When is a Deal not a Deal?

I’ve been mak­ing daily posts for just over two months but I’ve only been out­lin­ing detailed gro­cery pric­ing since Octo­ber 18th.

After post­ing about yesterday’s Wild Oats stock-up shop­ping trip, I took a quick look through some of my other more recent gro­cery posts. I wasn’t sur­prised but was def­i­nitely a bit cha­grined to find that even though I stuck to sale items yes­ter­day and received an addi­tional 10% off, I paid more for sev­eral items than I would have paid at my pre­ferred gro­cery stores — Kroger’s and Vit­a­min Cottage.

I’ve decided to devote a page of my new pocket note­book to track­ing gro­cery prices on our most com­monly pur­chased items. Fol­low­ing is the data I’ve col­lected from a quick look back at the last two month’s worth of receipts. I’ll update dur­ing my next few gro­cery trips and fill in the blanks.

* indi­cates a store sale price but does not include the one-time 10% discount.

How do these prices com­pare to what you pay? Have you noticed big price dif­fer­ences between your local stores?

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