Steigende Lebensmittelkosten zwingen die Kanadier laut Umfrage dazu, ihre Mahlzeiten zu kürzen und auf Kredite zu vertrauen
https://www.thestar.com/business/rising-grocery-costs-forcing-canadians-to-cut-meals-and-rely-on-credit-survey-says/article_1f29efc0-ce19-44fe-a1d7-3f5ee5af0089.html
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If you’re using credit to buy food you’re either terrible with your money or down bad ( I’d estimate most are terrible with their money).
Dependency on debt for things like vehicles, vacations, electronics or fast food creates a debt cycle most people will never break. It’s tragic but so ingrained in our society that people aggressively defend their bad financial decisions.
Half-jokingly, whenever I take my wife or my mother grocery shopping it’s +$300.
When it’s just me, it’s a bag of root vegetables ($3-10), couple tubs of greek yogurt / cottage cheese ($4-16), and lean pork chub (ground) at Costco is like $20 for 3kg – pro tip, use a beef bullion cube if you want it to taste like beef. Oatmeal, mixed frozen berries, and generally done.
As a side note, am I the only one that thinks the cost of deodorant skyrocketed?
Ive seen enough, 100 more million to india!
Within the last couple of weeks, Metro went around raising individual item prices by almost 17%, and that’s on top of the many increases they’ve already done in 2025.
It really feels like there’s no end to the increases. It’s getting outrageous and fucking disgusting.
We don’t eat lunch anymore
“Canadians will hold us to account by their experience at the grocery store” — Mark Carney
I only buy the sales. It’s the only way to go. And have a freezer to take advantage of the better sales not needing right away and big batch cooking to freeze for later.
Would a program like EBT in the US of A work in Canada?
Things are only going to get worse unfortunately. With the war in the middle east fuel prices will soar which in turn means prices of everyday goods will also start going up drastically. With grocery stores trying to price grab at every opportunity expect prices to go up and stay up even if fuel prices go back down after a while.
Canadians just can’t catch a break with all these once in a lifetime events
I am afraid this is going to get much worse and most food will become luxury items.Late stage capitalism in a society in decline. Food shortages and mass poverty is next. Back to feudalism.
I live in a small tourist town in Ontario and just the other day I went into my local metro for a few Spanish onions, I couldn’t believe the price when I checked out. 3 large Spanish onions cost 7.29. Unfortunately the only other local grocery store is Loblaw’s owned so I don’t have any options.
I recall a certain PM saying explicitly that we should judge him by the prices at the grocery store. Are the speeches from Davos not working?
Carney said we could judge his performance by costs at the grocery store so record high prices seem to equal record high popularity ( oh how I wish this was a /s)
Should change it to Canadians don’t want to shop at lower end grocery stores. There’s no shame in shopping at Food Basics, No Frills and Fresh Co.
A bigger additional income tax cut is needed for everyone making $120k and below to give working people meaningful relief. That 1 percentage point reduction from last year was swallowed up by the CPP increase.
Maybe get rid of some of the carbon tax on diesel and other fuels.
The solar powered trains and transport trucks just aren’t here yet.
Stuff like this makes me so very grateful for my family’s circumstances.
I find it utterly mind boggling that things are this bad.
How the heck did we get here?
Just another day in liberal Canada.
Don’t worry guys. Ozempic will save all of us from high food costs.
“Have you guys tried…not being hungry?” – Canadian government, probably.
I’m so grateful the government is throwing back some crumbs to us through the grocery rebate. They have billions to send all over the world to help everything except a Canadian! That 100-200$ surely will truly help people in Canada …. how about they give 800$-1200$ each? That would make a difference……. and the raise in the GST for 5 years shoulda started a long time ago….. Every single thing keeps going up, inflation this, greed that, government that, save this country/person that…. the people paying all the taxes are getting tired…… this is not living, it is merely existing!
So when are Canadians going actually vote for change? 11 years of promises that liberals can fix what they broke.
Has anyone seen the price of tampons? Like Jesus Christ I need these.
Weird how much groceries cost here compared to other places. Almost like they are price gouging and colluding
Are ELBOWS part of a healthy diet?
If you are lucky enough to have the option, support local specialty non-loblaw stores
I buy my meats at a butcher shop in downtown Toronto
Loblaw ground beef package is $9-10
Same ground beef package at local butcher shop $4
Loblaw low quality brie cheese wheel $10
High quality extra creamy brie at the local „Fromagerie“ $8
Pack of blueberries at Loblaw, $7
Pack of blueberries at local fruit shop $4
List goes on and on
Accept that we’re getting fucked by monopolies and support local small businesses
You’ll get higher quality food for much cheaper..
Fuck Galen Weston
Fuck billionaires
Support your neighbors
The news will then also tell us that we’re not vacationing because we’re all protesting Trump.
We’re broke.
The ruling government refuses to break up the grocery tri-opoly that is in place as obviously price fixing is going on on top of the many taxes/regulations that make food more expensive (Clean Fuel Tax that increases gas and diesel by 17 cents a liter, plastic packaging ban only allowing more expensive packaging)
This is why a free market is needed and regulations need to be relaxed, it spurs competition to make prices reasonable.
Can we also mention pet food? Before the pandemic a case of wet food from my vet was $35. Now it’s $58.
But hey. At least we can help them afford bombs for Iran and Russia. Maybe we can all eat that for dinner.
So many people out there simply refusing to change their diets, I know that it can sound unappealing but hot damn we have the internet and there’s a million recipes out there for rice and beans, they’re also cheap as fuck, make something that you don’t like? Toss it and try another recipe.
Replacing just half of your protein with beans is not only much healthier for you but will also have a major impact on your grocery costs.
Yeah no kidding: there are 10 billion humans eating today
I’m poor
I get depressed and anxious when I go to the grocery store and I’m going to the no name stores. Only the wealthy can afford to eat a balanced diet.
Between housing, groceries, gas, and insurance, Canadians are struggling. It’s ridiculous how much basics are costing us now.
But what we need is 60 million more Indians!