A new study has discovered that some supermarket items have doubled in price in the last 12 months - showing the challenges facing some of the poorest families in the country to keep themselves fed. The new analysis came from consumer group Which? looking at inflation on more than 25,000 food and drink products at eight major supermarkets.
It wasn’t premium products that showed the most shocking increases - it was perfectly normal things which households use and buy every day such as bread, milk, meat and fruit which had shown the biggest rise, the Mirror reported. The study came as it was today revealed by Office for National Statistics (ONS) that Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rose to 10.4 per cent in February from 10.1 per cent in January.
The surprise jump in inflation comes after food and non-alcoholic drinks prices rose by 18 per cent year-on-year last month, up from 16.7 per cent in January and the highest since August 1977. Shortages of vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers in recent weeks were largely behind the rocketing food inflation.
