Staple Watch · this week
Capsicums
Winter capsicum prices can swing hard week to week. Red, yellow, green — same plant, very different shelf price. We pick the cheapest valid one at each supermarket. Worth knowing: when the headline pair doesn't match on colour, the gap reads as colour-tier as much as supermarket. Our pool here is thin — back in a few issues once it deepens.
Cheapest this week
$13.27/kg
at PAK'nSAVE
What we measured
The two SKUs behind the headline.
PAK'nSAVE
Yellow Capsicum
$13.27/kg
pack $1.99
Measured at PAK'nSAVE on .
SKU 5046504-EA-000
Woolworths
fresh vegetable capsicum red
fresh vegetable
$19.67/kg
pack $2.95
Measured at Woolworths on .
SKU 281197
We measure the cheapest valid SKU per category at each store every Friday. These are the actual products that drive the prices on this page. How we choose →
Price history
Capsicums prices since 25 May 2026
Our weekly price record goes back to 25 May 2026. The chart fills out as the corpus grows.
NZ-Made breakdown
What’s labelled NZ on the shelf this week.
Woolworths: too few capsicums in our pool this week to call the NZ-made share fairly.
PAK'nSAVE: All 3 capsicums we measure here carry the NZ-made marker on packaging. The cheapest pack labelled NZ-made comes in at $13.27/kg (Yellow Capsicum, $1.99).