The Big Four supermarkets’ price war means that buying an average basket of grocery products has never been cheaper ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGESIf you felt you were getting more bang for your buck when you went shopping last month, that’s because you were. Stores dropped their prices in September. The latest shop price index from the British Retail Consortium and Nielsen shows that overall shop prices were down by 1.8 per cent last month, after a 2 per cent decline in August. Grocers were the most under pressure, with food price deflation reaching a record low, down 1.3 per cent in September compared with August, when food prices slipped by 1.1 per cent. This was the second consecutive month that food had…

Source: The Times October 04, 2016 23:02 UTC