Tesco slashes the price of 30 items in latest round of cuts

Tesco is dropping the price of 30 products. Photo: Paul Childs/Reuters (Paul Childs / reuters)

Tesco (TSCO.L) has cut the prices of 30 of its own brand cupboard essentials from Tuesday across larger stores and online.

It follows a number of supermarkets dropping the price of some lines of bread and butter last week in response to falling commodity prices.

Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) and Tesco also recently cut the price of milk by at least 5p, followed by Aldi, Lidl and Asda.

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The UK’s biggest supermarket is dropping the price of 30 products, with 15p off 500g and 1kg packs of own-brand pasta, 14p off its one litre vegetable oil and 15p off its one litre sunflower oil.

Full list of reduced items:

Pasta

• Tesco Lasagne Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Quick Cook Spaghetti Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Fusilli Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Farfalle Pasta Bows 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Spirali Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Short Spaghetti Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Rigatoni Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Whole Wheat Penne Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Penne Pasta Quills 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Spinach Farfalle 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Macaroni Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Whole Wheat Spaghetti 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Whole Wheat Fusilli Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Quick Cook Fusilli Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Conchiglie Pasta Shell 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Tagliatelle Pasta 500G - old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Tricolore Fusilli Pasta Twists 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Linguine Pasta 500G — old: 95p new: 80p

• Tesco Organic Whole Wheat Spaghetti Pasta 500G — old: £1.35 new: £1.20

• Tesco Organic Whole Wheat Fusilli 500G — old: £1.35 new: £1.20

• Tesco Organic Spaghetti Pasta 500G — old: £1.35 new: £1.20

• Tesco Fusilli Pasta Twists 1Kg — old: £1.65 new: £1.50

• Tesco Fusilli Whole Wheat Pasta 1Kg — old: £1.65 new: £1.50

• Tesco Macaroni Pasta 1Kg — old: £1.65 new: £1.50

• Tesco Penne Whole Wheat Pasta 1Kg — old: £1.65 new: £1.50

• Tesco Conchiglie Pasta Shells 1Kg — old: £1.65 new: £1.50

• Tesco Spaghetti Pasta 1Kg — old: £1.65 new: £1.50

• Tesco Pasta Quills 1Kg — old: £1.65 new: £1.50

Oil

• Tesco Pure Vegetable Oil 1L — old: £1.99 new: £1.85

• Tesco Pure Sunflower Oil 1L — old: £2.40 new: £2.25

The cuts come as grocery inflation leapt by more than 19% in March compared with a year ago, as energy and supply chain costs were passed on to shoppers.

Tesco announced its latest price cuts as Downing Street hosted a “Farm to Fork Summit”, bringing together farmers’ representatives and food and retail trade bodies along with supermarket chiefs to talk about the government’s goal of boosting co-operation across the supply chain and the sector’s resilience — and tackling rampant food inflation.

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Tesco group chief product officer Ashwin Prasad said: “As we see deflation coming through on key cupboard essentials such as pasta and cooking oil, we’re pleased to pass on these savings to customers.

“We hope that by reducing prices on these 30 products which are bought week-in, week-out, we can help customers spend less.”

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