Most expensive supermarket has Aldi price matched almost every item in our shopping comparison

A supermarket which is currently most expensive in our weekly shopping comparison is price matched with Aldi on all but one of the items.

In our price check of eight products at the six main supermarkets, seven of the items in the Tesco basket are price matched to the budget retailer.

Tea bags, milk, bread, butter, coffee, beans and mince are all part of Tesco's Aldi Price Match. It's only the 300g pack of chicken breasts it doesn't match - with Aldi's £2.35 and Tesco's almost 11% more at £2.60 a pack.

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Out of all the supermarkets, only Asda sells the pack for more, with a price of £2.65.

Shoppers have already been questioning the benefit of price match schemes, saying retailers are just hiking prices when it suits in line with competitors.

Tesco was the first to match Aldi, before Sainsbury's jumped on board. Now Asda and Morrisons have launched their own schemes - matching both Aldi and Lidl. The shops we did at both stores showed the number of products they do actually match is limited and it had little impact on the overall bills.

Lidl remains cheapest in our weekly price check, with a bill of £12.02, closely followed by Aldi's £12.04. Sainsbury's is third cheapest at £12.23, followed by Asda at £12.33, Morrisons at £12.37 and Tesco at £12.47.

Aldi disputes the findings of our comparison, saying we do not compare like-for-like products or take into account 'the higher quality' of its products, such as Aldi beans being 20g heavier than Sainsbury's or Aldi teabags being 'better quality than the comparative products used'.

Asda also disagrees with our comparison and says that our small sample of products does not represent the fuller picture of prices