Supermarkets do butter to ease soaring prices for shoppers May 10, 2023 The price of a slice of toast with butter is about to get cheaper as some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have slashed the price of the kitchen staples following criticism over high prices. Sainsbury’s said that as commodity prices started to fall on wheat and butter, it is now able to reduce the price [...]
Milk, meat and fruit worst affected as supermarket groceries DOUBLED in cost over last year, Which? says March 22, 2023 The cost of some everyday groceries has more than doubled over the last year, consumer brand Which? has found. The company analysed inflation on more than 25,000 food and drink products at eight major supermarkets – Aldi, Asda, Lidl, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Which? looked at the average price of the products in the three [...]
Explainer: What’s behind a potential price cap on essential food June 5, 2023 Now, it’s been so long it’s almost hard to remember when it started, but the price of pretty much everything has been going up in the UK for months on end. Food was always the most painful item area to go up in price – with the “eat or heat” tragic dichotomy predominating last winter. [...]
Letters: 1 + 1 = too few good at maths December 1, 2022 [Re: Terrible at times tables? Our reliance on fintechs doing our maths dents our income, Nov 28] Maths used to be seen as something for boys; young women boasted of being “bad at maths”. However, arithmetic, the stuff of primary school, is what is needed in every day life. Mathematics can be daunting and abstract [...]
Cost of love: Brits opt to dine in and scale back as flower prices soar this Valentine’s Day February 14, 2024 The price of a bouquet of roses has shot up around four per cent if you look at Wednesday’s inflation reading.
Ocado: Annual revenue dives to £2.2bn but up on pre-pandemic level as retailer sees strong festive trade January 17, 2023 Online grocery retailer Ocado saw its revenue dive to £2.2bn in 2022, down 3.8 per cent from the previous year, but up by 40 per cent on pre-pandemic levels in 2019. The online grocery delivery giant managed to claw back some growth with postive Christmas and New Year trading updates. It’s rivals Tesco and Sainsbury’s [...]
Tesco: Bumper Christmas sales will put shares in the spotlight this morning January 12, 2023 TESCO enjoyed a bumper Christmas period, it told markets this morning, with like-for-like sales up nearly 8 per cent despite bruising economic headwinds. The supermarket told markets this morning it had seen customers switching to Tesco across December. The boost meant revenues hit a cool £19.7bn in the UK and Ireland for the quarter to [...]
RAC accuses forecourts of ripping off motorists with higher fuel prices despite slump in wholesale costs January 28, 2023 One of the UK’s largest motorist organisations has accused forecourts of profiteering from fuel prices by failing to pass on a fall in wholesale costs. The RAC said costs at the pump were still much higher than wholesale costs which have fallen in the last few months. Data published today by the RAC showed that [...]
Tesco raises store workers pay by 7 per cent February 20, 2023 Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, will raise hourly pay for about 220,000 store workers by 7 per cent from April – another increase that will likely catch the attention of the Bank of England, which is worried about inflationary pressure in the economy. The supermarket group, one of the country’s largest private sector employers, said a [...]
Secret cheese and wine pairings to amaze dinner party guests July 26, 2023 You will all, I assume, have yesterday been celebrating one of the highlights of the British calendar: National Cheese and Wine Day. Other than being an amazing excuse to eat loads of cheese and drink loads of wine, the day was also the perfect opportunity to ask my cheesemonger friend about the secrets behind the [...]