The Drop · Worth the Trip · The Gap · Then vs Now · Tirana vs The World. Same skeleton every week. Sourced from published flyers. Free.
Weekly — every Friday
The flagship ritual. Every Friday: 12 staples priced across every chain we read. The cheapest total wins. Same basket every week. Results compound into an inflation series.
Weekly — Saturdays
The same basket or staple, priced in Tirana and in a diaspora city — Milan, London, New York. The multiple shown plainly. Published weekly. Bilingual: English + Albanian. Numbers identical.
Weekly / as notable moves appear
The same item. An archived price from months ago. A price from this week. The trend shown plainly. Published when a notable move appears. Authority content.
Weekly
The weekly utility roundup. Only the discounts actually worth the trip — curated from all flyers, not every deal. Published weekly. Source: retailer + flyer dates on every item.
2–3× per week
One staple. Every chain we read. Ranked cheapest to most expensive. The gap — in lekë and % — shown plainly. Published 2–3 times per week. The share trigger.
Per flyer cycle
SPAR / Interspar Albania publishes weekly flyers with prices valid across their Tirana and national branches. We read each one.
Always
No account. No paywall. No upsell. The price is the product — not you. Here is how GroceryCosts sustains itself without charging shoppers.
Per flyer cycle
Conad Albania publishes weekly flyers with prices valid in their Tirana stores. We read each one.
Every week
Every week: flyer drops. We read it. We extract the prices. We post the comparisons. You know the cost.