UK Consumers Dealing With Record High Inflation at the Grocery Store

A customer at the fruit and vegetable section at a Sainsbury's supermarket in Walthamstow, east London, on Feb. 13, 2022. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

Grocery prices in the United Kingdom have hit another record high, adding more than 837 pounds ($1,030) a year to average household food bills, according to market research firm Kantar.

Supermarket prices climbed to reach an inflation rate of 17.5 percent over the four weeks to March 19, Kantar said—up from 17.1 percent in February, and marking the highest reading since records began in 2008—with the cost of eggs, milk, sugar, and cheese rising fastest amid a cost-of-living crisis.