The Citizen comparison shopped at Costco, Real Canadian Superstore, Save-on-Foods and Wal-Mart to see which local store offers the best value on your holiday feast.
Christmas is an expensive time of year at the best of times, without double-digit inflation in food prices and a provincial turkey shortage driving costs up more.
For each item, the cheapest option available on the shelf at each store was selected, including sale items, generic store brands and membership discounts. However, no member points were used to obtain free or discounted items.If the size or quantity specified in the list wasn’t available, the closest available size or quantity was chosen. This was especially a factor at Costco, which specializes in bulk sales.
REAL CANADIAN SUPERSTORE Real Canadian Superstore walked away with this one, coming in $8.68 cheaper than Wal-Mart and $12.06 cheaper than Save-on-Foods. Wal-Mart also took a hit on green beans. The store only sold pre-packaged bags of 340 g each , which forced us to buy two bags to get the required pound of beans. Each bag was $3.97, while the pound of bulk green beans at Superstore was only $3.52.
The 5 lbs. bag of potatoes at Save-on-Foods was also cheaper than Superstore’s bulk potatoes, however. Once we crunched the numbers and adjusted the prices at Costco to reflect the quantities we got, Costco came in at $55.63 for the comparable amount of food – a savings of $6.15 compared to Real Canadian Superstore.
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PIES We bought one pie at each store, but the difference in the size of the pies opened our eyes. SAME ITEMS, DIFFERENT PRICES Three of the items we bought at Real Canadian Superstore, Save-on-Foods and Wal-Mart were identical: the 1.5 kg Mitchell’s brand ham, Clubhouse Brown Gravy mix and 2L 2% Dairyland milk. But what we paid for each item varied by store.
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