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Marks & Spencer ‘to increase prices by up to 15%’ despite making post-Brexit promise |
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The Engineer at it again.
Who is this poster? It could be anyone of the following: Nick Clegg, Anna Soubry, Will Straw, Tim Farron, Ken Clarke, Kinnockio, or any other sore loser, who can't their own way. Now getting a bit tiresome, just move on. The cold hard truth is going to start hitting people like a ton of bricks from today. |
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The same M&S currently busy converting a lot of their stores away from clothes to food only
Not sure I would want shares in them right now then |
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Sainsbury's have already started jacking up their prices from today. Some of the meals I buy have gone from £3.50 to £4.00. Various other meats and products are 10-15% more expensive. Various loaves and batons are 10% more expensive.
Well done brexiteers! I'm lucky I can afford to absorb these increases. But there are many, many less fortunate people who are going to be hit very very hard from today. |
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He's telling the truth. As I just posted, other supermarkets have already started increasing their prices from today.
The cold hard truth is going to start hitting people like a ton of bricks from today. |
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Sainsbury's have already started jacking up their prices from today. Some of the meals I buy have gone from £3.50 to £4.00. Various other meats and products are 10-15% more expensive. Various loaves and batons are 10% more expensive.
Well done brexiteers! I'm lucky I can afford to absorb these increases. But there are many, many less fortunate people who are going to be hit very very hard from today. |
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I agree that Sainsbury's have been directly and indirectly putting up their prices on things like the meal deals... What do M&S and Sainsbury's and Mischcon de Reya have in common, and how could we use that to benefit the "many, many less fortunate" people of whom you speak?
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which meals have gone up?
£3.50 == old price, horse £4.00 == new price, beef |
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Of course you have more experience than most of this occurrence.
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which meals has gone up?
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Even as far back as 2013, experts were predicting that food prices would rise faster than incomes until at least 2018 - factors such as volatile weather and much higher demand for meat - and a willingness to pay - by rapidly wealthy Chinese was expected to hit Western markets.
Then you have the seasonal availability fluctuations and harvest results before "taking advantage of Brexit" comes into play. Food prices rose 22% in the UK between 2007 and 2013 while rising only 12% in Germany and 13% in France. Perhaps we will be able to eventually match these results when we leave... after all being in the EU doesn't seem to have done us any favours in recent years. |
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The Engineer at it again.
Who is this poster? It could be anyone of the following: Nick Clegg, Anna Soubry, Will Straw, Tim Farron, Ken Clarke, Kinnockio, or any other sore loser, who can't their own way. Now getting a bit tiresome, just move on. |
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Project fear. M&S are liberal metropolitan elites who have no idea how real people live.
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It isn't the meal deals that have gone up today. In fact, the meal deals I buy are still the same price for the moment. It's a lot of other staple products getting very hefty price hikes.
Anyway, I was more interested in how you felt about the fact that the people involved in perpetuating the image of Brexit as something we should avoid are all leadership trained and bought and paid for in some way or other? |
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It's not just pre-prepared meat meals but chicken, beef, fish, etc. Bread, eggs too.
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Oh sorry is the truth getting a bit "tiresome"?
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Just had our Waitrose shopping delivered and the prices are the same or lower than 2 weeks ago. It's pays to shop around
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Sainsbury's have already started jacking up their prices from today. Some of the meals I buy have gone from £3.50 to £4.00. Various other meats and products are 10-15% more expensive. Various loaves and batons are 10% more expensive.
Well done brexiteers! I'm lucky I can afford to absorb these increases. But there are many, many less fortunate people who are going to be hit very very hard from today. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...49p-extra.html About 85% of the flour in bread for sale in the UK is from UK grown wheat. So any price rise from brexit triggered fall in the GBP should be minimal. Meats switch to a supermarket that sources more from UK farming Sainsbury's switch from UK lamb to New Zealand lamb in January each year. Beef they source some from the Republic of Ireland. Pork they source 100% from the UK but Bacon 60% not UK, Sausages 15% not UK, Ham 6% not UK. Chicken they source 100% from the UK. |
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The Engineer at it again.
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Project fear. M&S are liberal metropolitan elites who have no idea how real people live.
It's about what some anonymous supplier to M&S reckons. |
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I didn't ask that, I asked you which specific meals had gone up.
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The just cook range for one example chicken with olives, but they've all gone up 50p today.
The most sensible shopping you can do is buy 'freeze on day of purchase' via offers, and those items reduced because 'use by date' is approaching. This also cuts down on wastage - the amount of fresh food thrown away in GB is horrendous. This way you only buy or get out of the freezer what you are definitely going to consume within 24 hours and save money. |
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Marks & Spencer ‘to increase prices by up to 15%’ despite making post-Brexit promise to protect shoppers from devaluing pound
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/251721...valuing-pound/ I do hope the M&S shoppers didn't also believe the "let's give the NHS £350m a week". |
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The just cook range for one example chicken with olives, but they've all gone up 50p today.
Just Cook, Chicken with sun-dried tomatoes and olives, serves 2 which TBH for a mere £4.00 sounds pretty good value to me... http://sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...---olives-320g |
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edit: argh, said "Sainsbury's" not M&S
Just Cook, Chicken with sun-dried tomatoes and olives, serves 2 which TBH for a mere £4.00 sounds pretty good value to me... http://sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...---olives-320g |
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The supplier in question moaned at the time the promise was made - presumably because they knew that with the small margins in food retailing the only way not to put up prices was to squeeze the suppliers.
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