Grocery Prices From Selected Supermarket In Harare Zimbabwe For The Week Of 12 September

This week there has been an increase in interest in the prices of basic commodities as they continue to go up as they have been doing for the past few months. Of particular concern is the price of mealie-meal.

There have been reports in other publications that the price has gone as high as $68, Zimpricecheck.com didn’t see prices this high when we conducted our latest price survey in Harare, maybe it’s just a Bulawayo thing for now. We can also state with certainty that the assertion that prices have gone up by 100% compared to last week’s prices is also not true when it comes to Harare.

Anyway below are the latest grocery prices as of 12 September 2019

Things to note

• na means the item was not available in surveyed branches, items that were in low supply include:
  • Mealie-meal, Jade soap,
  • macaroni 3kgs (it seems shops prefer the more profitable smaller packages)
  • and of course, bread is as elusive as ever
• np means we couldn’t determine the price, this was in the case of refined mealie-meal in OK, when we didn’t find a branch that had Parlenta we couldn’t find out the price. Later we did and we have updated accordingly.
• TM Pick N Pay Jason Moyo/Second Street stubbornly refuses to put Royco on its shelves, we haven’t seen the 50g sachets on those shelves in months.
• Sugar supply has improved
• When it comes to eggs the price differences can be quite wild. Irvines shrink wrapped large were selling for $51.30 in Choppies, that’s by far the largest price increase we have seen. They were selling for $21.99 when Choppies last had eggs in stock back at the end of July. That’s the only 100% price increase we know of and it didn’t happen in a week.