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What does your weekly market trip really cost?

Put in what you spend at the market, transport, carrying help and the hours it takes. See the weekly cost, the hours it takes over a year, and how a delivered basket price you enter compares. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

Your weekly market trip

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Your market shopping costs GHS 580 a week, including transport and carrying, plus 4 hours, or 208 hours a year. The basket price you entered is GHS 20 more.
Food, transport and carrying a week
GHS 580
Including your time, a week
GHS 660
Hours at the market a year
208 hours

How the trip adds up

Transport and carrying a week
GHS 80
Your time a week
GHS 80
Food, transport and carrying a year
GHS 30,160

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CediFood — market trip cost calculator
· Market shopping: GHS 580 a week, plus 4 hours
· 208 hours a year at the market

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Method: cash cost a week = foodstuff + transport + carrying help. Time cost = hours x what an hour is worth. Yearly figures count every week of the year. The basket comparison uses the price you enter and assumes it covers similar quantities, so check a basket's contents against what you buy.

What does your weekly market trip really cost?

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