Price Monitor · August 2026 · own-label products
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Tesco is on average 9.0% cheaper than Ocado

Likely range: Tesco 6.1% to 12.5% cheaper.
ⓘIf we had drawn a different but equally fair set of basket products, the figure would fall inside this range 95 times out of 100. Products that share a shop product are drawn together, so a shared price never counts twice.

Read the other way: Ocado is on average 9.9% dearer than Tesco (a percentage changes with the shop you start from).

Based on 461 products in the Price Monitor's basket that both shops sell, matched to 273 different pairs of shop products. Below are 75 of those pairs, spread across categories by household spending. For the full list, email research@allsupers.co.uk.

Tesco was dearer on 72, cheaper on 227 and the same price on 162 of these 461 products. These counts show direction only; the average above also weighs how large each difference is and each category's share of spending.

Each row starts from a product in our basket. At each shop we take the most similar own-label product, confirmed by our automated matching check. One shop product can be the closest match for several basket products, so it can appear in more than one row.

How we compare prices

We compare the price per kilo, per litre or per item, so pack sizes do not distort the result. Items sold by the piece are only compared with a similar number of pieces. Own-label means each shop's own brands, whatever their name; premium ranges rarely pass our matching check, so these are mostly standard lines. Prices as of 31 August 2026; where a cheaper promotion was running, we use that price.

How the figure is worked out

For each spending category we average the price differences of the products both shops sell, then combine the categories by their share of household spending. The ranking on the Price Monitor page compares all shops at once, through every other shop as well, so it can differ from this two-shop figure; for these two shops the ranking gives Tesco 7.4% cheaper. Categories with fewer than 10 products both shops sell: sugar, jam, confectionery: 2 products, 6% of the weight, fish: 6 products, 3% of the weight. They count at their full share of household spending, like every category, so they can move the figure more than their few products suggest.

The badge shows the price difference per unit for Tesco.

Ocado
Tesco
Tesco 44% dearer per item
Tesco 3% cheaper per kg
Tesco 12% cheaper per item
Tesco 17% cheaper per kg
Tesco 5% cheaper per item
Tesco 247% dearer per kg
Tesco 17% cheaper per item
Same price per kg
Same price per kg
Same price per kg
Same price per item
Same price per kg
Same price per kg
Same price per kg
Same price per litre
Tesco 8% dearer per litre
Same price per kg
Tesco 9% cheaper per kg
Tesco 19% cheaper per kg
Tesco 9% cheaper per kg
Tesco 14% dearer per kg
Tesco 29% cheaper per litre
Tesco 17% cheaper per litre
Tesco 44% cheaper per litre
Tesco 17% cheaper per litre
Tesco 40% cheaper per litre
Tesco 46% cheaper per litre
Tesco 1% cheaper per kg
Same price per kg
Tesco 42% dearer per litre
Tesco 37% dearer per litre
Tesco 25% cheaper per kg
Tesco 16% cheaper per kg
Same price per litre
Tesco 56% cheaper per kg
Same price per litre
Tesco 38% cheaper per kg
Same price per kg
Tesco 6% dearer per kg
Tesco 1% dearer per kg
Tesco 4% cheaper per kg
Same price per kg
Tesco 14% cheaper per kg
Tesco 6% cheaper per kg
Same price per kg
Tesco 14% cheaper per kg
Tesco 3% cheaper per kg
Tesco 16% dearer per kg
Tesco 5% cheaper per kg
Tesco 7% cheaper per kg
Tesco 62% cheaper per kg
Tesco 8% cheaper per kg
Tesco 1% cheaper per kg
Tesco 3% cheaper per kg
Tesco 21% dearer per item
Tesco 12% cheaper per litre
Tesco 32% cheaper per litre
Same price per item
Tesco 9% dearer per kg
Tesco 12% dearer per kg
Tesco 50% cheaper per item
Tesco 18% dearer per kg
Tesco 7% cheaper per kg
Same price per kg
Same price per kg
Tesco 11% cheaper per kg
Tesco 7% cheaper per kg
Same price per kg
Same price per item
Same price per kg
Same price per item
Tesco 9% dearer per item
Same price per litre
Tesco 18% cheaper per item
Tesco 5% cheaper per kg