SMART shopping
Mar 15, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: JENNY ACKLAND.
Most of us have noticed we’re paying much more at the supermarket checkout. And while people in the UK are already grappling with the soaring cost of energy bills, mortgage payments and national insurance, budgets are being squeezed even further by the skyrocketing price of food.
In January of this year, shop prices increased at their fastest rate in a decade, and retailers have warned that the cost of goods is set to continue to climb throughout 2022.
Currently, the average weekly food shop for the typical UK household is £97, up around 3% from 2019, and between January 2021 and January 2022, food
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