Essential 30 basket — downtown Toronto
Frozen snapshot dated 2026-04-01. 9 priced storefronts, 7 retailers, 76 total storefronts on the map.
Best vs worst — 5 headline items
Cheapest
Longo's
$5.99
Priciest
Loblaws
$6.97
Gap: $0.98
Cheapest
No Frills
$4.50
Priciest
Metro
$7.59
Gap: $3.09
Cheapest
Food Basics
$3.00
Priciest
Loblaws
$4.49
Gap: $1.49
Cheapest
Loblaws
$9.70
Priciest
No Frills
$13.00
Gap: $3.30
Cheapest
Food Basics
$5.48
Priciest
Your Independent Grocer
$7.00
Gap: $1.52
Essential 30 — full basket comparison
30 items tracked. Coverage varies by retailer — 10 items are carried by every retailer in this snapshot.
You save $78.98 shopping at Your Independent Grocer vs Loblaws for the 30-item basket.
Cheapest price per item across all stores. Would require shopping at multiple stores — not a realistic single trip.
Cheapest single-store basket
Your Independent Grocer — $92.92
17 of 30 Essential 30 items in stock. Mixed-basket minimum across all retailers: $120.39 (30 items).
Map of tracked stores
green pins are stores whose prices feed the comparison · gray pins are nearby storefronts we know about but whose prices aren’t in this snapshot.
Frozen snapshot of Canadian grocery prices observed at or before 2026-04-01. The map layer (`display_stores[]`) shows every real geocoded storefront within 10.0 km of the M5V 2T6 postal centroid in downtown Toronto. The price comparison (`stores[]` + `prices[]`) normally resolves to a real storefront per retailer (the nearest geocoded location to the postal centroid). Price provenance is carried on each row via the `source` field: `flipp` = weekly flyer price (banner-wide across Ontario); `metro_online` / `voila_longos` = online catalog price (Ontario-wide); `pcexpress` = shelf price from the PC Express Toronto catalog; so a `flipp` price attached to `Bo's NOFRILLS Toronto Richmond` reflects the Toronto-area flyer, not an in-store scan of that specific storefront. Prices are representative, not minima — we pick the median-adjacent observation per (item, retailer) to avoid loss-leader distortion. Not a live shopping tool.