Indo - "There is no cost of living crisis for majority of people in Ireland says IBEC CEO"

So they may have been comparing the price of branded milk (e.g. Avonmore) in the shop of a petrol station with the price of petrol.
And at €1.79 it would be more expensive.
But Avonmore is cheaper in supermarkets, own brand milk cheaper still, and it probably isn't the first time Avonmore milk bought in a corner shop \ station shop is more expensive than petrol.

Cheap tricks like this are unnecessary... the price of milk is up. The price of fuel is up (largely due to taxes).
 
odyssey06 said:
Back to signs of a cost of living "something":

One in three families spend beyond their means and get into debt when their children go back to school.
Over 60pc of people surveyed said they were finding the expense of kitting out students a huge financial burden, according to research commissioned by the Irish League of Credit Unions.
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That’s more to do with inadequate people choosing to live beyond their means. “No, we can’t afford it.” is a reply that my children have heard from me on many an occasion.

They never got expensive runners or designer clothes, for school or otherwise, even when I could afford it. Tesco and Penny’s for back to school when money was tight and Dunnes and even M&S when money wasn’t tight.
A school coat should last at least 3 years.

Going into debt because your child is going back to school is a result of an inability to manage finances, not a shortage of money.
 
ClubMan said:
I remember years ago a journalist asking random elected representatives the price of different grocery staples and most of them hadn't a clue.
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I think that might have been before the prices of different grocery staples oscillated wildly between different stores and chains.
 
T McGibney said:
I think that might have been before the prices of different grocery staples oscillated wildly between different stores and chains.
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It was a good while ago - but even now the prices of own brand basic staples (milk, bread, butter, pasta, rice, tinned goods etc.) is practically identical across the likes of Lidl/Aldi/Dunnes/Tesco (and maybe SuperValu?). E.g. €1.25 for a litre or milk or €3.99 for 454g of butter.
 
ClubMan said:
even now the prices of own brand basic staples (milk, bread, butter, pasta, rice, tinned goods etc.) is practically identical across the likes of Lidl/Aldi/Dunnes/Tesco (and maybe SuperValu?). E.g. €1.25 for a litre or milk or €3.99 for 454g of butter.
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Is that really the case? Every time I'm in a different branded store, the prices seems to differ alarmingly. The prices of butter especially.
 
It's what I've observed in all of the stores mentioned (bar SuperValu which I rarely visit) - same price for own brand milk and butter at the very least. Very similar prices for many or most other own brand staples.
 
I think over the last 12 months with the price changes on dairy products, some stories were quicker than others applying the changes, so if you shopped in a few different stores it would seem like 'oscillation'. They seem to have settled down to a new (higher) equilibrium now until the next change.
 
odyssey06 said:
Sinn Fein research appears to be googling and relying on AI results... wouldn't surprise me if they are using US figures.
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Wow! I assumed that you were just joking until I saw this...
www.thejournal.ie

Simon Harris was having the time of his life today with Pearse Doherty's SuperValu mistake

“And you want Paschal Donohoe’s job?,” the Tánaiste laughed in the Dáil.
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On Tuesday, Sinn Féin were forced to explain their embarrassing mistake after Pearse Doherty and a number of other Sinn Féin TDs repeatedly referred in the Dáil to SuperValu being owned by United Natural Foods Inc., a US-based firm rather than the Irish Musgrave Group.

The party put the mistake down to “human error” due to a search by Sinn Féin staff into Google Finance turning up a different ‘Supervalu’ company based in the US.
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ClubMan said:
It was a good while ago - but even now the prices of own brand basic staples (milk, bread, butter, pasta, rice, tinned goods etc.) is practically identical across the likes of Lidl/Aldi/Dunnes/Tesco (and maybe SuperValu?). E.g. €1.25 for a litre or milk or €3.99 for 454g of butter.
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I know what I spend on shopping. I know that I spend the least when I shop in Lidl. but I don't know the price of individual items. When I buy cheese I look at the cost per Kilo as it's often the case that smaller packages are cheaper in real terms than larger ones... then again I can't remember my children's birthdays so I don't expect myself to remember what butter cost last week... probably part of my diagnosis.
 
A good overview of whats up and down pricewise:

IRELAND RECORDED THE sharpest rate of increase in agricultural produce prices in the EU in the first quarter of this year, the bloc’s statistical agency Eurostat has said. Irish agricultural prices were up an eye-watering 19.3% compared with the same period of 2024. The average increase across the EU was just 2.6%...
The rise in milk prices across the EU – 12.6% on average – will skew Ireland’s figure upwards, given the dairy sector’s centrality to the total value of the agriculture sector in Ireland. Julian Worley, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Galway, pointed out that Ireland also doesn’t produce many items in the categories where prices fell – olive oil for example. Across Europe, potato prices also fell, while prices for eggs and cereals rose. Worley added that prices are probably being driven up by chaos in world markets, including the uncertainty caused by US trade war threats and tariffs. Most Irish dairy is exported.

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Cost of milk and beef sees Irish farm produce prices rise faster than anywhere in EU

What’s going on?
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odyssey06 said:
So they may have been comparing the price of branded milk (e.g. Avonmore) in the shop of a petrol station with the price of petrol.
And at €1.79 it would be more expensive.
But Avonmore is cheaper in supermarkets, own brand milk cheaper still, and it probably isn't the first time Avonmore milk bought in a corner shop \ station shop is more expensive than petrol.
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Does a litre of milk cost more than a litre of petrol, as Mary Lou McDonald claimed?

McDonald made the claim in the Dáil on Wednesday.
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€1.25/L for own brand milk in most or all of the main supermarkets as I mentioned before. No idea why The Journal chose the Lidl organic rather than normal litre...
 
T McGibney said:
Because, in common with Sinn Féin, their fact-checkers' research is generally sloppy
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Seems to be the case. The original article said that Lidl milk was 75c/L because of the shelf price label in the photo but this was subsequently corrected.
Correction: The original version of this article listed the price of Coolree milk in Lidl as €0.75. Lidl’s price tag refers to the cost of Coolree milk per 500ml, so the correct price of a litre is €1.50.
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But even the correction fails to reflect that Lidl own brand regular (not organic) milk is €1.25/L like many of the other stores. And, usually, if 500mL is, say, 75c it doesn't follow that 1L is twice that as there's usually a slight premium for the smaller volume container. So I wouldn't be surprised if 1L of their organic milk was a little less than €1.50...
 
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