Tesco has overtaken Asda for the first time since June as the UK’s cheapest supermarket for a large trolley of 159 items.

According to the latest research from Which?, the selection of items at Tesco, when applying the retailer’s Clubcard loyalty discounts, cost £399.73 while Asda was £9.63 more expensive at £409.36.

However, when removing the Clubcard savings, the same 159 items cost £441.14 at Tesco.

Sainsbury’s with Nectar prices was found to be the third cheapest at £410.52, followed by £421.52 at Morrisons with a More Card and £432.74 at online supermarket Ocado.

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Morrisons without the More Card savings was just £2.53 more than Ocado, while Sainsbury’s without Nectar cost £447.64 and Waitrose was found to be the most expensive at £452.09.

Meanwhile, when surveying the prices of 55 popular branded and own-branded groceries, including Hovis sliced bread, milk and cheese at eight leading UK supermarkets including Aldi and Lidl, the discounters were found to be the least expensive.

Aldi retained its title as the cheapest supermarket in November for a smaller shop, costing £97.89, closely followed by Lidl at £98.27 with Lidl Plus savings and just 7p more expensive without.

The next cheapest was Tesco with a Clubcard at £105.61 and Sainsbury’s with a Nectar card at £106.71.

At the time of the research, Which? found that Sainsbury’s was running Nectar price promotions on 11 items on its list, while Tesco had Clubcard prices on nine. Meanwhile, Morrisons had six More card discounts on items in the basket.

Ocado and Waitrose were the most expensive grocer’s for a smaller shop, costing £116.75 and £123.32, respectively.