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Same appliance, different retailer: Canadian listings typically differed by about $75

By the ApplianceIQ Editorial Team · Reviewed by ApplianceIQ’s appliance-industry team · Updated October 27, 2026

Two shoppers can buy the identical appliance — same manufacturer, same model number, same finish — and see very different prices depending only on which retailer they are looking at. We measured how far apart those listed prices actually are, using 208 appliances we observed at 3 or more Canadian retailers.

The short answer

For the typical appliance, the highest Canadian listing we observed was 9.5% above the lowest — an observed price gap of $75 on the same model. That is a difference between listings we recorded, not a saving anyone is guaranteed: prices move, and the lowest listing is not always the one you can actually buy from today.

50% of the appliances we tracked differed by at least 10%, and 21% by 30% or more. The mean (average) gap was 14.9%. The median describes the midpoint of the model-level gaps in this sample.

It depends enormously on what you are buying

The table shows category medians for the models included in this edition. An individual model’s gap can differ from its category median.

Range hoods had the smallest category median percentage gap at 0% ($1). Wall ovens had the largest category median dollar gap at $350. These are category medians, not the gaps for individual models.

See it on a real product

Each page below shows the retailers we observed and what each was asking. We link only to products with a full public page; models we are still verifying stay out of this list.

• Range hoods: ge jvx3300sjss range hood ($51 apart), ge uvc7300slss range hood ($31 apart)
• Refrigerators: cafe cwe19sp3nd1 refrigerator ($994 apart), samsung rf27cg5900srac refrigerator ($1,361 apart)
• Ranges: bosch hdi8056c range ($1,899 apart), cafe cchs950p4mw2 range ($1,400 apart)
• Washers: ge gfw655spvds washer ($400 apart), electrolux elfw7637at washer ($400 apart)
• Wall ovens: cafe cts90dp3nd1 wall oven ($1,404 apart), fisher paykel ob24smptdb1 wall oven ($2,030 apart)
• Cooktops: thor kitchen tih36 cooktop ($268 apart), kitchenaid kcgc500jss cooktop ($1,035 apart)

How we measured this

This report uses recorded price observations for Canadian retailer listings, including third-party shopping observations. These observations do not establish retailer-confirmed availability or a checkout total. Prices are in CAD. This edition uses 5,892 observations from 203 retailers, checked between October 24, 2026 to October 27, 2026.

That is a same-week snapshot, not a long-run study. It answers “how far apart are these retailers right now?” and deliberately not “how much do appliance prices move over a year?” — we do not yet have the history to answer the second honestly. Each refresh uses the observed window shown above. Figures can change as new observations become eligible; this is not a frozen historical edition.

• 244 active appliances met the bar of 3 or more observed retailer prices. We then applied ApplianceIQ’s existing sample-cleanliness rules, which removed 36 of them, leaving the 208 appliances above.
• Those rules were not written for this report. They are the curation ApplianceIQ already uses for its price-position work: marketplace and resale sellers, open-box, refurbished and scratch-and-dent listings, washer-and-dryer bundles priced as one line, listings naming two different model numbers, non-appliances mis-filed under an appliance category, and prices below a plausible floor for the category. A model whose remaining listings still disagree by more than 55% is treated as a bad match rather than a bargain, and is excluded too.
• The gap is the highest observed listing against the lowest, for the same manufacturer model number. We compare like with like: a different finish or a different model number is a different appliance.
• The median describes the midpoint of model-level gaps in the sample; the mean averages those gaps.
• Prices move. This describes what we observed during the window above, not what any retailer charges today. The linked product pages carry current observations.

Why we exclude rather than explain

A different model, finish or condition is not a like-for-like price comparison. The curation rules keep those differences out of this sample so its gaps describe comparable listings. An exclusion is a limitation of this report’s comparison, not proof that a retailer’s price is wrong.

More on how we collect and check data in our methodology, editorial policy and corrections policy. Found something wrong? We would like to know.