Are we being ripped off? Rising prices and public frustration

National World - LocalTV

With costs rising for everything from food to utility bills, we ask locals if they feel they’re being ripped off and how they’re coping with the constant price increases.

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00:00That's not a leading question, is it? Of course I'm tired of being ripped off. Everyone's

00:04tired of being ripped off. I honestly don't know what you can do about it. But yeah, I

00:09mean, utilities, shareholders getting their money, but we're not getting our refunds.

00:14It seems odd, seems wrong.

00:17Things aren't relative with the money that you earn in the rate that inflation goes up.

00:22Mortgages, the cost of bread, anything, you know, it's too much. And at some point, the

00:29country will fall and probably go into recession. And, you know, it's us, the working people

00:35that have to pick it up.

00:36I don't, I can't square the equation with inflation versus profit when I'm shopping

00:42for food. Because I see portions smaller, prices increasing, and Sainsbury's and all

00:48the other large organisations making more and more money. So I don't believe inflation

00:54is the cause, really, of why prices are hiking. I think they've jumped on a bandwagon and

00:58we're just accepting it.

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