Of the eight most popular grocery Supermarkets in Windhoek, Choppies offers the cheapest basket of standardised groceries.
This is according to our monthly grocery basket comparison conducted each month which started from the month of May 2023 with a revised basket in June. We carry out the survey to provide consumers with valuable insights into the price of a basket of 20 standardised groceries across eight supermarkets.
After analysing the November data, Choppies has emerged as the most cost-effective among the eight grocery retailers. Despite maintaining an affordable basket, their overall basket increased by 1.76% month-on-month, rising from N$900.8 to N$916.68.
This change is particularly noticeable in the price of their fresh Tomato per kilogramme, which surged from N$19.99 to N$34.95. Conversely, there was a significant decrease in the price of Onions per kilogramme, dropping from N$19.99 to N$9.95.
On the contrary, Spar emerged with a higher-priced overall basket, totaling N$1,029.81, reflecting a 1.73% increase from October to November. This change is attributed to the price hike in items such as Beef Stew, rising from N$89.99 to N$104.99, and fresh Tomato per kilogramme, increasing from N$47.99 to N$50.99.
OK Foods, traditionally ranked as the most expensive grocery retailer, experienced a notable decrease in November, with the basket cost plummeting by 4.77% to N$997.8 from N$1,047.8.
This reduction is observed in the prices of Beef Stew per kilogramme from N$124.99 to
N$89.99, Onions from N$24.99 to N$9.99, and Real Good Chicken from N$74.99 to N$71.99.
Pick ‘n Pay, Food Lover’s Market, and Woermann Brock each witnessed a month-on-month increase in their overall basket prices by 1%, 2.89%, and 1.55%, respectively.
Conversely, Shoprite and Checkers saw their overall basket prices rise between October and
November by 1.75% and 0.81%, respectively.
Our grocery basket is composed of the following:
Loaf of Bread
2-litre Nola sunflower oil
5kg Top score maize meal
2.5kg Marathon sugar (white sugar)
1.5kg Real Good Chicken
1kg Beef stew
2kg Mamas rice
3kg Pasta Polana Macaroni
1-litre Nammilk full cream milk
9 Twinsaver toilet paper (350 sheets)
700ml Wellington tomato sauce
1kg Sunlight Washing powder
750ml Sunlight Dishwashing liquid
500g Rama butter
18 Waldschmidt eggs (medium)
150g Protex bar soap
100ml Toothpaste Colgate
1kg Onions
1kg Potatoes
1kg Tomatoes
Note: We do not take specials or loyalty card discounts into consideration. When we do find certain goods on special, for example, “Get N$10.00 off when buying 18 (medium) eggs and pay N$55.00”, we will log the price as N$65.00 to exclude the special.
August 2023 alternatives:
Food Lover’s Market – 1.5kg Chicken (an average was calculated because they do not stock
1.5kg of chicken),
Spar – 2L Cooking (Golden)
Choppies – 2kg Rice (Nice Rice), Excella Cooking Oil
Stores in the Survey: Spar, Pick ‘n Pay, Checkers (Groove Mall), Woermann Brock (Klein
Windhoek), OK Foods and Shoprite (Independence Avenue), Food Lover’s Market (Wernhil),
Choppies (Khomas Grove Mall)
