text: Groceries cost almost a third more than three years ago - Daily Record
  Groceries cost almost a third more than three years ago
  BRITAIN'S favourite groceries cost 30 per cent more than they did three years ago.
  Some famous names have soared in price by 50 per cent or more - with the cost of HP Sauce more than doubling since 2006.
  In the same period, the Retail Price Index - which is the most common form of measuring inflation - rose by just four per cent.
  For the first time, comparison statistics named and shamed those who have put up their prices most over the last three years.
  They found a basket of 30 of the most popular named goods, from Heinz to Hellman's and Kellogg's to Kingsmill, have gone up by an average of 30 per cent in all the supermarkets since 2006.
  Over the same period, the own-label versions of the same products went up by an average of 20 per cent.
  The price of dinnertime favourite HP Sauce went up the most.
  The figures, from www.supermarketownbrandguide.co.uk found a 450g plastic bottle of the brown sauce now costs £1.98. That's double the cost of the equivalent 454g glass bottle that was on sale in 2006 for 95p.
  A spokesman for the website said: "Shoppers will be shocked that there has been such a big price increase over three years in the branded products that they buy.
  "Of course brands will be more expensive because of the added cost of product development and marketing when compared to the supermarket's own products.
  "But I'm at a loss to why they have risen so much.
  "It's certainly not that the own-brand products have reduced their quality over the last three years to keep the cost down."