I know New Zealand supermarkets are expensive when my first thought of going in to an American Whole Foods is how jaw droppingly cheap everything is.

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I wrote a subway ad when I moved to New York from the UK about the price of a cucumber. So, HOW bad is NZ?!

Eggs are over $1 usd per egg.

Or look at these cherries!

I regularly spend $300 to $500 nzd ($180 to $300 usd) for a weeks groceries for two people.

The cherries look delicious but is there not more local produce?

There is tons of local produce. NZ exports enough food to feed 40 million people and the local population is only 5 million.

How is the local produce priced?

Also as a lady I feel for the chickens so $1 still feels cheap for their work. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Next time I buy an overpriced cucumber in NYC, I’ll think of NZ. 😅

To be fair, Amazon has done a good job of lowering the prices on their Whole Foods branded items. It’s a great spot now

No you didn’t just say that. 😱

Whole Paycheck still

Not like this.

Out of curiosity, are the American food made/grown in the US ? or imported from a cheaper country and exported?

LOL walk into a Costco your mind will explode.

When Costco opened its first store in New Zealand last year it was the thing to talk about nationwide and dominated the news for a week.

Yeah food here is crazy expensive. And everything just went up about 20% or so in the last 18 months.

And you can't buy meat from a local farmer - illegal for them to sell to the public (neither meat nor live animals for the purpose of meat). So it's a good thing I am the local farmer.