📰 WEEKLY CIRCULAR · Sunday AD · May 2, 2026
This week's Price Chopper ad matchups
The Price Chopper Sunday ad is one of the most matchup-friendly circulars in U.S. groceryland. Front-page produce, a meat case feature, dairy mix-and-match, frozen BOGO blocks, and a printable manufacturer coupon section all show up on the same week, which is exactly the structure that lets the AdvantEdge Card stack work its hardest.
Department highlights this week
The strongest matchups across the Price Chopper circular this week. Each row reflects regular shelf price, the front-page sale, the stackable digital or printable coupon, and the final out-of-pocket after the stack. Click any department to open the full matchup sheet for that aisle.
| Dept | Featured product | Reg | Sale | Coupon | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥬 Produce | Bolthouse Farms baby-cut carrots (1 lb bag) | $1.99 | $1.47 | −$1.30 | $0.17 | 91% |
| 🥬 Produce | Hass avocados loose (each) | $1.49 | $1.06 | −$0.64 | $0.42 | 72% |
| 🥬 Produce | Sweet Scarletts red grapefruit (5 lb bag) | $7.99 | $6.15 | −$1.61 | $4.54 | 43% |
| 🥛 Dairy | Tillamook medium cheddar cheese block (2 lb loaf) | $13.99 | $10.63 | −$0.92 | $9.71 | 31% |
| 🥛 Dairy | Eggland's Best large grade A eggs (dozen) | $5.49 | $4.28 | −$1.06 | $3.22 | 41% |
| 🥛 Dairy | Yoplait original strawberry yogurt (6 oz cup) | $0.89 | $0.72 | −$1.46 | $0.01 | 99% |
| 🥩 Meat & Seafood | USDA Choice top sirloin steak (per lb boneless) | $9.99 | $6.59 | −$2.99 | $3.60 | 64% |
| 🥩 Meat & Seafood | Applegate natural turkey breast slices (7 oz) | $6.99 | $5.38 | −$1.28 | $4.10 | 41% |
| 🥩 Meat & Seafood | Oscar Mayer thick-cut bacon (16 oz) | $7.99 | $6.15 | −$2.98 | $3.17 | 60% |
| 🥖 Bakery | Pepperidge Farm classic golden swirl loaf (16 oz) | $5.49 | $4.67 | −$1.07 | $3.60 | 34% |
| 🥖 Bakery | Bakery pita pockets white (6 ct) | $3.49 | $2.23 | −$0.65 | $1.58 | 55% |
| 🥖 Bakery | Pillsbury grands flaky biscuits (8 ct can) | $4.49 | $2.78 | −$1.55 | $1.23 | 73% |
| 🥤 Beverages | Welch's 100% grape juice (64 fl oz) | $4.99 | $4.24 | −$2.02 | $2.22 | 56% |
| 🥤 Beverages | Sprite lemon-lime 12 fl oz cans (12-pack) | $8.99 | $6.65 | −$1.27 | $5.38 | 40% |
| 🥤 Beverages | Aquafina purified drinking water (24-pack 16.9 oz) | $7.99 | $6.71 | −$1.75 | $4.96 | 38% |
| 🍿 Snacks | Quaker chewy chocolate chip granola bars (8 ct) | $3.99 | $2.39 | −$1.72 | $0.67 | 83% |
| 🍿 Snacks | Wheat Thins original whole grain crackers (14 oz family size) | $4.99 | $3.64 | −$1.40 | $2.24 | 55% |
| 🍿 Snacks | Reese's peanut butter cups king size (2.8 oz) | $2.79 | $2.04 | −$1.58 | $0.46 | 84% |
| ❄️ Frozen Foods | Totino's pepperoni pizza rolls (50 ct bag) | $6.99 | $5.10 | −$1.79 | $3.31 | 53% |
| ❄️ Frozen Foods | Healthy Choice power bowls grilled chicken (9.5 oz) | $4.49 | $3.01 | −$1.93 | $1.08 | 76% |
| ❄️ Frozen Foods | Hot Pockets pepperoni pizza two-pack (2 ct) | $2.99 | $1.88 | −$2.12 | $0.01 | 100% |
| 🧴 Personal Care | Banana Boat sport ultra spf 50 sunscreen (8 oz spray) | $8.99 | $6.20 | −$2.74 | $3.46 | 62% |
| 🧴 Personal Care | Venus extra smooth razor blades (4 ct refill) | $16.99 | $13.42 | −$1.64 | $11.78 | 31% |
| 🧴 Personal Care | Coppertone kids spf 70 sunscreen (8 oz lotion) | $9.99 | $6.99 | −$0.62 | $6.37 | 36% |
How to read the Price Chopper circular
The Price Chopper weekly ad follows a predictable layout that has held steady for the better part of a decade. The front cover features 4 to 6 produce and meat loss leaders that the chain prices below cost to drive weekly basket trips. The middle spread covers center-store dry goods — cereals, snacks, beverages — almost always in mix-and-match groupings (5 for $20, 4 for $12, 3 for $10) that beat single-pack pricing by 15 to 30 percent. The back cover is reserved for household, paper goods, and personal care, where the chain's digital and printable coupon stacks deliver the deepest percentage savings of any department in the store.
recommended grocery savings resourceBuild your basket from the back of the ad forward. The household and personal-care matchups on the back cover are stack-friendly enough that they routinely yield free or near-free items when you combine the sale price with a AdvantEdge Card digital coupon, a manufacturer printable, and a post-purchase Ibotta or Fetch rebate. Lock those in first because the savings rarely stay in stock through Saturday. Then move to the front-page produce and meat loss leaders for the perishables you'll cook through the week, and finish with the center-store mix-and-match deals once you know which manufacturer coupons match your needs.
Use the Price Chopper app the night before the Sunday ad drop to pre-clip every digital coupon that maps to your typical basket. Price Chopper's digital catalog publishes early, often the evening before the printed circular hits the storefronts, so a 10-minute pre-clip session on Saturday evening sets up the entire week's stacking play. Clipped coupons stay loaded on your AdvantEdge Card for the duration of the ad week and apply automatically at checkout.
Pay attention to Price Chopper's ad-cycle rotation. Like every major U.S. grocery chain, Price Chopper rotates its rock-bottom pricing on staples on a six- to eight-week cycle. That means a deeply discounted price on a household staple — paper towels, laundry pods, family-size cereal — returns roughly every six weeks rather than every week. The right play for a stack-stock-up shopper is to buy enough at the rock-bottom price to last until the next cycle and then shop other categories at average pricing in between. Track the cycle in our weekly ad coverage and you'll cover most of the household and pantry staples your family uses without ever paying the regular shelf price.
recommended grocery savings resourcePair the matchups above with the AdvantEdge Fuel Rewards program where applicable. Price Chopper's loyalty card converts grocery spend into per-gallon fuel discounts at participating stations, and every department in the weekly ad counts toward your points balance. A consistent stack-stock-up shopper at Price Chopper typically banks enough fuel rewards over a calendar year to cover an entire monthly tank. Combine that fuel discount with the four-layer coupon stack on the basket itself and the year-over-year savings often run into four-digit dollar figures for a household of four.