Food shop prices growing at fastest rate in more than 10 years amid warning ‘it will get worse’

Experts warn food inflation will “get worse before it gets better”

Shop prices growing at fastest rate in more than a decade as food inflation worsens (PA )

Shop prices have grown at the fastest rate in over a decade during May, as food inflation continues to spike amid the cost of living crisis.

Data from the latest BRC-NielsenIQ Shop Price Index, which measures the change in price of baskets of food and non-food items over time, found that retail price inflation was 2.8 per cent in May.

This is the highest it has been since July 2011.