Four out of six supermarkets make price hikes as the cost of one essential shoots up
06.05.2022 - 14:01
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With the cost of living soaring, shoppers are looking for any way possible to cut back.
Whether that's moving to a budget brand, or changing where you shop, people are altering their habits in search of whatever savings they can get. For the last five weeks we've been comparing the price of eight basics in various main supermarkets and each week there have been notable changes.
Shopping at Tesco, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, we've been comparing the cost of the same eight items - a two-pint bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, coffee, teabags, butter, beans, chicken breasts and mince.
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Last week we saw somewhat of a yo-yo effect, with Aldi increasing the price of its tea bags and Lidl decreasing its pack, yet putting the cost of its mince up by the same price. And in previous weeks we've seen rises in coffee, milk, chicken and butter.
This week four out of the six supermarkets have increased the price of at least one of the eight products - with three of them hiking the price of butter.
While Aldi and Tesco have both increased their 250g blocks of salted butter from £1.55 to £1.75, at Sainsbury's the price has gone from £1.75 to £1.90.
Aldi's coffee has also increased from £1.65 to £1.69 and it's bad news for all shoppers when even the cost of budget ranges is on the rise - Asda's Smart Price baked beans have gone from 22p to 25p.
Refreshingly there was one change in the opposite direction this week, with Morrisons reducing the price of its Savers loaf to 36p - matching those in Aldi, Lidl and Tesco.
Despite the constant changes, it's Asda who has retained the cheapest crown for the third week running -