Which grocery store offers the best value for money?

[SAguy]

Checkers/Food Lovers although Shoprite is cheapest, yet some Shoprites were good, other terrible. Depends on the branch and who manages it. I couldnt find BUTTER at the Durbanville Shoprite. Plenty of Margarine but no butter whatsoever.

Yes Woolworths is cheaper for flour, and occasionally sugar, but that's about where it stops. Look at meat and fresh produce and Food Lovers walks miles around Woolworths.

Checkers has been boosting its quality of items, I have noticed more and more imported from abroad items, mainly the US, and their range "Kitchen" is pretty good.

Pnp has brought out deluxe sauces etc, to compete, but you can barely find anything anymore. So its useless if you liked something, they discontinued it again immediately.

Woolworths usually cheaper for milk and cheese too in my experience

 

[SAguy]

do they emotional zam-buk for you?

Takealot

 

[Bliksis]

I am working on a website to do just that, the information is updated weekly though, but if people are interested, then I will update it daily. https://data.doodlingminds.co.za

Good work. How about Spar?

 

[Bliksis]

I am working on adding spar and boxer, very interesting to see the data since you would sometimes think that bulk saves you money, but it not always true. It is surprising when we choose different products we always save 10-30%. That is a big saving. I also want to add smaller vendors that can sometimes even get better prices.

That's why I think there really isn't much competition, if you buy an average basket or trolley of various items. It all works out to almost the same.