Checking Out Grocery Prices With The Stop and Shop Sausage Lady
Chelmsford grocery hunt for week of Feb. 18, 2013
Last week we restarted the grocery hunt, and this week we continue with items requested by Chelmsford Patch's Facebook fans.
So, yesterday (Feb. 18), we went to Chelmsford's three supermarkets and checked out who had the lowest prices for the items requested by our readers, as well as from free samples from Jeanine the sausage lady at Stop and Shop (pictured).
All prices or availability may change without warning, prices may contain taxes or fees not indicated on labeling. Aisles are indicated by parentheses, the lowest price is indicated in bold italics.
| Stop and Shop | Market Basket | Hannaford | |
| Silk Milk (half gal.) | $3.29 | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Apples (prices and type availability vary) | $.99 to $2.49 lb. | $.99 lb. | $.99 to $2.39 lb. |
| Oyster Sauce | $4.99, 18 oz. (13) | $2.99, 4 oz. (4) | n/a |
| Teddy Peanut Butter (16 oz.) | $3.39 (11) | 2/$6 (20) | $3.59 (13) |
| Spam (12 oz.) | $2.29 (12) | 2/$5 (2) | $2.69 (5) |
| Kikkoman Soy Sauce (10 oz.) | $2.39 (13) | 2/$3 (4) | $1.99 (6) |
And here's overall scoreboard for times each store had the lowest price on an item so far combining this week and last week
| Hannaford | 3 |
| Ties | 3 |
| Market Basket |
3 |
| Stop and Shop |
2 |
Anna Bucciarelli
7:30 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Sausage Lady ? Who knew? What exactly does she do?
Eileen Cushing-Craig
8:53 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Looks to me as though the Sausage Lady is one of those people that is hired to cook up and hand out samples of the product. I did that for a while, when my kids were young. She probably doesn't actually work for Stop and Shop.
Andrew Sylvia
9:12 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Yup, she said she also gives out samples at Hannaford and Donelan's locations nearby. She was at Stop and Shop yesterday while I was getting the prices.
Irene
8:16 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Market Basket is the ONLY place to shop. Great prices and everything you need!
Anna Bucciarelli
10:07 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Agree ... I shop at the Billerica MB, in the same plaza as Joanne Fabric ... it's a bit smaller, but far less crowded and all the same good goods, same amount of drive time from my house to and fro, plus it's clean and friendly.
Don Desfosse
5:49 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
(Pssst.... Andrew! You may want to double check the Kikkoman.... If Market Basket is 2 for $3, that's $1.50 each, which handily beats the other two....)
Andrew Sylvia
7:25 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Whoops! Sorry about that, my bad. Fixing now.
Don Desfosse
5:51 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
And, my opinion, no fair on the oyster sauce to mix different sizes. Most of the cost of a product is in the packaging, so you can't really compare different sizes (at least not that sizes that are that disparate!).
Andrew Sylvia
7:28 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
On that one, there's nothing I can do. Not all grocery stores have the exact same items when it comes to certain things.
fatty arbuckle
1:58 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
i remember her from the howard stern show