Hello! Welcome to Week Twelve of the Grocery Hunt, Manchester Ink Link’s guide to Manchester-area grocery stores.
Earlier this week, we asked 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, March 24 from approximately 12 p.m. to 2 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 amounts 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.
Hebrew National Hot Dogs (beef, six pack)
Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $3.99
Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $5.29
Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – n/a
Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Heinz Ketchup (32 oz. bottle)
Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – $2.88
Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $3 (2 for 6)
Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $3.19
Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – $4.49
Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Marshmallow Fluff (7.5 oz.)
Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $1.19
Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $1.49
Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH -$1.49
Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Pizza Bagels
Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $ 2.72/lb average
Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – $3.85/lb average
Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – n/a
Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Goya Coconut Water
Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – $0.07/oz average
Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – $0.13/oz average
Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – $0.15/oz. average
Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – n/a
Number of times when a store had the best price on a particular item (Year-to-Date) (After Week 12)
Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – 21
Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – 8
Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – 7.5
Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – 7
Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – 2
Price Rite: 365 Lincoln St., Manchester, NH – 1.5
Shaw’s: 1328 Hooksett Rd., Hooksett, NH – 1
Hannaford: 7 Kilton Rd, Bedford, NH 03110 – 1
Hannaford: 140 Bicentennial Dr, Manchester, NH – 0
Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – 0
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
Number of times when a store had a particular item in stock (After Week 12)
Market Basket: 460 Elm St., Manchester, NH – 43
Hannaford: 859 Hanover St., Manchester, NH – 35
Walmart: 275 Gold St., Manchester, NH – 32
Shaw’s: 570 Daniel Webster Hwy, Merrimack, NH – 18
Aldi: 1111 S. Willow St., Manchester, NH – 13
Price Rite: 365 Lincoln St., Manchester, NH – 8
Shaw’s: 1328 Hooksett Rd., Hooksett, NH – 4
Hannaford: 7 Kilton Rd, Bedford, NH 03110 – 3
Hannaford: 140 Bicentennial Dr, Manchester, NH – 2
Target: 220 S River Rd, Bedford, NH – 2
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
Previous Grocery Hunts
- March 17, 2021: Grocery Hunt: Salsa and taco sauce are not the same
- March 10, 2021: Grocery Hunt: Where’s the rutabaga?
- March 4, 2021: Grocery Hunt: Saint Patrick’s beef edition
- February 25, 2021: Grocery Hunt: Searching for the best part of waking up
- February 18, 2021: Grocery Hunt: Saving a penny on Thomas’ English Muffins
- February 8, 2021: Grocery Hunt: Five-way banana battle
- February 4, 2021: Grocery Hunt: What are Lady Gaga Oreos?
- January 28, 2021: Grocery Hunt: Which Hannaford has the Bucatini?
- January 20, 2021: Scrapple gives Market Basket bragging rights in Week 3 of the Grocery Hunt
- January 14, 2021: Walmart takes the crown in Week 2 of the Grocery Hunt
- January 6, 2021: Introducing the Manchester-area Grocery Hunt!
