Frugality Week: Vote for the cheapest grocery in the Metro

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   Anthony Says:
   January 27th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

   i go for cherry foodarama. some items are 5 pesos more cheaper than other grocery store!! believe me meron nga ako nakikita dung mga chinese namimili… hehe

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   Noel Says:
   August 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am

   Last month, the Hotel & Restaurant Cost Controllers Association (HRCCAP) conducted a survey on prices of local supermarket chains. Unfortunately, I cannot attach the pdf copy of the result on this reply.

   Survey was done on a span of less than 24 hours, from afternoon of July 12 until morning of July 13, with printed receipts to prove this. The establishments surveyed were not contacted, nor were they informed of the attached results as of this writing.

   The result from least expensive to the most expensive:

   Cherry Foodarama
   SM Supermarket (because of 4 yellow tag items)
   Robinsons Supermarket
   Puregold
   Landmark
   Rustans
   South Supermarket

   Summary / Analysis:

   1. Cherry Foodarama and SM Supermarket are tied at the lowest priced groceries, while Rustans and South Supermarkets are at the upper end. But if SM Supermarket has no specially priced items (yellow tag), Cherry Foodarama will become the most competitively-priced grocery store.

   2. There’s a 5% average price difference from the lowest-priced store vs. highest-priced store. If you’re monthly grocery expense is more than Php 8,000 or Php 100,000 a year, you could save about Php 5,000 annually if you shift allegiance from high-end to low-end grocery store.
   Will the 5% savings makeup for the sacrifice in comfort and ambience? In these hard times, I guess people will prioritize any potential savings.

   3. Looks like grocery store chains are consistent on pricing scheme and availability of their products. Random check of SM Centerpoint vs. SM Makati grocery store prices are the same. When Cherry Foodarama Shaw Blvd. and South Supermarket Pasig branches were asked on availability of products which are unavailable on their surveyed branches, they also don’t have stocks of same products. On a separate survey of Rustans and Shopwise prices, their price vary only in 2 out of 20+ items surveyed.

   4. Presence or absence of loyalty cards has minimal or no effect on grocery stores’ pricing scheme. Could be the same on location and store size.

   5. Parking fee is dependent on the location. Supermarkets outside or on outskirts of Metro Manila do not charge parking fee.

   We’re planning to repeat this survey to see the change in prices after 2 months, and we’ll also include more supermarket chains.

   To those who live near the Cherry Foodarama stores, you are quite lucky.

   Noel

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   Peyds Says:
   June 26th, 2008 at 10:05 am

   Puregold has way cheaper prices! That’s around 10-20% savings compared to SM.

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   shien Says:
   May 14th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

   HI all,

   Im just new in reading this section but i like this frugality category a lot. maybe because I can relate coz am frugal regarding the question, I vote for PureGold and South Supermarket. That is where i used to buy my groceries. I find their items cheaper compared to SM. Too bad we dont have cherry fooderama in the city where I live..seems that it got the most votes.

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   Cheap0 Says:
   May 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm

   South Supermarket?

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