#king lucy photography

[bookloversstudioco]

What are your reading goals for the new year? For me, I'm hoping to hit 50

[postcard-from-the-past]

Mary Lilian Henriette Lucie Josephine Ghislaine Baels, Princess of Réthy, second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium

Belgian vintage postcard

[aliteraryprincess]

July 2023 Wrap Up

July was a great month. We had a wonderful weeklong vacation in Gloucester, MA with my in-laws, celebrated the two year anniversary of adopting our cats, and got to spend plenty of time with friends. I certainly can't complain about my summer so far!

Books Read: 15

Look at me go! My favorite new read was The Travelling Cat Chronicles, which is now my favorite book of the year. I also learned upon rereading Mansfield Park that I actually really like it. And of course I had a great time rereading my ultimate comfort books: the All for the Game series. My least favorite was Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, which I found completely disappointing. I like Rich's prose works a lot, but her poetry doesn't agree with me. Books marked with ® are rereads.

The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant by Margaret Oliphant - 3.5 stars

Under Two Flags by Ouida - 3.5

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen - 4 stars

Blush: Faces of Shame by Elspeth Probyn - 3 stars

Thief Liar Lady by D. L. Soria - 5 stars

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 by Adrienne Rich - 2 stars

Cujo by Stephen King - 5 stars

The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood - 4 stars

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - 5 stars ®

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - 5 stars

A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by James Edward Austen-Leigh, edited by Kathryn Sutherland - 4 stars

The Guest List by Lucy Foley - 4 stars

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

The Raven King by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

The King's Men by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

On Tumblr:

Look, I have things here! I've started posting book photos again, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. There are also some lovely pictures of the cats taken at the kennel where they boarded during our vacation. I highly recommend checking them out because my boys are adorable (and clearly I'm not biased at all).

June Wrap Up

Tagged: Mid-Year Book Freak Out

Book Photography: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Book Photography: Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

Book Photography: Vacation Book Haul!

Book Photography: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Book Quotes: The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood

Book Quotes: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Cat Photography: Butters and Pippin at the Kennel

aliteraryprincess' 40 Classics to Read Before 40

On YouTube:

Not as much here as usual because I took a week off from filming during the vacation. But to make up for it I have an almost hour long video ranting about Twilight, so 🤷‍♀️

Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag 2023

June Wrap Up - 13 books!!!

Currently Reading 7/16/23

Rereading the Twilight Saga as an Adult

August TBR

Fairy Tale Friday: The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Drew Barrymore!

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....now playing: stone cold crazy by queen 🎵....

heyyy. i'm frank longbottom, im 18, and a seventh-year gryffindor (go lions 🦁). i'm a pureblood and obsessed with photography and music. he/him. honestly at this point kiss a frog who cares.

feel free to msg me for anything :)

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Gilderoy Lockheart - @mystical-magical-me

Kingsley Shacklebolt - @king-ofthe-crop

Xenophilius Lovegood - @xeno-graphical

Lucius Malfoy - @lucius-malfoy-back

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[moonlitxmermaid]

°•○☆ Welcome ☆○•°

About me

● Name: Mermaid

● Age: Late 20s

● Location: USA

● Pronouns: she/they

● Birthchart: Libra Sun, Scorpio Moon, Cancer Rising

● Personality Type: INFJ-T

● Sexual Orientation: I prefer women

● Relationship Status: Single, not interested in changing that

● Occupation: Movie Theater Employee

Interests & Hobbies

● Favorite Music Artists: Boygenius, Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Lauren Sanderson, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Renee Rapp, Megan The Stallion, The Pretty Reckless, Paramore, PVRIS, Avril Lavigne, and many more

● Favorite Movies: Howls Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Kikis Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Coraline, The Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas, Lilo & Stitch, Tangled, Mulan, Hercules, Inside Out Movies, Lion King Movies, Harry Potter Movies, Marvel Movies, Batman Movies, Suicide Squad Movies, Terrifier Movies, Jennifer's Body, Phantom of the Opera, Donnie Darko, Mean Girls (2004 & 2024), and many more

● Favorite TV Shows: Arcane, Euphoria, Stranger Things, Haunting of Bly Manor, Wandavision, Game of Thrones, House of Dragon, Shameless, Wentworth, You, Wednesday, Bob's Burgers, Futurama, American Dad, The Simpsons, Avatar The Last Airbender, Adventure Time, Batman The Animated Series, Powerpuff Girls, Spongebob, Pokémon, and Teen Titans. I also like anime. My favorites are Naruto(Shippuden), Death Note, Inuyasha, and Demon Slayer

● Favorite Games: Life is Strange (1 & before the storm), Kingdom Hearts (1 & 2), Pokémon Games (gen 1-4), Sonic Games (Sonic Adventure 2), Kirby Games (Nightmare in Dreamland), Mario Kart, Mario Party, Jackbox Games, Tekken, Genshin Impact, Minecraft, Apex Legends, Fall Guys, & Fortnite. I also love playing Blackjack, Uno, Mancala, and Cards Against Humanity

● Favorite Animals: Cats, Dogs, Wolves, Foxes, Tigers, Lions, Deer, Bunnies, Horses, Turtles, Axolotl, Otters, Penguin, Butterflies, Crows, and many more

● Favorite Colors: Black, Blue, Purple, Pink, and Green

● Favorite Interests: The Moon, The Sea, Nature, Music, Arts & Crafts, Cooking, Traveling & Exploring, Playing Games, Photography, Reading Manga/Comics & ...Sapphic stuff

● Things I collect: DVDs, Vinyls, Seashells, Crystals, Pins, Funko Pops, Manga, Comics, Figurines, Blankets, Sweaters & Hoodies, and Plaid Shirts

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2024 Book List

January

1. Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle

2. Falling Star, Patricia Moyes

3. Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges

4. Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss 

5. The Sweet Dove Died, Barbara Pym

6. The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson

7. The Order of Things, Michel Foucault

8. Illuminated Manuscripts, Tamara Woronowa and Andrej Sterligow

9. Structuralism, John Sturrock

February

10. Immediacy; or the Style of Too Late Capitalism, Anna Kornbluh

11. The Dark Frontier, Eric Ambler

12.  Macbeth, William Shakespeare

13. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow

14. Don’t Look at Me Like That, Diane Athill

15. The Most of It, Mary Ruefle

16. The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault

March

17. Henry IV Part 1, William Shakespeare

18. A Murder Is Announced, Agatha Christie

19. Shakespeare, Johan Gottfried von Herder

20. Literary Theory for Robots, Dennis Yi Tenen

21. Henry IV Part 2, William Shakespeare

22. Richard II, William Shakespeare

23. Lucy Gayheart, Willa Cather

24. Henry V, William Shakespeare

25. Mimesis, Expression, Construction, Fredric Jameson

26. Four-Legged Girl, Diane Seuss

27. Death of a Nationalist, Rebecca Pawel

28. The Flight From the Enchanter, Iris Murdoch

29. The Purloined Clinic, Janet Malcolm

April

30. King Lear, William Shakespeare

31. White Butterfly, Walter Moseley

32. Humanism and Antihumanism, Kate Soper

33. The Illusion of the End, Jean Baudrillard

34. Discourse on Method, René Descartes 

35. Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes

36. Cambridge Companion to Descartes, John Cottingham ed

37. The Ordinal Society, Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy

38. Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare

39. Primer, Bob Perelman

40. As You Like It, William Shakespeare

May

41. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare

42. The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Muriel Spark

43. Preface to Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson

44. The Weariness of the Self, Alain Ehrenberg 

45. Harmonium, Wallace Stevens

46. Mr. Scarborough’s Family, Anthony Trollope

47. Computing Taste, Nick Seaver

48. Hamlet, William Shakespeare

June

49. On Shakespeare, Northrop Frye

50. The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

51. The Double Shift, Jason Read

52. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

53. La Vendée, Anthony Trollope

54. Mirror Worlds, David Gelertner

55. The Commercialization of Intimate Life, Arlie Hochschild

July

56. In Our Own Image, Fred Ritchin

57. Bending the Frame, Fred Ritchin

58. After Photography, Fred Ritchin

59. Cue the Sun!, Emily Nussbaum

60. Appointment With Death, Agatha Christie

61. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez

62. Libra, Don DeLillo

63. The Interpretation of Cultures, Clifford Geertz

64. Mimesis, Erich Auerbach

65. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

August

66. Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare

67. Nonrequired Reading, Wisława Szymborska

68. Traveling, Ann Powers

69. Annie Bot, Sierra Greer

70. Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer

71. Coriolanus, William Shakespeare

September

72. Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare

73. Fools of Time, Northrop Frye

74. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

75. Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare

76. William Shakespeare, Terry Eagleton

77. Shakespeare’s Problem Plays, E.M.W. Tillyard

78. Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

79. The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

80. Othello, William Shakespeare

81. AI Snake Oil, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

82. Passage of Arms, Eric Ambler

October

83. All’s Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare

84. The Book of the Courtier, Baldesare Castiglione

85. Fables of Aggression, Fredric Jameson

86. Intermezzo, Sally Rooney

87. The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes

88. Liars, Sarah Manguso 

89. James, Percival Everett

November

90. Aesthetics and Politics, Bertholt Brecht, Walter Benjamin et al.

91. Protocol, Alexander Galloway

92. Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle

93. The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies

94. Timon of Athens, William Shakespeare

95. Machines Who Think, Pamela McCorduck

December

96. Henry VI, Part 1, William Shakespeare

97. Henry VI, Part 2, William Shakespeare

98. The Triumph of Achilles, Louise Glück

99. All Shot Up, Chester Himes

100. The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Georges Simenon

101. Henry VI, Part 3, William Shakespeare

[little-bit-obsessed]

The Chronicles of Narnia: Social Medias

I've recently been writing an AU of The Chronicles of Narnia with @thedivinemischievousspark, based on the idea that the Pevensies live in the modern world rather than during the war! The AU is basically Prince Caspian being sent to their world years after the events of the second movie (ignoring the third one because it doesn't work as well with the plot) when all the Pevensies are adults and have given up on the idea of ever returning to Narnia again. It's Peter x Caspian (and also Susan x Caspian at the beginning), but right now none of it has been posted, not sure whether it'll be posted yet (if it is it'll be on AO3) but I wanted to share their social medias! Here they are below:

Susan

♡ Job: Beauty Specalist ♡

♡ Lives: Alone in a London flat ♡

♡ Doesn't love doing social media, only has it out of social pressure, posts mainly shots of her clothes but occasionally something related to what she's doing. She shares all her Instagram posts to Facebook. Is single, having never properly gotten over Caspian, and doesn’t have many friends. She wishes to move on from her past in Narnia ♡

Lucy

♤ Job: Studying Folklore at uni ♤

♤ Lives: With her brothers in a terraced house ♤

♤ Only recently bothered getting Instagram but she enjoys it, although she also uses TikTok an awful lot ajd has Snapchat. She always makes appreciation posts about her siblings, likes posting little quotes, and styling pretty pictures to make her life seem magical, like it was in Narnia ♤

Peter

◇ Job: Works multiple barmen jobs ◇

◇ Lives: In a terraced house with siblings ◇

◇ Loves Instagram, finds it a fun way to commemorate his life. Posts videos/pictures of his family all the time, baking and working out, does photography to post. He glamourises his life using social media, but in reality is struggling trying to support Lucy and Edmund, and misses being king. He’s been fired a few times for being impatient with demanding customers. Has lots of friends but doesn’t get too much time to see them ◇

Edmund

♧ Job: Studying International Relations at Uni, is a student ambassador to help make money ♧

♧ Lives: In a terraced house with siblings ♧

♧ Doesn't use Instagram much, but lurks on it a lot. Likes Instagram shorts and YouTube shorts but has never tried TikTok and is never planning to. Sometimes he posts YouTube shorts of his siblings, but only rarely and isn't well-known ♧

Caspian

☆ Job: Unemployed (reigning king of Narnia) ☆

☆ Lives: In between Susan’s and the other's ☆

☆ Has been taught how to use Instagram by Lucy, and enjoys it. Is on public and has gained followers due to posting a lot of informative and well-tagged posts about sailing and astronomy. Has a lot of people thirst following him. Also has a TikTok account but he doesn’t understand how it works. Is enjoying learning more about London, but is desperate to one day go back to Narnia. He has also discovered a love for alcoholic cocktails ☆

[biddy-babowo]

I was literally told to "actually research" Trump because I guess I must be wrong huh. I literally went directly to his site, showing his plans for America. One of which he discussed trans ppl and "getting rid of Joe Biden's cruel idea of transgenderism" so lemme spill my spill I guess. Just some quotes from his video that I would like to mention. There's other quotes I could mention but mostly these were best to use in my examples.

"Something never heard of in all of human history"

Christine Jorgensen, the first *widely known* trans woman to get gender reassignment surgery. She was drafted in 1944 and after her military service attended schooling towards her career in photography. She gained permission for her medical transition in 1952 in Europe while studying. She returned to America after transitioning and became a talking point for many.

"Something new"

Chevalière d'Éon, first openly trans person in European history. Fought in the Seven Year's War and spied for France in Russia and England. He was socially transitioned man and even had masculine occupations for 49 years. After being transitioned for many years he was required to detransition after rumours of his actual sex spread in England. He was later forced to live as a woman after he was claimed to have disrespected the king. He complied and was later banished to Tonnerre.

Lucy Hicks Anderson, black trans woman who claimed from a young age she was a girl and with advice from doctors her parents let her live as such. She married her second husband in 1945 which she was arrested for after a year and convicted of prejury. The government said she lied about her sex on her marriage license. After her release, her and her husband went to live in Los Angeles.

Sylvia Rivera, a gay liberation and transgender rights activist. She identified as a drag queen most of her life and described her gender as well as experiences in many interviews. She was a close friend of Marsha P. Johnson cofounder of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

Some quotes about her life that she described in interviews include:"I didn't really come out as a drag queen until the late 60s when drag queens were arrested, what degradation there was. I remember the first time I got arrested, I wasn't even in full drag. I was walking down the street and the cops just snatched me.""People now want to call me a lesbian because I'm with Julia and I say, "No. I'm just me. I'm not a lesbian." I'm tired of being labeled. I don't even like the label transgender. I'm tired of living with labels. I just want to be who I am. I am Sylvia Rivera. Ray Rivera left home at the age of 10 to become Sylvia. And that's who I am."

Her descriptions of herself varies from "gay girl" "gay man" "drag/street queen" and "half sister".Even before these people there is native stories of two-spirited people who are not solely male or female but are purely carriers of God's messages.

"For any age"

Lucky he slipped that in huh? Almost assigned he just didn't want minors socially transitioned, guess not.

[wosobronze]

In the video Ona posted (not the lion king) Lucy is lifting her camera to take a pic of Ona it looks like, I hope she gets some inspiration for Georgia and posts the pics from the camera 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

lucy to make her own photography account like georgia too….?

[ffxvficrec]

by Anonymous Prompto is the photographer for one of Noctis's photo shoots. The shoot: Noctis royally sitting in a throne. The end result? A big lunch between the two. With most of the food meant for Noctis. Words: 1063, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Noctis Lucis Caelum , Prompto Argentum Relationships: Prompto Argentum/Noctis Lucis Caelum Additional Tags: bhm , Weight Gain , wholesome story , Photo Shoot , Fat Royalty , Fat Noctis , Post Game , King Noctis , Royalty , Photography

[ulkaralakbarova]

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Max Perkins: Colin Firth Thomas Wolfe: Jude Law Aline Bernstein: Nicole Kidman Louise Saunders: Laura Linney F. Scott Fitzgerald: Guy Pearce Ernest Hemingway: Dominic West Zelda Fitzgerald: Vanessa Kirby John Wheelock: Demetri Goritsas Assistant Editor: Harry Attwell Bertha Perkins: Angela Ashton Zippy Perkins: Eve Bracken Julia Wolfe: Gillian Hanna John Wheelock: Corey Johnson Eleanor, Perkins’ Maid: Miquel Brown Scribner’s Staff: Rosy Benjamin Mabel Wolfe: Elaine Caulfield Director: Richard Dempsey Jane Perkins: Katya Watson Peggy Perkins: Lorna Doherty Nancy Perkins: Makenna McBrierty Miss Wyckoff: Lucy Briers James, Mailroom Clerk: Ray Strasser King Scribner’s Staff: David Altaner Scribner’s Staff: Charles Dinsdale Scribner’s Staff: Erick Hayden Scribner’s Staff: Kenneth Hazeldine Scribner’s Staff: Oliver King Scribner’s Staff: Alex Large Scribner’s Staff: Charlotte Longfield Scribner’s Staff: Nick Mercer Scribner’s Staff: Kim Rosenfeld Scribner’s Staff: James Wallace Purring Woman: Katherine Kingsley Guest at Purring Woman’s Table: Richard Clark Guest at Purring Woman’s Table: Stella McCabe Guest at Purring Woman’s Table: Christopher Oram Guest at Purring Woman’s Table: Mike Vessey Actress: Maddie Rice Actor: Ian Drysdale Lighting Technician: Alistair Sanderson Lighting Technician: Alexander Scrivens Woman at Bar: Cassandra Nina Woman at Bar: Pamela Okoroafor Band: Kenji Fenton Band: Neville Malcolm Band: Winston Rollins Band: Chris Storr Band: Frank Tontoh Dancer: Jamal Crawford Dancer: Kemi Durosinmi Dancer: Jo Dyce Dancer: Kevin Ketti Dancer: Lesley Mutombo-Agbepa Dancer: Joshua Robinson Grand Central Station Conductor: Andrew Byron John Hopkins Hospital Nurse: Jane Perry Funeral Minister: James Bierman Effie Wolfe: Trina Dillon Frank Wolfe: Gary Thomsett Frederick Wolfe: Mark Phillimore Film Crew: Producer: Michael Grandage Standby Property Master: Phil Bull Producer: James Bierman Screenplay: John Logan Casting: Jina Jay Costume Design: Jane Petrie Original Music Composer: Adam Cork Editor: Chris Dickens Production Design: Mark Digby Executive Producer: A. Scott Berg Director of Photography: Ben Davis Conceptual Design: Elo Soode Executive Producer: James J. Bagley Makeup Artist: Christine Blundell Makeup Artist: Laura Morse Special Effects Makeup Artist: Nathaniel De’Lineadeus Special Effects Makeup Artist: Chris Lyons Art Direction: Alex Baily Art Direction: Gareth Cousins Set Decoration: Michelle Day Executive Producer: Tim Bevan Executive Producer: Nik Bower Executive Producer: Tim Christian Executive Producer: Ivan Dunleavy Executive Producer: Arielle Tepper Madover Executive Producer: Deepak Nayar Producer: Tracey Seaward Assistant Foley Artist: Lilly Blazewicz Foley Mixer: Glen Gathard Foley Artist: Jack Stew Foley Artist: Andrea King Foley Mixer: Jemma Riley-Tolch Movie Reviews: Reno: **Behind a great writer, there’s a genius editor!** I felt the title ‘Genius’ was not appropriate for how the story revolved in the film. It was more like a commitment and priority given to those undertaking than any other stuffs and that’s why it looked like a genius from others eyes. Though I won’t deny the experience always comes very handy. This film tells the story of ant editor and how he meets one of the best writers of his time. But they two together give the literature world some masterpiece works and that’s the tale the film very genuinely presented to us. This story takes place around the 1930s. An enthusiastic writer and a genius editor develop a strong bond, especially from their professional, but it goes beyond that. When both the families struggle while these two men completely dissolved with their works. So the takes from di...

[olko71]

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Sainsbury’s boss: We are not profiting from high prices

Andrew Porter Photography

By Emma Simpson & Lucy Hooker

BBC News

Supermarkets have not been using high rates of inflation as a cover for making higher profits, the boss of the UK’s second largest grocery chain has said.

Sainsbury’s had made less money, to keep prices down, Simon Roberts said.

Critics have accused food retailers of “greedflation” – putting prices up to bolster profits.

The competition watchdog has said it will look at how the grocery market is operating.

As well as the new focus on high food prices from the Competition and Markets Authority, some politicians have called for action on food prices.

But Mr Roberts told the BBC that Sainsbury’s and other grocery chains had spent money to “battle inflation” and avoid passing all of the rising costs onto consumers.

“We made less profit year-on-year and that’s because we made really conscious decisions to keep our prices as low as we could,” Mr Roberts said.

Sainsbury’s made £690m in pre-tax profit in the year to March, a fall from £730m the previous year.

There have been growing calls for more clarity over how food prices are set.

General inflation has fallen to 8.7%, and energy prices and some wholesale food prices have started to fall back. But food price inflation remains stubbornly high at 19%.

Ged Futter, a former senior buyer at supermarket Asda and now a retail analyst, said suggestions that supermarkets were “raking in” profits were misplaced, pointing to lower profits across the sector.

“There is no evidence from a single supermarket that this is profiteering,” he said. “What they are doing is absorbing some of the higher costs.”

The large supermarkets all made lower profits or losses in the last year, he said. Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket chain, earned pre-tax profits of £1bn, half of what they earned the previous year.

Profit margins in the industry were below 5%, Mr Futter said, much lower than in food manufacturing. Costs in the agricultural sector have risen by 30%, he added, suggesting farmers and retailers were absorbing some of the price rises.

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In recent days, several supermarkets have announced lower prices for some basics that are common to most shopping baskets: bread, milk and butter.

“We invested over £560m in the last year, others have done similarly,” Mr Roberts said.

Mr Roberts said pay rises for Sainsbury’s staff of more than 10% last year had contributed to rising prices, but were “locked in”, while he hoped the cost of other inputs such as energy and food commodities would continue to fall.

Tesco, Morrisons and Asda have also raised staff wages in recent months, as have budget retailers Aldi and Lidl.

While the headline rate of food inflation was around 19%, that didn’t mean households were spending 19% more on their food, Mr Roberts added, since most shoppers had decided to buy less, trade down to less expensive choices, or shop more frequently to avoid waste.

Shoppers were increasingly turning to own-label products, Mr Roberts added.

Sainsbury’s has relaunched its own-label range under a new brand name, Stamford Street, to help shoppers find the cheaper options quickly, he said.

The range will include 200 products, and will include new staples such as king prawns and cheese tortelloni pasta.

Rachel Adams

It is named after the spot near Blackfriars in London where Sainsbury’s had its head office for over a century, but which has now been demolished.

Sainsbury’s is not the only grocer hitting back at criticism over profiteering.

On Wednesday, Marks & Spencer chief executive Stuart Machin also denied the sector was guilty of “greedflation” and said his company had also invested to protect customers from the full force of inflation, impacting its profit margin because it was “the right thing to do”

There are structural reasons why prices may not fall rapidly even when energy and wholesale and commodity prices fall, the industry has pointed out.

Many retailers sign long-term contracts for products and so will have baked in some of the higher prices, the British Retail Consortium said.

Unilever boss Alan Jope has also dismissed accusations of greedflation, saying the company was only passing on three-quarters of the higher costs it was facing.

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