Cost-of-living crisis

Price of milk a sign of the times

A chara, – To add to Conor Pope’s article, “When it comes to food price hikes, there is no good news” (June 5th) about the food-price increases. Those of us who have to carefully plan and rely on own-brand food from budget supermarkets have been experiencing substantially higher price rises.

Take, for instance, the cost of own-brand milk from Aldi, Lidl and Supervalu.

They all charged the same price, 75 cent/litre in March. In April this went up, in unison, to 85 cent/litre.

Now, since May, they have all been charging 95 cent/litre.

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That’s a 26.7 per cent increase in three months!

– Yours, etc,

MICHAEL MARR,

Dublin 13.