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A supermarket once accused of 'taking the mick' out of customers with price rises has swiped the 'cheapest' crown from Lidl after more than a year.
Every consecutive week since the end of January 2023, Lidl has worked out cheapest in our price comparison, which looks at the cost of eight essential items at the six main supermarkets.
But this week, in an unexpected turnaround, Morrisons has changed its position from most expensive to cheapest.
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It's largely down to the fact that it's brought out a cheaper pack of 25% fat mince, costing £1.99 - undercutting both Aldi and Lidl by 30 pence. The other supermarkets sell a 20% fat pack so we use that as their cheapest option.
We've also included the cheaper Savers loaf, which is slightly smaller than the 800g loaves sold elsewhere, but we've worked out the equivalent price.
It means that this week's bill at Morrisons comes to £12.02, down from last week's £12.37, and makes it the cheapest of the six supermarkets for the basket, which, as well as the 500g packet of mince, is made up of a two-pint bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, coffee, teabags, butter, beans and chicken breasts.
It's only ever been the cheapest once in our comparison, with Lidl being cheapest for the majority of the time since we started tracking prices in March 2022.
Back in the summer of 2022, when the cost of living crisis was first taking hold, shoppers accused Morrisons of 'laughing at customers' because of its regular price increases. It went from being the cheapest, to quickly becoming the most expensive over a matter of weeks.
Morrisons' win puts Lidl in second place, with a bill of £12.11, closely followed by Aldi at
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