Grocery Hunt: Battle of the Liquids – Part One

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Hello! Welcome to Week 17 of the Grocery Hunt, Manchester Ink Link’s guide to Manchester-area grocery stores.

Each week, we ask our readers to give us five specific grocery items and five separate Manchester-area grocery stores so we could find the prices and availability of those items.

We’re also tracking the prices and availability of each item week by week with the hopes of finding the local grocery store with the best prices and best availability for items that our readers are looking for.

Before we begin, here are some caveats.

  • All prices were checked on Wednesday, April 28 from approximately 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Prices and item availability may change without notice.
  • Items may have been available during the aforementioned time but could not be found. Within this column, all efforts available to an ordinary grocery shopper were made to find the item. If you see an error here, please e-mail a picture of the item and the price tag to andy@manchesterinklink.com
  • Unless asked for a specifically-sized item by a reader, situations where stores have different sizes of the exact same item will be compared by weight or volume. If stores have multiple sizes of that item, the average cost per weight or volume will be used. Averaged prices are rounded to nearest cent.

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Mountain Dew (12-pack)

Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $4.77

Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – $4.98

Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – $4.99

Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $5.49

Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – $6.99

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Snapple (64 oz.)

Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – $1.98

Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $1.99

Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – 2/$4

Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – $2.19

Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – $2.99

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Almond Milk (half gallon)

Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $2.39

Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – 2/$5

Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – $2.57

Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – $2.75

Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – $3.29

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Arizona Ice Tea: Arnold Palmer (gallon)

Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – $2.98

Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $2.99

Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $2.99

Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – $2.99

Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – $3.49

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Gatorade (32 oz.)

Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $1.09

Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – $1.14

Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $1.19

Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – $1.19

Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – $1.69

 

Number of times when a store had the best price on a particular item (Year-to-Date) (After Week 17)

Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – 27

Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – 18.33

Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – 13.33

Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – 7.5

Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – 2

Price Rite: 365 Lincoln St., Manchester, NH – 1.5

Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – 1

Hannaford: 7 Kilton Rd, Bedford, NH 03110 – 1.83

Shaw’s: 1328 Hooksett Rd., Hooksett, NH – 1

Hannaford: 140 Bicentennial Dr, Manchester, NH – .5

Bunny’s Superette: 75 Webster St., Manchester, NH – 0

Saigon Asian Market: 476 Union St., Manchester, NH – 0

Whole Foods: 121 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – 0

A Market: 125 Loring St., Manchester, NH – 0

Number of times when a store had a particular item in stock (After Week 17)

Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – 64

Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – 59

Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – 54

Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – 30

Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – 15

Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – 13

Price Rite: 365 Lincoln St., Manchester, NH – 8

Hannaford: 140 Bicentennial Dr, Manchester, NH – 7

Shaw’s: 1328 Hooksett Rd., Hooksett, NH – 8

Hannaford: 7 Kilton Rd, Bedford, NH 03110 – 3

Whole Foods: 121 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – 2

Bunny’s Superette: 75 Webster St., Manchester, NH – 1

Saigon Asian Market: 476 Union St., Manchester, NH – 0

A Market: 125 Loring St., Manchester, NH – 0

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About this Author

Andrew Sylvia

Assistant EditorManchester Ink Link

Born and raised in the Granite State, Andrew Sylvia has written approximately 10,000 pieces over his career for outlets across Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. On top of that, he's a licensed notary and licensed to sell property, casualty and life insurance, he's been a USSF trained youth soccer and futsal referee for the past six years and he can name over 60 national flags in under 60 seconds according to that flag game app he has on his phone, which makes sense because he also has a bachelor's degree in geography (like Michael Jordan). He can also type over 100 words a minute on a good day.