New data has shown which supermarkets have had the biggest price rises.
According to the latest Which? food and drink tracker, food prices are rising faster at budget supermarkets Aldi and Lidl compared to traditional stores. The tracker shows prices were up 23.6% year-on year at Lidl and 22.5% at Aldi in January.
This is compared with 10.4% at Ocado, 13.2% at Sainsbury’s, 13.6% at Tesco, 14.4% Morrisons, 15.2% at Waitrose and 16.8% at Asda. But both Aldi and Lidl are still cheaper overall compared to their rivals, Which? said. Aldi was recently crowned the cheapest supermarket in the UK for the seventh month in a row.
