UK supermarket inflation means cheese and bread cost up to 80% more
Posted On April 18, 2023
Price rises are accelerating at the biggest supermarkets, with bread and cheese soaring by up to 80 per cent over the past year, research has found.
Food inflation increased to 17.2 per cent on average in the year to March, up from 16.5 per cent in the year to February, the consumer group Which? said.
Its monthly price tracker records the cost of 26,000 items at Britain’s eight biggest supermarket chains: Aldi, Asda, Lidl, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.
This month it found that cheese products had had some of the largest price rises over the past year, jumping by an average of 28.3 per cent. Dragon Mature Welsh Cheddar at Asda saw the biggest single increase, jumping from £1 to £1.80 for 180g,
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