“PRICES ARE always going up since covid,” says Amy Aron on her way out of Lidl in Hoxton, nodding to a half-filled granny cart. The budget German grocer opened this store in east London in November, and the lunchtime crowd seems glad. Rezaul Karim, a delivery driver shopping with his wife, faults the new shop only for lacking in frozen goods compared with the Iceland it replaced. Still, he says, in the past few years the cost of their bulk shop has gone from £190 ($260) to £275.