Cheapest Paper Towels & Napkins per roll — store vs Amazon, trip included
Same paper towels & napkins brands you'd grab off the shelf — priced per roll from real recorded orders, with the drive and your time charged to the store side of every receipt.
$/unit = the price per roll. It’s the number that survives shrinkflation.
Recorded prices from real orders and periodic re-checks — not live quotes. Tap any item for the full receipt.
The receipts
Paper Towels & Napkins, honestly
What's the cheapest paper towels & napkins per roll we've recorded?
Bounty Quick-Size Paper Towels, 12 Family Rolls at $1.97 per roll (Single, recorded price checked 3 mo ago). Prices move — every item links out to Amazon to check today's price.
Is it cheaper to buy paper towels & napkins on Amazon or at the store?
We don't have enough store-shelf data in this aisle to call a winner yet — where we do, we publish it honestly, including when the store wins. What we always show is the price per roll, the number that survives shrinkflation.
How do you calculate these prices?
Every price is a recorded price from a real order or a periodic re-check, stamped with when we captured it — nothing here is scraped live. The store side of every comparison also carries the trip: 11 miles round trip at 26 mpg plus 52 minutes of your time. You can change every assumption on the trip cost calculator.
Assumptions bothering you? Run your own trip numbers