Grocery & meat deals in Charleston this week — the cheapest chicken, beef, pork, fish & dairy prices per pound from local flyers

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★ Standout This Week ★

Chicken Breast57% below South avg
Lowes Foods$1.79/lb

boneless skinless chicken breast

Beef Steak52% below South avg
Lidl$6.99/lb

butcher's specialty fresh grass-fed ribeye steak

Whole Chicken51% below South avg
Food Lion$0.99/lb

food lion whole chicken

This week in Charleston, Lowtein compared prices at 6 retailers — ALDI, Food Lion, Harris Teeter, and 3 others. 101 deals priced and verified against the BLS South average. This week's standout: Chicken Breast $1.79/lb at Lowes Foods — 57% below the South average. Against Lowtein's own price history, 9 of 50 tracked items are running well below their usual prices this week — the biggest drop is salmon at Lidl, 56% below its usual.

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PORK TENDERLOIN

PORK SHOULDER

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BACON

SALMON

SHRIMP

WHITEFISH

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Charleston price history

Every week since May 20, Lowtein has recorded the lowest advertised price for each cut in Charleston's flyers — 23 weeks so far. Here is what a normal week costs here, and which store most often had it cheapest. This week 7 of 14 cuts are below their usual Charleston price.

  • Chicken Breastusual $1.99/lb · now $1.79▼
    Most often cheapest: Lowes Foods (7 of 22 weeks)
  • Chicken Thighsusual $2.99/lb · now $2.99
    Most often cheapest: Publix (6 of 17 weeks)
  • Chicken Drumsticksusual $1.24/lb · now $0.89▼
    Most often cheapest: ALDI (6 of 22 weeks)
  • Chicken Wingsusual $2.29/lb · now $2.99▲
    Most often cheapest: ALDI (6 of 22 weeks)
  • Ground Beefusual $4.99/lb · now $4.89
    Most often cheapest: Food Lion (7 of 23 weeks)
  • Beef Steakusual $7.49/lb · now $6.99▼
    Most often cheapest: Lidl (14 of 23 weeks)
  • Beef Roastusual $7.49/lb · now $6.99▼
    Most often cheapest: Food Lion (7 of 17 weeks)
  • Pork Chopsusual $2.99/lb · now $3.49▲
    Most often cheapest: Food Lion (9 of 23 weeks)
  • Pork Shoulderusual $1.89/lb · now $1.29▼
    Cheapest store varies week to week
  • Pork Ribsusual $2.99/lb · now $2.49▼
    Most often cheapest: Food Lion (9 of 21 weeks)
  • Salmonusual $7.99/lb · now $7.99
    Most often cheapest: Publix (9 of 23 weeks)
  • Shrimpusual $6.99/lb · now $6.49▼
    Most often cheapest: Food Lion (9 of 23 weeks)
  • Whitefishusual $7.99/lb · now $7.99
    Most often cheapest: Food Lion (7 of 22 weeks)
  • Butterusual $3.29/lb · now —
    Most often cheapest: Lidl (7 of 22 weeks)

“Usual” is Charleston's own typical lowest advertised price (the median week) — not the government average the deal verdicts above use. ▼ this week is more than 5% below it, ▲ more than 5% above; — means no comparable deal this week.

Charleston stores we track (6) ▾
  • ALDIweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 85 other cities
  • Food Lionweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 16 other cities
  • Harris Teeterweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 5 other cities
  • Lidlweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 17 other cities
  • Lowes Foodsweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 4 other cities
  • Publixweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 14 other cities

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