Price rises/ inflation

Alias #23 said:
Just kick the walls in if you’re feeling claustro. However, how much variety do you want? The whole point of it is the SOVIET STYLE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE!
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I loved going to the grocery exhibit in the DDR Museum in Berlin and briefly pretending I lived in a world without all these interminable consumer options :disco: As a wise woman once said, I don't want more choice I just want NICER THINGS.
 
Alias #23 said:
Me too. Waitrose is all very well but how many choices of pasta shapes does one REALLY need?
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THIS

There's a local Sainsbury the size of a fucking aircraft hanger.

I DON'T NEED TO SPEND MORE THAN A MINUTE TO WALK FROM ONE END OF A SHOP LET ALONE FIVE MINUTES.
 
ALDI 4EVA

I only go to Lidl really for their SEEDLESS PEPPERS and massive PRAWNS.
 
Ag said:
THIS

There's a local Sainsbury the size of a fucking aircraft hanger.

I DON'T NEED TO SPEND MORE THAN A MINUTE TO WALK FROM ONE END OF A SHOP LET ALONE FIVE MINUTES.
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I have the same thing with clothes shopping which I fucking DESPISE and find highly disordered and stressful

Just do à few things in SACKCLOTH and be done with it!
 
Lucille said:
It’s funny that with supply chain crisis’ and sky rocketing inflation, one thing that hasn’t gone up is DRUGS. Just put the drug smugglers in charge!
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I swear and eigth of weed has only gone up a fiver since I was about 16.
 
COB said:
I loved going to the grocery exhibit in the DDR Museum in Berlin and briefly pretending I lived in a world without all these interminable consumer options :disco: As a wise woman once said, I don't want more choice I just want NICER THINGS.
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If you don't own a copy of Das DDR Handbook, it's a must! 1000s of pictures of Mutter's grocery shopping, 70's socialist home furnishings and limited fashion choices :disco:
 
COB said:
I loved going to the grocery exhibit in the DDR Museum in Berlin and briefly pretending I lived in a world without all these interminable consumer options :disco: As a wise woman once said, I don't want more choice I just want NICER THINGS.
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GENAU

DDR FTW. We don’t need all this POINTLESS RUBBISH AND EXCESS OF CHOICE! We just need a lovely song and a delicious sausage

 
On the excess of choice front, and while I’m engaging in my DDR revival fantasies, I had to buy some new glasses today. Oh the fucking stress of it all. Just do ONE round frame, ONE rectangle and maybe a few others! Four choices MAXIMUM!
 
win_the_game said:
If you don't own a copy of Das DDR Handbook, it's a must! 1000s of pictures of Mutter's grocery shopping, 70's socialist home furnishings and limited fashion choices :disco:
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O mein Gott this is actually a thing! This one?


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Limited fashion choices NOW please. The hours I’ve spent over the years debating whether to buy slacks or knickerbockers, solely for the purpose of keeping up with the hot new trends. No choice, NO STRESS! :disco:
 
Did they spend hours arguing about what to have for dinner in popular rom com The Turin Horse? (This was Hungary rather than the DDR but it’s as good as.) NO. They only had potatoes so they had potatoes. @jivafox can back me up here :disco:
 
Alias #23 said:
Limited fashion choices NOW please. The hours I’ve spent over the years debating whether to buy slacks or knickerbockers, solely for the purpose of keeping up with the hot new trends. No choice, NO STRESS! :disco:
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Actually here for this. Totalitarian fashion can be sexy.

I’d rather that than having to buy my groceries from Lidl. I just can’t stand the lighting there and the way they furnish their stores.
 
Which is fair because he's done more to benefit the wealthy than the not wealthy i.e. the majority.
 
Did we all see Johnson gurning away, making daft faces? Was he pissed again?
 
Ag said:
The newspapers have almost exclusively criticised Sunak's budget.
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As usual, the daily Star is right on the money...

"The usual load of utter bull from a rich, insincere, smiling politician with nice teeth"
 
He has done what was expected, however. Nothing. Everyone knew that Sunak wasn't going to do anything about energy bills. Even Martin Lewis was begging him to do something.
 
They say prices for groceries haven’t risen much and will be a lot higher after the summer, but I had to buy tomatoes the other day and they were 80kr per kilo, that’s over 6£. :shock:
 
I look forward to the soon-impending days where I take £10 out of the cashmachine to buy a £8 pint of beer, only to find that inflation has taken it up to £12 in the time it took me to get served.
 
It’s been a while since I’ve been back, can I ask how common contactless payment is in the UK now, especially with apps (and which ones are big?
 
Diddy said:
It’s been a while since I’ve been back, can I ask how common contactless payment is in the UK now, especially with apps (and which ones are big?
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Everywhere now has it pretty much. Most of the holdouts got it when the pandemic happened
 
In London I’d say 99% of places take contactless. The only place I know of that doesn’t is my barber.
 
I can only speak for London but the vast majority of people use contactless since the pandemic, even if you're just buying one pint or whatever. I can't remember the last time I went to an ATM. My friend gave me a tenner for a ticket at the weekend and I was like WHAT IS THIS SHIT

I still use a physical credit card (only because I worry about getting the right thing up on my phone while people are waiting) but several friends use Apple Pay or Monzo.
 
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