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Mephisto_Helix

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Dunno where to post this (feel free to move it). Just noticed that I am now paying over R8 a loaf of brown bread! I have yet to buy from anywhere other than Spar but I've got a feeling it's the same all over. Absolutely disgusting especially after the price fixing debacle. :sick::mad::sick:
 
I don't eat those regtangular loaves of bread.

I had enough when I were younger.
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
Dunno where to post this (feel free to move it). Just noticed that I am now paying over R8 a loaf of brown bread! I have yet to buy from anywhere other than Spar but I've got a feeling it's the same all over. Absolutely disgusting especially after the price fixing debacle. :sick::mad::sick:
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The bread prices are crazy. How can one pay so much for something like that ?
We have been had....

We need to get out of this system. They are chipping away at every part of our lives.

It's sick. :sick::mad:
 
Picard what shape of bread do you eat
 
Linoman said:
Picard what shape of bread do you eat
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I don't eat bread often but if I do it is those Pick n Pay buns.

I'm not as pretentious to say I only eat french loaves or those types of posh breads. I'm a simple guy, although I do love my red wines.
 
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I have switched to the Spar white loaf, unsliced.
R5.60 a loaf.

Prices are ridiculous.
 
it kind of ties into this thread, but for what its worth, I just posted a query on SA food prices, with a long list of standard foodstuffs, asking folks what the aprox prices are-
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=110259
If anyone feels like giving some idea of prices, it'd be great to get a sense of what things cost now.. (last prices I knew was from mid 2006)
over R8 for a loaf of bread sounds totally crazy..
makes me wonder just how much the rand is devaluing right under peoples noses..
 
Balstrome said:
And yet people still buy and complain, where is the action, and what is the action that could be taken?
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Action? Stop buying (in my case) Albany.

Cannot see any stronger action a consumer can take, other than to stop paying high prices.
 
Seen the movement of the wheat price over the past year or so?

It is stronly linked to the Rand/$ exchange rate - as ZA has to import lots of wheat.

Expect to pay another 10% or more additional for your bread soon.
 
Moederloos said:
Action? Stop buying (in my case) Albany.

Cannot see any stronger action a consumer can take, other than to stop paying high prices.
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dumb@ss government fined tiger brands recently fro price fixing... guess who pocketed the money?? :(


fkkoli benefit to the consumer and Tiger have prbly hiked prices just to make things viable
 
Fournos Bakeries have a lovely selection of breads.

Back on topic: It is utterly DESPICABLE that something like bread, which a lot of people depend on for survival, is so expensive. These prices should be much, much lower.

The government ought to HANG THEIR HEADS IN SHAME.
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
Dunno where to post this (feel free to move it). Just noticed that I am now paying over R8 a loaf of brown bread! I have yet to buy from anywhere other than Spar but I've got a feeling it's the same all over. Absolutely disgusting especially after the price fixing debacle. :sick::mad::sick:
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Try baking a loaf of bread yourself for less than R8 !
 
Try baking a loaf of bread yourself for less than R8 !
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I don't know if you mean it like I should save myself some money and bake my own or if you are justifying the price they charge? :confused:
 
Thats more than i pay in the UK and our prices are supposedly "expensive"!
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That whole 'food in th UK is soooo expensive' is a bunch of bull. My little brother has been over there for a while .... first in Birmingham and then he settled in Scotland and he always carries on about the food he's able to buy for next to nothing. I think his average monthly spend is 100 pounds and thats for 3 people eating pretty decent. Spend R1600 here and see if it'll last a whole month. And I mean luxuries and meat and all .... before some clever *%#@ tells me it can be done. :rolleyes:
 
Piepalook said:
Try baking a loaf of bread yourself for less than R8 !
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Heh - I can buy 1kg of dough ready mixed at Spar for around R6.
Makes two pretty decent breads. I usually whack the tins into the oven along with whatever else I am cooking - so the power costs are effectively zero.

Mephisto_Helix said:
That whole 'food in th UK is soooo expensive' is a bunch of bull. My little brother has been over there for a while .... first in Birmingham and then he settled in Scotland and he always carries on about the food he's able to buy for next to nothing. I think his average monthly spend is 100 pounds and thats for 3 people eating pretty decent. Spend R1600 here and see if it'll last a whole month. And I mean luxuries and meat and all .... before some clever *%#@ tells me it can be done. :rolleyes:
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Easy enough for anyone to prove or disprove - lots and lots of online shopping stores in the UK.

Also, keep in mind that the minimum wage in the UK is now: GBP5.52
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6425965.stm

I see a bread costs 94p - not sure of fluctuations and all that, but that is roughly 6 breads per hour worked. In SA, it is about one bread per hour worked. That makes SA 6 times more expensive than the UK.

Tesco's (damn them) seem to want me to register now to troll around - may do that later. But I did find a online butchery with rib-eye at 12GBP a kilo. That is expensive. Woolies here is around R90-R100? Even so, on minimum wage scales, R90 is ten hours work, while 12GBP is 2 hours. Again, SA is 5 times more expensive.

And one can of course argue that our "minimum wages" are different because of [insert here ad nauseum], to which I respond - "but, then so is our labour costs." We can argue "but we have to import XYZ with a weak rand" to which I respond "we are told a weak rand is GOOD because we export things - where then is this 'good'?" Because I do not see it.
 
^ Good comparison Moder.

When your earning are more per hour than it makes sense that a higher price item is more affordable to the person. The police officer in UK/US/Euro earns a more livable wage than a police officer in SA. Thus, life is more affordable to be a police officer there than here, although academically speaking their job requirements ought to on par with each other.

I can go on... Landscapers, construction workers, bus drivers, etc, etc, etc. SA is an unequal land, because of pay more than anything else.
 
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