r/Flushing

Disclosure first: I built the free site linked at the end, no signup and no ads, and this post is mostly data.

Park Slope is the one neighborhood where a lot of people do their real shopping at the Food Coop, so a circular roundup feels a little beside the point. But if you are not doing a Coop shift this week, or you just want to know where the regular supermarkets are cheap right now, I read every Park Slope store's weekly ad each morning and this is what they are leading with.

A timing note: the C-Town, Foodtown, and Stop & Shop ads below run through tonight (Thursday 7/16) and flip to a new week tomorrow, while the Lidl and Whole Foods ads are the current 7/15 to 7/21 week.

Lidl (120 5th Ave), week of 7/15 to 7/21:

• Tomatoes on the vine, $1.49
• Bellarom ground coffee, $4.79

Whole Foods (214 3rd St), week of 7/15 to 7/21 (Prime price in parentheses):

• Strawberries, 16 oz, 2 for $7.78 ($7 for 2 with Prime)
• Yellow peaches, $2.77/lb ($2.49/lb with Prime)
• Large Hass avocados, 2 for $5.56 ($5 for 2 with Prime)

C-Town (329 9th St), through tonight 7/16:

• Seedless watermelon, quarter cuts, 79 cents
• Slicing tomatoes, $1.49
• Yellow nectarines and southern peaches, $1.49
• Red seedless grapes, $3.99

Foodtown (409 5th Ave), through tonight 7/16:

• Land O Lakes cage free large white eggs, $3.49
• La Yogurt, 10 for $8 (80 cents each)
• Land O Lakes whipped butter, $2.99

Stop & Shop (Atlantic Terminal, 625 Atlantic Ave), through tonight 7/16:

• Red seedless grapes, $2.69
• Tomatoes on the vine, $1.88
• 90% lean ground beef, $5.99/lb

A couple of head to head notes: on tomatoes on the vine, Lidl ($1.49, and good through next Monday) beats Stop & Shop ($1.88). On red seedless grapes, Stop & Shop ($2.69) beats C-Town ($3.99), but both of those ads end tonight.

If it is useful, the live cross-store price index is here (anyone can check it, no login): https://sbnyc.app/compare?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=summer-2026

Prices are from the stores' published circulars, verify in store.

I used Muse (a.i.) to read my Instagram food posts (which include addresses), and plot them on a map. This is just the focus on the Queens/Flushing area contained within 495, CIP, 678. These would be from 2018 to present , and represents 174 restaurants (230 visits).

I'm sure there are a great number of restaurants/food neighborhoods I've yet to visit, but I'm working on it, if there are any suggestions! The majority of the spots on my map are Chinese, with Korean in second place. My food interests are largely for Asian cuisine, but I'll eat almost anything 😁