Is the UK in the grip of ‘greedflation’?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.6 | Today, what is really behind the UK's Sky High prices? |
| 0:15.4 | The Guardian is a very good person to be able to get a good view of the world. |
| 0:19.4 | The Guardian is a very good person to be able to get a good view of the world. |
| 0:27.4 | So, it's a Monday morning and if you're disorganised like me, you might be at the supermarket early before work picking up stuff for the week. |
| 0:36.4 | And you might be struck like I am regularly that everything keeps getting more expensive. |
| 0:42.4 | Just staple things like milk and eggs and cheese and nearly everyone's feeling it. |
| 0:48.4 | You know, you can't just want to like what you need knowing it. |
| 0:53.4 | Basic items and if it ain't basic, you go basic. |
| 0:57.4 | You go for the own brand, cheap version because it's possible living in it. |
| 1:02.4 | Meat has become so expensive these days so meat to go with dinners, I miss that. |
| 1:07.4 | Just budget hair and dinners these days but anything good for you is expensive. |
| 1:11.4 | Buying less prepared stuff, not giving everyone a kind of tired or feeling rest. |
| 1:16.4 | My mum mostly pays for stuff so she's struggling a lot more now because sometimes when she goes to the shop she spends 60 pounds and comes back with barely anything and then there's not much to spend on the bills and rent and things like that. |
| 1:30.4 | All because of food prices going up. |
| 1:34.4 | If you keep up with the news, you might think you know why things are so tough. |
| 1:39.4 | The wars overseas, the supply chain issues, all these things that feel like the rat of everybody's control, |
| 1:45.4 | that the people in charge of the country are trying to fix by increasing interest rates for the 12th consecutive time, |
| 1:51.4 | or holding down wages for nurses and teachers. |
| 1:55.4 | But what if I told you that that version of what's going on might not be the full story? |
| 2:03.4 | A lot of these price rises. |
| 2:08.4 | The record more than 17% increase in the cost of groceries in the UK. |
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