Every month, The Brief will survey in-store prices of the same basket of goods across seven major retailers in Namibia, namely; Shoprite (Independence Avenue), Checkers (Wernhil), Pick n Pay (Wernhil), SPAR (Maerua Mall), OK Foods (Independence Avenue), Woermanbrock (Hyper Khomasdal), and Choppies (Hyper Khomasdal).
The survey aims to provide shoppers with guidance on which supermarket offers the cheapest basket of goods for that particular month.
What’s in our grocery basket?
Loaf of Bread
2-litre Nola sunflower oil
2.5kg Top score maize meal
2.5kg Marathon sugar (white sugar)
1.5kg Real Good Chicken
1kg Beef stew
10kg Mamas rice
3kg Pasta Polana Macaroni
1-litre Nammilk full cream milk
9 Twinsaver toilet paper (350 sheets)
700ml Wellington tomato sauce
750ml Sunlight Dishwashing liquid
500g Sunshine butter
18 Waldschmidt eggs (medium)
150g Protex bar soap
If some brands are not available, alternatives are used, but our aim is to keep the products as consistent as possible every month.
After collecting our data of 16 staples across seven major supermarkets, Pick n Pay emerged as the cheapest supermarket in Namibia for the month of May 2023, with its basket costing N$1,192.37 compared to OK Foods, which saw the highest price for the basket at N$1,352.84.
Spar came in second place with its basket cost of N$1,216.43.
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.
May 2023 alternatives
Choppies – 10kg rice store brand
Spar – 10kg rice store brand, 2 kg sunflower oil store brand
OK Foods – 10kg sugar (average price, no store brand), loaf of bread (average price of white and brown bread)
