Record Supermarket Food Price Discounts Halt Inflation

UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) annual rate of inflation has fallen to 4 per cent, down from 4.4 per cent in February. Fruit prices down 4.7 per cent, bread and cereals by a record 2.6 per cent compared with same time last year.
Record Supermarket Food Price Discounts Halt Inflation
A one year old girl sits in a supermarket trolley. Heavily discounted food prices, used to entice the recession- hit public are thought to have seen off a further rise in inflation and a possible future rise in interest rates. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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A one year old girl sits in a supermarket trolley. Heavily discounted food prices, used to entice the recession- hit public are thought to have seen off a further rise in inflation and a possible future rise in interest rates. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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