Cheapest mince in NZ, price per kg today

Mince prices today

Shelf price per kilogram at the PAK'nSAVE, New World and Woolworths nearest Auckland CBD, with the nearest Mad Butcher's weekly price beside them. Standard beef mince is around 18% fat and premium around 13%, which is most of the price gap between them. Tap a row for Wellington and Christchurch.

Woolworths has the lowest price on 2 of the 3 lines below where at least two chains stock the product (PAK'nSAVE 1), at Auckland CBD prices.

At Mad Butcher Mt Roskill, the Mad Butcher nearest Auckland CBD, none of these cuts is cheaper than the cheapest supermarket on its specials for the week of 18 Oct 2026.

Shelf prices per kg at the stores nearest Auckland CBD on 23 Oct 2026, specials included, Woolworths at non-member prices. Bold is the cheapest supermarket for that cut; a dash means that store does not list it. Mad Butcher prices are its weekly specials (read 18 Oct 2026); a butcher price far above every supermarket's is left out, because it is usually a whole-piece or multi-pack price we have read as a price per kg. Tap a row for Wellington and Christchurch.

Cheapest mince in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch

PAK'nSAVE prices each store separately, so the same mince can cost a different amount across town; New World and Woolworths price by island. For each city this is the cheapest of the three supermarkets, with the chain that has it.

Cheapest supermarket price per kilo for 3 mince cuts, at each city's nearest PAK'nSAVE, New World and Woolworths, sorted by the middle of the three. Chain shown is the one with that price.

Shelf prices per kg on 23 Oct 2026, specials included, Woolworths at non-member prices. Tap a row for every chain in every city, tap a chain to see only the cuts it wins. Set your own location on the meat map for your stores and the nearest Mad Butcher.

How the price of mince has moved

One reading a week from our nightly price records, at the same Auckland stores. Specials come and go weekly, so the lowest week is usually a special and the typical week is the price to plan around.

Over 14 weekly readings since 24 Jul 2026, the cheapest supermarket price for standard beef mince (18% fat) at these stores ran from $16.79 a kg (PAK'nSAVE, 31 Jul 2026) to $18.99 (PAK'nSAVE, 24 Jul 2026). Today it is $17.99. PAK'nSAVE had the lowest price in 12 of the 14 weeks.

Every mince cut on this page, the lowest and highest cheapest-supermarket price per kilo across the same weekly readings.

Per kg at the stores nearest Auckland CBD (today's nearest stores throughout), one reading a week from the nightly archive, specials included, Woolworths at non-member prices. Weeks where a chain did not list the cut show a dash. Bold is the cheapest chain that week.