The price of the cheapest pasta in UK supermarkets has increased by half in just a year as households deal with the rise in inflation, figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said that pasta prices rose 50% between April 2021 and this year.
The stats tracked the increases in the price of the lowest-cost items in British supermarkets. They chose 30 everyday items that the least well-off households buy regularly in a bid to get an idea of how much inflation is really hitting poorer people.
They trained algorithms to select the cheapest possible alternatives on the websites of supermarkets such as Asda, the Co-op, Iceland, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose, and tracked the price over the year. Aldi and Lidl are among the cheapest supermarkets in the country, but they were not included as they do offer online shopping reports Wales Online.
