Price of butter soaring in UK supermarkets in new cost of living blow

Some products person risen by arsenic overmuch arsenic 20% successful 1 period according to caller data, with adverse upwind conditions blamed for debased supplies of indispensable ingredients

Butter has risen successful terms successful supermarkets by arsenic overmuch arsenic 21% implicit the past month.

Data analysed by commercialized mag The Grocer recovered 37 retired of 117 lines astatine the large supermarkets person gone up successful terms successful the 5 weeks to November 13. Branded butter is the astir affected, for illustration Trewithen Salted Block Butter 250g has soared 20.8% astatine Tesco, from £2.40 to £2.90.

Meanwhile, each Things Butter Garlic & Herb Butter 125g is up 20% successful Waitrose, and Country Life British Salted 250g and Unsalted Butter 250g astatine Sainsbury’s are up 13%. Own-brand products person besides seen rises. For example, Asda's 250g artifact food is up astir 6% to £1.92. At Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl, terms of 250g artifact food is up 6% from £1.79 to £1.89.

The rises are down to choky supplies of beverage and pick owed to adverse weather conditions impacting herds. Cream prices person been rising excessively - successful August these accrued by 7% and makers person besides faced higher moving costs.

Harvir Dhillon, economist astatine the British Retail Consortium, which represents the supermarkets, said: “Tight supplies of beverage and cream, owed to adverse upwind conditions, person led to wholesale food prices soaring, presently 60% higher than a twelvemonth ago. Prices should commencement to settee successful outpouring erstwhile determination volition beryllium a greater proviso of milk.”