The results of this survey are sickening yet unsurprising, the Irish are very passive as consumers, we don’t protest, we don’t complain to the likes of these retailers and we don’t pressure our politicians to bring about effective change.I could just about accept all the pay cuts, levies and extra charges if the cost of living was falling significantly but a huge number of househlolds ,employed and unemployed are struggling due to the inflated cost of living in our bankrupt and rip off republic. It’s Lidl and Aldi all the way for me.

The problem is diesel has got so expensive. About 20 cent a litre more than last year. If a truck takes say 800 litres of fuel thats an extra €160 to fill the truck and hauliers just cannot absorb this rise in fuel.

Its a shame there’s no regulation prohibiting price-matching (i.e. a competitor may charge a lower or higher price but not an exact match) to stimulate real competition in the grocery retail market.

Of course if there was, the companies involved will then complain that its too hard to keep track of competitior pricing, even when it appears simple enough for them to do it now.

Unfortunately Ireland consumers have supped at the table of the Tesco satan, and there seems no going back.

Thats why prices won’t reduce …. Tesco lead grocery pricing with the others following.
The stronger Tesco gets, the weaker consumer power gets

Indeed also remember that its not only consumers that suffer, the suppliers are being fleeced too.
In the vast vast majority of cases, its the suppliers that fund the price discounting not the retailer.

We really are responsible for the situation we find ourselves in when the opportunity to force prices down through a haphazard form of collective bargaining is missed. Really — if prices do not decrease now, when we are seemingly completely broke, then when will they ever reduce? Or maybe, just maybe, we are not all so broke? Perhaps DIRT, pension and investment taxes including home-owners tax and an even larger 2nd household tax should all be put in place or increased. Those who still retain wealth from the Celtic Tiger, especially those with fixed wealth should be taxed! (i.e. people should not be encouraged to hide there savings in other countries or under their bed but a small percentage of the interest or benefit of having wealth should be taxed.)

There’s a reason the guys running tesco referred to this country as ‘treasure Ireland’, AND why they will release their UK profit margins but not their Irish ones… Pile of C*nts

Could it have anything to do with energy costs?