How rising prices are affecting people in Scotland
With holiday season in full swing, BBC Scotland's consumer affairs correspondent Connor Gillies has taken a trip of his own. He wanted to find out how people across the country are coping with the rising price of energy, food and fuel.
Seonaid said: "I shop around now and look for cheaper prices in different shops. Before I would do all my shopping in Asda, now I go around all different shops looking for cheaper prices. A story echoed by the island's delivery driver who cut back his trips on the ferry to the mainland because the cost was mounting up. Locals don't get a discount on the eight minute Calmac crossing - meaning it's at least £15 to take the car on and off.Scott Ferris runs one of the local bike shops in Millport. He is doing a roaring trade as visitors come to the island especially to do the 10 mile circular loop.
Tucked away in an industrial estate in Larbert near Falkirk is the factory for Malcolm Allan butchers. "We've changed all our working patterns, we work one factory two days a week, we work our bakery four days a week. We used to be seven days a week production." We set up our BBC Scotland News red deck chairs and encouraged people to pose their questions to expert Frazer Scott from the charity Energy Action Scotland.
He then picked up some eggs before heading up to the village to do his shopping. It saves him buying them.The changing tourist habits
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