Tesco raises price on 1,000 products in two weeks

Tesco has increased prices on more than 1,000 products in the past two weeks, including staples such as bananas, cheese, pasta and jam.

The supermarket, which has said cutting prices to compete with discounters Aldi and Lidl is a key priority, put up prices by 11 per cent on average during the first two weeks of July.

A five-pack of bananas has gone from 90p to £1, own brand linguine pasta has risen from 50p a pack to 65p and seedless strawberry jam is up 23 per cent to 92p. Industry sources said prices will go up and down across the industry but the size and scale of Tesco’s recent rises were notably high.