Anyone felt the pinch yet?

Notice a good proportion of my hotels are quiet this week. But with the jubilee round the corner and pride the week after maybe folk are simply saving their trips for that.

Cant help but feel the media are driving a lot of it. They seem hell bent on us heading into a recession. Making people panic and stop spending.

They should be telling everyone its all gravy.

Only area Ive felt it is diesel. £154 to fill my van the other day. That's taking the piss.

14 hours ago, royal white said:

One of the lads has a stall on Bolton market (meat stall) his rent (which includes bills) has just gone up to £3200 a month! How are they supposed to make a living with costs like that? 

It sounds a lot, but what was it before, for context?

I know our local butcher reckons his electricity bill has gone from £1200 per month to about £2500 per month, which has obviously meant his prices have started to increase quite dramatically. It was good to see he was still busy this morning though, as we were queuing out the door at 10:00

36 minutes ago, Sweep said:

It sounds a lot, but what was it before, for context?

I know our local butcher reckons his electricity bill has gone from £1200 per month to about £2500 per month, which has obviously meant his prices have started to increase quite dramatically. It was good to see he was still busy this morning though, as we were queuing out the door at 10:00

Electric similar to your mates, gone up a grand a month. 
 

Add to that the egg problem! One of his biggest earners is eggs, he says they usually go up once a year by about 10p a dozen. They’ve gone up 4 times this year with the last increase being 20p a dozen. 

Edited December 17, 20223 yr by royal white

6 hours ago, radcliffe white said:

The charity we send to gave us a list of things they’re ideally after based on gender & age

older girls- sanitary products these are gifts for Xmas ffs 

That's really not good.

Dropped a load of toys off - we disgustingly had some not even opened. Hope someone gets some use out of them.

EDF starting paying us the govt energy rebate back into our account after the direct debit went through 

Now saying they'll knock it off the direct debit 

Not sure why the change but we'll see

Me and Mrs. F used to donate to an outfit that made up handbags for street workers and you could drop things like sanitary  stuff, condoms and warm clothing. You used to be able to drop bits off at a place at the top of Breightmet St.

 I don't know if it is still there.

1 hour ago, DirtySanchez said:

EDF starting paying us the govt energy rebate back into our account after the direct debit went through 

Now saying they'll knock it off the direct debit 

Not sure why the change but we'll see

We had the same. So I paid it back to them as an extra payment. Then we had a letter saying they were reducing our payments. So then I had to go back on the app to increase the payments back to the previous level. Such a faff. Expecting us to be wildly in credit come out next bill in April, but I’ll either leave it in credit with them, or withdraw the balance and just keep it aside ready for when our tariff goes up. 

On 16/12/2022 at 22:24, Cheese said:

Has it fuck.

To be fair, you can’t take that quote out of context on its own. MK went on to describe his own circumstances where food (and if it was anything like my own childhood, probably the odd bits of clothing) was donated to those less fortunate. 

On 16/12/2022 at 22:19, Mounts Kipper said:

It has always been this way, growing up on a council estate in the 60s 70s 80s we didn’t have much but our neighbours 2 down had less, 2 brothers who’d hardly ever worked, mum used to send us down with couple of bowls of tata ash or whatever we had spare, whichever government is in power they can’t cover all eventualities…. Currently I feel the government needs to offer more support to help with heating costs but ultimately there is a limit to what can be done. 

 

On 17/12/2022 at 07:16, radcliffe white said:

The charity we send to gave us a list of things they’re ideally after based on gender & age

older girls- sanitary products these are gifts for Xmas ffs 

Grim as that.

First hand experience of dealing with kids where that is an issue. 

 

2 hours ago, MickyD said:

To be fair, you can’t take that quote out of context on its own. MK went on to describe his own circumstances where food (and if it was anything like my own childhood, probably the odd bits of clothing) was donated to those less fortunate. 

To be fair, his follow up "context" was a personal anecdote from his childhood. The massive rise in foodbank usage over the last decade demonstrates it has not "always been this way."

https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/

Life is full of personal experience we call call upon to compare then to now. 

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

Life is full of personal experience we call call upon to compare then to now. 

Yes, they're called "anecdotes".

i read it as we've always looked out for each other, but as per...

Of course people have always helped others out, but the number of people needing help is increasing that is the issue. 

1 hour ago, Dr Faustus said:

i read it as we've always looked out for each other, but as per...

One of the pitfalls of text-only communication. I'm sure we've all been taken out of context/misunderstood someone on here at some point.

Edited December 19, 20223 yr by Cheese

Little old lady just told me shes had to cancel her family coming over for xmas as she cant afford the food or to even heat the house

 

 

Ive asked to borrow her spare chairs for my xmas bonanza. 

All my fault 😂😂

If they want people to go back they will need to relax limits on top level of pensions and allow people to pay in again if they have already drawn down 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64083802

Edited December 24, 20223 yr by Ani
Forgot fucking link

Fair play to Aldi 

 

 

German cunts

Get back to the EU , we want BRITTISH supermarkets

1 hour ago, royal white said:

Fair play to Aldi 

 

 

Indeed, if true.

Dunno what Spider is crowing about though, seeing as his staff will be doing the grocery shopping.

Surely he's a waitrose man?

Haven't Aldi always paid their staff well compared to other supermarkets?

I'd suggest they also make them work harder (which is fine).  You go to a checkout at Aldi and you're under severe pressure to get your shopping scooped up and put in your trolley as quick as they're firing it at you.  At the other supermarkets the checkout staff sit there asking how your day has been and chatting with Sandra on the next till.

10 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Indeed, if true.

Dunno what Spider is crowing about though, seeing as his staff will be doing the grocery shopping.

Surely he's a waitrose man?

Waitrose essentials are about the same price as other places.

Plus then I don't have to mix with the general public and keep my socialist values in check without them being tainted by by the general scummers.

 

19 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Haven't Aldi always paid their staff well compared to other supermarkets?

I'd suggest they also make them work harder (which is fine).  You go to a checkout at Aldi and you're under severe pressure to get your shopping scooped up and put in your trolley as quick as they're firing it at you.  At the other supermarkets the checkout staff sit there asking how your day has been and chatting with Sandra on the next till.

Was told that they are monitored on how many items they scan per minute or hour 

Also when they first opened stores over here the cashiers had to memorise the prices of items as they didn't have the barcode scanners 

Aldi in Horwich always smells like a tramps shoe

Edited January 18, 20233 yr by Spider

20 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Waitrose essentials are about the same price as other places.

 

 

Champagne, foie gras, quinoa?

What did I miss?

😂

5 minutes ago, globaldiver said:

Champagne, foie gras, quinoa?

What did I miss?

😂

Can't get foie gras in Waitrose, you have to get their faux gras chicken liver pate.

It's very good though.