A new study confirmed what we’ve been speculating for the past few years, Boston supermarkets are expensive! You go in for a disciplend list of 10 items and leave $150 short.
Or, more precisely, $262.25 short, according to Help Advisor, a financial security company behind the recent study on America’s “most expensive cities for groceries.”
According to the report from Help Advisor, Boston came in at the 12th “most expensive city in America for groceries,” out of the top 14 cities. The average weekly grocery bill for Bostonians is $262.25, which in a month equates to $1049. With rent prices above average too, that leaves very little, if any, disposable income.
The group also conducted similar research, but on the “most expensive states in America for groceries.” To no surprise, Massachusetts ranked at number 14, with an average weekly spend of $271.98. The state might rank above the city in total weekly spend due to more families occupying the suburbs and thus, groceries generally purchased for multiple people.
And while this news is equally unsurprising and disappointing, there is a silver lining, for Boston at least. Miami well surpassed Boston’s number 12 ranking, coming in at America’s most expensive city for groceries, with an average weekly bill of (drumroll please) $327.89! That is over $100 more than Bostonians spend a week, which over the course of one year is an extra $5,200 on groceries!
Boston also ranked below the national city average of $270.21. The most expensive state for groceries is California, with a weekly bill of $297.72 on average. Wisconsin, America’s least expensive state for groceries according to Help Advisor, has an average weekly bill of $221.46.
To publish the study, Help Advisor compiled data from the U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey.
Soaring grocery bills aside, there’s still a lot to love about this city.