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🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Major UK supermarkets have hiked prices on almost two-thirds of their value range food, drinks and household products since April, hitting poorer shoppers in the pocket during the #costoflivingcrisis

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🛒 We’ve been tracking the price of hundreds of budget products from Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons and Aldi between the first Monday of April versus October.

🔎 During that time, 64% of items have become more expensive.

📈 In the last month alone, #supermarkets hiked prices on 109 value range items - by as much as 65% in the case of a pack of frozen fish at Tesco.

🥫 Staple products including baked beans, pasta sauce, cheese, and bread are among those affected.

Since April, the prices of some products have doubled, or even more than doubled.

🥓 Sainsbury’s has increased the price of a pack of cheap cooking bacon by 177%, with customers slamming them for making life more difficult in hard times.

📈 We’ve built a tool that lets you look at how prices have changed over the past six months for every item we have been tracking.

You can find it here 👇

#CostOfLivingCrisis

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🏪 Tesco hiked prices for the most products in our tracker, with 130 rises since April.

Proportionally, it was Morrisons that raised the most prices - although there is a small sample as many items have been discontinued or are continually out of stock.

Stay up to date on all our supermarket price tracker data and stories below ⤵

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🎣 Frozen fish, marmalade, and cheese are among the ‘value range’ supermarket items that have seen price rises of up to 177% over the last six months.

The 21 items with the biggest price rises between 4 April and 3 October are listed in this article.

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