Store comparison · New Westminster, BC

What a week of groceries costs at every New Westminster grocery store

The same basket of 240 dinners is $8.06 a serving at Safeway and $10.50 at Save-On-Foods. That is about $24.40 a week apart for five dinners for two. Every price comes from the store's own listings and is re-checked daily.

2 banners compared240 dinners in the basket

New Westminster splits between two banners: three Save-On-Foods stores cover downtown Columbia Street, uptown at Royal City Centre and Sapperton, and Safeway anchors New Westminster Station and McBride. Satiafy tracks their shelf and sale prices daily and plans complete dinners around what is actually cheap this week, with Burnaby's banners minutes up the hill when you want to compare.

Prices at New Westminster stores last confirmed . We re-check every day.

The same basket, priced at every New Westminster store

StorePer servingBasket totalDifferenceSaved by this week's sales
SafewayNew Westminster Station and McBrideLOWEST$8.06$3,867.14-$445.74
Save-On-Foodsdowntown Columbia Street, Royal City Centre and Sapperton$10.50$5,038.40+$1,171.26$111.24

The basket is every dinner all 2 banners can price exactly, costed at each store's own current shelf and sale prices, for 480 servings in total. Recipes any one store cannot price are excluded rather than filled in from another store, so no banner is credited with a price it does not offer. We price one representative store per banner per region, so your nearest location may differ.

Dinners priced at Safeway this week

What the winner's prices look like on a plate: complete recipes from our box, each priced at Safeway's own shelf and sale prices.

Cacio e Pepe-Style Spaghetti with Garlic Greens

$3.05 /serving

Bacon Carbonara-Style Spaghetti with Dressed Greens

$3.57 /serving

Sesame Garlic Noodles with Crispy Chickpeas

$3.59 /serving

Questions about New Westminster grocery prices

Which grocery store is cheapest in New Westminster right now?
Safeway. We priced the same basket of 240 dinners at every New Westminster banner we track using each store's own current prices, and Safeway came out lowest at $8.06 a serving. The same basket is $10.50 a serving at Save-On-Foods, about $24.40 a week apart for five dinners for two.
How do you work out which New Westminster store is cheapest?
We take every dinner recipe that all 2 New Westminster banners can price exactly, cost each one at each store's own shelf and sale prices, and add them up. It is the same basket everywhere, so the comparison is like for like. Recipes that any one store cannot price are left out entirely rather than being filled in with another store's prices.
Does the cheapest grocery store in New Westminster change week to week?
The ranking moves as sales rotate, which is why the basket is repriced every day rather than written once. Discount banners usually lead on regular prices, but a full-service store running a strong week of specials can close most of the gap, and the sale savings column shows which banner is discounting hardest right now.
Which New Westminster store has the best grocery prices?
Over a whole basket, Safeway. But no single banner wins every aisle, and the gap on any one item is often small. The table above ranks by the total for the same set of dinners, which is the number that actually decides your bill, rather than by who advertises the loudest.
Which New Westminster store has the most promotions right now?
That changes weekly with the flyer cycle, and it is not the same question as which store is cheapest overall: a banner with high regular prices can run the deepest promotions and still cost more for the week. The sale savings column above shows what each store's current promotions are worth against the same basket.
Are these New Westminster grocery prices exact?
They come from each chain's own online listings for a representative New Westminster-area store, re-checked daily. Prices and stock vary a little between locations of the same banner, and delivery platforms add their own markup on top of shelf prices.

Better still: shop the week, not the store

No single banner wins every aisle every week. Satiafy plans a week of dinners around whatever is actually on sale near you, prices the list at each of your stores, and fills the cart for you at checkout.

Get this week's menuNew Westminster deals this week

Head-to-head matchups: Safeway vs Save-On-Foods

Rather shop one store? Five banners match a competitor’s advertised price on the identical item. See which stores price match, and what is matchable this week.

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