REVEALED: The cheapest supermarkets in Spain in 2025

The cost of living in Spain keeps on rising – rent, electricity, transport eating out, and of course the weekly supermarket shop.

According to the latest figures from Spain's National Institute of Statistics (INE), the average monthly expenditure in Spain is around €1,093 per person or €2,718 per household. This is the highest cost of living recorded in more than a decade.

Spain’s Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU) has revealed that the average increase in the cost of a weekly shop over the last 12 months has been 2.5 percent, bringing the cumulative increase since 2021 well over 35.5 percent.

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OCU report states that 61 percent of food items increased in 2024. Among them, coffee leads the increase (+54.1 percent), followed by bananas (+35.9 percent) and lemons (+33 percent), medium-sized eggs (+29.8 percent), and milk chocolate (+28.8 percent).

Any small savings you can make help greatly, which is why it’s helpful to know which the cheapest supermarkets are.

According to the OCU, families can save an average of up to €1,132 per year by shopping at the cheapest stores, representing up to 18 percent of the average annual spending of €6,259.

The cheapest supermarkets are:

• Dani (a local chain based in Granada, Jaén, Almería and Málaga)
• Alcampo
• Tifer (regional brand mostly based in Castilla y León)
• Family Cash
• Súper Carmela (across Andalusia)

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How cheap or expensive each supermarket is though depends on where you live. For example, in 42 of the 183 locations in the study, the cheapest supermarket was Alcampo.

Consum was the cheapest in 21 locations, followed by Lidl and Supeco in 18, Family Cash in 17 and Aldi in 16.

Mercadona was the cheapest option in 14 of the locations included in the study.

The most expensive supermarkets in Spain are Sánchez Romero, Supercos, Sorli Discount, Plaza, and El Corte Inglés.

The supermarkets that have increased their prices the most over the past year are Hipercor (7 percent), Lidl (6.8 percent), and Supercor (6.1 percent).

On the other hand, those have increased the least are Alcampo (0.5 percent), Carrefour (1 percent), and Eroski (1 percent).

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In terms of regions, supermarket grocery shopping is cheapest in Valencia followed by Murcia, Galicia, Extremadura, and Andalusia, while the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, and the Basque Country are the most expensive.

In order to help families, the OCU has asked the government to "reduce VAT on basic products, including meat and fish," and to expand "food purchase aid for families in the most vulnerable situations".

It has also asked the Ministry of Agriculture to "ensure that the reduction in production costs is passed on to consumers at the same speed as the increases in recent years, avoiding extraordinary profits to the detriment of consumers".