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FILE-A customer shops in a grocery store on March 11, 2026 in Miami, Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n
Shoppers looking to stretch their grocery budgets may want to take a closer look at Kroger.<\/p>\n
The Ohio-based grocer<\/a> had the cheapest store-brand grocery basket in a new price comparison of four major U.S. grocery chains.<\/p>\n A new study from Restaurant Furniture Plus compared the cost of 15 store-brand essentials at Kroger, Walmart, Aldi and Albertsons, including milk, bread, eggs, chicken breast, spaghetti, canned beans and baking items, Southern Living reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kroger ranked No. 1 with a total basket cost of $30.<\/p>\n MORE AMERICANS ARE RELYING ON CREDIT CARDS TO BUY GROCERIES, NEW STUDY FINDS<\/a><\/p>\n The grocer had the lowest prices on 10 of the 15 items analyzed, more than any other retailer in<\/a> the study, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n Kroger, which operates roughly 1,229 grocery stores across 16 states<\/a>, also offered the lowest prices on several pantry staples, including canned diced tomatoes, spaghetti and sugar, as well as a dozen large eggs.<\/p>\n Walmart came in second with a basket total of $30.95, followed by Aldi at $33.15 and Albertsons at $35.58, Southern Living reported.<\/p>\n CALIFORNIA GROCERY PRICES COULD RISE AS PLASTIC PACKAGING LAW TAKES EFFECT<\/a><\/p>\n However, Aldi\u2019s store-brand dairy products stood out as a particularly strong value, the study noted.<\/p>\n The survey did not include Costco<\/a>, Trader Joe\u2019s, H-E-B or Piggly Wiggly. Trader Joe\u2019s was excluded because it did not carry some items in the comparison, while Costco\u2019s bulk model made single-item price comparisons difficult, Southern Living reported.<\/p>\n The findings come as many Americans<\/a> continue to feel squeezed at the grocery store.<\/p>\n COSTCO MAKES PAYMENT CHANGE THAT COULD SPEED UP CHECKOUT FOR MEMBERS<\/a><\/p>\n Food prices have climbed 32% over the past five years, pushing more than one in four working-age Americans into credit card debt to cover regular grocery bills, according to a new Urban Institute study released Monday.<\/p>\n “Groceries are one of the largest household budget items for families. Over the past five years, food costs have increased substantially,” the report said<\/a>. “This means that families today face persistently higher prices when they go to the grocery store, and food affordability remains a key concern for many.”<\/p>\n FOX Business’ Kristen Altus contributed to this report.<\/p>\n Get the latest updates on this story at FOXBusiness.com<\/a><\/p>\n Business<\/a>Economy<\/a>Consumer<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE-A customer shops in a grocery store on March 11, 2026 in Miami, Florida. Photo by Joe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21128],"tags":[21143,94,21241,1954,42,21144,40513],"class_list":["post-63349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-aldi","tag-aldi","tag-business","tag-consumer","tag-money","tag-news","tag-sud-nord","tag-us-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}