Aldi has been named the UK’s cheapest supermarket in February by Which?, as the consumer champion found shoppers could save almost £22 on a basket of items from there compared to the most expensive store. The consumer champion’s analysis, which involves comparing the prices of a shop consisting of 43 popular groceries at eight of the UK’s biggest supermarkets, is done on a monthly basis.
The cheapest supermarket was Aldi, where the basket of goods was £74.81 on average. The same shop at Waitrose was £96.59 on average, a difference of £21.78. Which? also compared the cost of a larger trolley of 139 items – the original 43, plus 96 more. These items included a larger number of branded items, such as Andrex toilet paper and Cathedral City cheese, and did not include discounter supermarkets Aldi and Lidl, given that they do not always stock some of these products.
For another month, Asda was the cheapest for this larger trolley of groceries, and has continued to be the cheapest of the bigger supermarket chains since January 2020. In February, it cost £355.29 for this shop, beating the next cheapest, Sainsbury’s (£358.77), by £3.48.
