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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Tesco’s Aldi price-matched products are not like for like, report says

Tesco is the UK’s dominant supermarket chain, with a 27.8% market share.
Tesco is the UK’s dominant supermarket chain, with a 27.8% market share. Photograph: Justin Kase zsixz/Alamy

Dozens of Tesco food products contain lower proportions of key ingredients than “price-matched” equivalents at Aldi, according to a report that raises questions over value for money at the UK’s largest supermarket chain.

BBC Panorama said that 38 out of 122 Tesco products it surveyed contained at least five percentage points less of the main ingredient than the Aldi items they had been matched to.

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