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Which supermarket has the best deals?

posted Jun 26, 2008
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Wal-Mart was the champ last time. Can it repeat?

Our last supermarket price check was so popular, we decided to give it another go. But to shake things up a bit this time around, we decided to find out which store has the best bargains.

So we picked a "basket" of 20 items that come in both name brand and store brand so we could find out how much we could save by going generic. And to make things a little more interesting, we tossed discount market Aldi into the mix. Here are the results...

(there's more)

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tags: Hannaford, Price Chopper, shopping, supermarkets, Wal-Mart

Which supermarket has the lowest prices?

posted Feb 21, 2008
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We were curious, so we decided to find out. AOA put together a "basket" of 40 items that we thought could reasonably end up in most shopping carts in any given week. Then we checked the prices of these items at Price Chopper, Wal-Mart and Hannaford. Here are the results:

(there's more)

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tags: food, Hannaford, Price Chopper, shopping, supermarkets, Wal-Mart

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