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Depends how you're rating 'artisan'
Some of our local breweries are knocking out some phenomenal beer, but I live in Manchester so we've got Cloudwater in town (their DDH pale is amazing) but I wouldn't call them artisan these days. Pomona Island are also doing great stuff and pushing the boundries a bit and places like Beer Nouveau (definitely artisan) is doing stuff that even if you don't like the beer you've got to appreciate for the lengths that he's going to in reproducing old/ancient recipes. He's been sourcing heritage grains and getting them roasted with ancient methods to get the grain bills etc.
Then there's other local producers that are just knocking out decent, traditional beer. Not amazing but more artisan than Cloudwater!
Most of the big-brand products that are now considered 'evil', 'corporate' started out as what we'd now call artisan. It was a good product, gained loyalty, scaled up, delivered consistently.
I think buying from small scale producers carries a risk of inconsistency in the product. That is outweighed by the warm glow of supporting local folk whose shed, cow, workers etc. you can see about you in your place.
I’ve had some stunning ” Artisan” cheese which, in my opinion, is well worth the extra money .
I have to admit that the standard sainsbury mature cheddar ( red wrapping) is absolutely lovely.
We tend to shop equally at Aldi, Lidl, 'Berry, waitrose and Tesco, but whenever I'm in 'Berry I always buy 4 blocks of the cheddar as it's soooo much better than the others'