Grocery Price Index: Woolies Up $8.65 This Week
This week's Cuugo basket check: Woolies jumped $8.65 week-on-week, Coles stays cheapest at $73.55, and cherry-picking saves you $14.52 over shopping at one store.
Every Friday, Cuugo prices the same 15-item basket at Coles, Woolies, Aldi and IGA. No swaps, no substitutions. Same items, same method, every single week. The full price table and trend chart live on the Grocery Price Index hub.
This week's numbers
| Store | This week | Last week | Change | |, -|, -|, -|, -| | Coles | $73.55 * | $72.75 | +$0.80 | | Aldi | $77.63 | $75.93 | +$1.70 | | Woolies | $82.64 | $73.99 | +$8.65 | | IGA | $103.92 * | $102.92 | +$1.01 |
\* One item was unavailable at this store this week, so that total isn't directly comparable to a full basket.
The story this week is Woolies. An $8.65 jump in a single week is the biggest single-store move we've recorded in recent weeks. We don't have a sourced reason for it, so we won't guess. What we can say is that Woolies goes from sitting close to Coles last week to sitting $9.09 above Coles this week. That's a gap worth noticing if Woolies is your default shop.
Coles nudged up $0.80 and stays the cheapest complete basket this week at $73.55. Aldi rose $1.70 to $77.63. IGA ticked up $1.01 to $103.92 but still can't be compared directly because of the missing item.
Where the biggest price gaps are
The per-item spreads tell a sharper story than the totals. A few standouts:
- Chicken breast fillets: $4.99 at Aldi vs $14.20 at Coles. That's nearly three times the price for the same category of product.
- Weet-Bix: $6.88 at Aldi vs $17.20 at IGA. A $10.32 gap on a cereal.
- Long grain rice: $1.80 at Coles vs $7.20 at IGA. Four times the price.
- Toilet paper: $4.60 at IGA vs $13.49 at Aldi. One of the few items where IGA actually wins.
- Cavendish bananas: $4.86 at Aldi vs $8.19 at Woolies. Produce is where Woolies feels it most.
- Beef mince: $5.50 at Coles vs $11.00 at IGA. Double the price.
- Sliced white bread: $3.00 at Aldi vs $5.30 at IGA.
Penne is the cheapest item in the basket this week: $0.90 at Coles. Grab it there.
The cherry-pick verdict
If you buy each of the 15 items at whichever store has it cheapest this week, you'd spend $63.11. The cheapest single-store basket (Coles at $73.55) costs $14.52 more. That's real money saved for anyone willing to split a shop across two stops, or check Cuugo before heading out.
Frequently asked questions
What's in the Cuugo grocery price index basket?
The basket has 15 everyday staples priced every Friday: full cream milk, sliced white bread, free range eggs, chicken breast fillets, Weet-Bix, apples, Cavendish bananas, carrots, tasty cheese block, beef mince, long grain rice, penne, butter, toilet paper, and laundry powder. The same 15 items are priced every week without substitution, so you can track genuine price trends over time.
Which supermarket is cheapest for groceries in Australia right now?
This week Coles has the cheapest complete basket at $73.55, though one item was unavailable so the total isn't directly comparable to a full 15-item shop. Aldi comes in at $77.63 for all 15 items. Cherry-picking the cheapest item at each store gets the basket down to $63.11.