CGPI basket item · weekly
Bottled Water, 24-pack 500mL
Item 44 of 50·24-count·priced per package
What this item costs, week by week, at each grocery banner we track. Prices are online list prices read from publicly accessible retailer websites — they can differ from the shelf, particularly for weight-priced produce and meat.
Cheapest tracked banner
$0.94
Foodland · per package
Week ending July 26, 2026
Most expensive
$11.99
Safeway
Spread
$11.05
1176% more at the dearest banner
Banners priced
21
in the latest week · 149 stores
Median, wk / wk
+0.0%
median $3.99 across banners
Weight in the CGPI basket
1.3%
Bottled Water, 24-pack 500mL carries 1.3% of the 50-item basket, inside a Beverages category weighted 7% of the headline index. Read concretely: if this item alone rose 10% and nothing else moved, the national CGPI would rise by roughly 0.13%.
Weekly price by banner
The 8 banners with the most complete weekly coverage of this item. All 21 are in the table below.
- Foodland
- Thrifty Foods
- Your Independent Grocer
- No Frills
- Superstore
- Wholesale Club
- Maxi
- Fortinos
Each line is one banner's median price across its tracked stores that week. A break in a line is a week with no matched price at that banner — the item was not carried, not listed online, or its match was quarantined. Gaps are never interpolated, and prices are never carried forward from a previous week.
View as table — 8 weeks × 21 banners
| Week ending | Foodland8/8 wks | Thrifty Foods8/8 wks | Your Independent Grocer8/8 wks | No Frills8/8 wks | Superstore8/8 wks | Wholesale Club8/8 wks | Maxi8/8 wks | Metro7/8 wks | Fortinos8/8 wks | Giant Tiger6/8 wks | Loblaws8/8 wks | Provigo8/8 wks | Save-On-Foods8/8 wks | Dominion8/8 wks | Atlantic Superstore8/8 wks | Food Basics8/8 wks | Voilà8/8 wks | FreshCo8/8 wks | IGA8/8 wks | Sobeys8/8 wks | Safeway8/8 wks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-26 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.25 | $3.26 | $3.27 | $3.29 | $3.29 | $3.74 | $3.79 | $3.97 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $4.58 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| 2026-07-19 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.25 | $3.26 | $3.00 | $3.29 | $3.29 | $5.98 | $2.99 | $3.97 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $4.69 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $4.58 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| 2026-07-12 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.00 | $3.26 | $2.49 | $3.29 | $3.29 | $5.98 | $3.79 | $3.97 | $3.50 | $3.99 | $4.69 | $3.00 | $3.00 | $4.58 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| 2026-07-05 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.99 | $3.27 | $3.29 | $3.29 | $3.29 | $5.98 | $3.79 | $3.97 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $5.49 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $4.58 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| 2026-06-28 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.99 | $3.00 | $2.99 | $3.00 | $2.98 | — | $3.79 | $3.97 | $3.44 | $3.50 | $5.49 | $2.75 | $2.75 | $2.99 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| 2026-06-21 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.99 | $3.27 | $2.99 | $3.00 | $3.29 | $3.49 | $3.79 | $3.97 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $4.58 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| 2026-06-14 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.99 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $4.98 | $5.50 | $5.98 | $5.98 | — | $6.98 | $6.98 | $5.79 | $6.00 | $6.58 | $4.58 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
| 2026-06-07 | $0.94 | $0.99 | $3.99 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.50 | $5.50 | $5.98 | $5.98 | — | $6.98 | $6.98 | $5.79 | $6.00 | $6.58 | $4.58 | $4.79 | $9.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 | $11.99 |
Item panel inception June 2026 · collected weekly · reporting weeks end Sunday · 8 weekly points from June 7, 2026 to July 26, 2026 · 1,119 store-level prices across 149 stores in 13 cities. This page shows up to the most recent 26 weeks. Week-over-week and since-inception changes only — the published record starts in June 2026, so there is no year-over-year comparison to make yet. Panel coverage: 13 cities, 22 banners, roughly 160 stores, a 50-item basket in 9 categories; Walmart and Costco are not covered and Giant Tiger coverage is partial. Read the methodology →
How to read this page
- One price per banner per week
- Within a week we keep the most recent observation for each store and matched SKU — Friday catch-up runs would otherwise double-count a re-scraped store — then take the median across that banner's stores. The median rather than the minimum: this is a national figure, and a minimum would quietly become “the single cheapest store in Canada” and jump on any one promotion.
- It is a descriptive price, not an index value
- The CGPI is a chained, weighted matched-model calculation over the whole basket. The dollar figures here are the underlying observations, useful for levels and for cross-banner spread. The week-over-week figure above is the move in an unweighted median across the banners priced in each week, so a banner entering or dropping out can shift it on its own — that is exactly the composition effect a matched-model index is built to remove. For measured inflation, use the Beverages sub-index.
- Sizes are matched, not assumed
- Every price here is for a SKU matched to the canonical 24-count specification for this item, within the size tolerance recorded in the basket definition. Weight-priced staples are collected per package. Manually verified wrong matches are quarantined out before anything reaches this page.
See this item in context
Bottled Water, 24-pack 500mL by city
The figures above are national. Each city page prices the full 50-item basket at every banner tracked in that city, including this item — banner lineups are genuinely regional, so a city table is the right place to compare what is actually available to you.
Other Beverages items in the basket
Each has its own weekly panel, basket weight and banner-by-banner table.