The price of a basket of 20 Unilever products, including Hellman’s mayonnaise, Carte D’Or ice cream and Comfort fabric conditioner has risen by an average of 5.7% across the UK’s major supermarkets since the Brexit vote, as the pound’s post-referendum struggles feed through to shop shelves. The range of 20 products is also just a fraction of the dozens of items supplied by Unilever and of the more than 25,000 products stocked in a typical supermarket outlet. The other major price rises were nearly all on health and beauty products. True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains. Solero Exotic ice cream also rose by more than 10% – although this was largely down to major price rises at Morrisons and Tesco.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 06:00 UTC