Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the cost of some of the cheapest supermarket goods has skyrocketed in the last year.
While prices for all goods have risen in past year, some of the items consumers would expect to be on the cheaper side are now rising in price exponentially. The ONS collected 1.5 million prices over the last year to track changes to the cheapest items available on supermarket websites.
“While the recent spike in inflation began with energy prices, today’s fresh insights using a new innovative data source show they are now filtering through to other important items, with the cheapest price of some staple food items rising by around two-thirds in the last year,” said national statistician Sir Ian Diamond.
He added: "Figures from our near real-time survey of people show that while rises in food and energy costs are affecting many people across the country, those who are disabled, from certain ethnic minority backgrounds and renters are among those struggling the most.
“With rises in the cost of living at the forefront of many people’s minds, our new, almost real time, data showing just how prices are changing and shining a light on how different groups are affected have never been more important.”
Here are the price changes between September 2021 and September 2022, according to data from the ONS:
- Vegetable oil: 65.2%
- Pasta: 59.9%
- Tea: 46%
- Chips: 38.7%
- Bread: 37.6%
- Biscuits: 34.4%
- Mixed frozen vegetables: 31.9%
- Milk: 29.4%
- Crisps: 23.7%
- Tomatoes: 19.3%
- Instant coffee: 18.8%
- Sausages: 18.3%
- Onions: 18%
- Apples: 17.2%
- Baked beans: 16.2%
- Potatoes: 13.2%
- Fish Fingers: 13.1%
- Tomato ketchup: 12.1%
- Breakfast cereal: 10.6%
- Cheese: 10.4%
- Chicken breast: 10.1%
- Ham: 9.9%
- Bananas: 7%
- Fruit squash: 6.7%
- Yoghurt: 6.6%
- Pizza: 3.2%
- Rice: -0.2%
- Granulated sugar: -0.3%
- Beef mince: -7.4%
- Fruit juice orange: -8.9%
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