Free State Cost of Living basket

SA Essential Grocery Basket

A fixed basket of everyday South African grocery staples for like-for-like price tracking.

Shopper basket: the basket now follows the things people actually put in a trolley — Milk, Bread, Butter, Eggs, Rice, Coffee and similar staples. A broad item can include its normal choices. For example, click Bread to see White, Brown, Rye and their current comparable prices. Brand and retailer differences stay underneath the commodity/SKU level.

Basket setup warning: some basket items overlap and could count the same commodity twice.

Milk overlaps with Full Cream Milk (1 shared commodity).

Place Calculation Retailer (for retailer calculation)

Local view: only verified prices assigned to Free State or one of its smaller areas are used. Missing items stay missing; national prices are not substituted. Market average gives equal weight to each SKU/retailer price cell so one retailer with many repeated observations does not dominate the basket. Choose a retailer to calculate the same basket for that retailer only.

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Basket index

Cost of the same everyday basket over time

Free State · Market average

There are not yet enough matching observations for a complete basket month in this place and calculation mode.

Everyday item	What it includes	Basket quantity	Latest month	Market coverage	Comparable price	Basket cost
Milk Dairy › Milk	1 commodity Full Cream Milk	2 l	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Choices inside MilkThese rows explain the category average; they are not extra basket items. Full CreamDairy › Milk › Full Cream 1 commodity0 verified prices · 0 brands · 0 retailers —No current price
Bread Bakery › Bread	2 commodities Brown Bread, White Bread	0.7 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Choices inside BreadThese rows explain the category average; they are not extra basket items. BrownBakery › Bread › Brown 1 commodity0 verified prices · 0 brands · 0 retailers —No current price RyeBakery › Bread › Rye 0 commodities0 verified prices · 0 brands · 0 retailers —No current price WhiteBakery › Bread › White 1 commodity0 verified prices · 0 brands · 0 retailers —No current price
Butter Dairy › Butter	1 commodity Butter	0.5 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Sugar Pantry / Food Cupboard › Sugar	2 commodities Brown Sugar, White Sugar	2.5 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Choices inside SugarThese rows explain the category average; they are not extra basket items. Brown SugarPantry / Food Cupboard › Sugar › Brown Sugar 1 commodity0 verified prices · 0 brands · 0 retailers —No current price White SugarPantry / Food Cupboard › Sugar › White Sugar 1 commodity0 verified prices · 0 brands · 0 retailers —No current price
Maize Meal Pantry / Food Cupboard › Grains & Staples › Maize Meal	1 commodity Maize Meal	2.5 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Rice Pantry / Food Cupboard › Grains & Staples › Rice	1 commodity Rice	2 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Cooking Oil Pantry / Food Cupboard › Oils › Cooking Oil	1 commodity Cooking Oil	2 l	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Eggs Dairy › Eggs	1 commodity Eggs	18 each	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Coffee Beverages › Coffee	3 commodities Nescafé Classic, Nescafé Ricoffy, SPAR Pure Instant Coffee	0.2 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Choices inside CoffeeThese rows explain the category average; they are not extra basket items. InstantBeverages › Coffee › Instant 3 commodities0 verified prices · 0 brands · 0 retailers —No current price
Tea Beverages › Tea	1 commodity Tea	0.2 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Chicken Meat & Poultry › Chicken	1 commodity Chicken	1 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Beef Meat & Poultry › Beef	1 commodity Beef	1 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Mayonnaise	1 commodity Mayonnaise	0.75 kg	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Tomato Sauce	1 commodity Tomato Sauce	0.75 l	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—
Full Cream Milk	1 commodity Full Cream Milk	30 l	—	0 verified prices 0 brands · 0 retailers	—	—