. in 12 years theyve increased by over 200%. And the 2 for £2 on the 500ml bottles

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BraveBidoof22@reddit

The price of breakfast cereal gets me every time!

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Intelligent-Profit34@reddit

Mackerel.

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SeaFruit2918@reddit

I agree. My Eastern European 🇺🇦 friend introduced me to smoked Mackerel about 7 years ago and I loved it. He’s in Germany now He nearly dropped down dead when I told him I purchased 2 whole smoked Mackerel for just over £14.

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TheLightStalker@reddit

I noticed that £4.30! I used to buy the pepper ones £2.20.

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steven71@reddit

Tin of soup in local small Tesco is £1.89. F*** OFF!

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archaeofeminist@reddit

Yes, tinned soups suddenly got so expensive. Supermarket own brand tins used to be around 40p. How they are all.priced like they are Covent Garden soup. I dread to think.how much Covent garden soup costs.

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surreyade@reddit

When I started secondary school in 1984 I got 60p a day for lunch. Local chip shop did rissole, chips and a can of coke for exactly 60p. Be more like £6-7 these days I think.

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MrUtterNonsense@reddit

I think the dinner tickets at my primary school in 84 were about that price, but I mostly took sandwiches in an ice cream tub. For most of the week it was leftover beef from Sunday dinner which I found really boring.

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charliechopin@reddit

Well yeah, but what would the typical wage have been? Minimum wage is now, what, like £10 ph? So maybe 40 mins work to pay for your lunch. Could you have got 60p for 40 mins work in 84?

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GuestGlum2916@reddit

Everything

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surfinbear1990@reddit

Paying for the royal family to live their extremely lavish lifestyle and fuck underage trafficed women

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Queue_Boyd@reddit

Parking, dammit.

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Ill_Respect7232@reddit

inflation

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Alert_Werewolf600@reddit

Parking

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louswheel@reddit

Stamps. My missus went to buy a book of 8 first class stamps. When she was told over £13 for them, she just asked for 8 second class at around £7.28.. nearly as expensive, but i bet they'll get there all the same..

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Lt_Muffintoes@reddit

>i bet they'll get there all the same I.e. a 50/50 chance they won't

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TheAngryBad@reddit

I'm seeing and hearing a lot of reports from people that are only getting a couple of postal deliveries a week now, so yeah. Anecdotally, whenever I send anything, 2nd seems to get there just as quick as 1st.

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

Don’t get me started on the price of stamps. Absolutely criminal

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Blocoholi@reddit

Gas bottle refill £65, without the bottle.

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Skanedog@reddit

Last year a packet of four baking potatoes in Morrisons was under 70p and now it's nearly £2.

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FreeAd2458@reddit

Fish in general. But 2 pieces of peppered mackerel not the cheapest one but youee looking at £5+.

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Euphoric_Tradition37@reddit

Chocolate, only most brands are compensating for the expense of cocoa with palm oil and keeping the price high, eugh.

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nsfwthrowaway5969@reddit

Is there any brands that don't use palm oil anymore? I don't even mind paying a little extra, I'd just like to have decent chocolate every now and again.

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babynamehelpneeded@reddit

I would love some real chocolate I miss it so much

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Separate-Square4966@reddit

Cocoa powder prices in the shops shocked me.

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dowhileuntil787@reddit

The "large" bars have got so light (95g) that they're going to end up being the weight the regular bars used to be (65g). Meanwhile the regular bars (45g) now look like fun-size ones. Fun size ones are presumably now going into celebrations tins?

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TheLightStalker@reddit

Cocoa isn't even high now. It's gone from £12,000 all the way down to £3,000. They're just taking this piss and not passing the savings along. There was no need for flat easter eggs this year.

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drivingagermanwhip@reddit

cocoa prices are way down now. There are more chocolate offers than last year, but not half as much as I'd like

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Resonant-1966@reddit

Apples. Wow. I’ve planted some trees.

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FreeAd2458@reddit

Ginsters slices used to be £2. And as low as £1.25 on offer.e know theyre £3 and maybe £2.25 on offer. True madness. Dont even look at kiplings

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MsPB01@reddit

Own brand chocolate - it was 20p a bar last year, but now it's 75p

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Vexxyus@reddit

Toothpaste. I work retail and see people regularly buying £10 and even £20 toothpaste because it promises whitening. Gonna stick with my 75p toothpaste thank you.

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MrUtterNonsense@reddit

Aldi!

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katybobaty82@reddit

Big Snack-a-Jacks

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BaobhanVeil@reddit

Shopping centre parking fees. Try Edinburgh- its literally cheaper to get uber there and back

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monikit_uk@reddit

It's be easier to answer what hasn't become stupidly expensive

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KhanOfTarkir@reddit

Batteries, 4 AAAs for a fiver at Asda!

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SeaFruit2918@reddit

Shop in Savers. They use to sell a 12 pack for £2.99 now £4.99 when I bought them last week.

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speckledchickhen@reddit

Such a serendipitous post - thank you OP. I was in my local small Tesco today and I noticed that the NORMAL (not Clubcard) price of Truvia ( a sugar alternative sweetner) has gone DOWN from £6.30 to £6.05 and the Lactose Free milk has gone down from £2.25 to £2.15 (currently £2.45 in Coop). I was shocked to see the new lower normal prices but not surprised as I’ve been cutting back significantly recently. I wonder if the supermarkets now realise that they have pushed the limit of what people are willing to/ able to pay.

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archaeofeminist@reddit

Margarine. It went suddenly from £1 - £2 a tub to £4 to £5 in a lot of supermarkets.

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Longjumping_Edge3622@reddit

Lurpak

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drivingagermanwhip@reddit

the shrinkflation here particularly annoys me. Butter's one of those things that's a standard size and recipes are written around it.

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Just_Poem1993@reddit

Butter is really annoying me. One shrank to 200g and then they all did it. Same price though. Butter thieving mofos 😡

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Revolutionary_West56@reddit

Small bottles of water Olive oil Chocolate

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Yep. Tesco have changed their olive oil too, it's now expensive and rancid.

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Stock_Caregiver_7594@reddit

I thought it tasted different.

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Matchaparrot@reddit

I get my olive oil from a Turkish shop near me now. Costs the same but tastes so much better.

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Stock_Caregiver_7594@reddit

Thanks, I definitely need to shop about.

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slade364@reddit

>Small bottles of water This doesn't annoy me that much, hopefully pushes more people to bring water bottles with them. >Olive oil Chocolate This makes me very, very sad.

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TumTiTum@reddit

White chocolate is the hack for this. I know it's not really chocolate, but it kinda is, it's tastes like Easter/childhood, and it's about 60% of the price of stuff with cocoa in it.

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slade364@reddit

It's far too sweet for me. Higher prices for chocolate aren't a bad thing for me really - still buy some nice stuff as a treat, but less likely to buy a chocolate bar when filling up the car!

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Dazzling_Bat_Hat@reddit

Lamb. Haven’t cooked it for a while and nearly keeled over when I saw the price when I decided to cook a nice lamb casserole. All meat has gone up, but lamb prices seem crazy.

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TheBeardedStoic@reddit

Pie and Mash, chicken/fish and chips, fried wings, patties, black coffee, lager (actual piss). All of the working man’s favourites has been gentrified into urban social media trendy crap. A lager with a pie and mash is a poor man’s grub, how can this set me back £15?

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-AngelOfTheNorth-@reddit

What question gets asked every day on this sub?

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Super-Progress2827@reddit

Maltesers!

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AdWeird606@reddit

Kitchen roll 😩

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MrUtterNonsense@reddit

That's what free locals newspapers are for! :)

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AdWeird606@reddit

Oh and Olive Oil. Need to remortgage for that!

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Clean-Ball-1371@reddit

Coffee is often more than a pint.

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BG3restart@reddit

Poached salmon fillets. The ones I buy have gone from £4.99 to £6.25 for two in no time at all. On the other hand, I discovered just yesterday that basa fillets are insanely cheap, so they've become my new protein choice.

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Special_Artichoke@reddit

I got them for the first time recently and found them really not that nice. Have you found a good way to cook them? I really like sea bass and other white fish, I usually oven cook in foil

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FineThought5017@reddit

Smoked basa I like. Better flavour and it holds together more with cooking. Not very keen on the unsmoked mainly because the texture seems to go a bit mushy. Bog standard touch of oil / salt / pepper and baked in air fryer for me. Or similarish in a frying pan with a white sauce added over the top when it's not far off.

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tash676@reddit

Deodorant- in boots a regular sized Dove deodorant can was £6!

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whyfruitflies@reddit

Yeah it's weird, even in Savers you think it's cheaper but it's a smaller can. But hand wash hasn't gone up, or shower gel. Every cloud.

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Numerous-Abrocoma-50@reddit

Chips

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Old-Growth-6233@reddit

Tap water

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Msnia_@reddit

Olive oil

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DTH2001@reddit

Nothing that’s been posted on this thread, because someone’s noticed it.

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Longjumping-Gap-5986@reddit

Everybody has noticed these things getting more expensive. Space raiders are no longer 10p. People only ever talk about that little froggy cunt.

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Asleep-Software-4160@reddit

Space Raiders held out for a long time TBF. If they kept the 10p price you'd get half a space raider per bag. I absolutely love the beef ones though.

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FuraiEU@reddit

Sainsbury's are selling a pack of 2 single digestive biscuits for a quid.

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Ok_Plate_9151@reddit

A full packet costs 60p.

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CoolRanchBaby@reddit

I noticed today they’ve changed the 1 kilo mince to 750 grams but the price is actually higher than a kilo was a year or two ago 🫠

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HelloIamronswanson@reddit

Oh kitchen roll has got weirdly expensive

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jjkknncch6654@reddit

Yes! I deliberately go out of my way to shop in home bargains just for the kitchen roll, 2 big rolls for £1.50 and there good quality too not thin at all, I know it’s a pain going to different shops but I can’t justify paying a lot for it, I’ll always check where things are cheaper

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thecowghost@reddit

Why am I paying a tenner for 16 loo rolls, but only getting 2 kitchen rolls for the same price.

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StinkyBird64@reddit

Toilet paper, kitchen roll, tissues etc. don’t make sense to me, you wipe your arse with them and flush it down the drains, how is it so expensive

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TheLightStalker@reddit

£5 for one roll. Wtf is that.

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HaroldVonJarold@reddit

Basic standards of living, but i guess that's getting pretty noticeable now.

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Locksmithbloke@reddit

Well... I went to the local market today and had some sticker shock! £5 for a tiny slushie. £79 for a small leather tool roll. £13 or £16 for a bottle of cider!! Wine bottle 75cl, at that price! So, nearly everything.

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No_Lemon_324@reddit

Peppers 70p each in Tesco

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Able-Ordinary-7280@reddit

1. Toothpaste. 2. Kitchen roll. 3. Ketchup. 4. Biscuits. Our house is now strictly on supermarket-own-brand biscuits only (except hobnobs because the knock offs are rank), and even the cheapest of those are over a quid these days.

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scothed@reddit

Not that long ago a big bottle of milk was £1. It’s £1.65 now. Insane.

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foozyfelt@reddit

Fish & Chips!!!

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EmbarrassedPea208@reddit

As somebody who can't legally drive due to visual impairment, yet doesn't fall into the category severe enough to qualify for a free bus pass, THE GOD DAMN BUS. I can't count the amount of times i just don't bother going to shops because it costs me £6 to get there and back, on top of my already expensive shopping. Journeys that would cost me £1.50 before covid now cost double or more. No deals on returns fayres, super expensive weekly/monthly tickets etc. It makes me feel so unindependent and stuck.

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JeevestheGinger@reddit

Look on your council's website for info about bus passes. I know in my area there's an option where you can fill in a form and get it signed by your doctor if you're unable to legally drive and it's not due to drugs/alcohol, and apply for a disabled pass with that. I currently have one because I have high rate mobility but if I lose that, I should be able to keep the pass because of my not totally controlled epilepsy meaning I can't legally drive.

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EmbarrassedPea208@reddit

Thanks, i never knew about that! I was just told a long time ago that i needed to be registered as partially blind to qualify and thats suprisngly hard to have registered, even with very minimal sight. I can't remember what source told me that though, so il investigate further :)

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keirfergusart@reddit

You used to be able to get a Megabus between cities for £1 if you booked in advance. I checked the current price recently - £40

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FlippingGerman@reddit

£1 was clearly also not paying for the cost of actually doing that though, that was probably them buying market share, which they - you - then have to pay for afterwards.

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EmbarrassedPea208@reddit

Good god its so disgraceful, and the governemt try to say they are encouraging people to lessen their carbon footprint with this extortion!

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_Taggerung_@reddit

The £3 bus cap isnt as good as it seems either, a lot of single fares werent £3 to begin with

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EmbarrassedPea208@reddit

It costs me £3 to get to a tescos that's a 10 minute drive away (but an hour walk due to all the dual carriageways and lack of pathing) and i just can't justify the £6 return journey. It costs me the same amount to visit my parents who live an HOURS drive away, the £3 bus cap has been awful for so many people who rely on the busses for shorter journey's due to disablities,

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Alarming_Doughnut365@reddit

You could get it delivered way cheaper than £6 and save the time

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EmbarrassedPea208@reddit

That's often what i end up doing, which is such a shame because a little stroll around the supermarket was one of the things that got me out of the house, but i just can't justify it nowadays.

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Nemariwa@reddit

I caught a bus last week that was £3 for a 15min journey. And the bus itself was looked and sounded like it was held together with duct tape from top to bottom.

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EmbarrassedPea208@reddit

Right! And the busses nowadays seem to just do as they please. I had a driver the other day tell me i couldn't go to a certain area, i said 'oh has this bus changed routes?' and he said 'no i'm just not going there today i want to take a break' :') Cheers man, so helpful, i'l just walk the rest of the way then, you put your feet up old chap!

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Otherwise-Bee-1523@reddit

Butter

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howunoriginal2019@reddit

A bag of mixed nuts is crazy money now. Saw a litre of water for £3.15 in a services today. The petrol was cheaper than the water.

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aurematic@reddit

Watermelon. I haven't eaten watermelon in 5 years.

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paul6057@reddit

Anything beef. I was looking at some steaks in Lidl. Two rump steaks were £10. I do however think people have noticed how expensive beef has become though.

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Ok_Tie8965@reddit

Freddo bars

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never_ending_circles@reddit

Magazines. I don't actually buy them, but I was browsing in my local post office recently and the Economist was about a tenner! For a weekly magazine. The children's comic magazines are really expensive too. I guess not many people buy them and they're usually cheaper if you subscribe.

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Freed0mChaser@reddit

Mcdonalds is criminal now, used to go get a couple meals for a tenna now shit basically 20 quid for 2 meals if not more

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PsycommuSystem@reddit

Only time I would use it was driving at night time, get home 1-2am and there was a 24 hour one not far from me. Would get an outrageous amount of food for not much over a tenner, just can't do it these days. The good old days

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garok89@reddit

they would give you a couple meals for a nappy?

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silent_pm@reddit

Pringles! I refuse to pay £1.85 (on sale) for a tub. I clearly remember them for £1.00 regularly on sale. And that was before they hit shrinkflation... Can't do the meal deal sizes either, considering you get about 8 crisps in a mini tub... Guess you can stop once you pop Also World Cup Panini Stickers! I read it's close to 1000 stickers this year to complete the book, absolute best case with no dupes you'd need 140 packs, so £175 ish (assuming £1.25 a pack, 7 cards a pack) with dupes and averages, it's anyones guess but I doubt you'd get much change from £500/£600

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Designer-Alarm5685@reddit

First time I did Panini it was 10p per pack and I did them with my Dad when I was 5 and he would get me 6 packs a week. Was so much fun. Got my first Subbuteo Top Scorer set from the back cover!

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Realistic-Plant-1007@reddit

A single bag of crisps….

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DonkeyOT65@reddit

Fish and chips.

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Secret-Ambassador361@reddit

Fish and chips. £13 for medium cod at my local. Used to be a Friday night regular thing but never go these days

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Prestigious_Leg7821@reddit

Costa coffee - it used to be my Covid Friday treat (along with a Greggs) but when it got to 4.65 a pop, I bought my own milk frother and it’s pretty much paid for itself in 3 months

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SiriusCyberneticCorp@reddit

Yep, I bought an aeropress and a manual milk frother nearly 10 years ago, it takes me 5 minutes of gentle labour to make enough coffee and milk to make 2 - 3 servings. We have a wonky coffee subscription and it must have saved us hundreds and hundreds on takeaway coffees. And I'm drinking the equivalent strength of a double espresso per cup, maybe even a triple espresso. I hardly ever buy a coffee out, these days.

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Agile-Rock4248@reddit

Living

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Designer-Alarm5685@reddit

In the twenty year gap I went to the UK from 2004 to 2024 amazed how much the price of Fish and Chips had increased and how Fish and Chip shops nope seem to close by 9pm. also it was very odd to me to see american fastfood like Subway and Taco Bell in the UK!

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spanner1991@reddit

Pints.

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TheBlueprint666@reddit

£1.50 for a pint of Caffreys when I started drinking in 1995

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zagreus9@reddit

Parking

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ConnectionLeading435@reddit

Fish & Chips from the chippy. Absolute joke of a price. Cheaper to get a Chinese

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Ill-Consideration581@reddit

Black pepper used to be 20p it's now like close to 2 quid. Also I've noticed everything used to be on offer. Not so much now.

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WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit

Corned Beef.

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Knowlesdinho@reddit

Genuinely depressing this one. I come from a background where Corned Beef, Pek, Bacon Grill etc were kinda luxuries which probably sounds a bit sad. I have a better life now, but still love a bit of corned beef as a treat for my lunches. It's cheaper (overall) to buy 5 chicken legs and cook them than a tin of corned beef where I live. Corned beef is nearly £4 a tin, I can get 4/5 raw chicken legs for less which is much better value. Despite being in a better position in life, I honestly feel like buying a tin of Bacon Grill, Pek or Corned Beef is now a naughty treat. God I love my pek and piccalilli though!

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WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit

Nothing beats a bacon grill cob tbh.

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Bounce_Bounce_Betty@reddit

Yes we used to have cornbeef hash as a cheap dinner and now the tin of cornbeef makes it as expensive as any other meal!

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TicksAndBricks@reddit

Wetherspoons. Used to be good value for money. Now costs the same as Nandos.

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charliechopin@reddit

Not having this. Still incredible value. A decent breakfast for around £3? A pint in London for under £2.50? How can that not be good value? Nandos has always been overrated and overpriced.

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slothliketendencies@reddit

Mcvities biscuits

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Heathenry2@reddit

Council Tax

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RaspberryUnusual438@reddit

Pork loin joint, used to be a lovely cheap meal, not anymore!

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Kernowcatlady@reddit

When I started working in a pub 1992 half a pint of Worthington‘s bitter was 75p and 50 g of golden Virginia was £3.50.

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thebyrned@reddit

Can get a pint of Worthington for £1.79 in my local spoons today.

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WalkerP1995@reddit

Virgin Media!

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Heathenry2@reddit

£25 for Netflix and 1Gig. Always call their retentions which are based in the UK!

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patcow@reddit

Cinema tickets

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TheBlueprint666@reddit

I worked at a cinema in 2001 and I think it was £5.50 an adult ticket back then. £7 for the Delux screen.

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SnooTomatoes6255@reddit

My local cinema doesn't do a monthly pass so I just get the 7.99 front row seat where my face is almost squished up against the screen 🫪. Hate to think what it costs in London.

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trobopoline@reddit

Everything

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twonaq@reddit

Fucking everything

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BassIck@reddit

Every Fucking Thing

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Independent_Ad_3469@reddit

Fucking every fucking thing, fuck

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cosmicrayz@reddit

Pizza express has become extortionate

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tempteroffate@reddit

Toothpaste! Not really helping the bad teeth rumors

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CurrentTurbulent@reddit

You don't notice the creep up in price cos you just tap your phone to pay for everything

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sillwuka@reddit

Ferrero Rocher

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thebrainitaches@reddit

I know it's a random example, but I live in germany and the store-brand (DM or Lidl) anti-bacterial laundry conditioner is EUR 1.25 for 1.5 liters. I recommended my sister in the UK pick up something similar because she was struggling with BO-smell in sports shirts. I said to her 'Oh it must be around a pound, as it's 1,25 here'. She laughed and said 'No way! You can't get anything for a pound any more!'. I checked: Tesco own brand: £4.00. FOUR POUNDS!

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silent_pm@reddit

I literally got back from Spain yesterday & had to buy 2l of bleach from lidl when I was out there, ¢.75 for 2.5 litres. Genuinely if I had the luggage space I'd have brought a few jugs back 😂. Also fuel, they had an attendant top me up at €1.45 (£1.27 a litre) i guess we just don't complain loud enough when the likes of Shell & BP are posting record profits

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ghos83@reddit

Chocolate! I paid £1.65 for a twix the other day

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xxalvarhansoxx@reddit

Yorkshire Tea. Used to get a thousand bags for £10. Now it’s 210 for £5.49

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OkWing5717@reddit

You can’t even get a bar of chocolate for a £1 now, it’s like £1.25 in Tesco for a bar of Galaxy smooth chocolate!! So annoying

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germansnowman@reddit

Not stupidly expensive in absolute terms, but I remember that the tyre pumps at petrol stations used to take 20p coins about a decade ago. Now it’s £1.

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AtomicImp@reddit

Wispa apparently - £2.69 in WH Smith https://preview.redd.it/t7m483xrid0h1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f209ae50b04561a19b807aa63d0b65691459dc5a

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TheViscountRang@reddit

Who's left that one haphazardly on top? That's just a careless wispa

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BassIck@reddit

Like that rumour about George Michael being caught in a public toilet with a Mars bar up his bum. Turned out it was just a Careless Wispa

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AcrobaticHedgehog599@reddit

r/angryupvote

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charliechopin@reddit

That must be in an airport, surely?

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THE_IRL_JESUS@reddit

Bottle of coke from a supermarket. 2 quid something.

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Slight_Rip_9696@reddit

1kg chicken breast £6.50!

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charliechopin@reddit

Of all the examples on this post, this seems the least concerning to me. That said, chicken breast has always been overpriced in comparison to any other part, or the whole chicken

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FlippingGerman@reddit

No bones. But yeah, chicken is astonishingly cheap, presumably because they're so quick and easy to raise.

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Last_Karate_Kid@reddit

Chocolate 😰

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Many_Income_2212@reddit

Whole chicken

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charliechopin@reddit

Personally I always felt £3 ish whole chickens to be inexplicably cheap. Today's price feels about right. Whereas beef and lamb are completely off the menu.

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dinemu8@reddit

Coffee for me

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philll129@reddit

I mean it's everything, but cucumbers being a quid is always the one that stands out to me for some reason. They were 30p ten years ago.

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BarNo3385@reddit

Food at attractions. Was at a safari park the other day. A hot dog was £14. A jacket potato was £10.

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Shmiggles@reddit

I used to work for a consultancy to that industry. The food is where they make all their profit; the attraction itself usually only just breaks even at best.

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BarNo3385@reddit

I do wonder if you are over some kind of price inflection point. When it was say £8-£9 for a burger and chips we used to pay it. At the current prices its £50 by the time you've got food and drinks for a family, and the budget just doesnt stretch that far. Next time we'll end up taking a packed lunch and eat in the car or something.

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StinkyBird64@reddit

Hahaha Blackpool pleasure beach has just announced they’re doing jacket potatoes and they’re like £20 for a tiny potato with nowt on them

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princessfiggy@reddit

I was at an exhibition and a sandwich cost £6!!!

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ApprehensiveChip8361@reddit

Went to get some bedding plants for the garden. Nearly had to lie down.

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SiriusCyberneticCorp@reddit

Go to a community centre sale, there will likely be local gardening enthusiasts selling their spare plants that they have grown from seed or dug and split, selling them to raise a few quid for a local cause. You can save huge sums over the garden centre rip offs.

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Honest-Possible6596@reddit

My local corner shop is flogging Yazoo milkshakes (the regular size) for £2.75. I remember them being about 60p not that long ago. Frijj was always more expensive and it’s about the same price but the bottle is half the size now

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aaronsarginson@reddit

Morrisons bakery apple pies

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jj_sykes@reddit

Chinese take away

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CiderChugger@reddit

I stopped ordering the rice. I make my own

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StinkyBird64@reddit

HOOSE RICE

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tomatobasilgarlic@reddit

Merely existing in the UK - is that too vague?

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Snnaakkee@reddit

Birthday Cakes

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tonybomdia@reddit

Bottle of house wine in a restaurant £36 now Don’t go out to eat often now as it’s to expensive but it was birthday

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southwestmanchild@reddit

A box of decent tea bags is bloody ridiculous now

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Cimba199@reddit

yorkshire tea bulk buy is the way

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Hannah_savannah@reddit

Bread

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_Anxious_Hedgehog_@reddit

Lick e lix and Dreamies for cats

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ReabyB@reddit

I swear there used to be 5 in a pack too, now only 4, which doubled with price increase is insane.

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grahambinns@reddit

Freddos

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Paradoxbox00@reddit

Postage stamps. I can remember when they were like 26p, now they’re almost £2 for a first class one, and the service from Royal Mail is shite

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Reeelfantasy@reddit

Cottage cheese

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1980heron@reddit

deodorant

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Eating out. Why is it close to £20 each time for just a main course now with just tap water

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I_will_never_reply@reddit

Not to mention the small print 20% gratuity everywhere

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Belsnickel7777@reddit

It's not always them ripping you off, the people who work in restaurants will have seen increases to their salaries too , bills have gone up for restaurants, cost of ingredients etc too

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tmr89@reddit

And restaurant owners are paupers, loving hand to mouth

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Matchaparrot@reddit

Aye many businesses in my area are struggling with the overheads and national insurance increases. It's just what it costs now but unfortunately that means I can't afford to eat out as often anymore

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AmayaSmith96@reddit

One thing I've never gotten over (and have never bought since) is those tesco sweets that used to be 3 for £1. A single pack of strawberry laces are now 75p!!!!

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EmergencyManager_555@reddit

Definitely fizzy pop 2.5£ for 500 ml

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boosie-boo@reddit

A £2 pasty. You could have got a pack of 4 for that not long ago.

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AlarmedAlarm626@reddit

Fast food.

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Darkwaxer@reddit

Can we have the opposite of this post and see what’s cheaper?

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Sad-Yoghurt5196@reddit

Human labour. That's about it.

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Opposite-Essay-1093@reddit

toothpaste!

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The_Autistic_Sloth@reddit

As a fussy eater who eats chips near daily; they are not simply not cheap as chips anymore 😂

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gin_kun_kaida@reddit

Prices of used cars, shit boxes are worth too much nowadays.

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AdministrativeRip563@reddit

Dignity

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everyoneis_gay@reddit

Terry's chocolate orange 😔

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FewSchedule9947@reddit

M&S pastries, I used to treat myself with £1.60 now they go for around £2.30 each :/

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CalligrapherExtreme8@reddit

Tins of hot chocolate powder. Tesco own brand was 1.60 at the start of 2024 and now its 3 quid. That's an 87.5% increase in just over a year.

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Southern_Mongoose681@reddit

Same at LIDL and ALDI. It's almost like a weekly rise. I'm nit sure it's related to cocoa futures prices though because there was a brief spike but now it's back to normal again. None of the supermarkets have dropped the price back again though.

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TheLittleCrayon@reddit

This sounds like literal verbatim from that “cost of living” guy on Insta/tiktok 😂 (But massively agree)

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aliensvs7@reddit

£7 for a berry go round smoothie. Absolutely bonkers!

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Excellent_Turn1812@reddit

I have noticed the trolleys for food banks aren't as full either

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_Taggerung_@reddit

The trolleys for foodbanks just irritate me tbh, firstly that foodbanks need exist and are so normalised and secondly why the hell are we buying the stuff from the store to donate to the store to give to the people who need it. Why cant these massive million pound companies just donate it themselves?

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Mammoth-Passion-413@reddit

They often do. It's when I see someone pouring a load of blue dye over skips full of M and S fresh food that boils my piss.

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Little-Golf1073@reddit

Pizza express classic pizza used to be £10/11, yesterday I paid £19 😱

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That-Bid-4943@reddit

A bar or chocolate, not the small one, the bigger one. My favourite is Caburys Oreo depending on the shops, it’s expensive and always has even before the cost of living crisis and inflation,but luckily I live close to a premier so that’s the only shop I’d get it from and before and during Covid, it was £1, and then it went up to £1.35, didn’t mind, then eventually £1.69, that starts to take the piss and in recent months, it’s gone up to £1.96!!!!!!! That takes the absolute piss so now I don’t even bother unless I’m absolutely desperate!!

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Mammoth-Passion-413@reddit

Spam!

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not_depressed_123@reddit

Rent bills food clothes petrol, i already know im gunna be homeless but im riding it out for now, i know it’s inevitable tho!

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gsko5000@reddit

Not from concentrate apple/orange juice

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_Taggerung_@reddit

Yes! Used to be 90p for a litre not even that long ago now its £2.20

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gsko5000@reddit

Boils my piss just thinking about it.

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chuckiestealady@reddit

Butter is now a fiver.

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tmr89@reddit

My butter is £2 for a 250g block. Seems okay?

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Robyn2055@reddit

Existing

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Different_Novel_3920@reddit

Orange juice - £4.50 a litre in my local shop!

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InitialCable6233@reddit

Fish and chips

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Nemariwa@reddit

Sainsbury's now has three tiers of meal deal, the most expensive being £7

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TheRebelPercy@reddit

Crisps. Greggs. Pints of Guinness.

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slade364@reddit

Has Greggs increased in price? I probably pop in once a month as a treat and haven't noticed it.

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parabolicurve@reddit

I don't go in often, but the other month I got enough purchases of bakes to earn a free one. Turns out there's a time limit to claim. Otherwise they just delete your free pasty. I won't go to Greggs anymore, except on my birthday to claim my free cake.

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slade364@reddit

I'm sorry for your loss.

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autocorrect122@reddit

I went to poundland today and paid £178.50.... I then went to boots and came out with a £150+ receipt….that was not even the weekly shopping...

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RowRow1990@reddit

Living. Living in general 😭

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Regular-Employ-5308@reddit

Olive oil - gotta ring the bank first before going down that aisle

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Economy-Lab867@reddit

The juice I get from Tesco was £1.80 before Christmas, it’s £2.30 now 😵‍💫

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jackiesear@reddit

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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Round_Grand_4716@reddit

Wine by the glass. Two mains, 1 dessert, a soft drink and a glass of wine = £35. £7 of that was the wine. You used to get the bottle for £10. The off licence used to have 3 bottles for £10

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Little-Tradition2311@reddit

Soup, noodles and yogurts. The alpro ones I used to buy around 2020 were like £1.50 in a co-op, same co-op now charges £2.70. The budget soup used to be 24p a tin in Asda, now more than double the price. Pot noodles, regular price is over £1 for them now.

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bigsillygiant@reddit

Heinz baked beans

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EfficientSomewhere17@reddit

General cleaning supplies/house bits. Dishwasher tablets, laundry bits etc al up+

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TheEnglishDominant2@reddit

Greegs

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swiftcardine@reddit

Xxl condoms

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Swimming-Baker-5498@reddit

Speech

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_Taggerung_@reddit

People have noticed but anything beef related like corned beef or mince

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SeaFruit2918@reddit

I remember when plastic bags were free. Then 10p now 40, 60 or 80p depending on what supermarket you shop at.

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imnotabotimafreeman@reddit

supermarket bacon, the quality has dropped so much so the price hasnt risen so much as its not now worth buying

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YouDoScribble@reddit

Go to a butchers. Much better.

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imnotabotimafreeman@reddit

thats true, but im lazy

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Lady-0f-leisure@reddit

Coffee, crisps, poundland(hardly anything for £1 unless knock off brands), primark, take aways. Waitrose is now charging £1 for their tiny shitty plastic bags etc etc

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olympicslondon@reddit

Frozen green peas

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

How much now? Haven’t bought for a while but used to be £1 consistently pre-Ukraine war

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SameCollege4578@reddit

Chocolate. I'm not a big chocolate person but £4-odd for a slab of Dairy Milk (which now taste shit since they changed the recipe) is shocking

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MaverickHeathy00@reddit

Plenty of things but something that stood out as I was in Tesco earlier was a 20 pack of quavers was £5.10!!!!!!

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Double-Function-6489@reddit

Pizza sauce in Morrisons used to be 90p when we started buying it maybe 5 year ago. Now it’s £2.85.

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

Whoa

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OldOllie@reddit

A normal size bag of crisps for over £1 is crazy.

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ValenciaHadley@reddit

Shrinkflation noticable came for Kotex about six months ago. Now you get half as much sanitary towel for your £1.99 and have to buy twice as many as before to get the same protection as before they shrunk them.

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Iwantedalbino@reddit

It’s just death by a thousand cuts. My weekly shop was say £100-140 it’s now £200+ But when you look at the receipt nothing is glaringly more expensive. Like £8 for a pack of chicken, it would have been big assed 4 butchers chicken breasts rather than standard Sainsbury’s.

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toolazytowalk@reddit

My mother would never of paid £3.50 for a packet of rhubarb. I paid £7 cos I needed two. Crazy.

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Shubhamred@reddit

TFL

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Old-Brick8218@reddit

Londoners should really have a look at the service provided and the cost in every other part of the country before complaining about TFL.

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boldstrategy@reddit

Try living up north, TFL is the bargain of the century

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Sparky1498@reddit

Supermarket shop. Using Aldi or Lidl it used to be not long ago (well less than a year) that a cheapish basic weekly shop would be £50ish and the more expensive shop (with the odd luxury item plus more cleaning products etc) would be £70 ish. Now I notice a cheap shop is £65-70 and a expensive shop it hitting £85-90 with the same basic items

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SeaFruit2918@reddit

Not are things more expensive, they’re smaller.

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Eggtastico@reddit

Cheaper cuts of beef… maybe that is due to BBQ/Smoking

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cdp181@reddit

Price of all beef is crazy these days.

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bettyboo5@reddit

It became fashionable by posh restaurants and celebrity chefs.

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ryanhealy@reddit

Looks like they served their purpose then

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slade364@reddit

Largely driven by better access to information I think. Lamb shanks were popularised by TV chefs, increased demand drove the price up. Similar for brisket, shin, short ribs etc when it comes to beef - people are certainly more adventurous cooks now than they were 20 years ago, largely due to resources available on YouTube etc. Going to Waterstones and flicking through cookbooks was probably quite a faff.

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Character-Bid-5089@reddit

Prices in supermarkets are getting ridiculous, that's when u can find what u want. Everything is getting silly price wise at the moment. Trouble is it goes up cos of economy etc but then never goes right back down when things improve cos they now know you'll pay it.

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Goldf_sh4@reddit

Chocolate bars

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Domaneride@reddit

Buying a bicycle!

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bossanovasupernova@reddit

Tins of sma baby milk powder

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KittyGrewAMoustache@reddit

I just looked it up, my baby was born end of 2022 and we got the cow and gate formula, it’s gone up by £1-2 since then!! That’s crazy, like a 10-20% increase on what people use to feed their infants in around 3 years (if you consider we stopped using it around mid 2023).

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Avacado7145@reddit

I remember when Snickers and Mars bars were 18p and they were massive compared to today.

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Practical-Seat-6182@reddit

Mars ice cream bars

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wosmo@reddit

We've noticed.

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PreferencePopular292@reddit

Those sponges and scourers to wash up dishes with have become pretty pricey.

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sunboysing@reddit

Brids Eye Chicken fingers. Amusingly it's the one thing I have mentally tracked the price of and on 4 years it's gone from about £2 something and getting deals for 2 for £4.50, to being even £5 a pack each in some places. More than doubled easily. Made me appreciate there will have been anl significant price increase of everything by the time you get to the checkout.

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drivingagermanwhip@reddit

toilet paper is very expensive now, but I also feel like it's the worst example of shrinkflation. Andrex in particular looks like about 3 sheets per roll these days

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Serious-Use4585@reddit

Rocky bars

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Opposite_Basis_3532@reddit

Eating out in general, went to a Japanese restaurant the other day (uk wide chain restaurant), two mains and two starters £50. No drinks, nothing else. Ridiculous.

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slade364@reddit

2x £10 starters, 2x £15 mains doesn't seem too ridiculous.

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Super-Surround-4347@reddit

Yeah not awful really.

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OptionalQuality789@reddit

> For me it’s probably basic supermarket stuff and takeaways. You think people haven’t noticed this?

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colinah87@reddit

Chocolate bars, I paid £1.80 for a boost yesterday. Also deodorant, it’s over a fiver most of the time for the one I like in Asda

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Gullible-Zone-9159@reddit

Brownings the Bakers. £1.55 for an apple turnover! Doughnuts are over a pound now!

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Wrong-Comfortable849@reddit

Although eating out isn’t supposed to be inexpensive, it’s gotten so much worse. The value for money is just awful and generally the quality is so poor to the point where I’d rather just have a slightly up market meal I cook myself

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Dualyeti@reddit

Coffee, 3.50 used to be absurd, now I see 3.50 and think that’s a deal

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Smeeble09@reddit

Mini eggs.

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Intelligent_Carob623@reddit

Milk, TV licence, eggs and corned beef just a few off to he top of my head

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AlexBlack79@reddit

Hamlet, used to get a lump of the stuff from the butchers for less than 2 quid, now you would be lucky to get 4 slices for that price

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BabyClyde@reddit

Lurpak

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Mickleborough@reddit

Fish and chips from local chippie - made a previous comment that mine has doubled in price in 5 years.

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Kibby9331@reddit

Cat food.

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Top-Aspect-8827@reddit

I bought a can of Dove deodorant for £5.25 the other day in Sainsbury's. Price damn near put me to sleep

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Yourepissed@reddit

Marshmallows 😤😭

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Careful_Release_5485@reddit

Butter

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Delicious-Being-6531@reddit

Freddo’s

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Swim-Global@reddit

Bus tickets - all day ticket used to be £3 it’s £5.20 now!

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fr3yababii33@reddit

£7 here 😭

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tigerred2009@reddit

So many items, it’s crazy. I’d start with fuel! But definitely a food shop too.

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MrsMiggins2@reddit

Tobacco. I quit in 2019. The price has almost tripled since then.

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Fatbeau@reddit

Lurpak....the biggest tub is £8 in Sainsbury's!!

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Early-Sir-518@reddit

I had to buy ketchup for my fish dinner today and 2 for £6 was the deal. I'm sorry, what do you mean £3 is *cheap*?!

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Gold_Barracuda659@reddit

The government

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tommygunner91@reddit

Maybe not quite everyday but tickets for events especially the theatre. Took my wife to Sunderland empire last night for her birthday and was £65 each for two hours. The cheapest were £35 but thats the gallery and I physically cant sit there as I get funny turns at heights. My wife said just 10 years ago the tickets were about half what they are now. Seems a shame as we'd love to make it a semi regular thing.

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MissCaldonia@reddit

Chocolate Chips Cans Crisps All the Cs it would seem but they used to be a price you wouldn’t think about, now they are an expensive buy.

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magnolia_lily@reddit

Tesco. Every little DOESN’T help anymore.

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nawdrum@reddit

Minced beef

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DigitalStefan@reddit

“Cheap” fusilli pasta. This used the be my go-to basis for carbs and calories. I don’t have to be too careful now with my food budget but it’s concerning how much the basic foods like pasta, rice and bread now cost.

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50_61S-----165_97E@reddit

Parking at the beach in touristy areas

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Who_Knows_M3@reddit

I feel like everyone's commenting on everything's prices these days. Supermarket stuff especially

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Resonant-1966@reddit

That’s because most people are having to make choices they didn’t have to make before. This? Or that?

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Budget_Dot694@reddit

Chocolate - and there have been actual reports about it

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filthygylfi_@reddit

The KFC trilogy box meal. It was 7.59 in 2021 and is now £13??? Almost double the price for the same scran. Insane

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Rodge6@reddit

Pasta

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Stephen_Dann@reddit

Living

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SomeCanDance@reddit

Water

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BarbiePeonies@reddit

Chicken shops

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Ambitious_Bet2920@reddit

A coke from Spar is 1.65. I remember back in the early 2020s when you could get 3 cans of Pepsi for a quid. And the good, full sugar stuff, not that shite they sell now.

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Technical_Penalty_46@reddit

Netflix

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Japhet_Corncrake@reddit

People have noticed.

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YourThighMaster@reddit

City centre parking

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Affectionate_Ad6864@reddit

Existing

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