Smopper compares grocery prices across the stores near you, converts every package to a common unit, and shows you where your list comes out cheapest.
Have a look
These are real numbers out of the database, not a mockup. Each bar is the typical price per unit at that chain around Pittsburgh, so you can see how far apart the same everyday item sits from one store to the next.
Pittsburgh is just the starting point. Set your own area in the compare tool and it will price the list you actually shop.
Price my listShelf prices and weekly flyers come in from the stores near you on a schedule, so the data is in place before you ever search.
Every package drops to one common unit. Fourteen ounces, two packs of twelve, a pound, a dozen: all of it lands on the same scale.
Store brands get lined up against the name brands they stand in for, so you are weighing two things you would actually swap.
Results sort by what an item truly costs you. No store can buy a better spot, because there is no mechanism to sell one.
I started this because friends kept texting me photos of shelf tags with the same question attached: is this a good deal? It is harder than it looks, mostly because the label is built so you cannot answer it standing there.
So the rule I build by is a plain one. If a number cannot be verified, Smopper shows a gap rather than a guess. That leaves some categories thinner than I would like. I would still rather show you nothing than show you something invented.
Ashley
Founder and editor. More about why I built this.
Inflation
Food-at-home prices rose 2.7% over the past year. Our own price data says the gap between two stores four miles apart is thirty to sixty percent. One of those numbers is in the news every month.
August 11, 2026
Where prices are heading around here, which stores win which aisles, and what the data says once a few months of it pile up.
Milk, eggs, bread, coffee, whatever your household runs through without thinking about it. A few cents an ounce on the staples adds up to real money across a year, which is why that is the first place worth looking.
