Update 28 April 2008: I would like to add that with one point to me it appears I am not alone in my thoughts regarding price fixing: OFT in new supermarket crackdown
It's been pointed out to me that I have been very angry recently so excuse the tone in this little
write up rant. But it's not really surprising with the state of this country. You're not even allowed to be proud to be a white heterosexual male. It's ok to have gay days or black music only clubs. Banks have been ripping me off for years. Go to prison and you have a great time. If you're foreign, commit crime and then get a threat of deportation then you get human fucking rights lawyers sort it out. This labour government has been screwing the country over for the last 10 years. I didn't vote these lunatics in. But I digress.
My recent bout of anger has come from the fact that not only are foreigners, banks and the government ripping me off, so are supermarkets. It's obvious the cost of living has increased over the last year or two, quite dramatically. Petrol prices are up and food prices are up. So, along with many people at the moment, I re-assessed where our finances are being hit. Apart from the usual petrol, electric, gas, water and council tax it seems the culprit is actually food. For the last 7 years or so my
partner and I have been shopping at Tesco. We bought into the idea of earning points on that little card so we could get more deals and points towards shopping, or indeed a 'free' shop later on. But that has pretty much ended.
I was a supporter of Tesco. It is one of the few British success stories. I'm a patriotic Brit, no that doesn't mean I am racist. I was proud of a British company actually being successful. But having looked at where our money is going it seems a lot is on our food budget. I'm not fat although I eat more than I should. We survived on a quarter of what our combined income was 7 years ago. See a pattern in there anywhere?
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