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I buy a single-serving of Lasagne from Waitrose and it's £4 ($5.45 usd). A friend of mine buys the same size frozen lasagne from Tesco and, IIRC, it's 85 pence ($1 usd).

I do agree with the point that food price inflation is real but there are so many varieties of the same product that it's hard to compare random examples.

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I agree. A consequence of rising food prices may result in people opting for lower quality alternatives although, in the example above, this is just someone who always buys the cheapest regardless. There are people like this.

That's not the point, or sort of is but you're agreeing - you can't compare like for like 'I bought shampoo and a lasagne' because in almost any part of almost any country there's a huge range of possible costs for that.

Quite a cherry pick. Waitrose is a high end supermarket where as Tesco is not. It's why you can only find them in the richest towns in the country.

Having eaten both 85p ready meals and £4+ ones, the products are clearly not the same either.

Not really. Sainsbury's also do a £4 lasagne and Tesco also have a premium version which I expect is about the same price.

I wasn't implying the versions are the same, merely highlighting that comparing the cost of random items is somewhat nuanced.

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