Die Lebensmittelpreise stiegen um fast 6%, so neue Zahlen – die irischen Zeiten

Oh brilliant that makes it easier to remember how rents up 65 too.

Great country to do business in

Three years ago. I used to buy Whiskas 2kg bag of cat food. It used to cost 7 euro but sometimes in Tesco it would go down to 5 euro when a special deal.

Yesterday, I saw that same bag of food is 14.30 in Tesco. It’s actually 1.9kg now.

I called up to the mothers the last day for a bit of a get together with the family, was going down to Dunnes to get a few cans and she asked me to get a bag of frozen chips as she’d forgotten them for the party food.

5 fucking euro for a KG of McCains. I was baffled. Going through the brands I eventually found a bag of some crowd that were €2.30. I’d swear it was only a year ago you could get them for a euro or so by the KG.

I very rarely post anything, but a friend left behind a small makeup compact, so I posted it from Dublin to Cork in the smallest padded envelope size. It cost €10. I was gobsmacked.

It was one of those moments where I thought, „Shit, things have gotten ***expensive***“

They will cut VaT rates right?

It’s gone from „Yeah Ireland is a little expensive“ to full on ridiculous in the last few years. I have had family and friends visiting from both outside Ireland and people who have moved from Ireland and every single person has said that the cost everything has become ludicrous. The ones who left Ireland have said there is virtually nothing that would convince them to come home. BIL is in Australia with his partner and they have a place by the beach where they can surf, where their salaries cover 3x the amount of expenses they’d normally pay in Ireland. Like why on earth would they ever want to come home for their money to go 3 times as fast and to have a place by the beach where it pisses rain half the time and they’ve to pay twice as much?

Almost nothing we’re charged meets actual inflation level, it’s always bits of this and bits of that which end up driving the prices of everything from cars, to chicken fillet rolls to a ridiculous level.

At this stage I genuinely don’t know what needs to happen so that the powers that be cop on and address this issue. I am fortunate that I don’t have kids to rely on me, but I have so many people in my life impacted by this from different aspects and it’s just not sustainable.

Y’all are getting shafted here. As a Canadian coming from a city where we’re all pissed at grocery chain monopolies and price gouging, I couldn’t believe the grocery prices here. Coupled with your ridiculous housing costs, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a mass Irish exodus part 2 in the future.

More lies from every institution

Outrage! Rip off Ireland! Rarrrr, I love my Clickbait!

Actually it could be worse: [https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/07/30/grocery-prices-in-europe-which-cities-are-the-most-expensive-for-supermarket-shopping](https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/07/30/grocery-prices-in-europe-which-cities-are-the-most-expensive-for-supermarket-shopping)

And year on year we are above average but not the worst: [https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/food-inflation?continent=europe](https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/food-inflation?continent=europe)

What’s driving it: War, Inflation, Demand, Energy, Climate change, regulation. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aepp.13483](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aepp.13483)

[https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/economic-bulletin/focus/2024/html/ecb.ebbox202402_04~9b36bced23.en.html](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/economic-bulletin/focus/2024/html/ecb.ebbox202402_04~9b36bced23.en.html)

Vote with your feet to get prices down, otherwise we need to not be an island or grow to the sixze of France/Germany to insulate ourselves better from inflationary shocks. It sucks but it is what it is.

Me and the other half went to Aldi a few weeks ago, expecting to save a few bob. End up spending 50 euro more than what we normally do on a shop. And we only got a few extra treats. WTF happened? Since when does Aldi cost so much? We got the stuff we normally buy and few frozen things but nothing crazy.

My friend in NYC was shocked that my Sister and I were paying around €200 for shopping for ourselves and 1 Pom and a cat. You know this Country is FUBAR when NYC seems cheap.