We priced a 50-product basket across 9 chains
Published by SaveSmart4 min read
We took one basket and priced it on the same day across 9 chains, from the official price files. The gap between the cheapest and the dearest came out at 43% – 392.50 ₪. Here is the full ranking, and what that number does not mean.
About the data in this article
Every price and gap in this article was measured on 17/08/2026, on a basket of 50 products, across 9 chains, from one representative store per chain, using the price files chains publish as required by the Price Transparency Law. This is a single day's measurement – not a live price, not an average, and not a promise that you will save the same amount.
What exactly we checked
On 17/08/2026 we built a single basket of 50 products and priced it across 9 chains – on the same day, from the same price files every chain is required to publish under the Price Transparency Law. For each chain we picked one representative store, and we matched products by barcode rather than by name.
Matching by barcode is not a technical detail. Two products can carry almost the same name and be different pack sizes, and any comparison that leans on product names ends up comparing different things. An identical barcode means exactly the same product, in the same pack.
What we got out of it is 9 numbers: the price of that basket at each chain, on that day. That is all it is. It is not a live measurement, not an average over time, and not your basket.
The results: the full ranking
From 521.00 ₪ up to 913.50 ₪. Every row in the table is the same basket, on the same day, at the stores we selected.
| # | Chain | vs cheapest | Basket price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Osher Ad | Cheapest in this check | 521.00 ₪ |
| 2 |  Rami Levy | +3.0% | 536.60 ₪ |
| 3 |  Yohananof | +5.9% | 551.80 ₪ |
| 4 |  Salach Dabach | +14.0% | 594.20 ₪ |
| 5 |  Keshet Teamim | +24.7% | 649.60 ₪ |
| 6 |  Stop Market | +37.7% | 717.40 ₪ |
| 7 |  Fresh Market | +46.4% | 762.50 ₪ |
| 8 |  Tiv Taam | +64.3% | 855.90 ₪ |
| 9 |  Super Yuda | +75.3% | 913.50 ₪ |
The cheapest chain in this check was Osher Ad at 521.00 ₪, and the dearest was Super Yuda at 913.50 ₪. The difference between them is 392.50 ₪ – 43% of the cheaper basket.
It is worth looking at the shape of the ranking and not only at its ends. The top three chains sit in a narrow band – Rami Levy, for instance, is only 3% above the cheapest – while the expensive tail pulls away fast. In other words, most of the big gap sits between the cheap group and the expensive chains, not inside the cheap group. If you already shop at one of the top three, there is probably no drama here for you.
What this number says – and what it does not
43% is the gap between the two extremes of this basket, on this day, at these stores. It is a real, measurable number, and that is also all it is.
It does not say that anyone will save 43%. For that you would have had to buy exactly these 50 products, and to move from the most expensive chain in the check to the cheapest one in it. A different basket shows a different gap, and a basket made up mostly of price-controlled products shows a very small one – because their price is set by regulation and is nearly identical at every chain.
Timing matters too. A price file is a snapshot of a moment: a price can change the next day, a promotion can start and end, and another store of the same chain can price differently. That is why every figure we show on the site appears next to the date it was measured.
This is not a promise of a saving
We are not promising a saving of 43%, or of any other percentage. What we can do is show what was measured, when, and by what method – and let you check your own basket, at the chains and stores that are actually available where you live.
What about splitting the shop across several chains?
This is the obvious next question: if you take every product from whichever chain is cheapest for it, what is that worth? We calculated that too, on the same basket and the same day. The sum of the cheapest prices came to 495.90 ₪ – 25.10 ₪ below the cheapest chain's own basket, which is a further 4.8%. Reaching it meant shopping at 4 different stores.
Put differently, choosing the chain is worth roughly nine times as much as splitting the shop. That is a practical conclusion, not a theoretical one: the gain from one extra drive to a second chain is small, and most of the time it does not repay the time, the fuel and the parking.
Splitting still has its place, but as an advanced option rather than a default – for instance when you are passing two stores anyway, or when a single unusually expensive item is dragging the whole basket up.
How to use this in practice
- Build your own basket, not an example one. The gap depends almost entirely on what is in the basket.
- Only compare chains and stores you would genuinely travel to. A saving that needs a 40-minute drive is not a saving.
- Check close to the day you shop. A price measured two weeks ago is history, not a forecast.
- Do not expect movement on price-controlled products. There the price is nearly identical everywhere, and that is the correct result.
And if you want to check our measurement – the price files are public. You can download the file for your own store and redo the calculation from scratch. That is not a theoretical invitation: it is the only thing that makes a number like this worth anything.