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Shoppers are asking whether there'll ever be an end to the sky high food prices in supermarkets.
While we may not be seeing prices rise at such a fast pace, they're still much higher than they were two years ago and there is little sign of it changing.
In our weekly food comparison which monitors the cost of the same eight items at the six main supermarkets, prices are stagnant this week, and have remained largely unchanged over recent weeks.
But that doesn't mean that food bills are any more affordable for families right now and many are asking if prices will ever begin to fall.
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"There seems to be no end to it," one dad told the Manchester Evening News this week. "Every time you go to the supermarket, you're looking at the prices to see if you can afford what you need.
"It's hard when your children are asking for things too, as they don't understand how much everything has gone up. Is this the new norm now, to just not be able to afford even some of the basic stuff?"
When we first started tracking prices back in March 2022, the cheapest supermarket for the basket of items, was Aldi, where it came to £9.13 for milk, bread, butter, tea bags, coffee, beans, chicken and mince.
Now the cheapest is Lidl, but at £11.58, that's a 27% hike on what it was less than two years ago.
Although inflation is easing - food price inflation decelerated to 6.7% in December, the lowest level since June 2022 and down from 7.7% in November - it doesn’t mean prices have stopped rising and they will continue to do so as long as inflation is in positive figures. The problem for most people is that wages haven't kept up with the speed of those price rises.
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