The farmer receives a fraction of the price for his milk - that the supermarkets then sell it for. Also if as you state, that dairy products have gone down in price - then what is milk - and milk is going up all the time. The supermarkets are profitering from us - they tempt the shopper with BOGOFs on cakes, crisps and other less essentials, whilst milk, eggs, bread all the essentials are going up through the roof. Whilst it is costing more to produce many of these items - it is the producer as well as the shopper who are picking up the costs - not the supermarkets. One local egg producer gets 80p a dozen for his eggs (barn eggs) have you looked at what half a dozen barn eggs sell for in the supermarkets. Unless we all go self sufficient then the supermarkets have an open playing field to keep charging us what they want.

Are you kidding!  The supermarkets are one of the few retailers still making bumper profits.  I cut back to many value brands about 18 months ago when my husband took voluntary redundancy but they're not such good value any more.

It used to cost about 15p for a tin of value beans - it is now 29p - which is nearly a 100% increase.  Mixed fruit jam was 32p now 65p.  1kg sultanas was 95p now 165p.  These are just a few of the completely unjustified increases in my weekly shop.  I was lead to believe that the main reason the prices went up was the cost of petrol but guess what - they haven't cut them back down yet now its cheaper again!

And don't even get me started on the way the banks are treating us!

theclaims-warehouse can legally eliminate your debts employing specialist solicitors to challenge lenders who have issued unfair credit agreements. 

Of course the supermarkets are profiteering. Look at how much their profits have increased. Increases to prices are passed on very subtly a few pence here this week a few pence here that week so most people won't notice until they pay the final bill at the till. The supermarkets are just another part of rip-off Britain.  

Is RETAIL milk going up ????, In Tesco yesterday ( Wed 17th Feb) i paid for a 3 litre container of milk just ONE POUND yes £1 ...albeit " a supermarket cheapy brand ) from cheap cows perhaps !!!!!, the other side of the coin is if i paid 33.3p per litre , take the margins of the supermarket , dairy proccessor , how much does that leave for the POOR farmer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course supermarkets are profiteering, they have never done anything else. They live off the back of both customers and suppliers. Customers have little choice of where they shop since the independent sector has been crucified and the suppliers have the choice of back the offers or lose the business. Not content with that, at least one supermarket is indulging in what at worst is a deliberate policy of fooling the customer and at best guilty of sharp practice. Just one example of many I have seen this week - a large tin of Branson baked beans 50p, bought as a 4 pack the individual cost goes up to 60p. In an attempt to fool the customer even more, the single can price is quoted per 100 gm but the four pack price is quoted per kg. Offer prices on the shelf stickers very often don't find their way to the scanners. How often does the average shopper check their till slip and compare it with the shelf price. The own brand products take up an even greater shelf space, so much so that one has to search for brand leaders we all know. All for the customer benefit, crap, crap, crap. The real reason is bigger margins. We are told so often that customers are listened to and the supermarkets react accordingly---absolute rubbish, their declared profits are obscene.

Of course they are ripping the public off, they always have done and always will do. The amount of profits that they make, especially during a recession is proof. There is not enough competition with the major supermarkets and the only loosers are the public and the farmers, the latter are treated disgustingly. They are like the banks a law unto themselves, so long as they make millions of pounds for the shareholders to hell with the customers, profit will always come first.

Have you noticed how expensive fruit is now they charge 1.99 for A PUNNET of strawberries and say this is half price surely strawberries are in season and should be cheaper than this. I n M and S they were selling cherries for 3.99 and this was supposed to be half price what a ripoff how could a punnet of cherries be 8quid.I agree with the person who said about how much the beans have gone up I remember payong 15pence at asda for their value range.The big supermarkets can trumpet all they want about saving the customers cash but all they really care about are their profits.