Grocery Price Increase

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Grocery Price Increase
Topic Started: Oct 16 2012, 05:50 AM (645 Views)
Darcie	Oct 16 2012, 05:50 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Just got back from buying 375G of sultana raisins. I picked up the last package as the clerk was going to put in new packgages, same make, same weight. The first thing he did was to change the existing price of $2.49 to $2.99. This is a 20 % increase. How do I reconcile this price increase for food and all the other food increases with the fact that the government tells us there is no price increase the last 3 months? I really want an explanation about how fixed low income pensioners are suppose to trust what the government tells us when all of our necessities are more expensive and growing by leaps and bounds.

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Dana	Oct 16 2012, 07:39 AM Post #16
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	Darcie Oct 16 2012, 07:05 AM heatseeker Oct 16 2012, 07:01 AM That god damned Stalinist Harper is determined to starve us poor seniors to death. After all that we have done for this country, to be reduced to fighting the cat for our share of Tender Vittles. Etc. IMHO your post is making fun of the truly struggling seniors. I bought some food for a woman in my building just last week. She is a widow and her monthly income is around $1,200. I am happy I can afford to help her eat. Now please don't say she can go to a food bank, she walks with a walker and is too poor to have a car. I never said Harper, I said government, and that includes past governments. Heck Heat, Next you'll be telling us that Norwegian Blues cost next to nothing!



goldengal	Oct 16 2012, 07:44 AM Post #17
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	heatseeker Oct 16 2012, 07:26 AM I don't know much about these things, but wouldn't she be eligible for more than $1200 a month, with a supplement and maybe a chunk of her husband's CPP? My brother, who is now deceased, received roughly the amount Darcie mentioned with a little GAINS (The Ontario Guaranteed Annual Income System) which if I remember correctly was around $58/month in his case. He only received $65 from CPP due to only working until he was 35 due to health issues. There is no way he could have ever survived had I not supplemented his income for years. I agree with Darcie 100% that people in that income bracket can in no way afford to eat healthy, and since Loblaws is the grocery store closest to me, I shop there quite often, but roll my eyes at some of the prices. Fortunately, since I drive I can turn my back on their escalated prices. Yes, there are loss leaders each week, but the food that has gone up in price seldom comes back down. Public transportation has become so expensive that these poorer individuals could not afford to bus it from store to store. Take care, Pat



heatseeker	Oct 16 2012, 07:55 AM Post #18
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Dana is that the cat or the parrot?



angora	Oct 16 2012, 08:42 AM Post #19
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	I dont like raisins.



Darcie	Oct 16 2012, 08:53 AM Post #20
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	angora Oct 16 2012, 08:42 AM I dont like raisins. I don't either but they taste just fine in my apricot raisin curried chicken. biggrin 04



angora	Oct 16 2012, 08:54 AM Post #21
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Now that sounds like a good use for raisins. I'll eat that if you'll invite me. :)



Darcie	Oct 16 2012, 08:55 AM Post #22
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Come over tomorrow, it shall be done. Have mango chutney and bananas to go with it.



angora	Oct 16 2012, 09:12 AM Post #23
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Arent you the sweetheart. Can we make it another time?



Darcie	Oct 16 2012, 09:18 AM Post #24
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Just warn me ahead of time and I will cook whatever is in my expertise to make edibly. Just peeked out my window and my red bird is back. I can see him a lot better as the leaves are gone on his tree.



margrace	Oct 16 2012, 09:45 AM Post #25
Gold Star Member Posts: 5,367 Group: Member Member #723 Joined: April 1, 2010	We have a lot of farmers in the family and I sometimes grouch about the price of groceries and I get reminded that we have about the cheapest groceries in the world. Of coase when you add what comes from other counties then it does make a difference. I was rather horrified today looking at the price of whole chickens. Oh well I can always grow my own and did for years.



heatseeker	Oct 16 2012, 09:51 AM Post #26
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Chickens are very expensive in Canada because of marketing boards. Same with dairy products. Makes you wonder why people who raise pigs and cattle and sometimes go broke don't need protection but dairy nd chicken farmers do.



angora	Oct 16 2012, 10:21 AM Post #27
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Just your company is meal enough, Darcie.



Darcie	Oct 16 2012, 10:28 AM Post #28
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Next time you are in London with DH, let me know and I will cook lunch/dinner whatever. I enjoy cooking, it would be fun. We can have a conversation before as to what you and DH like and what you do not eat.



angora	Oct 16 2012, 10:35 AM Post #29
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Sounds like a plan. A good one. :)



FuzzyO	Oct 16 2012, 10:55 AM Post #30
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Darcie and Angora, you make me happy.



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