Reply to: Inflation

[mattster]

Why the hell should it be expensive? It's just oats and water! Make your own and save a ton of cash:
https://minimalistbaker.com/make-oat-milk/

Yeah its just thin porridge really, but then a lot of things are cheaper to make than buy.

[SueEllen]

Why the hell should it be expensive? It's just oats and water! Make your own and save a ton of cash:
https://minimalistbaker.com/make-oat-milk/

Branding....

[ladymuck]

Oat milk is actually quite nice in a coffee (far better than soy, IMO), but is ludicrously expensive compared to normal milk (but normal milk is also ludicrously underpriced).

Why the hell should it be expensive? It's just oats and water! Make your own and save a ton of cash:
https://minimalistbaker.com/make-oat-milk/

[d000hg]

Hehe! You may be serious about the dumb bells because doubtless so many people wanting to exercise more during lockdown has led to a supply shortage, but I'm sure there will be a dumb bell glut soon and the price will plummet.

I've seen reports of huge shortages during lockdown 1, think everyone has given up on fitness now
maybe I should keep an eye out for 2nd hand bargains on Peleton

[d000hg]

They will do anything to massage the figures. House prices have gone through the roof but it will not be included.

You don't buy a house every week.

[OwlHoot]

Dumb bells have gone up in price. Ask Mike Ashley...

Hehe! You may be serious about the dumb bells because doubtless so many people wanting to exercise more during lockdown has led to a supply shortage, but I'm sure there will be a dumb bell glut soon and the price will plummet.

[AtW]

Pensions, pay raises in public sector linked to inflation so there is a clear conflict of interest to produce false stats - obviously a white lie in the name of saving taxpayer money...

[Andy2]

They will do anything to massage the figures. House prices have gone through the roof but it will not be included.

[mattster]

But instead of a loaf, many are now buying artisanal gluten-free baguettes. Milk is replaced with Oatly.


This might be a better approach.

Oat milk is actually quite nice in a coffee (far better than soy, IMO), but is ludicrously expensive compared to normal milk (but normal milk is also ludicrously underpriced).

[mattster]

Constant tinkering with the "basket", hedonic adjustments for our electronics to keep the numbers lower, all whilst not putting the single biggest cost (buying a house) onto the list at all. No wonder the figures seem to bear no relation to reality.

[BR14]

But instead of a loaf, many are now buying artisanal gluten-free baguettes. Milk is replaced with Oatly.

and beard oil. feckin' translucent veggie losers.

[d000hg]

It does but I'm fairly sure most households have always bought things like loo roll, milk, bread, shampoo, soap, laundry detergent, etc.

But instead of a loaf, many are now buying artisanal gluten-free baguettes. Milk is replaced with Oatly.

It shouldn't be hard to get retailers to state what products are in the top 75th percentile by volume. (Tweak the percentile by whatever line you want to draw in your sandpit)

This might be a better approach.

[ladymuck]

Even our consumption of traditional 'staples' changes over time. I imagine the typical British dinner looks rather different than 30 years back, let alone 60.

Case in point, they just took out ground coffee in favour of sachets, but not that long ago it would have been instant coffee. And the tea/coffee balance has shifted a lot.

It does but I'm fairly sure most households have always bought things like loo roll, milk, bread, shampoo, soap, laundry detergent, etc.

It shouldn't be hard to get retailers to state what products are in the top 75th percentile by volume. (Tweak the percentile by whatever line you want to draw in your sandpit)

[d000hg]

What have they gone and added this time? Carriage lamps and wind-up gramophones?

Seriously, it would be far better if they just had a list of the same staple items on the list year after year, instead of trying to be clever.

Even our consumption of traditional 'staples' changes over time. I imagine the typical British dinner looks rather different than 30 years back, let alone 60.

Case in point, they just took out ground coffee in favour of sachets, but not that long ago it would have been instant coffee. And the tea/coffee balance has shifted a lot.

[SueEllen]

Yep, perfect example of what I was saying above. Almost by definition, newly available trendy increasingly popular items will be coming down in price, due to technical advances and economies of scale and in their manufacture!

So in short, these figures are probably a load of deliberatelty misleading bollox.

Dumb bells have gone up in price. Ask Mike Ashley...