They don’t publish their prices. Never what they paid.
Sign for unit prices everywhere, open price data from the big grocers, and the price grocers paid shown beside the price you pay.
Plainly: there is no traction to brag about beyond the live signature count in this block. It shows only when a real count loads. Every other number on this site is a public statistic with its source linked.
The shelf
Three numbers. Three doors.
+0%
food prices since 2021, and you still cannot compare store to store
0.0%
of kids live in food-insecure homes
1 of 13
provinces and territories require a unit price
Sources: Statistics Canada CPI, August 2026 · Statistics Canada 13-10-0835-01 · Competition Bureau Canada, 2023
What Lucilla does while you wait
Every line has a shelf price. Every line adds up.
$692.61
One real cart from the real app: a family of four in Hamilton, 14 days of food, priced line by line at one store, and 21% under the Canadian average on the items that have one. Every line is that store's own shelf price.
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Family of four · 14 days · Giorgio’s No Frills, Hamilton
13 of 30 items have a national average: $344.12 here, $437.33 at the average.
Store shelf prices, read Oct 22, 2026.
What this cart covers
- Who: a family of four, two adults and kids of 10 and 7. A sample household; the app planned the cart.
- How long: two weeks (14 days), three meals a day. One dinner out each week is not in the cart.
- What it costs: $692.61 for the fortnight, about $346 a week, under an $800 budget. Groceries only, at one store (Giorgio’s NOFRILLS, Hamilton), shelf prices read Oct 22, 2026.
- Against the average: 13 of its 30 items have a Statistics Canada national average, and those cost 21% under it (table 18-10-0245-01, Aug 2026). Six items had no price at this store and are left out.
1 · Ask
One tap: plan the next 14 days for a family of four.
How it works
Tell it who you feed. Get the whole plan and a priced cart.
- Sized to every person. A 16-year-old and a 12-year-old don’t eat the same plate.
- Priced at a real store. Every line is the store’s own shelf price, with the date it was read.
- Compared with the average. Each item against the Canadian average, so you see a good price.
Or use it from your AI assistant
In Claude or ChatGPT, add a custom connector (MCP) and paste this address. You sign in to Lucilla and choose what it may do.
https://us-east1-lucilla-b0493.cloudfunctions.net/userMcpServerGreater Toronto Area · starting in Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville and Milton
We are looking for 1,000 households.
Families, couples, singles and students. Tell us who the cart is for and get a starter cart of whole food built for your household. Pilot prices are not set yet; our target is at least 20% below shelf prices, and it is a target, not a promise.