Cost of groceries

[stinkynuts]

I was at the supermarket yesterday and wanted to buy some beef. For a small amount of thinly cut beef, it was $10.

What things do you notice have sky rocketed in price at the supermarket? Cheese has always been very expensive ($5 a block). Do you feel that groceries are becoming unaffordable? I used to not really look at the prices, but I notice that I am checking the prices more often and debating whether I should get something.

 

[Malika Fantasy]

Metro and Loblaws always seem the most expensive.
At the closest metro the lean chicken with fat trim is 22$/KG and at the fresco is 17$/KG

 

[one.of.a.kind]

I understand that coffee is going up in November.

 

[chunderbot]

I've read that the orange crop failed in Florida, so you can expect juice to go up. Currently, bacon is pricey because of an outbreak of porcine diarrhea which thinned out the herd of Ontario pigs.

Beef spiked over the summer, but I think it should start to come down now that bbq season is over.

 

[Viggo Rasmussen]

In many areas, the price of groceries have come down when stores like Walmart came in.

It costs more if you're single, there's a huge difference if you buy a litre of milk versus the bags of milk.

Mac's Milk is the best buy for bags of milk, but avoid it for everything else.

 

[thailover]

i have mostly boycotted my local sobey's express over pricing & the chef they have to cook their hotplate area is a lazy woman who only cooks chicken,the previous chefs they had use to cook all sorts of wondeful things and many choices to choose from.

when i complained to head office i got the usual lip service/BS and i got the same thing from the store manager which i said the chef should be fired and be replaced,no changes have been made(store manager should be fired too) from sobey's or from store manager.

The store use to be a nice local IGA until it was bought out/remodelled very nicely for the lefty,artsy,shallow liberals in my area(for them looks over substance),i guess they wanted to ignore that during the remodel/switchover prices went up 20% across the board on most items the very 1st day and have been going up ever since.

i do believe supermarket chains and now like oil companies--we all need gas to run our cars & we all need food to fuel ourselves---we are at their mercy

 

[one.of.a.kind]

i have mostly boycotted my local sobey's express over pricing & the chef they have to cook their hotplate area is a lazy woman who only cooks chicken,the previous chefs they had use to cook all sorts of wondeful things and many choices to choose from.

when i complained to head office i got the usual lip service/BS and i got the same thing from the store manager which i said the chef should be fired and be replaced,no changes have been made(store manager should be fired too) from sobey's or from store manager.

The store use to be a nice local IGA until it was bought out/remodelled very nicely for the lefty,artsy,shallow liberals in my area(for them looks over substance),i guess they wanted to ignore that during the remodel/switchover prices went up 20% across the board on most items the very 1st day and have been going up ever since.

i do believe supermarket chains and now like oil companies--we all need gas to run our cars & we all need food to fuel ourselves---we are at their mercy

Right on.

Local Metro went over to Food Basics. Prices remained the same but quality went south.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

When I know I will be going near the border, I put a cooler with 2 or 3 plastic 2 lit. soft drink bottle in it with water that is frozen so that I can get some groceries in the US. Groceries are about 1/3 or more cheaper in the US. The border guards never charged me for duty on $200 or less groceries.

 

[cdnsimon]

Long cold winter, cooler summer means shorter growing seasons. Higher food prices from it.

 

[Worf]

You have to watch for the specials, and shop accordingly. Also only buy what you need, which is something I have to get used to doing. Bacon goes on sale occasionally, and when it does, buy a few lbs. And there will always be some kind of cheese on sale. I believe a lot of the no-name or store brand stuff is just as good as some of the brand names, so I can make do without the brands.

 

[Worf]

I understand that coffee is going up in November.

That may be true. But if you buy 1 lb of coffee and brew it yourself it is much cheaper than buying a large Tim's or Starbucks every day, and looking at the drive through lines and the cost of gas, it appears that the price of coffee and gas is not expensive enough to change that habit.
And I have never figured out why we keep buying Keurig coffee, especially when you look at the cost per cup.

 

[nobody123]

when i complained to head office i got the usual lip service/BS and i got the same thing from the store manager which i said the chef should be fired and be replaced,no changes have been made(store manager should be fired too) from sobey's or from store manager.

I too am shocked and appalled that they didn't fire these people on your say so. Don't they know that you are a paying customer? The nerve of some people, not leaving these decisions to you and you alone.

 

[one.of.a.kind]

That may be true. But if you buy 1 lb of coffee and brew it yourself it is much cheaper than buying a large Tim's or Starbucks every day, and looking at the drive through lines and the cost of gas, it appears that the price of coffee and gas is not expensive enough to change that habit.
And I have never figured out why we keep buying Keurig coffee, especially when you look at the cost per cup.

I use Melitta drip method.

What you mention above is the current spoiled generation that wonders why they have no money. I call it the entitlement generation.

For the record Keurig is gaining in popularity over Tims and McD's.

 

[Silkroad]

It's the 'invisible' price increases that really irk me. By that I mean manufacturers leave the price unchanged but shrink the weight of the package. Green Giant started the trend a few years ago when it reduced the size of the bag their frozen vegetables came in. Coffee giants - Nabob, Tim Hortons, Melitta - were next shrinking the size of the tin their ground coffee comes in. Try finding a 500g package of bacon these days. Bacon now comes in a 375g package but the price remained unchanged. Even noticed some major bread companies are selling 600g loaves instead of the traditional 675g size. But worst of all was Schneiders. Their packages of Oktoberfest sausages (which I love) use to contain five sausages per package. Now there is only four. That's a 20 per cent less for the same price.

 

[OriginalGStar]

shop at asian places, way cheaper

 

[George The Curious]

Orange juice prices have gone up year over year due to a disease from Asia: Citrus Greening. It's equivalent of HIV in humans, scientists are working on vaccines, but no luck.

 

[notthemama]

Blame Global warming. On my recent trip to Californie I saw how severely one of North Americas most important regions for fruit and veggies is suffering from it's current epic drought. In the wine region grapes were harvested earlier than ever with reduced yields because of the lack of moisture. Other areas of the continent are flooded, frozen etc, etc. Almost everywhere I went on my trip people complained about strange weather.

 

[Toke]

You have to watch for the specials, and shop accordingly. Also only buy what you need, which is something I have to get used to doing. Bacon goes on sale occasionally, and when it does, buy a few lbs. And there will always be some kind of cheese on sale. I believe a lot of the no-name or store brand stuff is just as good as some of the brand names, so I can make do without the brands.

This is very true. Why? Because no-name brands get their products from brand name companies. There is no way that 'No Name', Selection, PC, etc. can produce all those products. Same for many other items (e.g. televisions).

shop at asian places, way cheaper

I do this. Especially for meat and seafood. I can't say much about how the quality differs, but I buy what I need so I never have to freeze it.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

You have to watch for the specials, and shop accordingly. Also only buy what you need, which is something I have to get used to doing. Bacon goes on sale occasionally, and when it does, buy a few lbs. And there will always be some kind of cheese on sale. I believe a lot of the no-name or store brand stuff is just as good as some of the brand names, so I can make do without the brands.

Buy a large supply of items that are on special, especially if the items are not perishable. I have 6 cans of shaving cream and about a 3 year supply of razor blades.

This is very true. Why? Because no-name brands get their products from brand name companies. There is no way that 'No Name', Selection, PC, etc. can produce all those products. Same for many other items (e.g. televisions).

I find that the PC brand and the PC no name brand is of good quality, I have only had one bad experience with the PC yellow no name brand. As for televisions, sometimes the big name companies will produce their own top of the line televisions sets and outsource the smaller sets to lesser manufacturers but insist on certain specifications.

 

[DanJ]

shop at asian places, way cheaper

I tried that once, but when I opened the Cheerios box, they were square, not round. Damn B&S