BoB milk went up from £1.50 to £1.79 in a week in Asda, what ever the reason it’s a decent rise.

Providing the price comes down once this whole epidemic is over, I have no problem with it because otherwise once it is all over we’ll have no supermarkets to go to.

20% is drastic but nothing compared to other manufacturers/distributors.

BoB/Arla red top filtered is £1.85 and has been for a while now in More reasons at Barnsalee.

Thought you'd be concentrating on buying pies anyway.....
May I suggest getting the milk from a proper milkman (mines Milky Pete) like I do... 60p a pint and it keeps him busy!
Thats if you can of course....
Better than the milk from any supermarket too......

That's a funny example because it's actually on at £1.75 and that's still the cheapest price in the big 4 supermarkets
Looks like an offer that just ended.

And Sainsbury in their defense have a higher price because they give profits to Sports Relief.

OK I'l let you off!

....OMG...FMC and PT are now best buddies ...

Jeez...the world must have gone mad for this to happen..Oh hang on a minute....


No seriously guys, respect to you both for your efforts in keeping the country going....as I said on the other thread, we all need to learn tolerance and understanding at this desperate time and if you two can continue to get on then surely the world will be a much better place when we eventually come out the other side

Okay guys.....time for a bit of light-hearted entertainment to try and lift people's spirits..... https://www.indy100.com/article/coronav ... ng-9416531 (Poptart...it's not from the video site that we can't mention, so I hope you are okay with this ??)

Okay guys.....time for a bit of light-hearted entertainment to try and lift people's spirits..... https://www.indy100.com/article/coronav ... ng-9416531 (Poptart...it's not from the video site that we can't mention, so I hope you are okay with this ??)

Yeah, me too, BLM ….

Guy gets asked..."Right, you have to self-isolate for the coronavirus....do you choose Option A...isolate with the wife and kids or option B...Guy interrupts "Option B....definitely option B"

People getting tetchy on here, nowt new then. No rugby or sport but still people having a ding dong.
Its not profiteering as such but the supermarkets will have made some nice profits over the last 2 weeks, their sales are up 50% and, until the end of last week, did nothing to limit what shoppers bought. £1bn worth of sales.
And in my own experience of the last week the British supermarkets are horrendous and the German ones are almost stocked like normal.

Just what the heck are you on about fc.????? Talk about over reaction. Can I suggest you take a sedative and lay down for a while? Normally your posts have some degree of normality to them. God knows what your reaction would have been like if I'd said something really controversial.

All I said was that the big retailers tend to raise their prices in times of shortage. I've witnessed this many times in the past and I'm sure you have too.
I have never criticised you or those that did similar jobs in ensuring that goods get through to the shelves. You're doing a fantastic job as I discovered this morning at Barnsley Asda
As for the chap at Iceland my only criticism, if you care to read my post again, was that he could have notified the queue of elderly customers that they hadn't got any new stocks earlier than he did, thus avoiding everyone wasting their time. I never even spoke to him, yet you start ranting on about Nazism, gangsters, students at Eton, and the lad at Iceland could die.

Sadly I suspect I'm wasting my time.

I'm also in a frontline business and have been working round the clock, along with my colleagues, to try to get through this; I have to get safe staffing levels into 72 specialist care homes all over the country - whilst supporting the same staff to self-isolate and stay safe and healthy, and I can tell you in no uncertain terms that it's a total f**ing nightmare - not helped by the selfish and moronic behaviour of people who, for example, empty supermarket shelves - so my guys go to get food for the 6-8 vulnerable people they support, and are unable to do so.

I'm on a video conference later today, to work out what we can do to support our people - since the Government are steadfastly ignoring the scandal of SSP being far too low for self-isolating people to even pay their rent, and the 80% salary for job protection is of no help to business who aren't laying off; so we're trying to find a million quid, to do it ourselves.

Whatever you're doing and however this is affecting you - if you know someone who works in supply chain, food, education, the NHS or social care - take 5 mins to ask them if they're ok; chances are they're not, and will welcome knowing that you care.