The rising cost of Christmas dinner

daniel maris

Rudolf will be pleased!

Anan

Interesting... but what's a "data kindle"? Is it something to do with Amazon's latest tech offering?

Hugo Chav

My mum bought tint for her hair yesterday, prior to this visit it cost £4.00, it now costs £8.00. 100% inflation in the space of six months.

Tiberius

I bet everyone who predicted the crash of 2008 bought their goods in euros last December, knowing they'd get them 4% cheaper if they repeated the exercise this year.

Andrew Shakespeare

As the owner of a small business manufacturing preserves, I'm well aware that the price of sugar has risen by over 50 percent in the last twelve months.

idle

Anyone paying £28.93 for a bottle of champagne isn't looking very hard for a deal. Taittinger £25 at Majestic; Heidsieck vintage 2005 £18. Keep your wits about you in austerity Britain.

Augustus

Let there be love. Never mind the sparkling champagne.

PayDirt

Carrots? I'll be resurrecting my carrot-juicing machine. Terribly messy to use, dessicated carrot fibres all over the shop, but great tasting juice and a wonderful pick-me up. Perhaps Mr Dyson can design a better juicing machine. Carrots at 62p, it's a steal.

jase

sherry/port, u posh gits. wish i could afford a turkey let alone a bottle of sherry/port to go with it. well be dinning on road kill this year thanks to mr lib dems and his eco trips.

Raymond Burke

I am with idle on this one. In the supermarkets in which I shop, there are offers on the vast majority of the products I regularly buy, with the exception of milk. So I wait until they are on offer until I part with my spondulicks, rather than when I need them. Currently, my favourite Kenco coffee granules, down from £4 to £3. Reasonable quality port, down from £14 a bottle to half price. Eight quid off a litre bottle of Bells, normally £21. Wholemeal 400g loaf, 70p each or £1 for two. Clementine fruit juice, down from £1.60 to £1. And so on.

This morning I noticed a shopper select three oranges at 35p each, ignoring a shelf card which announced 4 for a £1. I charitably pointed this out to her. 'I only need three', she sniffed. And the number of shoppers who pass up BOGOF offers...

TomTom

Time to do some Cartel Busting and break up the Supermarkets and the Food Processors....the concentration in both sectors is ridiculously high

Michael

So we can expect a massive change in the ONS's basket used for CPI/RPI changes soon. Expect a massive increase in the weighting given to potatoes, carrots and cream, with coffee, cream crackers and sponge cake vanishing from the basket altogether.

CanuckScot

Wow. If these are representative prices, you poor old Brits are being ripped off mightily. Near on double what one would pay in a Canadian supermarket, and we pay much more than the Yanks.

Time for a little less market concentration and a little more competition, methinks.