It used to be common to shop around for your weekly shop, getting your bread from the bakery, sausages from the butchers, and fruit and veg from the greengrocers. But the relentless growth of supermarkets - offering everything from carrots to toothpaste at reliable prices - has weakened this tradition.
While my nana still heads to Aldi for half of her groceries and the big Tesco for the rest, perhaps stopping in on the butchers, it's not something I've been doing routinely.
However, as we all know, the average supermarket shop has increased significantly over the last six months. Research by Which? suggests that some products have gone up by around 20 percent, while, due to the inflation increase, the weekly shop could be costing around £400 extra across the year.
