The price of the cheapest pasta in UK supermarkets increased by half in just a year as households deal with runaway inflation. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that pasta prices rose 50% between April last year and April this year.
It tracked the increases in the price of the lowest-cost items in supermarkets. Statisticians chose 30 everyday items that they know the least well-off households regularly buy to get an idea of how inflation is hitting these households.
They trained algorithms to select the cheapest possible alternatives on the websites of Asda, the Co-op, Iceland, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose, and tracked its price over the year. Despite Aldi and Lidl being among the cheapest supermarkets in the country they were not included as they do not allow customers to shop online.
