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Big companies that had previously pushed through one standard price increase per year are now raising prices more frequently.

Which? said it had tracked pricing history in stores for six months to see whether the regular price advertised was really the standard price the items were sold at over a reasonable period.

The consumer group found a 700g bottle in Tesco for which the label showed the standard price to be £3.90, or 55.7p per 100g.

That is 800 yuan cheaper than the standard price on Apple's official China website.

Similar service from Frontier for a standard price of $40 a month was available at 39 of the addresses studied, with most of those located in census tracts with low poverty rates and none in high-poverty neighborhoods, according to the report.