Staple Watch · this week
Bread· paraoa
Standard sandwich loaf — the cheapest valid SKU in our catalogue at each supermarket, updated weekly. Worth knowing: the headline pair often mixes a house-brand pack against a name-brand one. The price gap reads first as a brand-tier difference, not a supermarket difference.
Cheapest this week
$3.50/kg
at PAK'nSAVE
What we measured
The two SKUs behind the headline.
PAK'nSAVE
White Toast Fresh Sliced Bread
Pams Value
$3.50/kg
as a 600g pack, $2.07
Measured at PAK'nSAVE on .
SKU 5092911-EA-000
Woolworths
mighty fresh toast bread white
mighty fresh
$5.00/kg
as a 600g pack, $2.99
Measured at Woolworths on .
SKU 692668
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Price history
Bread prices since 29 April 2026
Our weekly price record goes back to 29 April 2026. The chart fills out as the corpus grows.
NZ-Made breakdown
What’s labelled NZ on the shelf this week.
Woolworths: All 10 loaves we measure here carry the NZ-made marker on packaging. The cheapest pack labelled NZ-made comes in at $5.00/kg (mighty fresh toast bread white, 600g pack at $2.99).
PAK'nSAVE: 11 of 12 loaves we measure here carry the NZ-made marker on packaging. The cheapest pack labelled NZ-made comes in at $3.50/kg (Wheatmeal Toast Fresh Sliced Bread, 600g pack at $2.07). The cheapest pack without the marker comes in at $4.30/kg (Multigrain Toast Sliced Bread, 600g pack at $2.56).