Grocery Price Index: Woolies Wins at $232.49
Woolworths takes the top spot this week at $232.49 for the full comparable basket, just $1.41 ahead of Coles at $233.90. But cherry-pick across all four stores and you're down to $188.57, a $43.92 saving.
Woolworths takes this week's comparable basket at $232.49, just $1.41 cheaper than Coles at $233.90. That's the tightest margin in recent weeks. Every store came in lower than last week, which is a rare clean sweep.
| Store | This week | Last week | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woolworths | $232.49 | $251.40 | -$18.91 |
| Coles | $233.90 | $256.33 | -$22.43 |
| Aldi | $225.24* | $230.58 | -$5.34 |
| IGA | $252.69** | $279.03 | -$26.34 |
*Aldi total excludes 1 item not stocked. **IGA total excludes 3 items not stocked. These figures aren't directly comparable to Woolies and Coles on a like-for-like basis.
Aldi's basket is the lowest number on the board at $225.24, but with one item missing from the shelf it's not a clean comparison. If your nearest Aldi stocks everything you need, it's hard to argue with. If not, Woolies is your full-basket winner this week.
The biggest per-item gaps
A few items are doing a lot of heavy lifting in those totals. Chicken breast fillets run from $9.17 at IGA to $18.86 at Woolworths, a $9.69 gap on a single product. Dishwasher tablets go from $4.00 at Woolworths to $11.50 at IGA, which is nearly triple the price for what's often a comparable product. Weet-Bix is an odd one: $7.00 at Coles versus $15.96 at Aldi, where the price jump likely reflects pack size differences rather than Aldi gouging you on breakfast cereal.
A few others worth noting:
- Pumpkin: $1.99 at Aldi, $5.46 at Coles. Buy it where you can.
- Pasta sauce: $1.59 at Aldi, $4.00 at IGA. That's $2.41 for a jar of tomato.
- Corn flakes: $2.45 at Coles, $6.90 at IGA. Again, likely a pack-size gap, but worth checking.
- Navel oranges: $6.90 at Woolworths, $11.70 at IGA.
- Bananas: $4.86 at Aldi, $7.47 at Woolworths.
- Long grain rice: $1.50 at Woolworths, $3.59 at Aldi.
The cherry-pick verdict
If you're willing to split your shop across stores, or simply buy each item at whichever store has it cheapest, the basket comes to $188.57. That's $43.92 less than Woolworths and $64.12 less than IGA. The full item-by-item cheapest prices are in the table on this page.
Whether the time and fuel to hit multiple stores makes that saving worth it depends entirely on your situation. For a lot of households, even picking up the items with the biggest gaps at Aldi on the way past covers a fair chunk of that difference.
All prices were collected this Friday. The methodology and full historical chart live on the Cuugo Grocery Price Index hub.
Frequently asked questions
What's in the Cuugo Grocery Price Index basket?
The basket contains 15 staple items priced every Friday at Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and IGA. The same items are tracked every week so you can see genuine price trends over time. The full methodology is on the Cuugo Price Index hub page.
Which supermarket is cheapest for groceries in Australia right now?
This week, Woolworths has the lowest full comparable basket at $232.49, just ahead of Coles at $233.90. Aldi's basket comes to $225.24 but one item wasn't available, so the totals aren't directly comparable. Cherry-picking the cheapest price for each item across all stores brings the total down to $188.57.