GroceryPulse Canada

GroceryPulse collects grocery prices from the major chains in 16 Canadian cities, including all 10 provincial capitals, and keeps the date of every price. Give it a shopping list as you wrote it, in English or French, with your city or the first three characters of your postal code. It matches each line to a tracked item, totals the list at each chain, and names the cheapest store only when every compared item has a recent price at two or more chains and the lead is clear; otherwise it says why. Each item links to the store's own product page or search, so you can check the price and fill your own cart.

Coverage: about 50 everyday reference items, sampled stores of each chain, prices at most 8 days old. A price is the middle price across a chain's sampled stores, not a quote for one branch; the store sets the final price and stock. Lines it does not track, or tracks only in another size or brand, are reported and never priced as something else.

Limits: Canada only (Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Moncton, Fredericton, Halifax, Charlottetown, St. John's). A town inside one of these metro areas gets that city's prices, marked as such. It is read-only: it cannot buy groceries, add to a cart, pay, save lists or send email. No GroceryPulse account is needed.