Cost of Groceries In Florida

 The cost of groceries are skyrocketing! It is easy to wonder whether groceries in Florida are more expensive than anywhere else. I have  performed grocery studies in years past to show that groceries are NOT more expensive in Florida (as long as you stay away from Publix, which is outrageously expensive!)

I did a study back in 2014 that compared Western New York grocery prices to Central Florida (Click here) and discovered that if you normally shop at Walmart or Aldies for groceries, the prices are about the same. Has much changed in the past ten years?

I recently decided to make a beef stew and was shocked to find how expensive the beef stew meat was at my Florida Walmart. So, I decided to do a comparison:

Wegmans in Western New York: $8/99/lb

Walmart in Western New York: $8.48/lb

Publix in Central Florida: $10.49/lb

Walmart in Central Florida: $8.48lb

Given this rather limited study, my conclusions from 2014 are confirmed to still be true: Publix is expensive. Walmart in Western New York and Central Florida are the same. And we all love Wegmans (their meat is so much better than Walmart). But the point is: groceries are not necessarily more expensive in Florida if you are used to shopping at Walmart.