Shocked at supermarket price increase!

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I know people have been talking about it for a while but we've recently had a big expense so am trying to claw some Monet back by being more sensible for a while with the food shopping as it's our biggest expense.
Thought I would pop to Asda last night rather than sainsburys as it's supposed to be cheaper and for a small trolley shop I was £78 (only two expensive items were a big box of washing powder and a whole chicken for Sunday dinner).
Filled my car on the way out and it cost me £75, I'm sure it was always around the £65 mark until recently.
We are so lucky that we don't have to worry about the pennies too much these days which is a massive relief after years of debt and being skint but prices do seem really scary just now.
When I'm shopping I don't notice any big differences on individual items but added up there's a big increase.

We live in NI so don't have Aldi unfortunately as I did like shopping there when in England. The Lidl near me are all rubbish, old basic shops that don't have much stock but I'm thinking of trying there for things before picking up the rest at another shop.
I'm not sure the saving will be worth the hassle though.

All part of levelling up. 🙄 Apparently. 🙄

I work for a supermarket and do the weekly price changes it is really noticeable a 25p 30p increase on lots of things last week from the high end brands to the value products.