Bulk Bin Prices

How these prices are collected

Bulk Bin Prices exists because this information is not published anywhere else. Chains list bulk items for case orders, not the per-pound price on the bin tag, and the price-comparison sites cannot help: loose goods have no barcode, so nothing that scrapes a product catalogue can see the bulk aisle at all.

The method

Someone walks the aisle and photographs the shelf tags in wide, overlapping frames. The prices are then read off those frames, and every published figure is checked against the photo it came from before it goes up.

What gets left out

A tag hidden behind a bag dispenser, a bin number curving off the edge of the label, a price too soft to call. Those bins are counted and reported rather than silently dropped, because a list that quietly under-reports is worse than one that tells you what it missed. The 16 August 2026 survey left out 28.

Why the date matters

Bulk prices move, and they move without announcement. Every figure here is a dated snapshot of one aisle in one store, not a quote and not a promise. Treat it as a way to compare bins and spot what is worth buying loose, and expect the store to disagree by a few cents on any given day. These prices come from WinCo Foods, Pecos Rd, Gilbert AZ.

Not affiliated

This is an independent project with no connection to any grocery chain. Store names are used only to say where the prices were read.