About Grocery Snip

What this site is

Grocery Snip shows the produce prices US supermarkets advertise, from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service weekly survey of grocery circulars and digital promotions. Prices are averages of advertised feature prices, not shelf prices, and no store is named.

Grocery Snip is a weekly guide to what produce US supermarkets advertise. This release covers the report week ads ending during 9/19/2026 to 10/1/2026, which counts 301,690 ads from a weekly survey of about 271 retailers advertising in circulars and digital promotions, covering about 29,700 stores.

Where the figures come from

The source is named the way the fetch record names it. Publisher: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Specialty Crops Market News. Report: Weekly Grocery Store Specialty Crops Feature Activity (FVWRETAIL). Report date: Fri Sep 25, 2026. Source page: https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/3324.

The figures were fetched on 2026-10-02 (fetch record timestamp 2026-10-02T03:31:00Z). The report is published weekly and this site carries the one report week named above and no other; as the report is superseded, these pages are rebuilt from the new one.

What the numbers mean, and what they do not

• Average advertised price is the report’s simple weighted average of the feature prices retailers advertised in circulars and digital promotions that week. It is not a shelf price and it is not a price at any particular store.
• Number of ads is how many advertised features the survey counted for that commodity, variety and unit.
• These pages carry the report’s national summary rows only (not including AK & HI). The report’s regional tables are not republished here, so no regional or store-level price appears anywhere on this site, and no store or chain is named next to a price.
• Where the report printed no figure for last week or the same week last year, the page says not reported. Nothing is filled in, estimated or carried over.
• Changes are stated only where both this week and the same week last year are reported, and are computed from those two figures.

Correction

Earlier versions of this site published material that was not drawn from any real source. That material has been removed and replaced with the USDA AMS figures described on this page. The removed material included store and chain names next to prices, regional pages, category and savings pages, and an email newsletter; none of that is part of the site now, and no page links to it.

Before you shop

Prices come from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service weekly survey of advertised grocery prices; check your store’s own flyer before you shop.

What is on the site

• Every commodity — 82 commodity pages, one per commodity that has a row in the report.
• Every organic row in one table.
• The 20 most advertised conventional rows this week.
• The parsed figures as JSON — the same numbers these pages are built from.

Licence and contact

The source report is a US government work in the public domain. Write to hello@grocerysnip.com with corrections — see contact.