Supermarket sale prices, Stop & Shop
(Stores ranked by total cost of sale items)
Source: Boston Globe survey, Oct. 24-30, 2003
The Boston Globe compared prices on selected items from sales circulars at Stop & Shop and Shaw's supermarkets in eastern Massachusetts to see how much prices varied from store to store. Below is the list of stores, the prices for the selected items, and the totals. The last column shows how much that store's total varied from the median of all stores. The median is the point at which half the stores charged more, and half charged less. The survey covered the week of Oct. 24 throught Oct. 30.
The Stop & Shop items are 2-liter Coke, Bumble Bee tuna (4-pack), and half-gallon Friendly's Ice Cream. The median price for these items was $6.28.
| Stop & Shop store | Coke | Tuna | Friendly's | Total | Over/under the $6.28 median |
| Abington | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Allston | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Amesbury | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Bedford | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Braintree | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Brookline | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Cohasset | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Framingham Old Conn | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Framingham Temple | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Hingham | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Lexington | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Natick | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Roxbury | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Shrewsbury | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Swampscott | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Westborough Lyman | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Westborough Turnpike | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Weymouth | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Whitman | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | 18% |
| Acton | $0.79 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.28 | 16% |
| Dorchester Morrissey | $0.89 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.87 | 9% |
| Norwood | $0.89 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.87 | 9% |
| Revere VFW | $0.89 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.87 | 9% |
| Brigham Circle | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Jamaica Plain | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Norwell | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Pembroke | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Stoughton | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Walpole | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Watertown Pleasant | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Watertown Watertown | $0.79 | $3.99 | $1.99 | $6.77 | 8% |
| Raynham | $0.79 | $3.79 | $1.99 | $6.57 | 5% |
| Arlington | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Beverly Elliott | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Beverly Enon | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Chelmsford | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Danvers | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Everett | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Franklin | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Hudson | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Lynn | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Malden Broadway | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Malden Charles | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Medford | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Methuen | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Milford | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| North Andover | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| North Reading | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Peabody | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Revere Squire | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Saugus | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Stoneham | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Winchester | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Woburn | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | 0% |
| Brockton Belmont | $0.59 | $3.99 | $1.50 | $6.08 | -3% |
| Brockton Montello | $0.59 | $3.99 | $1.50 | $6.08 | -3% |
| Holbrook | $0.59 | $3.99 | $1.50 | $6.08 | -3% |
| Dedham | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Dorchester South Bay | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Hyde Park | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Kingston | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Plymouth | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Quincy Newport | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Quincy Southern | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Roslindale | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| South Boston | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| West Roxbury | $0.89 | $2.99 | $1.99 | $5.87 | -7% |
| Median | $0.79 | $2.99 | $2.50 | $6.28 | |
| Highest | $0.89 | $3.99 | $2.50 | $7.38 | |
| Lowest | $0.59 | $2.99 | $1.50 | $5.87 |
