Anybody Feeling The Pinch Yet?

[nailit]

Shop in Poundland often.
They are going to have to rebrand soon to the 125 store.
Adding a quarter of their prices (25p) to most of their products already.

[douglas9401]

Did they not change their name to Dealz?

I've seen the same colour trucks with that logo.

[Buenchico]

>>> Did they not change their name to Dealz?

Dealz is a subsidiary of Poundland, trading mainly in the Irish Republic (where, of course, they don't have pounds for their currency anyway) but also in Poland.

Poundland ditched the commitment to sell everything at £1 back in 2017, having held onto it for over a quarter of a century. By last summer, roughly 10% of the products sold in their stores were priced at over £1:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57601580

[Tilly2]

I called into Lidl on the way home tonight. I generally don't shop at Lidl.
I bought:-
Spring Onions at 29p.
Radishes at 45p.
Watercress, Spinach and Rocket salad bag at 63p
Baby Potatoes at 89p
Coleslaw at 85p
Enough stuff for three meals for £3.21

I think I may shop at Lidl more often in future.

[david small]

Outside seat cafe tea. £2 a cup. Petrol £7 a gallon. Weetabix £3.50 organic. Stamps up, prescription up, blood pressure up. Council Tax etc.
Death and taxes. Luckily no mortgage, also avoid sky high renting. How the less well off will manage I know not.

[Tilly2]

Do you pay for your prescriptions David?

[DTCwordfan]

Death - at least you are out of it....have a few gins en route would be my recommendation.

[Tilly2]

Have you seen the price of gin!

[Captain2]

It's on offer in ours, Tilly, for Mother's Day. Well it is known as mothers' ruin.

[Buenchico]

It's decision time!

Should I buy a tank of petrol or a plate of fish and chips, I wonder?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-60762921

[david small]

No Tilly2 I do not. But my four working children all do.

[DTCwordfan]

//It's decision time!//

Should I buy a tank of petrol or Chelsea Football Club?

Not my thinking, but Matt's of the DT...

https://www.google.com/search?q=matt+cartoons+chelsea&tbm=isch&;source=iu&;ictx=1&vet=1&;fir=J_kFJJjnRG7_VM%252C1eGUEotkyGkD_M%252C_%253Bg3XdJSdW_q-GqM%252C5SoPOtFEU-5puM%252C_%253BiwCtvUSA8dKS7M%252CY0Q-3Od95c5eKM%252C_%253B7HofzSqtr2R3fM%252C0EslRZYQQCQiOM%252C_%253Bt74gZ7uUmE-1AM%252C5SoPOtFEU-5puM%252C_%253BSkZmXKrGbt7pAM%252Czl-e5tW0a_Pv_M%252C_%253BlFhSNmB0gTcmLM%252C_N9E1zLj7qBlSM%252C_%253BlPHcyoIZAujJyM%252CdQzLLPHhCBNG0M%252C_%253BLKDq6PhJoi6dLM%252C5SoPOtFEU-5puM%252C_%253Bbjyobp4oKYlw8M%252C2ZdjWhl_3U9__M%252C_&usg=AI4_-kTAjn-YuJSmo3ZYF9WdycnElzHfSg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwits9Ck_M32AhUBlFwKHVBqBwcQ9QF6BAgDEAE#imgrc=J_kFJJjnRG7_VM

[Buenchico]

Matt's on good form lately, DTC ;-)

Today:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN_KWI3X0AY_V8p?format=png&name=small

Tomorrow:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOEUN8nWYAAMruo?format=png&name=900x900

;-)

[woofgang]

my dog is on a very expensive diet and I have just found out this is going up by around a fiver a week :(

[DTCwordfan]

tomorrow's is brilliant!

[cashier]

I remember one of Matt's cartooons during a Wimbledon.Man arriving at the seat next to his wife saying, 'I couldn't afford the strawberries so I bought us half a pound of crack cocaine instead.'

[cashier]

I shop in Poundland, also at an Approved Foods stall in market. They are allowed to sell food very close to use by dates and are usually very reasonable. We didn't have much money when we were kids, and when I was married and had a mortgage money was tight, so am used to buying cheaply where I can do. Also prefer cheaper cuts of meat, not that I often have meat.

[gingejbee]

As an aside, on the subject of cutting costs, many do not know that Aldi now do "click and collect" food shopping at over 200 of their stores.

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/groceries

[jno]

I'm so old I can remember Matt's dad Oliver writing for the Telegraph and now I see his daughter Edith doing Venn diagrams for the Guardian. Excellent family.