Choppies Supermarket is July’s cheapest supermarket in The Brief’s monthly Grocery Basket price comparison exercise.
For the Month of June the Basket composition was changed as the readers demanded the inclusion of wholesalers. Moreover, additional supermarkets were added to add more stores to the comparison.
The supermarkets that were surveyed for June 2023 were: Shoprite (Independence Avenue), Checkers (Klein Windhoek), Pick n Pay (Wernhil), Spar (Klein Windhoek), OK Foods (Independence Avenue), Woermann Brock (Klein Windhoek), and Choppies (Hyper Khomasdal).
Grocery Basket Composition:
- Loaf of bread
- 2-litre Nola sunflower oil
- 5kg Top score maize meal
- 5kg Marathon sugar (white sugar)
- 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
- 2kg 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
For the month of July, Choppies surfaced as the supermarket with the cheapest basket costing N$970.80 and OK Food emerged as the supermarket with the most high-priced basket priced at N$1,110.80. The difference between the cost of the cheapest and most expensive basket is N$130.00.
Choppies’ overall basket decreased by 1.12% from the month of June to July. This is mainly attributed to a noticeable decrease in its price for Real Good Chicken from N$95.99 to N$79.99 and tomatoes from N$39.99 to N$21.99.
An increase from June to July can be seen in the overall basket for Spar, OK Foods and Checkers, at 3.26%, 9.36% and 7.89%, respectively.
An economical price of N$68.99 is maintained by Spar month-on-month for its Top Score Maize item, amongst the eight shops.
To assess the most economical vegetables combination amongst the eight supermarkets, we combined the prices of P/kg potatoes, P/kg tomatoes, and P/kg onions. We determined that Choppies offered the cheapest P/kg veggies at a total price of N$60.97, a decrease of 18.54% from last month. Spar had a high-priced combination of veggies with a price of N$124.99, representing an increase from last month’s price of N$104.97.
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.
June 2023 alternatives
Food Lover’s Market – 2kg Tastic Rice, 1.5kg Chicken (an average was calculated because they do not stock 1.5kg of chicken), 9’s toilet papers (Baby soft)
Spar – 2L Cooking Oil (Sunflower Oil), 2kg Rice (Tastic), 2kg (Marathon Sugar), Toilet paper (9’s 200 sheets)
Choppies – 2kg Rice (Nice Rice)
OK Foods – Nice Rice
In pursuit of providing consumers with valuable insights into the price of a basket of 20 staple products, The Brief launched a survey on the cheapest supermarket in May 2023, by conducting monthly price comparisons of a standardised grocery basket across major retailers.
