PriceCheck<\/a><\/strong> has been a trusted consumer e-commerce platform since 2006 and is a leader in retail data intelligence in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe company, founded by Kevin Tucker in 2006, has extensive data on product prices dating back years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It used this intelligence to create a grocery basket of 29 items that most South Africans buy monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The basket includes items most households use, like large eggs, sliced white bread, a whole chicken, coffee, maize meal, rice, margarine, and salt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also includes Ouma rusks, Clover Ultra long-life milk, cooking oil, virgin olive and seed oil, jam, Rooibos tea, regular tea, baked beans, and coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other items are instant oats, tomato and onion mix, pilchards, tomato sauce, Bovril, potatoes, onions, sugar, peanut butter, snacks, bacon, and fish fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this comparison, Checkers, Pick n Pay, and Woolworths were used as South Africa’s three largest retailers serving middle-class South Africans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PriceCheck\u2019s grocery basket research revealed that Checkers is the most affordable at R1,618 for the basket of products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pick n Pay finished second with a price of R1,676 for the basket of products, followed by Woolworths in distant third at R2,097.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The research further revealed that Woolworth\u2019s prices increased significantly more than those of Checkers and Pick n Pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between 2023 and 2025, Woolworths’s best price for products in the price basket increased by 25%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is much higher than the average food inflation in South Africa over the last two years, showing that Woolworths increased prices by more than expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the same period, Checkers\u2019 best price for products in the price basket increased by 13%, which is in line with food inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pick n Pay had the lowest price increases over the period. Its best price for products in the basket increased by 7% between 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The table below provides an overview of how Checkers, Pick n Pay, and Woolworths compare on the PriceCheck food backet comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRetailer<\/strong><\/td>Two-year price increase<\/strong><\/td>Food basket price<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>Checkers<\/td> 13%<\/td> R1,618<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>Pick n Pay<\/td> 7%<\/td> R1,676<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>Woolworths<\/td> 25%<\/td> R2,097<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PriceCheck, a leader in retail data intelligence in South Africa, has created a grocery basket that reveals which food retailer offers the best value for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":799536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[5223,21907,4067,5854,949],"class_list":["post-815186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-checkers","tag-kevin-tucker","tag-pick-n-pay","tag-pricecheck","tag-woolworths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815216,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815186\/revisions\/815216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}