Top food price increases in Canada since Jan 2025 (ranked by % change):
→ Strawberries +53%
→ Oranges +37%
→ Squash +31%
→ Beef +30%
→ Carrots +30%
→ Cabbage +29%
→ Roasted or ground coffee +19%
→ White rice +17%
→ Potatoes (4.54 kg) +16%
→ Frozen broccoli +14%
→ Frozen corn +14%
→ Infant formula +12%
→ Frozen peas +12%
→ Almonds +11%
→ Salmon +11%
→ Apple juice +10%
→ Tea +9%
→ Meatless burgers +8%
→ Orange juice +6%
My wife bought 3 cans of Maxwell House coffee in January at $9.99 each. Yesterday she was in Walmart and the “sale” price was $17.98. They’re still on the store shelf.
Surprised that dog sh*t burgers are up 8%. No real human would eat those.
This real human does. They’re actually delicious and a perfectly acceptable substitute for the real thing for many of us.
If you like the output of petrochemical plants.
If you don’t like meat, why would you eat fake? Fake food for fake humans.
Some people have moral qualms about eating other sentient creatures. I do not share that feeling but I sympathize with those who do.
CC, those are not “moral qualms” they are examples of childish emoting. If such a person learns to think, they may become sentient, but actual sentience is more an achievement than a thing granted at birth by virtue of species. I know far too many humans who might meet the technical definition of sentience but are actually anything but.
Marx Carnage thought for the day:
“I want to see them starving,
The so-called working class.
Their wages weekly halving,
Their women stewing grass.
When I drive out each morning
In one of my new suits
I want to find them fawning
To clean my car and boots.”
Two thumbs up, DCH!
Trading Economics has this for food inflation:
https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/food-inflation
showing a food inflation rate of about 3%, which doesn’t seem to jive with the Food Professor’s numbers.
It’s possible that the numbers will always look high if you’re selective. Produce can have significant ups and downs through the year, depending on when they are in season. If you just show those foods have that gone up over the last six months while ignoring those that have gone down, you can make it look terrible.
The food items he chose are hardly exotic.
No, but that’s not the point.
The price of certain types of common produce can vary dramatically throughout the season. If you only show those items that have gone up dramatically in the last six months, you’re — excuse the expression — cherry picking. In particular, many of those items may fall dramatically in the upcoming months as they come into season.
This list really only shows that certain food prices are volatile.
Elbows on the table. You’re done.
It is headed “ranked by percent increase” which would obviously imply some degree of “cherry picking”.
But what does this actually prove? It doesn’t prove that the price of food is soaring. It doesn’t really prove anything.
Everything has gone up, not just food. Sorry, with the exception of fuel for my vehicles. Speaking of which, how do you residents of B.C. pay those prices? I was there for a couple of weeks and it was a killer
Well yes, inflation is generally positive, not negative, so prices generally go up. And we’ve just come through a massive bout of inflation during the COVID pandemic, and this produced a drop in real income that I don’t think we’ve made up for. But inflation right now is pretty moderate.
But I live in Alberta.
Yeah, they’re just basic day to day food items, nothing there that affects anybody really, right?
You sure are obtuse and defensive of your elites.
This food inflation is across the board, right down to the meat byproducts of wieners, Spam, baloney, etc. Poor people’s food. It’s not transitory, nor inconsequential.
It’s a byproduct of poor governance and haphazard national fiscal policy for the last 10 years courtesy of the Liberal regime.
Canadians are easily misled and propagandized, that Big Screen of talking heads is mesmerizing. Orwell was an amazing forecaster of the future.
There’s no government bureaucracy you won’t fellate, is there? It’s been obvious for years now that the government is lying about food inflation.
Daniel, knock off the personal attacks.
I read – subject, verb, predicate. And none of it was a “personal” attack. It was an astute observation.
Are Kenji and Daniel Ream the same people?
And, why does that matter Karen?
Daniel will confirm I am not him. We see eye-to-eye on many things but disagree on others. And can politely debate our opinions. If we were the same people … I’d probably agree with his/my deep wisdom a bit more. Hahaha ha ha
Marmot gives blow jobs! Marmot gives blow jobs! There, if Daniel’s was an “attack”, that was a Doc Martens bootstompin’. Bring me to justice if you dare, weasel boy.
Source: Statistics Canada……….so very suspect. Note the increases are from January 2025 so they were starting from the very steep increases we say during the covid debacle (and have never been reduced since)
As others have noted coffee and cocoa have increase 100%+ in the last six months, vegetable prices are atrocious easily 100% increase in the last three years, it is notable that lettuce is not listed.
canaduh is broken.
Don’t worry. If anyone can fix juthtinflation, Marxist Carnage is your guy.
In another 5 more years of liberal rule, gruel will appear caviar-like.
mhb23re
It states in the title that these are the “top” increases, obviously not some average. At 30% for beef, I would say that’s a low ball, although you can get lucky and catch a sale where it’s less than $30 for 3 striploins.
Some here seem to be taking this as proof that food prices in general are soaring. See, for example, DCH’s comment above. But it proves no such thing.
Really it only proves that food prices are volatile.
Give us the list of food prices that have gone down. Betcha can’t find any.
Grapes fluctuate constantly in the grocery store I shop. Anywhere from $7 / lb to $4.
It turns out, strawberries. Read JD’s comment at the bottom.
But also pears, cucumbers, mushrooms, sweet peppers, all the oils, and so on. Check it out for yourself.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810024502&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.11&cubeTimeFrame.startMonth=12&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2024&cubeTimeFrame.endMonth=05&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2025&referencePeriods=20241201%2C20250501
KM … everything fluctuates in my local Safeway store. Nabisco crackers sell for anywhere from $1.97/box to $5.47/box depending on which “sale” price tag is posted. These prices literally change … daily. But beef is ALWAYS outrageously priced at $12.99/lb and higher.
Everything … EVERYTHING … is “dynamically-priced” in 2025. There are algorithms that tell the Merchant when they can get away with gouging the customer … and when they need to BACK OFF.
Here’s how I play their game … I watch pricing of all the things I regularly buy … like a HAWK. I know what is a TRUE sale price and what is a phony “sale” price. It’s a bit like card-counting in Blackjack … you need to know what cards are being dealt. I ONLY buy the true deep sales … never the regular retail price. Luckily I have a big walk-in Pantry … and I simply stock up on sale items only.
PS … I just looked at eggs at my local Safeway. The cheapest available were $12.79/doz. I then went to COSTCO and a flat of 24 eggs was $7.99/doz. So … inflation is voluntary? If you’re a SUCKER and you pay TOP retail mark-up … you get screwed.
PPS … I buy my gasoline the same way … I check Gas Buddy for the cheapest available price. I never buy gas in my local overpriced suburb where gasoline is $5.99/gal. They can let it turn to gel in their tanks.
Geez, the grapes in my store only fluctuate when I eat the funny mushrooms.
Yes, beef prices are beyond reasonable, but it pays to shop around and hunt down the deals. Still those deals arent the same as last year or the year before.
As for other beef, it’s really something to see the coarse cuts of blade and Chuck, on the shelf going for $29/kilo. These are the toughest cuts. Who buys them? I hope these sit on the shelf with the retailers eating the lost sale of the worst cuts at terrible prices.
It looks like more a symptom of them finding what they can get away with.
You can still find sirloin on sale for $7 a pound at Sobey’s. Can still find strip lions for $10/lb on sale. Bulk buy, freeze in the correct zip locks or vac packs. It’s not easy, but it’s doable and really stretches out your beef dollars, especially today with the continue extreme increases.
They want us to Eat Zee Bugz!
I have not found much difference in the retail prices between locally grown and imported produce. These days produce can be sourced from all over. Thus, there are few “out of season” periods. Various combinations of production, wholesale, shipping, export and import costs seem to be keeping things somewhat level regardless of origin.
But if they don’t jive with the numbers, perhaps they boogie? I’d point out that the word you want is “jibe”, but you’d think I was making a cheap gibe…
Breakfast for me and my wife yesterday ran up to $51, before the tip. Eggs Benedict and coffee for both of us. And this in a chain restaurant in suburban Winnipeg.
When your cost of living goes up faster than wages, your standard of living is falling. The Covid debacle is largely responsible with the unbridled spending spree that added vast sums to aggregate debt and the supply chain disruptions whose effects are still being felt today. Yet Joe Q. Citizen tends to look upon the pandemic as some sort of golden era when people were paid to effectively quit their jobs. The invoice is finally showing up.
Paying people more to sit on their ässes than work, and then wondering why they don’t go back to work.
If that’s a puzzler, one would either have to be an idiot or a liberal.
mhb23re
But you grow wheat. Has that gone up?
Producers rarely benefit from the large retail increases. The guys in the middle still try to push down producer prices while asking for more from the next level of production. That’s one reason consumers are leaning towards buying straight from producers when they can.
Canadians knew this, and re elected them anyway.
Orange juice has gone up way more than that. I’m now buying independent grocers fresh squeezed instead of the big brands. I’ve seen Tropicana 1.7l for $9 in some stores.
Don’t you have orange groves?
I guess you don’t live in Canada.
All groceries have been going up for several years now, there maybe a leveling off once producers and transport companies see cost declines due reduced fuel costs, but we won’t see cost reductions, that’s proven by historical facts.
It’s those big grocery cartels cashing in on their 2-3% margins.
I know this because juthtin said so.
Every day of the week I’ll believe the Food Professor over Stats Canada or some report from one of the government agit-prop news sources called mainstream media.
Except at the pumps or on your gas bill, nobody dropped prices even though the carbon dioxide tax is paused.
CAD to USD is exactly the same as a year ago.
Look at the bottom of his list-Source:Statistics Canduh.
https://canadiangrocer.com/canadas-food-inflation-finally-easing-not-because-government-genius
Yup!
As Zappa wrote in his tune “Cosmik Debris,”
” The price of meat has just gone up, and your old lady has just gone down.”
We’re being fed the Maduro diet.
Ref my post at the start of this thread about coffee prices. My wife just pointed out that the coffee she bought on sale for $9.99 in January was in 940 gram cans – the stuff on sale yesterday at $17.98 was in 860 gram cans.
There is a lot of “reduce supply and increase the price” going on.
E.g. at Costco you could get 7.56 litres in four cartons of orange juice for $20
Now, it’s 4.14 litres in three bottles for $15.
It’s an increase of 97 cents per litre. And all they did was change the packaging and supply less product. Some genius must be hoping we would only see the $5 reduction in purchase price.
It’s colloquially know as “shrinkflation”.
Ouch. I buy green coffee and that’s gone up 22% the last year or two.
Still cheaper and fresher to roast your own if you don’t mind the extra step, but all coffee prices are rising.
There may be an error in his calculations, because one would expect that strawberries would go down in price when they are more widely available, and Stats Canada shows a price decrease from $4.77/454 grams to $2.90/454 grams in their numbers ( https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810024502 )
We also can’t say that the Stats Canada numbers are accurate as how the prices are collected is largely opaque (and I haven’t seen strawberries at $2.90 per pound anywhere)
I Just bought 1# (454g) of strawberries at the local Wal Mart, $2.98. Driscoll’s Farms..
CIty north of calgary.
And Loblaws is advertising it for $3.99/lbs starting tomorrow. So there is a wide variety of prices, and the statcan numbers may not reflect reality.
Most of the figures work if you compare May to December, not January.
But even then, some of the figures are wrong. As you pointed out, strawberries have come way down in prices, not up. And cabbage has gone up 16%, not 29%.
But … but … but the Elbows Up Chicken Dance Canadians who re-elected the Lieberals are the wisest, smartest people in Canada. Don’t believe me? Just ask them.
Last year I went over my credit card statements, (buy almost everything on my CC) and added up what I spent in 2015 and in 2024 at the grocery stores, my spending went up 150% even though I have been buying less expensive food stuff, if I did it now it would be much higher. The coffee I buy has almost doubled since last year.