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Guess the grocery bill amount

K Douglas

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Beef pot roast in gravy 575g
Olivieri pasta sauce
PC English muffins (pkg of 6)
Ritz Swiss Cheese crackers
Rold Gold pretzels
Nexium 24 hour tablets
2 Loop pro biotic drinks
Liquid Plumr foaming drain opener
PC mini thin pizza crusts (4 pack)
 

K Douglas

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My local Loblaw superstore was insane. The line for checking out was wrapped around half the store. Only 4 of the 12 cash registers were open. I'm sure folks were waiting 20 minutes plus in line.
The line for the 12 self checkout kiosks was about 15 carts deep. It actually moved fairly quick, about a 5 minute wait.
And all for this privilege of waiting our reward is to pay astronomical grocery prices. I had to do a double take when I looked at the bill.
 

onomatopoeia

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I'm a bargain hunter when food shopping, and I regularly get some of my groceries at each of six different stores in my neighborhood. I stock up on heavily discounted items advertised in the flyers, but I'm too much of a food snob to clip coupons.

I highly recommend the Marhaba Supermarket at 324 Parliament Street, (just north of Parliament and Dundas East), for fresh meat, both for price and quality. The staff there are also very friendly. T-Bone steaks cut to whatever thickness you want are $5.99 a pound, and Halal meat is so much better tasting than what you'll find almost anywhere else.
 
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xix

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What if there is no Metro nearby and you want to save on
gas to help fight climate change?
There is to much shame in North America. Try the following mode of Transport: ( I know bike theft is rampant but you can get an Apple Air tag tracker.)
Also Only North America has this stigma about Bicycles. Japan ( +Asia) and Europe have the best for Bicycle alternatives.

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There is to much shame in North America. Try the following mode of Transport: ( I know bike theft is rampant but you can get an Apple Air tag tracker.)
Also Only North America has this stigma about Bicycles. Japan ( +Asia) and Europe have the best for Bicycle alternatives.
The mode of transport you suggest is so obscene even most climate change
activists would not stoop to. We will all be driving EVs in a decade or at least
riding on self-driven Tesla for our grocery trip in 10 years.

 

drstrangelove

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What if there is no Metro nearby and you want to save on
gas to help fight climate change?
I once read that prices were higher in grocery stores that had fewer car based shoppers. The theory was that people who walked or took public transit to the grocery store had little choice but to pay the higher prices. Those with cars could drive to stores with lower prices.
 
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Samranchoi

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Superstore price matches and I have saved so much money going there. Plus, there are so many grocery stores in close vicinity to each other where I live. I buy a lot of salmon and meat and there are always good deals around
 

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Beef pot roast in gravy 575g
Olivieri pasta sauce
PC English muffins (pkg of 6)
Ritz Swiss Cheese crackers
Rold Gold pretzels
Nexium 24 hour tablets
2 Loop pro biotic drinks
Liquid Plumr foaming drain opener
PC mini thin pizza crusts (4 pack)

That is a lot of carbs and empty calories there KD. Do you not listen to the teachings of Oracle and be careful about watching your diet?
 

K Douglas

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This thread turned out to be a fail. Seems like nobody on this board has concern over food inflation or potential shortages of necessary goods. But congratulations to you, you were the only one to attempt a guess at the amount of the bill.

The bill amount was $72.49 plus $4.56 HST for a total of $77.05.
 

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The mode of transport you suggest is so obscene even most climate change
activists would not stoop to. We will all be driving EVs in a decade or at least
riding on self-driven Tesla for our grocery trip in 10 years.
Oil and gas, did you forget that you speak for the oil industry again and not for people concerned about climate change?
 

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This thread turned out to be a fail. Seems like nobody on this board has concern over food inflation or potential shortages of necessary goods. But congratulations to you, you were the only one to attempt a guess at the amount of the bill.

The bill amount was $72.49 plus $4.56 HST for a total of $77.05.
That is insane,

The best prices I have seen are at Walmart.
 

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This thread turned out to be a fail. Seems like nobody on this board has concern over food inflation or potential shortages of necessary goods. But congratulations to you, you were the only one to attempt a guess at the amount of the bill.

The bill amount was $72.49 plus $4.56 HST for a total of $77.05.
I didn't guess because as a single individual with the above average income I don't really pay much attention to the prices on basic, everyday goods. Plus, no offence, there was nothing among your purchases that I'm familiar with.
 

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I didn't guess because as a single individual with the above average income I don't really pay much attention to the prices on basic, everyday goods. Plus, no offence, there was nothing among your purchases that I'm familiar with.
You barely got any food and it's those 2 expensive items nexium and liquid plummer driving up the bill. Let play again next time.
 

Ceiling Cat

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I buy as I go about my business during the week. When things are on special I buy the maximum amount I can store. I buy fresh and perishables every 2-3 days, that way I do not have to buy at the last minute on busy days like today. I breeze in and out at non busy times.

Is that a pot roast in a box? ( Like Canadian military IMPs - Individual Meal Packs )
I buy a pot roast and slice it into steaks and freeze them. When I am ready to cook I sous vide them and fry them to get a crust. Sous vide makes pot roast as tender as filet mignon.


As a single individual with the above average income I don't really pay much attention to the prices on basic, everyday goods.
Regardless of what your ( or my ) income is, there is no crime in saving a buck or being frugal. Being frugal is not the same as being miserly. For every dollar I save I can triple in a year. Let us all hope for the best, but you never know if we will be living in a dystopian Mad Max type of world in the future, given the current circumstances.
 
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K Douglas

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You barely got any food and it's those 2 expensive items nexium and liquid plummer driving up the bill. Let play again next time.
The Nexium was $13.99 (cheaper than anywhere else) and the Liquid Plumr was $6.99
 
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