Are you seeing sticker shock at the grocery store?
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A Barrie shopper spotted this high-priced cut of meat at a No Frills store, and shared it on social media.By Heide Mcd photo
As grocery store prices keep rising, some people are sharing their sticker shock and frustration on social media.
Barrie resident Heide Mcd shared a photo of a beef butt tenderloin roast she found at a No Frills store — roughly the size of a football.
“Shopping at No Frills (in Barrie) today. This small piece of meat was $72.49. Unreal at $52 per kilogram,“ she noted on Facebook.
And Ryan Traversy shared a one-litre bottle of Heinz ketchup retailing for $7.19 at a Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart.
“Shoppers in Toronto … it’s ugly out there folks,“ Traversy said.
According to the 2024 Canada's Food Price Report, families are expected to spend more on groceries this year.
“Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate that a family of four … will have an estimated expenditure of $16,297.20 (a year). This represents an increase of $701.79 compared to the previous year,” the report stated.
“A significant 30.3 per cent of Canadians believed that price gouging was the primary reason for the escalating food prices,” the report stated.
Some shoppers are hoping a grocery industry code of conduct, which is slowly being adopted by the big retailers throughout the country, might help bring prices down.
But even if that doesn't happen, shoppers are already taking matters into their own hands.
The Canada's Food Price Report noted that in 2023, families had already started cutting back on their grocery spending habits, spending less overall than in 2022.
The report also predicted prices actually wouldn't creep too high this year.
“Our models also indicate that 2024 may witness a mild deflationary trend, resulting in lower prices for numerous essential food items,“ the report said.
And on May 22, a Leger poll revealed almost two-thirds of Canadians (64 per cent) feel as though the rate of inflation at the grocery store is getting worse compared to a year or two ago.
In response to high grocery prices, some residents have decided to boycott some of the major retail stores, such as Loblaws.
The Leger poll said 70 per cent of Canadians were aware of the boycott of Loblaws grocery stores. Although more than half of Canadians support the boycott, only a little under one in five (18 per cent) have personally joined the boycott or have someone in their household who has.
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