Smopper Insights
Grocery prices around Pittsburgh. A blog.
I’m Ashley. I built Smopper and I write everything here. Usually a post starts because something in a store did not add up and I went home to check it against the data. If I cannot verify a number, I leave it out. About me
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June 30, 2026·Price Trends
The Same Gallon of Milk, Four Miles Apart
Two branches of one chain, same week, same product, different price. We checked 1,556 products across multiple locations to find out how often that happens and in which aisles. The answer was not the one I expected.
June 9, 2026·Price Trends
Living through a kitchen renovation
Buying a hundred-year-old house and losing the kitchen to a renovation. What it cost to feed a household without one, and what that revealed about my normal food spending.
January 27, 2026·Price Trends
Grocery Pricing Psychology
Endcaps, eye-level shelves, charm pricing and the loss leader. How supermarket layout and price presentation are designed to move you, and what to do about it.
November 13, 2025·Price Trends
What a Free Turkey Actually Costs: The Threshold Promo, Worked Out
Spend $150, get a free turkey. I ran the numbers on our own price data to find out when that offer is genuinely good and when it quietly costs you money.
September 10, 2025·Price Trends
I Weighed 31 Packages in My Own Pantry. Eleven Had Shrunk.
A shrinkflation story sent me to my kitchen scale with a notebook. Here is what a month of checking net weights against old receipts and archived listings actually turned up.
Prices move and they are different four miles away, so check your own store before you count on anything I write. If a post has gone stale or looks wrong where you shop, tell me and I will fix it. You can also price your own list with the same data these posts come from.