Rising food prices

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  4 January 2013     10:41208431
  #1      
  more worries for 2013
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9779693/Waitrose-boss-Britons-should-brace-themselves-for-massive-food-price-hikes.html
• DT1

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  4 January 2013     11:00208439
  #2      
  I generally have to brace myself everytime I shop in Waitrose.
  
  When will people realise that supermarkets are a rip off and now so vast that the 'convenience' argument is destroyed by a 400yd walk across the sprawling car park and a hike to the far corner of a massive shed, through a sea of people smacking their children, to get a pint of milk.
• Guest 655

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  4 January 2013     11:02208442
  #3      
  On the other hand, DT1 - you can avoid all that by doing your shop on-line and get all that convenience delivered to your door... I have a two weekly Sainsbury delivery (sometime by Kieth's brother...) and never have to step inside one of those 'massive sheds' you refer to after a 'hike across the sprawling car park'...... .
• DT1

  • Location: Dover
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  4 January 2013     11:12208448
  #4      
  Ah, now I enjoy my shopping Barry.
  
  In Dover, it was a walk down to get my meat from the Charlton centre, fruit and veg in the market square and usually the reward of a pint in Blakes.
  
  My Saturdays are now pretty much the same but the route around Deal, with the reward being in The Just Reproach.
  
  The money saved by this way of shopping has always more than paid for the pint!
• howard mcsweeney1

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  4 January 2013     12:19208470
  #5      
  i am with daz and baz on the subject of supermarkets was in asda just before christmas, looked around and decided it would take too long to find what i wanted.
  
  a mystery to me is why supermarkets are always so packed with all this online shopping, approx 1 in 4 vehicles that pass my house are tesco/iceland/sainsbury's
  • Asda
  • Tesco
• Guest 710

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  4 January 2013     13:44208486
  #6      
  I am told that basic items such as milk and sugar are cheaper locally than in any supermarket. Anyway now might be a good time to repost a link I gave a while ago, for those organised/cash-strapped/careful shoppers out there...
  
  http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 745

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  4 January 2013     19:19208536
  #7      
  Food price market manipulation isn't helping
• Guest 696

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  4 January 2013     23:21208554
  #8      
  There might be some hidden information not published in the article in post 1.
  Many food products come from China, and in China, as in India, there have been some very wet summers, as in England and Wales. It is thought to be due to climatic change.
  
  So what we might be seeing, is that China has less apples to sell to the West, after many of our own orchards have already been mowed down and outsourced to China.
  What goes round comes round!
  Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
  Rule Britannia!
  Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ
• Brian Dixon

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  5 January 2013     06:36208567
  #9      
  and what go's up never comes down.