Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Interesting inflation chart
Daily mail: Recession forces down sales of fruit and vegetables as shoppers opt for crisps and frozen pizzas
In the past year the Daily Mail Cost of Living Index has found price increases of up to 50 per cent on many imported items.
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1. Alan Lubin said...
is their maths on the alcohol correct?
2. dead spider said...
Is my mafermatiks wrong ?
Jacobs creek chardonnay was £6.49 , now £4.99 , and that's a 13.7% INCREASE ?
I make it a 23.11% DECREASE .
3. montesquieu said...
Dunno if anyone else had made the same observation, it seem to me that unless you buy the cheapest rubbish or stuff on loss leader special, decent wine has gone up substantially, by my guess 20%+ in the last year.
Anyway re recession=worse food equation, I think that's an extension of a deliberate strategy among the scumsville classes, if you eat enough chips and cheese-crust pizza to make yourself so seriously obese it affects your mobility, then the gubbernment gives you a free car. it's an investment innit ...!
4. crunchy said...
All part of the GM programme.
If you are rich you eat properly.
The poor "useless eaters" will have to eat what is much easier to produce. Hyperinflation will have it's uses in this highly profitable conditioning.......IT'S CALLED CHANGE and we all know that change is GOOD.
and out!
5. s2rjul07 said...
I'm alright - I stocked up on five years' supply of fresh fruit and veg last year before sterling tanked, and stored it in the loft.
I'm not looking forward to shifting it all though; I've decided to move house as a nasty smell has developed over the last few months.
6. happy mondays said...
@ s2rjul07 smart move, the bast**ds will not catch me out either, i have ordered a daily curry from bombay nights to be delivered for the next 3 yrs and paid in advance @ yesterdays prices..
7. george monsoon said...
hang on.. what about the farming industry in the UK. We have swaithes of land that could be turned to our advantage instead of importing expensive food from outside the UK.
8. crunchy said...
6. george.. Eco towns are far more important for UK over population programme hence GM.
Sorry! More crap, but got to keep building houses and cramming the strays in! BTL mate. This is our economy. lol
Don't like it, try and escape.
9. hpwatcher said...
Jacobs creek chardonnay was £6.49 , now £4.99 , and that's a 13.7% INCREASE ?
I make it a 23.11% DECREASE .
Some things have come down, but if you look at the chart in the Mail, most things have gone up!!!!
and a lot too!
10. general congreve said...
Great, s there's going to be even more fat unattractive women in the UK? UK Plc. Sponsered by Chicago Town Pizza. As if us men folk haven't suffered enough in recent years. Hardly see any of those of horrendous monsters over here in Sweden thankfully and good food is flipping expensive here. What's wrong with the UK?!?!
11. george monsoon said...
General Congreve @ 9
whats wrong with the uk? ... Whats right with it!!
12. dead spider said...
#9. hpwatcher
Sorry , my point (and that of Alan Lubin) is that the chart in the Mail is mathematically incorrect .
13. mark said...
As he stood in front of the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind St Peter.
He asked, 'What are all those clocks?'
St. Peter answered, 'Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on earth has a Lie-Clock.
Every time you lie the hands on your clock move.'
'Oh', said the man. 'Whose clock is that?'
'That's Mother Teresa's', replied St. Peter. 'The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.'
'Incredible', said the man. 'And whose clock is that one?'
St. Peter responded, 'That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that
Abraham told only two lies in his entire life.'
'Where's Gordon Brown's clock?' asked the man.
'Brown's clock is in Jesus's office. He's using it as a ceiling fan.'
14. icarus said...
Not sure how you compare supermarket wine at two different points in time and across supermarkets. Before or after the "reduction", and which "reduction" (1/3 off, 20% off for 6, £2.49 off etc.)?
If you want cheaper fruit and veg just make the secret sign and tell the checkout person you want the ONS price.
15. dead spider said...
Looking at a few of the prices ie Basmati rice , Birds Eye fish fingers , 3 mixed peppers , 24 weetabix , they are today's Sainsbury's prices to the penny .
16. 51ck-6-51x said...
Alan Lubin, dead spider
- Yes the intern who was sent out to do the alcohol numbers must've had a few herself.
Stella +4.4%
JC Chardonnay -23.1%
WB Cabernet Sauvignon -30.8%
Total -20.4%
I don't drink much at all, but for many households that would only last one day not one week.
17. 51ck-6-51x said...
^^... Mind you if you go to Sainsbury's (if you're right dead spider) website now you'll see 4*440ml Stella is £4.98 - so probably best to ignore the whole thing really. It is the Daily Mail after all.
18. dead spider said...
51ck-6-51x
"best to ignore" / "It is the Daily Mail"
Now , that's what I thought .
If they can't get a simple thing correct why bother with 'em .
19. denzil said...
Coincidental enough I was reading a report from a body that provide in-depth data to the big supermarkets regarding what's in what's out on the food front. Crisps were down significantly.
God only knows where the Daily Mail got their stats from. The crisp eaters appreciation society no doubt.