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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Food bills soaring at record 17.1% as milk, egg and margarine prices spike

Shoppers were put on warning today that the cost of living crisis is far from over as latest figures showed food prices rocketing at a record annual rate of 17.1 per cent.

The data from market researchers Kantar covers the four weeks to 19 February and suggest that shoppers are having to pay £811 more a year for the same trolley of groceries.

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