Aldi named cheapest supermarket of the year 2021 despite price rises

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Aldi has narrowly beaten its rival Lidl to be named the cheapest supermarket of the year, as grocery prices rose by up to 9% over the past 12 months, according to an annual survey.

Aldi was the cheapest supermarket for six of the last 12 months while Lidl was the cheapest for five, including December 2021, according to the annual survey from the consumer advice firm Which?.

For one month - January last year - Aldi and Lidl were tied, with a basket of 19 items coming in at £18.45 at both discounters.

Which? also tracked hundreds of thousands of grocery prices across the UK's eight big supermarkets, finding that they were charging up to 9% more in December than they did last January.Prices rose by an average 3.4% for a trolley of 19 items over the last year.