https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/sf-grocery-stores-price-comparison/?sid=666496c9da1ab45c6109a7a3&ss=P&st_rid=null&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=feature&utm_campaign=sfcn%20|%20editorial%20features
We tested 12 S.F. grocery stores. This one was the cheapest
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from the above-linked SF Chronicle story updated August 12, 2024 -
San Francisco grocery stores ranked by price for a typical basket of foods
Based on the prices of the same 9 items at each store
Chart shows San Francisco grocery stores ranked by total price of a grocery list of 9 standard items, including: strawberry jelly, ground beef, spaghetti pasta, eggs, avocados, soy sauce, white bread, milk and yellow onions. Grocery Outlet Bargain Market was the least expensive, at $22, and Bi-Rite was the most expensive, at $61.
Grocery Outlet Bargain Market
$24
Lucky
$31
Casa Guadalupe
$32
Trader Joe’s
$35
Whole Foods
$36
Andronico’s
$36
H-Mart
$38
Safeway
$42
Mollie Stone’s
$46
Gus’s
$49
Luke’s Local
$55
Bi-Rite
$57
We collected prices on the following items: 12 oz. strawberry preserves, 1 lb. ground beef, 1 lb. spaghetti pasta, a dozen eggs, 2 avocados, 10 oz. soy sauce, a loaf of white bread, 1/2 gallon milk and 1 lb. yellow onions.
Chart: Lydia Sidhom / SF Chronicle Source: SF Chronicle point-in-time survey
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South Van Ness location (San Francisco):
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Is that the only Sky Valley sauce at the store?
I got one of their sauces a few years back and enjoyed it.
Yes, that was the only Sky Valley sauce on the shelf.
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I got the Sky Valley Green Sauce at Oakland a few weeks ago that had a sharp heat, but not overbearing, with a citrus and lemon kick. I really liked it. It also was $2.99. There should be a lot of the Taiwanese super hot sauces left.
the Bonny Doon rose is back at GO (Santa Cruz). different year, still good.
Bonny Doon 2022 Vin Gris de Cigare Rosé, WE 91
$4
there is also this French rose on the shelves …
Campuget, 2021, 70/30 Syrah/Grenache
$5
picked up a case of each.
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Cowgirl Creamery is back, Mt. Tam & Red Hawk* each $6.99
*I only saw one Red Hawk on the shelf in Burien and bought it, better luck at other stores 
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I used to see Luigi’s Italian Ice cups all the time in the supermarkets in NYC. The East Hayward GO currently has Luigi’s Gelato cups, in mint chocolate chip and cannoli flavors.
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Recently at Oakland Grocery Outlet -
Zippo's Pick of the Week
Either $5.99 or $6.99/4 oz. chub - Zoe’s Absinthe Uncured Salami, with absinthe liqueuer, New Mexican Hatch chili pepper, no added nitrates or nitrites, from Zoe’s Meats, Petaluma, CA. Only slightly spicy with a fennel, chlorophyll taste. I’ve never had absinthe so don’t know what to compare it to.
$5.99/5 oz. - Coro Uncured Salami Orange Cardamom
$3.29/9.7 oz. - Wasa Sourdough Swedish Style Crispbread, made with whole grain rye flour, made in Sweden
https://www.wasa.com/en-us/products/sourdough/
99 cents/3.5 oz jar - Mario Kalamata Olive Tapenade, from Greece, a salty, thick paste.
$2.99/9.8 oz jar- Ning Chi Taiwan’s Hottest Chili Sauce,
$1.99/32 oz carton - Mooala Plant-Based Organic Keto-Mylk Chocolate Chip, low carb, made with organic coconut cream, with 5 g of MCTs per 8 oz. serving, no added sugar, made in Canada.
$3.99/750ml bottle - Bonny Doon 2022 Pink Wine of the Earth Vin Gris de Cigare Rosé (Central Coast)
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The absinthe should give it a light anise taste, though I’m not sure why they’re using a strong alcoholic spirit rather than just anise seeds.
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In a Monday press release, Supervisor Aaron Peskin confirmed that a Grocery Outlet will replace the former Safeway site located at 320 Bay St., in a move that will offer affordable groceries for locals in the touristy Fisherman’s Wharf and North Beach neighborhoods. (source: Chron)
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Anyone willing to share their favorite GO location/s in San Francisco + peninsula? I’m in SF a lot these days without a lot of spare time to visit them all.
My GO “conversion experience” was at GO Redwood City maybe 15 years ago–got a case of Tornio Ventresca for under $2 a jar. Good times!
Thanks in advance.
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I actually have been quite disappointed with my local GO in the last few months. I don’t know if its because the ownership changed or just GO has grown large now. But the ‘goodie selection’ in each shopping trip is getting smaller and smaller. Rarely now am I walking out with more than 5 things I consider interesting. That used to happen every week.
Which one is your local one? I’m excited about the Fisherman’s Wharf., Bay Street one because that will become my local one .
Yeah, I agree, it feels like I used to buy fun things just because they were crazy cheap, now not as much.
Super-excited because I work near there, and I’m expecting it to have fancier items than my local GO in East Hayward.
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Recently at Oakland Grocery Outlet -
$3.99/750 ml bottle - Michael Franzese Red Dinner Wine, from the Ararat area of Armenia, the oldest wine producing region in the world, 15% ABV a sweet port dessert wine.
Aromas of toasted cinnamon and raisin bread with ginger marmalade. Full-bodied with flavors of carob, caramel, anise and sweet cherry. Tannins were rounded and no alcohol bite even though it was 15% ABV.
Bottled in 2021 with no vintage on the label but the website says 2017.
from the Franzese site -
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Grown at 1,200 meters above sea level in the Vayots Dzor region of Armenia.
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ORIGIN: village Lukashin, Armavir region, Ararat valley, Armenia
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Wine From the Worlds First Vineyards
6,000 years of history and legacy in every bottle
Elevate your pallet! Indulge in high altitude high altitude Vineyards, and mineral rich volcanic soils
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GRAPE VARIETY: 50 % Areni & 50% Khachet
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Geary Blvd (San Francisco) location:
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