Kepie Watch · Origin Trade · this week
Fresh NZ vs Imported Tin
Fresh NZ-grown costs four cents more per 100g than imported tinned chunks. Your call.
Whole · fresh · NZ-grown
$0.44
per 100g
Tinned · imported · cheapest
$0.40
per 100g
Same supermarket. Different fruit. NZ-grown whole costs four cents more per 100g than imported tinned chunks — and the tin keeps for a year.
PAK'nSAVE
Gold Pineapple
~900g (whole)
$3.99
$0.44 per 100g
Measured at PAK'nSAVE on .
SKU 5040020-EA-000
PAK'nSAVE
Pineapple Chunks In Juice
425g tin · Pams
$1.69
$0.40 per 100g
Measured at PAK'nSAVE on .
SKU 5006036-EA-000
Different products: fresh vs tinned; NZ-grown vs imported. We're comparing per-gram value, not equivalent SKUs.
Both products measured at PAK'nSAVE in the week ending 21 May 2026. How we choose →
Per 100g, side by side
The shorter bar is the cheaper one — and it’s the tin.
"Fresh and local costs $0.04 more per 100g than tinned and imported. Your call."
Kepie Watch · Issue 001
What it means
Two trades in one tin: form and origin.
Two pineapples on the same PAK’nSAVE shelf. One is a whole NZ-grown gold pineapple at $3.99 — work out the trim and the edible fruit costs $0.44 per 100g. The other is a 425g tin of Pams chunks in juice at $1.69 — $0.40 per 100g, already prepped.
The price gap is four cents per 100g. Small. The shelf-life gap is bigger — the tin keeps for a year unopened; the fresh one wilts in a week.
But the comparison isn’t apples-to-apples. NZ doesn’t grow pineapples commercially — the fruit in the tin is imported, even with a Pams sticker on it. So you’re trading two things at once: fresh-vs-tinned AND NZ-grown-vs-imported.
If buying NZ-grown matters more than four cents per 100g, the whole pineapple is still the answer. If you want the cheaper number AND a tin that lasts a year, the chunks win. We’ll keep both honest.
We pick the cheapest valid SKU per category at each store every Friday. The two pineapple SKUs above are the actual products we measured.
How we measure prices →