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The £100 shop

Watch your money shrink

Slide to any year and see what its £100 costs today - the same shop, the same shelves, priced by the official index. No estimates: it is one division, straight off the ONS series.

19882025

2000

The £100 shop of 2000

£192.30

What £100.00 filled a basket with in 2000 takes £192.30 now. Turned round: today's £100 buys what £52.00 bought then.

CPIH index (2015=100), 2026 JUN · ONS · the receipt

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