Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Shoppers just get ripped off
THE recent allround hike in food prices has not gone unnoticed by selective shoppers, but is this another 1970s ‘change to decimal currency’ type rip-off?
Many will remember how prices rose dramatically during the transition from ‘old money’ to decimalisation and, regrettably, in my opinion, this practice of greed still persists to some extent.
Recently I purchased a small tube of crisps and paid 99p for this item. The contents, in total, numbered 14 normal sized crisps.
That equated, marginally, to over 7p per crisp. How extortionate I thought when I recalled that in 1959 one could buy a carry-out fish supper for that price.
I certainly shall not be buying that product again.