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- Compare my groceries
- How it works
- Prices by product
Browse the 50 items and their price history.
- Shrinkflation
Understand products with smaller packages.
- Unit price calculator
Compare your prices and the cost of whole packages.
- Cities & stores
See where prices are available.
Research & information
Understand our methods, read the research and explore GroceryPulse in the news.
For your work
Find competitor price checks, food-basket data and the information you need to evaluate a data service.
- Use cases and samples
What retailers, brands and researchers receive.
- For grocers
Check local competitor prices.
- Food-basket data
Price evidence for food-cost research.
- Data plans
- Data catalogue
- API documentation
- Whitepaper
From the GroceryPulse research desk
Original publications
Articles, explainers and technical references published by GroceryPulse.
- Where ten Toronto grocery items differ in price
A dated five-banner comparison shows how a short, carefully defined product list can focus a grocer’s next pricing review.
- A grocery price can exist and still leave a food-basket gap
Five recorded listings show why product variants, package units and missing weights need separate checks before a basket comparison.
- The $10 grocery gap hiding in six everyday items
A Vancouver comparison shows why the biggest percentage price gap is not always the biggest dollar difference—and why a small shopping list deserves its own price check.
- A $95 grocery gap in the middle of a trade fight
GroceryPulse’s published comparisons show $92–$95 differences across selected food baskets in three cities. Here is how to read those gaps as Canada–U.S. trade tensions escalate.
- What the CGPI measures, and what it does not
A public explainer on the difference between grocery prices and an index, and the limits of each comparison.
- Canadian Grocery Price Index whitepaper
The technical reference for index construction, coverage, quality controls and the revision record.