Data subscriptions & API access
Independent price intelligence for research and decision-making. Track advertised grocery prices across 13 cities and 21 banners, delivered as analysis-ready files or a production API.
Explore the original reporting and documented attributions in our press & citations archive.
For your work
See a dated competitor-price example, then request a check of your priority products.
Competitor price checks ↗Food-cost researchAssess Canadian city benchmark prices, with pack sizes, dates and comparison limits.
Food-basket price data ↗Choose your access
Evaluate the index, bring weekly files into your research, or connect the full panel to your systems.
All prices in USD · CAD invoicing available
For exploration & evaluation
Explore the aggregate index and assess the fit for your research.
On request
Evaluation access
Aggregate index · licensed access
For institutional research
The complete weekly panel, ready for your team’s analysis.
$1,250USD / month
$12,500 USD / year by contract
File delivery · no production API access
Founding offer: $750 USD/month for the first 3 months with a private code. Five redemptions total.
For data integration
A production data feed for your models, tools and workflows.
$2,500USD / month
Monthly self-serve billing
Team Data: $12,500 USD/year. Commercial API: $25,000 USD/year by contract, 17% below twelve monthly payments. Purchase orders and CAD invoicing available. Self-serve annual API checkout remains $30,000 USD.
The details, side by side
The methodology is public. Data access, delivery and historical vintages depend on your licence.
Swipe or scroll horizontally to compare all three plans.
| Included access | Research | Team Data | Commercial API |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggregate index | National, city and banner series | Weekly files + vintages from subscription start | Weekly series + complete vintage archive |
| Per-item observations | Not included | Full CSV and Parquet panel | Full panel via files and API |
| Product catalogue | Public basket list | Included in weekly files | Products endpoint + weekly files |
| Shrinkflation | Public highlights | Included in weekly files | Detections with confidence grades |
| Delivery | Index endpoint + monthly CSV | Secure weekly downloads | Authenticated REST API + files |
| Availability | Live index; CSV delayed 14 days | Same week, after quality checks | Same week, after quality checks |
| Access | Key required; ~60 requests/min per IP | Five named institutional users | Per-key quota for your workflow |
| Licence | Internal use; attribution when cited | Internal institutional use | Internal use; redistribution by agreement |
| Support | Best effort; no SLA | Onboarding + email support | Implementation + email support |
Thursday collection, with Friday re-collection for cities below 90% store coverage. Reporting weeks end on Sunday in Canadian local time.
Cells publish after clearing the 60% coverage floor, typically Thursday or Friday. Thin cells are suppressed.
CSV and Parquet for analysis. Authenticated REST JSON with cursor paging for integration. A published OpenAPI specification for implementation.
The geography behind the data
From Vancouver to St. John’s, follow the same grocery basket across distinct Canadian markets.
Coverage varies by city and banner. Advertised shelf prices from the configured store panel.
Inside the dataset
A published national observation from the same table that serves the index endpoint. Expand the response to inspect the last two weeks and their metadata.
Explore city and banner series, product information and per-item prices in the API reference.
/api/public/index?level=national&category=overall{
"date": "2026-10-11",
"index_value": 98.38,
"basket_cost_cad": 282.21,
"pct_change_wow": -0.344,
"item_count": 50
}{
"meta": {
"source": "GroceryPulse CGPI",
"series": "v2",
"endpoint": "public/index",
"license": "Licensed to the subscriber. Redistribution, resale or public republication of the underlying data requires a separate licence (sales@grocerypulse.ca).",
"note": "Aggregate index only. Per-item price microdata is available under license via /api/v1/prices.",
"filters": {
"series": "v2",
"level": "national",
"category": "overall",
"city": "all",
"banner": "all",
"from": "2026-07-19",
"to": "2026-10-11"
},
"limit": 5000,
"offset": 0,
"count": 2,
"has_more": false,
"next_offset": null,
"generated_at": "2026-10-11T03:01:27.811Z"
},
"observations": [
{
"date": "2026-10-04",
"city": null,
"retailer": null,
"category": null,
"index_value": 98.72,
"basket_cost_cad": 290.42,
"pct_change_wow": 0.622,
"pct_change_mom": -0.162,
"item_count": 50,
"total_items": 50
},
{
"date": "2026-10-11",
"city": null,
"retailer": null,
"category": null,
"index_value": 98.38,
"basket_cost_cad": 282.21,
"pct_change_wow": -0.344,
"pct_change_mom": -0.606,
"item_count": 50,
"total_items": 50
}
]
}Built for a closer look
Economics
Follow weekly movements in advertised grocery prices across cities, banners and categories. Put promotional cycles and regional differences in context.
Equity research
Compare basket costs and category trends across Loblaw, Empire and Metro banners, including their discount formats.
Retail intelligence
Compare 21 banners in 13 cities on a consistent 50-item basket. Examine local price gaps and promotional activity.
Academic research
Study regional price dispersion, pass-through and shrinkflation with documented methods. Contact us about academic and public-interest research access.
Start with your research question
Tell us what you need to measure. We’ll respond with a relevant sample, coverage notes and evaluation terms.
Share your use case, cities, banners and preferred delivery.
Qualified teams receive a focused 14-day evaluation with the relevant methodology and coverage notes.
Subscribe online or arrange an annual contract. Receive secure files or integrate the API with onboarding support.
Prefer email? sales@grocerypulse.ca
Transparent by design
A useful dataset starts with a clear view of what it measures.
Walmart and Costco are outside the historical index. Separately verified Walmart prices, when published, have their own dates and coverage. Giant Tiger has partial basket coverage. The index measures the covered banners and is not a census of the Canadian grocery market.
13 published weeks are currently available. The continuous series supports weekly and since-inception analysis. Year-over-year comparisons require a full year of comparable data.
Headline, category, city and banner series share the week of July 13, 2026 = 100. Index levels show change from that base; basket costs in CAD support absolute price comparisons.
Prices come from public retailer storefronts and may differ from in-store shelf prices, particularly for weight-priced produce and meat. Loyalty-only and in-store-only promotions are not captured.
Before you get started
Need help with procurement, licensing or a specific research requirement? Talk to us.
Use the data for internal research, models and analysis, and quote derived figures in published or client-facing work with attribution to GroceryPulse. Redistribution, resale, sub-licensing or embedding the underlying observations in a product requires a separate written licence. Discuss licensing.
The continuous published panel begins in July 2026. Team Data includes point-in-time files from your subscription start; Commercial API includes the complete vintage archive. A March–June 2026 pilot is available as series=v1 under its earlier methodology and is not chained to the current series. Year-over-year comparisons require a full year of comparable observations.
Yes. Observations are append-only, but the index is recomputed under versioned normalization code, so a corrected product match can change a historical figure. Point-in-time vintages preserve the figures as originally published for backtesting. Methodology changes are dated and documented in the methodology.
Self-serve Stripe subscriptions are billed in USD. Annual institutional contracts can be invoiced in CAD against a purchase order, at a rate fixed on the contract date. Grocery prices and basket costs in the dataset are recorded in CAD. Request a CAD quote.
The self-serve annual checkout is $30,000 USD, equal to twelve monthly payments. The $25,000 USD annual institutional commitment is contracted directly through sales, with purchase-order and CAD invoicing options. Request annual contract terms.
Yes. Tell us your use case and coverage requirements using the evaluation form. Qualified teams can receive a focused 14-day evaluation with relevant coverage notes. Research access is available on request; the aggregate index and monthly CSV packs require licensed access.
Independent data. Documented methods. A direct line to the team.
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