| Chancellor Lucan...a question. 10:54 - Mar 16 with 2898 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Any news from the inflation front line?
The local farm shop just told me a net of onions is now costing them £30 rather than £12 in 4 weeks!! Sacks of potatoes up 50%.....
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:13 - Mar 16 with 2406 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
My cleaner has just put prices up 13.5pc…first world problems eh… |  | | |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:21 - Mar 16 with 2379 views | usm |
BT increasing prices by 14% this month |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:47 - Mar 16 with 2304 views | Perublue |
The Bundestag are very lucky to also have his advice. |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:48 - Mar 16 with 2292 views | Herbivore |
Chancellor Lucan has the ring of a baddie from Star Wars. |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 with 2277 views | giant_stow |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:13 - Mar 16 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
My cleaner has just put prices up 13.5pc…first world problems eh… |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 12:43 - Mar 16 with 2190 views | Buhrer |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |
£750. For fitting three (3) doors? And you're not sure if you're getting ripped off? If you had to guess though, what do you reckon? What were the other quotes like? |  | | |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 12:47 - Mar 16 with 2173 views | Herbivore |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |
Is that including the cost of the doors? | |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 12:50 - Mar 16 with 2163 views | clive_baker |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |
Does that include the doors, or just the price to hang them? That's probably half a days work Ulla, max 1 day. |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 12:51 - Mar 16 with 2163 views | gtsb1966 |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |
A carpenter will take roughly 1.5 hours to hang an internal door plus add on 30 mins max for a coffee break and pee. Wish I could earn £150 an hour!!! |  | | |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 12:58 - Mar 16 with 2126 views | yesjohn99 |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |
Your pants have been well and truly pulled down. | | | |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:05 - Mar 16 with 2113 views | PhilTWTD |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:48 - Mar 16 by Herbivore |
Chancellor Lucan has the ring of a baddie from Star Wars. |
But not one played by Hollywood's most appropriately named actor, Norwich Duff.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240403/ |  | | |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:07 - Mar 16 with 2067 views | giant_stow |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 12:58 - Mar 16 by yesjohn99 |
Your pants have been well and truly pulled down. |
I feared as much, but tbh we know this guy and he could do it fast*, plus they were non-standard shapes, so he had to trim them / patch them** and trim the frames too. He's gone now, but it took a ay and half, so no doubt we've over-paid.
*He wouldn't do the front door - we're still waiting after weeks for 2 companies just to come and quote for those.
**past their trimming tolerances, so battens put back in after. [Post edited 16 Mar 2023 13:09]
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:08 - Mar 16 with 2053 views | itfcjoe |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |
If internal doors with maybe new hinges and messing about etc at most a door is going to take half a day - but realistically those 3 doors should be hung in a day |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:11 - Mar 16 with 2008 views | giant_stow |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:08 - Mar 16 by itfcjoe |
If internal doors with maybe new hinges and messing about etc at most a door is going to take half a day - but realistically those 3 doors should be hung in a day |
yeah fitting new hinges and fitting the opening mechanisms.
Still though, think I regret confirming my muggyness now - blissful ignorance would have been better! [Post edited 16 Mar 2023 13:11]
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 19:16 - Mar 16 with 1550 views | HARRY10 |
cost them ?
Surely all the stuff sold in farm shops is produced their own farm, harvested from the fields by local horny handed sons of toil. That is the image they like to portray to their gormless punters.
Not that the stuff is actually sourced from the same places as the supermarket, and is priced far higher because of the stupidity of its idiot customers.
I was speaking with two of these simpleton last summer who somehow believed that about 20 different varieties of crop were grown on the farm that had the shop, the jams etc were 'homemade' and the meat was from the same farm.
All prepared and packed in the farm kitchen we have to presume.
Less than a minutes thought would grasp that is impossible, if only on the grounds of supply.
What next ?
A beer garden that markets itself as selling alcohol produced from it's own distillery, wine from its own grape press and uses home grown coffee beans. Where food is charged more because it is served on a roof tile, chips in a mini dustbin and all manner of flowery twaddle is used to describe something as simple as bangers and mash. | | | |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 19:24 - Mar 16 with 1532 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
I wasn't after your spud and onion knowledge as I have Harry for that. Just your thoughts on the inflation trajectory. Seems you expect it to stabilise.(?) | |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 20:13 - Mar 16 with 1421 views | Guthrum |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 11:54 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
Here's another - the cost of food delivery for 3 always seems to be at well over £30 now days.
Or another: got a guy in fitting 3 internal doors for 250 a door - still not sure if we're being ripped, or if thats just the going rate.
Tricky to out my own rates up, but trying to tell all new punters that my day rate's at the meaty end now. |
£250 to fit a door?? 
I hope they're supplying high-quality doors and all the furniture for that price. |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 20:28 - Mar 16 with 1377 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 19:24 - Mar 16 by BanksterDebtSlave |
I wasn't after your spud and onion knowledge as I have Harry for that. Just your thoughts on the inflation trajectory. Seems you expect it to stabilise.(?) |
Well I'm not an expert by any means (who really is) but I have my hunch and opinions.
Personally I think food inflation is actually around 25% in real life. There seems to be a global food shortage that cannot just be about Ukraine - although as a massive grain producer the Ukraine factor is significant. Ironically I sent some stuff to Ukraine recently and it included a load of pot noodle type things that were actually made in Ukraine!
There also seems to be droughts going down in some major food producing regions.............and then we have the cost of energy.
Energy costs affect everything and it's an obvious massive problem, from producing crops right down the line to cooking them. I went on Just Eat the other week for some fish and chips and piece of large haddock was around the £10 mark - and can you imagine having to pay the energy costs to heat a big drum of oil up to cook some overpriced potatoes?
.......and it's just not production of goods. We have two showrooms and they are averaging out at £2000 a month for electric for the pair of them - and we have no electric heating, this is just for lighting. All offices and retailers are getting hit with this and it's not sustainable, no way!
In the sector we are in we have seen freight costs drop massively since the turn of the year but raw materials, paper and wages in China have shot up like crazy which has evened the landed prices out.
My conclusion is that I think the data will show that inflation is falling and that it is on course to fall back quicker than normal to previous low inflation levels but I don't think so and I won't believe the figures. |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 20:35 - Mar 16 with 1364 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:11 - Mar 16 by giant_stow |
yeah fitting new hinges and fitting the opening mechanisms.
Still though, think I regret confirming my muggyness now - blissful ignorance would have been better! [Post edited 16 Mar 2023 13:11]
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I wouldn’t worry, they’re just jealous that you’re now well hung. |  |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 21:11 - Mar 16 with 1275 views | HARRY10 |
the problem is the notion that prices are a direct result of the cist of production/distribution etc
They are not.
They are what the market will bear, and currently much of what we are now buying has gone up, because we expect it to. So accept it.
Supermarket and energy companies bear witness to that.
Make hay while the sun shines is their watchword, and given they are in the business of generating a profit, then why not. | | | |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:28 - Mar 22 with 933 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Shock rise in inflation....who would have thunk it!!
Chalk one up go the not experts! | |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:29 - Mar 22 with 927 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Shock rise in inflation....who would have thunk it!! Surprise increase in food inflation supposedly.
Chalk one up go the not experts! | |
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:49 - Mar 22 with 858 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:29 - Mar 22 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Shock rise in inflation....who would have thunk it!! Surprise increase in food inflation supposedly.
Chalk one up go the not experts! |
Shortages leading to a rise in the cost of vegetables- it’s your fault for voting to “take back control”.
Said experts did warn you… [Post edited 22 Mar 2023 13:49]
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| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 13:51 - Mar 22 with 834 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Chancellor Lucan...a question. on 21:11 - Mar 16 by HARRY10 |
the problem is the notion that prices are a direct result of the cist of production/distribution etc
They are not.
They are what the market will bear, and currently much of what we are now buying has gone up, because we expect it to. So accept it.
Supermarket and energy companies bear witness to that.
Make hay while the sun shines is their watchword, and given they are in the business of generating a profit, then why not. |
Nonsense.
Imagine how much each and every supermarket is taking to run at the moment.
My local corner shop near my office has turned its freezers off, can't afford to run them.
To add insult to injury they have opened a social supermarket store opposite - 20p for Uncle Bens microwaveable rice anyone?
Poor bloke stands all day from 7am - 10pm and then gets shafted. He's screwed!
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