{"id":758139,"date":"2026-06-24T23:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758139\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:31:22","slug":"cheapest-supermarket-australia-winter-staples-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758139\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheapest supermarket Australia: Winter staples guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aldi has been crowned the cheapest supermarket in Australia, beating out major competitors by almost $10 across a basket of common goods.<\/p>\n

Consumer group Choice released its latest quarterly supermarket basket survey<\/a>, giving Aldi the title after comparing weekly grocery staples<\/a> and winter warmers.<\/p>\n

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Choice has compared the price of Australia’s favourite groceries and winter warmers.\u00a0Jo Abi<\/p>\n

Choice compared the prices of 16 popular grocery items<\/a> at Coles, Woolworths, Aldi and IGA: Beef mince<\/a>, a whole chicken, Royal Gala apples, Cavendish bananas, strawberries, avocado, leek, green beans, potatoes, full cream milk, basmati rice, honey mustard cooking sauce, beer-battered frozen chips, frozen apple pies, Tim Tam biscuits<\/a>, and a large box of tissues.<\/p>\n

Margaret Rafferty from\u00a0Choice\u00a0told nine.com.au the items chosen for the comparison were \u201cequal\u201d and \u201ccomparable\u201d across the four supermarkets<\/a> rather than the cheapest on offer.<\/p>\n

Without including specials, Aldi proved to be the cheapest<\/a> with a total of $68.80, followed by Woolworths at $77.53, then Coles with a total of $78.58, and IGA proving to be the most expensive at $91.65.<\/p>\n

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Undercover shoppers visited Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, and IGA.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

When specials were factored in, the places remained the same, with Aldi remaining the most affordable supermarket with an unchanged total of $68.60, Woolworths in second place with a slightly lower total of $76.82, then Coles in third spot and a fraction lower at $78.50, and IGA in fourth spot at the lowered total of $86.33.<\/p>\n

Choice sent undercover shoppers to 104 supermarket locations across Australia during March to complete the research,<\/p>\n

At Aldi, the full basket included one name-brand item and the rest of the items were from the discount grocery retailer\u2019s home-brand. <\/p>\n

At Woolworths and Coles, we included the same three name-brand products and the rest were home-brand items. <\/p>\n

Because IGA\u2019s home-brand range isn\u2019t as extensive, the IGA basket included five name-brand products.<\/p>\n

While Aldi proved to be the winner overall, Coles and Woolworths prices were close, with Woolworths just two cents cheaper when comparing prices without specials, but Coles drew ahead to be six cents cheaper than Woolworths, thanks to a special on beef mince at the time the price comparison took place.<\/p>\n

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Consumer group Choice posted the results of their latest supermarket quarterly survey.\u00a0IGA<\/p>\n

IGA stores don\u2019t have the same chain-store model as Aldi, Coles and Woolworths, with individual stores operating as independently owned franchises, which resulted in \u201cquite a lot of variation between the stores in the IGA network, often due to variation in store sizes and the effect this has on the ranges\u201d.<\/p>\n

While the results of Choices\u2019 basket comparison are certainly food for thought, Aussie shoppers are increasingly shopping at multiple retailers rather than one supermarket in order to take advantage of the lowest prices each week.<\/p>\n

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Aldi was found to be the cheapest supermarket in the price comparison.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Research by Roy Morgan<\/a> has found 77 per cent of Australian grocery buyers now visit at least two different supermarket chains to complete their weekly grocery shop.<\/p>\n

Consumer expert Gavin Northey from Griffith University told nine.com.au this \u201ccross shopping\u201d or \u201ctwo-store strategy\u201d is here to stay.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the reason for this is that Australian consumers are adopting a\u00a0more pragmatic mindset\u00a0and shifting their behaviour to maximise their shopping value,\u201d Northey said.<\/p>\n

He added that digital media has fuelled this shift as it has \u201cincreased price transparency between the three major supermarket chains in Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis might be why we are seeing the growth in \u2018two-store\u2019 shoppers. Fuelling this over the past decade is the growth in price comparison apps,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Aussies are increasingly completing their grocery shopping at a minimum of two retailers.\u00a0Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you combine this access to information with the high cost of living in Australia, you can understand why Australian consumers are looking for a bargain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aldi has been crowned the cheapest supermarket in Australia, beating out major competitors by almost $10 across a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-758139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}