A whole load of protest over nothing. It’s their store. Don’t like it, don’t shop there.
Shoplifting is rife, I fully support any means to reduce it.
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My highest ever upvoted Reddit comment made it to a bbc article. True story.
I have zero issues with them trying to stop theft, it’s rife with the self scanning. But when they miscalculate my weight somehow then having to rescan the whole trolley will put me right off.
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I’m assuming that’s over 10 rather 12?
I assume a tenner like £212.77 * 1.047 = £222.77
I think mines like two and half grand now so £250 over 10.
Value for money £25 a month is about right.
From 2015 it was approximately £1500 a year so in ten years it’s seen £1000 increase.
With a 4.99% compound it should be another four years and it will have effectively doubled over those ~14 years.
Here’s to paying £3000 in 2029 
£6000 in 2043…
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So some very basic back of a napkin maths.
Minimum wage in 2015 was £6.70 = £14k a year = 10.8% of your salary to council tax
Minimum wage in 2024 is about to be £12.21 = £25k a year = 9.8% of your salary to council tax
You can’t just look at an increase over 10 years in isolation.
The napkin maths doesn’t work in reality.
Average full time salary in 2015 was £27k and now £34k
If your £27k salary in 2015 had gone up 66% to match it would be now on £44k.
We aren’t getting salaries compounded to match the rising costs. The gap gets wider over time.
So in 2043 we’ll still have workers being paid only £30k a year. The net take home of that is £25k.
So you can’t have £6k council tax on someone’s yearly £25k income.
At some point the government will need to change the method of tax so it’s based on a person’s income and not the house.
And that social / welfare is managed not by the council but centrally.
Ideally we should be only paying £25 council tax to help keep local services like libraries open and collect trash. Everything else like education and emergency services should be via income.
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Got the lottery numbers too?
They’re 1-59 inclusive.
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Back in my day there used to be 49.
Inflation gets to everything.
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Wasn’t it 2015 when that changed too? 69 next 
Ours has gone up £11 so I suppose it could have been worse but the local council dont have a very good record of spending money wisely
My 1/12 instalments have gone up by £5pm
Our council tax is up and they’re now charging separately if we want our garden waste collected.
Yeah most councils been charging extra for the past five years.
Was originally passed as a way for those in flats etc that don’t need to fund it to save a bit of cash.
Instead of taking off £50-70 they kept the same and charged separately.
There was a load of boycotts at the time locally but it fizzled out as plenty still willing to suck it up.
Then councils looked at other councils going that could earn us a few million extra so why not make it a separate charge.
94 quid
Bit of a wild west in councils charging what they want, I don’t think there’s any regulations on how much it can be raised.
You couldn’t make this up!!!
Destroy part of a protected Amazon forest…to create a new road, so the hierarchy can discuss the climate 
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Sad but not surprising. COP is an oil and gas industry lobbying conference at this point.
It also resembles a circus (like the FIFA World Cup, or Olympics).
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