The June 2026 hypermarket grocery basket comparison indicates that Metro (Kleine Kuppe) remained the most affordable hypermarket, offering the lowest overall grocery basket among the two hypermarkets surveyed.
Key Highlights
- Cheapest grocery basket: Metro (Kleine Kuppe) – N$877.81
- Most expensive grocery basket: Woermann Brock (Otjomuise) – N$912.81
- Potential savings: N$35.00 (3.8%)
- Metro offered the lowest price on 12 of the 19 products surveyed.
- Woermann Brock offered the lowest price on 4 products, while 3 products were priced equally at both retailers.
Metro offered the lowest prices for 12 of the 19 items surveyed. These included white bread, 2L cooking oil, 5kg Top Score maize meal, 2.5kg white sugar, 1.5kg chicken, 3kg Polana Macaroni Pasta, 1L Nammilk Full Cream Long Life Milk, 9-roll 2-ply toilet paper, 500g Rama Butter, 18 medium eggs, 1kg onions, and 1kg tomatoes. The retailer also matched Woermann Brock’s prices on Wellington’s Tomato Sauce (750ml), 2kg Sunlight Washing Powder, and a bar of soap, further contributing to its competitive overall basket price.
Woermann Brock recorded the lowest prices for four products, namely 2kg Tastic Rice, 750ml Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid, 100ml Aquafresh Toothpaste and 1kg of potatoes. While the retailer remained competitive on these items, higher prices across several staple food products resulted in a higher overall basket cost.
Conclusion & Consumer Takeaway
Overall, the findings indicate that Metro continued to provide the best overall value for consumers purchasing a basket of essential grocery items. Although Woermann Brock offered lower prices on selected household products, Metro’s consistently competitive pricing across a larger share of the basket enabled it to maintain the lowest overall grocery basket cost for the month.
This comparison reinforces the importance of comparing prices across retailers, as even modest differences on individual items can translate into meaningful savings on the overall grocery basket.
