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Have lived in Honolulu for 20+ years; am moving to Seattle and have researched food prices online at Safeway.com according to this weeks sale. You can put in zip codes and compare prices. This is what I've found: Honolulu prices vs Seattle prices
Milk: $5.00 vs. 2.69; Kelloggs Cereal: $4.49 vs. $2.50; Whole chicken: $1.49/lb. vs. $.69/lb.; Toilet paper: $6.00 vs. $5.00; Roses for Valentines Day: $28.99 vs. $21.99; Can of tuna fish: $1.00 vs. $.88; Macaroni and Cheese: $1.40 vs. $.80. Plus add sales tax of almost 5%.
Only Safeway and Costco have milk at $5.00; Times and Foodland are always higher, more like $6.50.
I'm from San Francisco and I routinely pay at least $40 more on groceries every time I go to Safeway and KTA here in Hawaii. I never even buy a whole cart load of food and somehow I'm spending nearly $100 on a few groceries. It's getting quite frustrating. The reason for the very recent increase on prices for...about everything in the supermarket is because of the rising fuel costs combined with Hawaii's far off location from mainland distributors. The same story has been in the newspapers every week since especially since the presidential primaries.
I totally agree! Thats all I hear from different people oh my god hawaii is so expensive. I live in boston and vacationed in hawaii 3 times. I LOVE HAWAII!!!
Look again at the Foodland ad. Milk is $3.99 a HALF gallon---that makes it $8 a gallon!
When I first moved here, to Maui, Haiku to be exact, I went to the market and I got staples: milk, bread, eggs, cheese, some fruit...less than 10 items, when I got to the register my total way about $85 dollars! If you look at Sperlings.com it has a great "price of living" calulator. Hawaii is 118% higher than the US average! Places such as Portland are 9%....need I say more. I AM STARVING AND BROKE.
When I first moved here, to Maui, Haiku to be exact, I went to the market and I got staples: milk, bread, eggs, cheese, some fruit...less than 10 items, when I got to the register my total way about $85 dollars! If you look at Sperlings.com it has a great "price of living" calulator. Hawaii is 118% higher than the US average! Places such as Portland are 9%....need I say more. I AM STARVING AND BROKE.
We are surprised at this, are you sure you are shopping at cheapest places? We live in Kiev, Ukraine and want to move to Maui... we're comparing the prices to here and they are cheaper in Hawaii than in Kiev!?!
Maybe Americans find it so expensive because they are used to cheap prices for so many years.
When I first moved here, to Maui, Haiku to be exact, I went to the market and I got staples: milk, bread, eggs, cheese, some fruit...less than 10 items, when I got to the register my total way about $85 dollars! If you look at Sperlings.com it has a great "price of living" calulator. Hawaii is 118% higher than the US average! Places such as Portland are 9%....need I say more. I AM STARVING AND BROKE.
I realize you have to get a few things at the grocery store..thats pretty unavoidable..but even with the high costs in Hawaii its fairly easy to get creative and keep the food bill low.....two words - farmers markets!!! You can get quality foods, and an abundance of them..at very low prices! And they are better for you...no reason to spend all your money on food, and no reason to starve.
If you get all your food from a grocery store and eat the same things that you do where ever you came from, then you probably can't afford to live here.
lets be official, though the markets a much different take a look at local bought foods....craigslist chicken eggs 4.00 to 5.00 local in SC 2.50 may be even 3.00...fruit is even high locally and it is hawaii....I figure by saying the name fruits of flavors, sizes and textures should be abundant...thus yielding low prices...but I have seen avocados in foodland over 2.00 (regular small ones) in downtown honolulu, huge avocados in a independant store for no more than 4.00 kona town, and here in SC (far from hi) 99 cent to 1.30 regular small size...
I figure if someone gets the right technique the customer can be supplied with fruits, eggs, may be even meats, vegetable for decent price...what with constant heat and rain...what disease and flooded crops killing the prices so it would not be profitable for hawaii
Also, by going you get to meet some of the growers and owner of the farms...ask them a few questions...talk stories...even pick your favorite amongst many
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Milk prices
Too expensive to live, I never eat...
