@FoodProfessor: Food inflation rose to 3.8% in September, reaching 4.0% for food purchased in stores. That’s 1.4 percentage points higher than overall inflation, signaling renewed pressure on grocery prices.
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Don’t know where this a-hole gets its bogus numbers from BUT when coffee goes from less than $10 to more than $25 I call that much more than 4%
Ha …. Mr Not, I just loaded up on Kicking Horse beans at London drugs for $16.99 a lb / 454 gr.
The coffee was advertised for 18.99 or 4 bucks off but when I got there it was 6 bucks off so I snagged 3 bags.
Prices seem to be all over but I have noticed that when there are sales they are big price cuts … I was at Walmart for the big tins of Tim Hortons hot chocolate mix and they were about 30% off … a whole friggin’ pallet of them with no limits on purchase numbers. I hate Superstore for their f’en sales that only allow u to buy one at the sale price and then the price jumps for any additional.
WHAT KIND OF COFFEE R U BUYING THAT IS 25 BUCKS??? KONA COFFEE 😉
Keep your stick on the ice folks!!!
It’s around twenty odd dollars at our local grocery store , I switched to instant.
FK them.
When regular hamburg is a much as lean, and you get more water than fat. I go without.
The more people stretch a dollar the higher prices get.
Folgers. country have sale @ $22
KH beans were 18.99/2 pounds at the Costco last week.
We never shop LD anymore, after years of regular shopping.
Changing to pay parking will do that.
I get PC West Coast Dark Roast.
I bought 4-875g containers for 16$ each at Loblaws on sale. Often it’s 22-24$.
Been drinking it well over 10 years. Used to be a kilo a can, then it was 910g.
I’ve started buying several of the 2lb bags of Melita beans when they go on sale for $20.
Also I note that there’s a lot of shrinkflating going on with coffee. A pound of coffee is 454 grams! NOT 400, NOT 340, NOT 300…! I’ve seen a few now that went from a full pound, to a fake one and I stop buying when they pull that shit.
I stop buying when they pull that shit
Because it’s somehow the coffee company’s fault that the government has intentionally tanked the economy?
I’ve been having trouble buying the ubiquitous Peet’s Major Dickason’s blend, whole bean, at COSTCO recently. Its price has shot up to > $20.00/2 lb. bag.
But it appears as though COSTCO has been expanding their Kirkland brands … and pushing Peet’s off the shelves. Sorry Kirkland. No dice.
Why is it we’re paying $8/lb for GROUND BEEF FFS?!?
I just paid $5.79/lb US for Kirkland ground beef. Outrageous! I guess the animal rights people have finally found a way to make people stop eating beef … make it unaffordable to all but the wealthy. The perfect formula for leftist living.
Indeed. Remember when ground was just scraps and ends?
Bologna, weiners and mock chicken is now priced like fine dining cuisine.
The price of cattle is at record levels right now. Decades of screwing that industry with below market prices due to BSE or whatever scam of the moment has led to cattle inventory being at low levels. Low prices cure low prices and now we need high prices to expand the industry. I suspect cattle prices will stay high for a while and that current prices are more normal than the ultra low prices we got used to a number of years ago.
Nah. We just need to cut lots more rainforest and grow some more cattle by peasant labor! Send me that CHEAP Brazilian beef! If it’s good enough for MacDonalds … it’s good enough for me.
It is a strange time in the cattle industry in the American West. A lot of elderly ranchers are taking advantage of elevated beef prices and choosing to liquidate their herds and retire on the proceeds. I don’t know how those herds get replaced. Perhaps we’ll repeat the 1880’s and have an influx of cash from European gentry who have decided they can get rich raising cows in the wilds of Wyoming. That didn’t work out so well.
Wait. That’s not how it happened. The wholly accurate Hollywood Historic prequel 1883 and 1923 instructed me that it was mean- as-a-snake white settlers who claimed the noble, peaceful, eco-harmonious, benevolent, loving indigenous peoples lands … killed all the Buffalo … then ran huge herds of cattle who denuded all the native grasses and fouled the waters with their poisonous offal. Then in 1923 … those white ranchers put Indian children into Catholic pedophile schools where Nuns slept with the Indian girls and beat them within an inch of their lives. Then, when the noble, brave, fierce, Indian girls escaped … the patriarchal Priests hired bounty hunters to gun the girl down.
That’s how the white man’s beef habit was fed. According to the Hollywood writers.
If Trump sinks a few more drug boats, coffee will be the new GOLD!
All the puffers and drinkers aren’t playing along. Even FFF is pouring whiskey ina jar on the ground?
2 cups a day is our max. 50-50 cafe/decaf
Donating excess garden crop to the local soup kitchen.
How are young families managing these cost increases? Feeding growing kids healthy meals was expensive when our kids were young but prices were considerably lower and more stable from year to year. The financial struggle for young families right now must be very stressful. Food, housing, clothing are all much more expensive.
Personally, we’re fine. The meat freezer almost full of newly shot moose meat and the upcoming deer season should fill up the remaining space. The vegetable garden and orchard were particularly bountiful this year, every shelf full of canned and frozen food. Shared lots of meat and produce with family, friends and neighbors. We buy food staples in bulk when they go on sale so monthly food costs should be minimal.
Hunting and gardening are valuable skills to learn, especially when times are tough.
^^^
Hoping to take down an elk in the next 3 weeks. Finally got back to wood heating, so with a lot of work I’ll be able to heat for free next winter.
Not sure how gardening will work out in the new place at 6800′ altitude, probably need at least a small greenhouse.
If you’re in a cold, short season area then there’s quite a lot of choices. I’ve had good luck with fruit trees and berries developed by universities in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Our greenhouse certainly helps get harvests from longer seasons vegetables. Late frosts in spring and early frosts in the fall are the main risks in cold climate gardening…and summer hail, of course.
LC…I’d love to plant a couple of cold weather tolerant fruit trees. I inherited a row of trash Russian Olive trees that have to come down.
The hail crop here this year was record-breaking.
Poor people are often fat because they make food choices based on cost – carbs are cheap.
Canadians might get even fatter.
Don’t know what’s going on in Canada, but I just bought some Australian rib-eyes for half the price of Canadian. Very rarely do I ever see USDA beef here. I can also buy American bacon cheaper than local. Buy Canadian? Shove it.
Looking at stats can numbers, there is of course some manipulation going on.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810024502&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.11&cubeTimeFrame.startMonth=10&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2024&cubeTimeFrame.endMonth=09&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2025&referencePeriods=20241001%2C20250901
this is the selected food numbers they use, if you take their numbers from October 2024 to August 2025, and weight them equally you get an average increase of 5.65% over that 11 months. Stats can is then weighing those numbers through a basket of goods selection, and making it 3.8% overall for a 12 month period?
And because it’s commercially sensitive information, you will never know where the numbers come from, take for example Butter, listed in August as $5.69 per pound, best price I typically see is at costco for $5.90/pound. Loblaws is typically $7 or $8, with a sale price of $6