New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the cheapest items on supermarket shelves have risen by two-thirds in the last year.
Already struggling households and families will have to swallow increases like the price of the least expensive pasta rising by 60% in the last year. Other staple items like the cheapest vegetable oil on supermarket shelves have jumped by 65%.
Statisticians at the ONS collected more than a million prices from supermarket websites over the past year to compare the cost of the cheapest available produce. The shocking figures show the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on poorer households across the UK.
