Anchor Butter

[patsyquinn]

Why has Anchor Butter price just gone from 84p for 250g (whatever 'g' is) to 98p in Tesco and 99p in Waitrose? That's a phenominal rise within 2 weeks. My guess is it's to do with the EU in some way but why is there no fuss about this?
I contacted Tesco via email and was told that they'd been holding back the price for some time and now they had to let it rise - but why did Waitrose price go up at the same time?
I feel we're being had over big time.

[derrynoose]

Price fixing. They do it all the time - a cartel of the big boys. See today's TV news.
Call me cynical, but I can't see supermarkets 'holding back' a price rise. More likely to jump on the profit bandwagon and increase it by as much as they can get away with.Have you seen how they have managed to push up and fix the price of bread?
I'd try some of the smaller chains.
Anyway, I thought Anchor was from New Zealand?

[derrynoose]

Incidentally, forgot to say that my local independent supermarket had butter @99p for 500 gms. Guess who filled the basket?

[shaneystar2]

You can buy cheaper English butter than Anchor . Somerfields have English butter for 68p for 250gm which is half a pound .I refuse to buy imported stuff like Anchor.
There are lots of price rises at the moment .. and not just butter ! The big supermarkets have us and their suppliers over a barrel ..it's a no win situation ..vote with your feet and shop around .Easy for me to say and I know when you work it's easy to go to one place and chuck it all in but why give them your hard earned !

[vivandorron]

derrynose heard what I heard. Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons have been price fixing.

Im going to suggest to my wife Viv that we have a diversion on our normal journey to Sainsburys and look in at Somerfields, which is a detour of about 3 miles. It would be a few hundred to meet up with Shaney.............Ron

[Jules001]

I used to buy a 1kg tub of Lurpack, but that went from �3.72 to �4.18 in a week. I stopped buying it as soon as it went up. I can't see how they can justify an increase of 46p in one week, milk also went up by 19p in a week.

[patsyquinn]

Thanks everyone for your input. It's just so maddening that we know what's happening but we can't do anything about it. I live in a village where Tesco is 3 miles up the road and Waitrose is 15 miles! These are the closest big supermarkets. There are smaller places but by the time you add in extra petrol and parking fees where does it get you?
It makes me so angry!!!

[patsyquinn]

Also .... Derrynoose et al - yes Anchor butter is from New Zealand. It had always been a big favourite in this country when we first entered the Common Market and a deal was done at the time to ensure sales of Anchor.
It's something I've eaten since I was a child - maybe it's time for a change!
The trouble is every single thing we buy or sign up to makes us potential victims of rip-off these days. Our pockets are being dipped by everyone.

[shaneystar2]

Lol...my shoe is on the other foot ..we have to go miles to get to any of the big four so they don't get my custom and Somerfields is within walking distance . I won't pay over the odds for milk either.We only have fat free milk and Iceland are doing four 1litre long life cartons for 1.40 at the moment (Scottish Pride milk)
It does pay you ,if you have the time, to shop around .Why should they hold the customer to ransom which is basically what they are doing as some people like yourself have no other choice and they know it .
Anyway rant of the day over !.. Hi vivandorron ..hope you are both well.

[puddicat]

yep as the others said price fixing is on the up though some guy who was a director of sainsbury denied this!, as we are on about price fixing what about the price of lamb, sold as a carcass its quite cheap, when it is boned out it becomes the dearest meat , i love it but begrudge paying loads for a couple of chops, what do others think? or i am wrong dont think so!

[dzug]

Conspiracy theorists all round.....

There's a much simpler explanation.

There's a shortage of milk and milk products, caused by the weather - you'll remember the floods a couple of months back. The weather in dairying parts of Europe wasn't much better. Less milk, similar demand equals higher prices. Supply and demand.

The only conspiracy - if any - is over the timing. Somerfield here haven't put up all their prices - but they will do. Ditto the local independents (who charge as much for 2 pints as the supermarkets did for 4 so aren't really that much help).

[Kleiber]

I was in Asda the other day & their Hovis white bread (have to buy it for K jnr, he likes it for sarnies) was �1.04. In Somerfield & the Co-OP, it's 99p. I thought Asda was supposed to be cheap? My nearest "big" supermarkets (Morrisons & Tesco) are both 30 miles away & Waitrose is 130 mile round trip! I tend to shop locally....
As for the price of lamb, I agree with you, puddicat - it's extortionate and the farmer doesn't get a fair price. I got a whole leg of local Welsh lamb from a friend for �4. That's what the slaughterhouse charges, so you can see the mark-up by the supermarkets!!

[shaneystar2]

They always blame the weather .
Hardly a conspiracy theory it's been going on for a while now ! OFT have been investigating it for three years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/supermarkets/story/0 ,,2173028,00.html
This is interesting as well.

[Buenchico]

The price of dairy products, throughout the world, is expected to continue to rise significantly because of increasing demand from China:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6934709.st m

Chris

[Scylax]

The best value for money is at Lidl and Aldi.
To hell with the bigger supermarkets.
Dick Turpin wore a mask ; he wouldn't go in for
barefaced robbery. Shop at Turpins, say I.