Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Climate change + Brexit + Trump.

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  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    • Supermarket bosses and shareholder greed.

    I’m with Zack who wants to do what Mandini is proposing: start a Nationally owned supermarket chain.

    British farmers get paid fairly and consumers get lower prices.

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    • mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sounds like a terrible idea. Just one step away from a return to 1970s-style price controls. Unless you nationalise all the farms too, you end up just encouraging producers to shift to other crops, and that way lies Soviet style bread queues.

      If you want to support poorer people, it’s far cheaper and easier to just give them more money.

      As I understand it, much of the genuine need to food banks in the UK (remember, a relatively new phenomenon) is down to the inflexibility of Universal Credit. It used to be that you could sign on, and get cash in your pocket pretty immediately. Nowadays, there’s weeks of waiting. Let’s fix that, rather than trying to get the government into the supermarket business.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Corporate profits. They didn’t want to lose out. The end.

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• tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ok ok I’ll accept all this “explanation” but what I’d also like to know is when fruit like apples - grown in the UK - have shrunk in size, increased by something like 100%+ and begin to rot as soon as you get them home. You could (just about) put up with massive hikes in prices because of “explanation” but prices plus increasingly worse quality of food is beyond unacceptable. We’re being ripped off here in the UK.

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  • WALLACE@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably been sat in storage too long. Apples are sold all year round but they are only harvested once per year. And don’t think that in season you’ll be getting fresh ones, they’ll be straight into storage while you eat the year old stock.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As prices go up we buy cheaper. This week we spent £20 for the 2 of us. Aldi sell chickens at £2.55/kg, roast chicken one day and then picking the leftover meat off makes up enough for 2 more days. Also make stock for cooking some rice.

  Roast potatoes, sourdough pizza, fried rice, cheap food can be tasty too. Also quite a lot of veg on the side with some meals.

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