Can you believe that 100 years ago, a can of Campbell's condensed tomato soup was advertised for $0.12?
With 2025's prices coming in more than ten times that sale price, it's fair to recognize that there has been quite a lot of inflation between now and then. Especially in the last four years, which saw the trailing twelve month average sale price of a single 10.75 fluid ounce can of Campbell's tomato soup rise from $0.96 per can in April 2021 to $1.27 per can in April 2025, a 32% increase.
But that's a little misleading because the price of an iconic picnic-size can of Campbell's tomato soup has held mostly steady over the past several months. Here are the tomato soup prices we found at the ten major grocery-selling retailers and grocery stores we track in April 2025 with the amount they changed since our January 2025 snapshot.
- Walmart: $1.26/each, unchanged
- Amazon: $1.26/each, decrease of $0.93 (-42.5%)
- Kroger: $1.39/each, unchanged
- Walgreens: $1.99/each, unchanged
- Target: $1.29/each, decrease of $0.10 (-7.2%)
- CVS: $2.49/each, unchanged
- Albertsons: $1.69/each, increase of $0.20 (+13.4%)
- Food Lion: $1.25/each, unchanged
- H-E-B: $1.31/each, unchanged
- Meijer: $1.29/each, unchanged
Here's our chart tracking the price per can of Campbell's condensed tomato soup since January 2000. If you want to see the full history, click here.
Anecdotally, in 2025, it's still occasionally possible to find a grocery store discounting the sale price of a can of Campbell's tomato soup all the way down to $0.99 or $1.00 per can. Such sale events however are becoming both shorter and much less frequent than they were before the recent period of high inflation.
Image credit: Advertising for Campbell's Tomato Soup, circa 1920s. Public domain image posted by Halloween HJB on Flickr. Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Deed.