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 It's the early 2000s, Westlife are in the charts, Pop Idol is on the TV and a weekly shop at your local supermarket won't break the bank.

A newly uncovered 24-year-old receipt from Morrisons has gone viral on social media - with Gen Z viewers stunned at the prices.

The bill, from a New Year's Eve 2001 shop in the supermarket chain's Ripon branch, cost just £34.57 and included staple items such as olive oil, cat food and toothpaste - all of which have seen a marked increase in prices since then.

To uncover just how stark the price differences are, the Daily Mail travelled to the Ealing, west London

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, branch of Morrisons to compare how much the same shop would cost today.

While some substitutions had to be made, overall the trolley of everyday items was exactly the same. 

But the cost had more than doubled from £34.57 in 2001 to a whopping £76.40 in 2025 - an increase of 121 per cent. In the same timeframe, average wages increased by just 60 per cent.

And supermarket bills have risen by more than the rate of inflation: this price rise is above the Bank of England's inflation calculator which estimated the 2001 bill would cost £66 in 2025. 

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