The answer to many of Canada’s problems regarding prices is that our economy is based on monopolies. The lack of competition ends up costing all people
But you still haven't got to the bottom yet. It's all because of government's over-regulation. Stupid laws in name of protecting consumers make new entrants into business world so hard, sometimes impossible. Big guys never feel the pressure from new entrants. When we do business analysis on competitive advantages, high barriers for new entrants is a big one.
Market Place did a study on this and yes, even Canadian products are cheaper in the USA, which doesn't make any sense. Canadian corporations (or monopolies) are taking advantage of Canadians, a fact that became even more evident after the COVID pandemic. Canadians earn less than Americans and pay more for everything. Things like natural gas, for example, cost, at least, 6 times more in Canada than in the USA. How can you spend $20 in natural gas consumption and be forced to pay $100 for the connection and taxes?
I saw ABC News Australia did a similar study with their biggest supermarkets there like Woolworths and Coles and yes they had the same issues there too.
My friend went to the U.S. and bought the same kitchen cabinets she wanted in Canada. They were over half the price and even with the import tax, she saved a lot of money. And cabinets were made in Canada!
A couple years ago I looked up the price of a Honda made in Quebec. It cost almost $5k more to buy from a dealership in the same city as the factory than it cost to buy in Hawaii.
I spent a few months in Canada and was really shocked by the high grocery prices, finally returned to Germany for multiple reasons. Videos like this help me to understand the reasons, thanks for that!
Lack of competition, smaller growing season = more imported food = higher transportation cost, economies of scale due to lower volume sold (less population) and higher immigration demographic means less homogenity in shopping pattern.
It is the new normal. I remember growing up in the poor area of Vancouver and mainstream dismissing our struggle. What most Canadians are seeing nowadays are just what I experienced it is just spreading.
…well, the new immigrants are competing with existing folks here in the food banks…and so, the pressure continues on….it doesn’t have to be like this if we have a better system.
Canada imports a lot of food items and the US dollar is used usually to import. We also have a short growing season but high taxes also has a big effect.
I spent a month and a half in Florida this winter and found it more expensive for groceries than here in Canada. Certain things were cheaper but in general more expensive
Because Canada government is too expensive, too much taxes drive the price up. Less of competition is because new investors won’t invest Canada because operating cost is too high, and market is small, not worth it. So the first thing need to do is change government.
I cut out everything but fatty meat+eggs and started buying my meat from a local farmer and that reduced my grocery bill by a lot + fixed a lot of my health issues. Plus zero waste with vacuum sealing. It sucks, but it was worth it in the end since it fixed my sugar/carbs addiction, my inflammation, my insomnia, my period cramps, my acne, my anxiety, gave me my high school metabolism back and I eat a lot less now. Tip: get cheap cuts of meats and a slow cooker. Amazing.
@ 07:15 Timestamp, explains alot. We often shop at markets and or Maxi. I did not see Maxi on the list, which leads me to beleive why its so much cheaper than the other chains...
When a corporation has record profits while arguing that costs have increased to cause the increase in food pricing it is extremely difficult to believe their claims because if costs truly increased the increase would not result in increased profit. Trust is the key. As a Canadian consumer I can no longer trust the corporations and will do what I can to avoid their stores in favour of independent stores following a shop local ideology. We, as consumers, need to speak out with where we spend our dollars.
Take banks as an example. Canada population is 1/10 of USA's. But US has thousands of banks, what do we have? Just those a few options, RBC, Scotia and etc.
Dang Canada entire national population is the same size as the US State of California, and also the entire population of Canada can fit inside the Tokyo metropolitan area. I saw the ABC News Australia one about having the same issues there as the one seen in Canada and Australia's population is tied with the US State of Texas.
Many key items in Canada are also supply-managed (dairy, poultry, eggs) which keeps prices at a modest level to protect the producer as well as the consumer. This results in higher input costs for food products made from these items which are then passed down to the end-purchaser. In the US, a lot of these items are not supply-managed (i.e. no quota system) so farms can be gigantic producing a much larger volume. This makes prices inherently lower in the US for these same key items. This factors you highlighted in the video exacerbate the inherent differences in pricing between Canada and the US.
I recently visited Las Vegas and can tell the prices of groceries and dining is very similar in amounts but its in USD, not CAD.Like for example, a family of 3 can eat out for 50 USD, similarly can eat for 50 CAD as well.
You've done anothe great investigation on a topic that concerns every person 😍 From my perspective, the situation in Canada will not change because it will remain a much smaller market than the US. A similar situation is Australia and NewZealand, with Australia having in many cases higher wages and cheaper prices. This is why many New Zealanders have moved there. In Europe, the high population concentration in the western part of Germany offers the cheapest prices for groceries in Europe. Many items like milk are much more expensive in Euros in Finland or Greece, where wages are lower. As you probably know, the free market inside the EU and the common currency makes it much easier to compare prices. What makes the situation in Canada so bad is the feeling among the people how a country with so much resources like oil and gas, grain and fishing has so high prices. One reason is the lack of local competition, and the other is how you have only one main customer, the US. The big companies basically tell Canadian suppliers what they want to pay, and you have to give them that kind of discount. Exporting for example your oil to Japan or Europe is just too expensive.
Lol and target is more about clothes, ans producys than groceries. Their grocery section is so small unless you go to a super target. They are not a grocery store.
You can't use average wage as a comparison between Canada and the USA because they're top earning class (say Top 10% or even 5%) are so much richer it skews the results up for everyone in the USA. They simply have a much richer upper class per capita. Doctors make more. Lawyers make more. Top businessmen and CEOs make more. And they have a MUCH bigger super wealthy elite class of families per capita. So instead of using average, you should use median to be more fair.
And: The CEO of big public/ monopoly companies gets paid $30 million dollars each year for their salary, although their supermarkets and services were below parr.
That doesn't matter. 30 million is a drop in the bucket. Services below par? Then... don't shop there? If it's below par, then why are you shopping there?
They're not. Went to the US and prices are exactly the same/more expensive when you factor in the exchange rate. Yes, monopolies have been price gouging us in Canada, but the US has a litteral roberry problem
Just got back from Washington state to B.C. I could not believe how expensive groceries were in the States. Except for some dairy, and some alcohol, it was basically 30% more. Fruits and veggies at major supermarkets were the same prices but in U.S. $. Believe me. I am a frugal shopper and this was the consensus.
because the entirety of canada's population is less than the state of california. That and lack of competition. There are two grocery companies in canada; loblaws and sobeys. The food manufacturers that supply them are all owned by a half dozen companies. Carbon taxes on fuel for transport and farm machinery have started to bite. Minimum wage has gone from 11.75 to what will be 17.50 in 5 years. I'll let you guess where all those minimum wage jobs reside. When you add the currency exchange rate you get the difference in prices.
So Target is not the place to buy groceries. Target can be 30 percent more expensive then aldis ,hyvee or Sam club down where I live. Shopping groceries at Target is only done when you are in a hurry or something. I pay 2.60 for a gallon of 2% milk.
Exactly, Aldis, costco, sams club, Kroger, trader joes, whole foods, those are real grocery stores. Numbeo quotes a gallon of Milk in Texas at 4$+ and it is so wrong, I have never found those prices in any of these grocery stores listed up in Texas. It’s always below $3. Eggs were more volatile during the pandemic but they have significantly come down and i usually buy a dozen between 1$-2$ per package dozen.
Grocery prices are cheaper overall in Canada than in the U.S.. At least they are in Ontario compared to surrounding states. Go to any American border community and notice how the retail is suffering because very few Canadians are shopping there unlike in the past.
Very well researched video! New to your channel. I am going to be a bit counter culture here. We all know that groceries are expensive in Canada, but it is possible to still live on a low budget without sacrificing quality of life. We live in Toronto, a family of three & medium sized dog; two adults and teenager. We spend about $300/ month on groceries for all of us (we make our own dog food to supplement kibble). I know, I know most people think I am lying, but it really is possible. We shop sales, loss leaders, clearances, store specials only from major grocery stores. We stock up when things are at rock bottom prices. We don't eat that much meat and buy seasonal produce. We have built a working pantry over time, and cook at home. There are liquidation and discount grocers, too. Utilizing store points & loyalty programs saves a lot. We also use digital offers and grocery discount apps like Too Good to Go. I know we could save even more, but this seems comfortable for our family. I agree it is insane how expensive regular prices are, but we just have made a conscious choice not to give our hard earned money to these large corporations. The key is to make the choice of spending some time to plan your grocery shopping around the sales (we spend about 30-45min /week on home food inventory, meal and shopping plan) and what you already have. A huge part is to avoid food waste. About 30-40% of food is wasted in Canadian households (similar rate in the US). Long answer to hopefully encourage others that we don't have to pay the crazy prices and there is choice 🙏🙂 There is an excellent TH-camr called Adventures in Groceryland from Nova Scotia and on Instagram, Kat from Living on A Loonie. They have amazing tips weekly how to save money. Thanks again for a great video ❤️
These are exactly the same strategies I am using in Ottawa🇨🇦. Butter, for example, comes on sale every 8 weeks and I stock up then. I adjust my meal planning based on the sales that I find each week. Batch cooking, freezing leftovers, dehydrating, and canning, also help me to maintain a well stocked pantry. I keep a close eye on my food inventory and rarely waste food. Using these steps, I have found a way to beat inflation!
Sorry this is not related to video, but I already become Canadian, I lost landing paper when I first arrived in Canada, where I can make new? Is landing paper ever need in any case like apply government programs like apply pensions or TFSA or anything? What documents usually need for apply? I lost ID password too for login government site, even if not living in Canada I can make new? What documents need if make new bank accounts in Canada as a Canadian if not living in Canada? Do I need to hire someone to report my tax if have some bank savings and not living in Canada? Hospital is free or not if I only stay few month in Canada? Have to apply health card or not? What address I can put for bank and driver license if I'm not living in Canada? Which site I can search and can rent a place if only stay few month in Canada? What is cheap option? I'm confused about everything, I hope someone can kindly reply.
Lots of cdn dont know to shop. Quote huge prices when cheaper is easily available. Ive commemted on some (like chicken breast at metro being $26 when the flyer clearly shows $4.99) Milk/milk products expensive because of Milk Marketing Board !!!
High Tax (yes Carbon Tax) and High Min Wage in Canada is completely ignored. Those metrics are a result of massive government spending and debt causing a loss of buying power. As an example, if you had $100K in 2019 it would be worth $70K in buying power today. If you made $60K in wages in 2019, did your wage go up 30% to $78K in the last 4 years? Canada also has a massive decline in Productivity, GDP per Capita is expected to lower the standard of living in Canada compared to other countries each and every year. Add all factors to the equation and the cost of living across everything is snowballing, the poor and middle class feel the effect the greatest. You really can’t ignore the massive wealth transfer government created over the last 8 years. Add it all, its not just a NDP argument regarding competition.
I have 3 kids and we are that kind of a family that never budget for the food.. we were ok with that before. But I can feel the pinch of high food prices lately.
Not always the case. Depends on which state you live in. NJ and NY, grocery prices are comparable to ON, sometimes even more expensive. ShopRite vs NoFrills. TX for sure is much cheaper.
Resident of Switzerland here. Swiss prices may seem enormous when seen in USD, but for those earning here it is not as bad as it seems. Being moneywise, going to cheaper options and less eating out helps a lot. I dare to say 20$ will not give me a lot in Loblaws, but 20 CHF in Migros (Loblaws equivalent) will give more. Based on salaries, 20 CHF is more like 30$..
@@testingthewaters7541 It depends on a place, but let's consider the most expensive city, Zurich. The average salary is approx 100k according to websites like jobs ch or glassdoor. It is paid in 13 parts, leaving gross income 7,7k per month. Check Numbeo per details, but it is possible to rent 1 bdr outside city center, in walkable nice location for 2,4 k per month. Taxes are much lower so this gives aroung 6k after all deductions for pensions etc. It is possible to buy a lot in cheaper stores for 20-30 CHF for grocery, or using brand stores in regular ones. Law forbids to pay rent more than one third of gross income and it is easier to rent 1 bdr in Zurich than in Toronto. I lived in both.
@@testingthewaters7541 It depends on a place, but let's consider the most expensive city, Zurich. The average salary is approx 100k according to various websites. It is paid in 13 parts, leaving gross income 7,7k per month. Check Numbeo per details, but it is possible to rent 1 bdr outside city center, in walkable nice location for 2,4 k per month. Taxes are much lower so this gives aroung 6k after all deductions for pensions etc. It is possible to buy a lot in cheaper stores for 20-30 CHF for grocery, or using brand stores in regular ones. Law forbids to pay rent more than one third of gross income and it is easier to rent 1 bdr in Zurich than in Toronto. I lived in both. Zurich is affordable in comparison to Toronto.
@@testingthewaters7541 It depends on a place, but let's consider the most expensive city, Zurich. The average salary is approx 100k according to various websites. It is paid in 13 parts, leaving gross income 7,7k per month. It is possible to rent 1 bdr outside city center, in walkable nice location for 2,4 k per month. Taxes are much lower so this gives around 6k after all deductions for pensions etc. It is possible to buy a lot in cheaper stores for 20-30 CHF for grocery, or using brand stores in regular ones. Law forbids to pay rent more than one third of gross income and it is easier to rent 1 bdr in Zurich than in Toronto. I lived in both.
Why grocery’s is more expensive? Because our dollars has lose purchased power, we buy to the Unites Estates and pay in USA dollars , so you have to convert and add transportation cost them comes profit for the retails supermarkets , the only time we see prices in Canada coming down is in the summer from locals growers , in the USA seem like everything is cheaper, because they have huge population and sell in bulk the more you sell ,the better the price ,
Unfortunately, everything is more expensive in Canada. Canada has become one of the most expensive " if not the most" in the world if we compared minimum wages to expenses. ThisPM we have now is pure evil.
I visited a Costco in Canada, I was shocked, the same things cost double compared to the US costco. Numbeo is BS. I don’t trust their index in America, i constantly buy half the price of what numbeo quotes in the US. I have not bought milk over 1$ per liter in the US. I have consittenly bought 2.5$ max per gallon (3.78l). Don’t quote target, target is ridiculously expensive and it’s not a grocery store. You can compare same name grocery stores, Whole Foods Canada, vs Whole Foods US. Costco Canada vs Costco US.
There are a few reasons. Dairy is controlled and prices are set. As for food brought in it cost more to truck it around. And then there is that damn carbon tax to boot.....
Uh what? Between Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal and Greater Vancouver, more than 1 in 3 of every Canadian live in three CMA. Additionally, roughly 52% of Canadians live within the 750 mile long Quebec City-Windsor corridor. The equivalent would be the US having 165 million people living along Interstate 90 between Boston and Indianapolis. Canada is in fact an infrastructure planer's wet dream. It is insanely easy to build infrastructure that services most of its people, which makes Canada's lackadaisical public services even more sad. No the real reason Canada pays for more groceries is lack of competition, inefficient labor, low automation, high transportation costs (see lackadaisical infrastructure above) and the fact that it imports a large amount of food from abroad. Also fun fact, contrary to popular belief, Canada is the FOURTH largest landmass, after Russia, China, and the US. It is only larger geographically to the US because it has more territorial waters due to having a third coast.
I was telling my friend this after i spent a week in Montreal. She was like, no way. But yes way. I bought the same things i normally buy while i was there and it must definitely was higher even though i bought less since i was in a hostel and had limited storage. I was wild out of my soul when i went to a metro something supermarket and saw precut chicken breast that cost 18 Canadian bucks 😮
It was stated in the video but didn't put enough of a fine point on it: we need more Costco and Walmart grocery outlets. They offer significantly lower prices per weight, have already been established in Canada, and offer the best short term solution to this problem
Where do you live?? I’m on the East side of the GTA and I’ve seen the exact same products 33% cheaper at Walmart over Loblaws. I wish they were the same prices here
Not a fair comparison using Loblaws and Target. So they took one of our most expensive grocery store chains and compared it to a budget department store that also sells groceries. If they wanted a fair comparison they should've used used the Walmart grocery divisions for both countries. Also, of course anything dairy based in Canada is going to be more expensive because we have a dairy board that raises prices artificially to benefit dairy farmers. Also I've never paid frickin $11.42 per pound for chicken breast. More like $7.50 a pound at No Frills and as low as $4 a pound when it's on sale (so I stock up then). I was just in a Wegman's in Ithaca, New York and compared it to the prices in Vancouver where I live and the prices of most packaged goods are equal to more (compared to No Frills where I shop) when you factor in the currency difference (and sometimes even just plain cheaper without even factoring in exchange rates). And again, not anything dairy or meat.
In addition to many of the points made here we there is also another reason. Our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since becoming prime minister has doubled the rent, more than doubled house prices, increase food all due to reckless Government spending as well as letting in millions of people into the country with no homes for them.
Monopolies? Lack of competition? But why ppl buy the same apples in Metro, Sobeys, Lablows and NoFrills from the same wholesale supplier with different prices? Why they even choose to buy in Metro and Lablows if there is NoFrills? Ppl can afford to shop across the border but they don't want to change habits domestically. I am not done yet. Why Wholefoods and Walmart in Canada are not cheaper and sell the same stuff we buy in domestic groceries?
I personally don’t find US prices any better than in Canada. Similar to US content creators, comparing Target prices with Loblaws is not quite fair either. $1.97 CAD for a loaf of Great Value white bread is not cheap either but of course I can also opt for a 97c stick of French baguette there too. But certainly things are not cheaper say for a bundle of herbs is at least 60-70% more now. Or a pork roast for that matter.
Groceries are very expensive in the United States. I used to live in the USA so I still receive on,I e flyers from food4less. I can tell you, the groceries are more expensive in the United States. I’m comparing where used to live. Milk is $13 a gallon in the Bay Area, California. Sorry, each state has different prices. Buffalo/Niagara Falls has always been the cheapest place to live for decades for various reasons
If you are a for profit company and you are allowed to rip of consumers, you will. Should basic grocery (milk, bread eggs etc) be a for-profit business maybe but likely it needs to be regulated otherwise it is not hard to see how profiteering can happen.
more farms in the US of A sister. although we have strawberry farm i can go pick from strawberry bush we buy california and mexican grown strawberries at grocery which means import. import=more price
We also pay more for cars and our homes. Our companies are the problem we really do not have any competion , they have a monopoly. Get rid of lobbying, that's part of the problem.
@canadiankabingurl9782 yeah Sudbury isn't too far from here (Temiskaming Shores). It's gotten unfathomably expensive over the past couple of years up here.
@@jizzaymz Yes that is true. I just travelled in 5 U.S. states and almost everything was much more expensive there including food. The only cheaper things were gasoline and cases of beer.
Groceries are much, much more expensive in Hawaii and California compared to Canada. Your video doesn’t narrow down different regions and states. On a recent trip to Hawaii, canadians’ jaws drop on food prices. That’s true with California too.
Well if you compare average prices to income ratio you can see the differences is huge. Toronto vs New York for example, average income in New York is doubled, but the prices is quite similiar.
Qatar and Dubai literally import everything from abroad. They source meat from Brazil producers and you can find better tasting steak on the shelves of grocery stores in Dubai and Qatar for less than $18 per kg! The Canadian beef lobby of course will keep saying their meat is better than Brazilian meat and safer when literally every country in the world is importing Brazilian meat with no health issues.
Your comparison is not what I experienced. Large metropolitans save more on foods. groceries have many levels of outlet. If just on cost of foods leaving out spending power etc... then I can sure that the food costs in the metropolitan US mostly are higher than metropolitan Toronto, and is about the same in rural town, (excluding remote and extremely remote towns in Canada) I travelled to the many parts of the U.S.A. almost every second week. I visited many grocery stores every time for the same purpose of your video, I always curious whether American do save more on foods or not. Stores I visited like Costco, Sams Club, Aldi, Walmarts, main US chains, Ethnic grocery stores like Supermercado and Asian grocery stores. I found that grocery cost is the same or more in 95% of major U.S. cities if you are from Toronto. And doubled or more if you eat more fruits and vegetables. US costs of: Bread same or more, dairy products lower, meats same or lower, Seafoods same, Fish lower. vegetable more, fruits same or more... grains products in bulk... same or higher... I stopped shopping in the US for the last 3 years. only buy stuffs that are not available in Canada.
Canadian here. I lived in Japan for 10-years, travelled around Asia. Eating out is 3x more expensive here than Japan, but groceries are a little less; However, in Asian countries you will get 60% less in quantity either way lower soil mineralization. Therefore, Canadian groceries are reasonable compared to most countries (with the exception of Latin American countries). Canadians are fat, so I’m glad people are being forced to skip meals 😂
Actually they got caught in Canada for fix prices on Bread during covid and all they got was a slap on the wrist at least Sobey's decided to give a rebate to consumers but most people never even heard about it .The news covered it up and it was never talked about again. Who knows what other prices they were fixing or are still doing to this day.
Give it a couple of years, between monopolies and carbon tax the gap on food cost will widen between the US and Canada. Also Americans doesn't have a housing crisis as that of Canadians who have to choose between a roof over their heads or food.
I’m not an expert on expert on the economics of the grocery industry. Just based on my recent experience traveling extensively in the US during 2022 and 2023, I found that grocery price inflation in the US was greater than that in Canada. What I mean by this is that in the past, there was a greater difference between prices before 2020 than there is today. In fact, I found many items were very similar in both countries after exchange rate was factored in.
Consider another factor Cargill and ADM are major commodities investors here in the USA and they have a major sway on the value of agricultural goods here.
you can't compare target to loblaws you would need to compare to public to loblaws, the rest of the video your perfect on, but there are many things Canadian companies can do. if you look at the States all dollar store have a frozen food section maybe our dollar store should look into this also
The super markets made so much money over the pandemic but still not content. I used to get a large bottle of sarprito oil for 5.99 now it's 11.99. why such a big price hike??????. The markets are like carpetbagger sucking on their customers for profits.
Starvation or austerity policies are never disclosed publicly. The wealth of peoples can easy estimated what families pay on to live based on salaries. See the minimum salaries 15-17.3 dollar per hr or family Domestic live-in 2848 dollar per month, subtract from this rent which is estimated average 2100 dollar month, then utilities around 400-500 dollar month (or more) and from these a family will have 8.15 to 11.44 dollar day for food and other necessities. If these peoples are not helped from donations they can not survive. Insane policies with prices from businesses on collaboration with elected peoples are devastating citizens. Retired peoples are close to "paradise".
I really don’t know the reason why we pay so much for groceries in Canada but if I had to guess, greedy corporations since we don’t have much competition. Just look at the profits from loblaws since the start of the pandemic, in the billions. Canada needs more competition to lower food prices in my opinion.
New arrivals are going to be dealt a harsh reality in the form of abject poverty. Those already trapped here by false promises should be shouting from the roof tops, STAY HOME.
True food is expensive, but there are still farmers' markets. Crossing the border to load up hyper-processed food sounds good if you want to trade in some life years for dollar savings. 😅
Without trying to be mean, the lady you showed "looks" more American than Canadian despite the high-perspective shot...😢 worth the savings? The looks are only the symptoms.
The answer to many of Canada’s problems regarding prices is that our economy is based on monopolies. The lack of competition ends up costing all people
Love your channel and tips by the way!!!!
I wish there were a lot more options!
But you still haven't got to the bottom yet. It's all because of government's over-regulation.
Stupid laws in name of protecting consumers make new entrants into business world so hard, sometimes impossible.
Big guys never feel the pressure from new entrants.
When we do business analysis on competitive advantages, high barriers for new entrants is a big one.
All in all, socialism policies make more monopolies in name of protecting consumers 😂
Sure.. has NOTHING to do with higher fuel taxes
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Market Place did a study on this and yes, even Canadian products are cheaper in the USA, which doesn't make any sense. Canadian corporations (or monopolies) are taking advantage of Canadians, a fact that became even more evident after the COVID pandemic. Canadians earn less than Americans and pay more for everything. Things like natural gas, for example, cost, at least, 6 times more in Canada than in the USA. How can you spend $20 in natural gas consumption and be forced to pay $100 for the connection and taxes?
Fun fact: Canadian silver maple coin is cheaper in USA than Canada
I saw ABC News Australia did a similar study with their biggest supermarkets there like Woolworths and Coles and yes they had the same issues there too.
My friend went to the U.S. and bought the same kitchen cabinets she wanted in Canada. They were over half the price and even with the import tax, she saved a lot of money. And cabinets were made in Canada!
@@annai6393yup makes sense if the shipper fuels up in the USA.. much lower fuel costs
A couple years ago I looked up the price of a Honda made in Quebec. It cost almost $5k more to buy from a dealership in the same city as the factory than it cost to buy in Hawaii.
I spent a few months in Canada and was really shocked by the high grocery prices, finally returned to Germany for multiple reasons. Videos like this help me to understand the reasons, thanks for that!
Lack of competition, smaller growing season = more imported food = higher transportation cost, economies of scale due to lower volume sold (less population) and higher immigration demographic means less homogenity in shopping pattern.
Canada is not the Canada that it used to be. Everything seems out of control. More and more people are using food banks even when people are employed.
It is the new normal. I remember growing up in the poor area of Vancouver and mainstream dismissing our struggle. What most Canadians are seeing nowadays are just what I experienced it is just spreading.
its because of treadeu
Sure, an individual earning the minimum wage would prefer to go to a food bank so that he can save a little money. It is become ridiculous here.
…well, the new immigrants are competing with existing folks here in the food banks…and so, the pressure continues on….it doesn’t have to be like this if we have a better system.
@@abc-lp6nb It is because of an "Intrudeau".
Travelling through the Eu this year in every country I visited people complained about food, housing prices. We are all on the same boat!
Canada imports a lot of food items and the US dollar is used usually to import. We also have a short growing season but high taxes also has a big effect.
It is here too. Americans used to shop in Canada from Michigan and Seattle.
No, no it’s not
I spent a month and a half in Florida this winter and found it more expensive for groceries than here in Canada. Certain things were cheaper but in general more expensive
Naples and Boca Raton are expensive.
@@parkerbohnn I was rving all over down there and prices were similar at least in the places I was at
Because Canada government is too expensive, too much taxes drive the price up. Less of competition is because new investors won’t invest Canada because operating cost is too high, and market is small, not worth it. So the first thing need to do is change government.
I cut out everything but fatty meat+eggs and started buying my meat from a local farmer and that reduced my grocery bill by a lot + fixed a lot of my health issues. Plus zero waste with vacuum sealing. It sucks, but it was worth it in the end since it fixed my sugar/carbs addiction, my inflammation, my insomnia, my period cramps, my acne, my anxiety, gave me my high school metabolism back and I eat a lot less now. Tip: get cheap cuts of meats and a slow cooker. Amazing.
Care to explain what you mean by cheap cuts of meat?
@@Lee-mp5vg Anything pork is cheaper, but if you want beef, stuff like chuck, ground beef, oxtail.
@@Lee-mp5vg like liver and other organs.
This was a really informative video. As an American, I felt this video really helped me understand the issue Canadians are dealing with. Thanks!
Glad to hear that!
@ 07:15 Timestamp, explains alot. We often shop at markets and or Maxi. I did not see Maxi on the list, which leads me to beleive why its so much cheaper than the other chains...
When a corporation has record profits while arguing that costs have increased to cause the increase in food pricing it is extremely difficult to believe their claims because if costs truly increased the increase would not result in increased profit. Trust is the key. As a Canadian consumer I can no longer trust the corporations and will do what I can to avoid their stores in favour of independent stores following a shop local ideology. We, as consumers, need to speak out with where we spend our dollars.
Their share prices for the most part are in the toilet, so I don't get this higher profit bit.. exception being loblaws
Profits as s percentage of sales for loblaws is about 3.5% for the last number of years. So profits are no out of line.
Consider another factor it's about commodities investors like Cargill, and ADM they are a factor in why groceries cost a certain way
@@tommyshanks4198Loblaws profit margin on food less than most US grocers. BUT the same cannot be said for cosmetics/clothes.
But you are not capable of doing that.
Take banks as an example. Canada population is 1/10 of USA's. But US has thousands of banks, what do we have? Just those a few options, RBC, Scotia and etc.
Dang Canada entire national population is the same size as the US State of California, and also the entire population of Canada can fit inside the Tokyo metropolitan area.
I saw the ABC News Australia one about having the same issues there as the one seen in Canada and Australia's population is tied with the US State of Texas.
Lots of migration is happening year by year situation is going to change
@@blogdesign7126 Most of canada lives near toronto
Many key items in Canada are also supply-managed (dairy, poultry, eggs) which keeps prices at a modest level to protect the producer as well as the consumer. This results in higher input costs for food products made from these items which are then passed down to the end-purchaser. In the US, a lot of these items are not supply-managed (i.e. no quota system) so farms can be gigantic producing a much larger volume. This makes prices inherently lower in the US for these same key items. This factors you highlighted in the video exacerbate the inherent differences in pricing between Canada and the US.
You should look into prices of groceries in the Canadian territories. It’s insane.
They can probably hunt more up there though. Just assuming
Due to transport and shipping costs.
I recently visited Las Vegas and can tell the prices of groceries and dining is very similar in amounts but its in USD, not CAD.Like for example, a family of 3 can eat out for 50 USD, similarly can eat for 50 CAD as well.
Excellent reporting. Love this video!
You've done anothe great investigation on a topic that concerns every person 😍
From my perspective, the situation in Canada will not change because it will remain a much smaller market than the US. A similar situation is Australia and NewZealand, with Australia having in many cases higher wages and cheaper prices. This is why many New Zealanders have moved there.
In Europe, the high population concentration in the western part of Germany offers the cheapest prices for groceries in Europe. Many items like milk are much more expensive in Euros in Finland or Greece, where wages are lower. As you probably know, the free market inside the EU and the common currency makes it much easier to compare prices.
What makes the situation in Canada so bad is the feeling among the people how a country with so much resources like oil and gas, grain and fishing has so high prices. One reason is the lack of local competition, and the other is how you have only one main customer, the US. The big companies basically tell Canadian suppliers what they want to pay, and you have to give them that kind of discount. Exporting for example your oil to Japan or Europe is just too expensive.
0:05 I always buy the same cheese for 4.99. People need to learn how to shop.
Target is very expensive for groceries. Why would they not compare a regular grocery store to Lawblaws?
Lol and target is more about clothes, ans producys than groceries. Their grocery section is so small unless you go to a super target. They are not a grocery store.
Weren't they price fixing bread for like 12years? 50 million fine is nothing. Monpolies is a huge problem also carbon tax and high gas prices.
I needa check the price in Niagara Falls NY tomorrow. things are exp cross the border.
Love the topic :)
Absolutely agree. Every thing in Canada is so expensive nowadays.
You can't use average wage as a comparison between Canada and the USA because they're top earning class (say Top 10% or even 5%) are so much richer it skews the results up for everyone in the USA. They simply have a much richer upper class per capita. Doctors make more. Lawyers make more. Top businessmen and CEOs make more. And they have a MUCH bigger super wealthy elite class of families per capita. So instead of using average, you should use median to be more fair.
The US also has lower taxes, lower living costs (California notwithstanding), more disposable income and purchasing power, etc.
And: The CEO of big public/ monopoly companies gets paid $30 million dollars each year for their salary, although their supermarkets and services were below parr.
That doesn't matter. 30 million is a drop in the bucket. Services below par? Then... don't shop there? If it's below par, then why are you shopping there?
Taxes upon taxes which compound to make everything go up.
They're not. Went to the US and prices are exactly the same/more expensive when you factor in the exchange rate.
Yes, monopolies have been price gouging us in Canada, but the US has a litteral roberry problem
Just got back from Washington state to B.C. I could not believe how expensive groceries were in the States. Except for some dairy, and some alcohol, it was basically 30% more. Fruits and veggies at major supermarkets were the same prices but in U.S. $. Believe me. I am a frugal shopper and this was the consensus.
because the entirety of canada's population is less than the state of california. That and lack of competition. There are two grocery companies in canada; loblaws and sobeys. The food manufacturers that supply them are all owned by a half dozen companies. Carbon taxes on fuel for transport and farm machinery have started to bite. Minimum wage has gone from 11.75 to what will be 17.50 in 5 years. I'll let you guess where all those minimum wage jobs reside. When you add the currency exchange rate you get the difference in prices.
So Target is not the place to buy groceries. Target can be 30 percent more expensive then aldis ,hyvee or Sam club down where I live. Shopping groceries at Target is only done when you are in a hurry or something. I pay 2.60 for a gallon of 2% milk.
From where you buy milk?
Exactly, Aldis, costco, sams club, Kroger, trader joes, whole foods, those are real grocery stores.
Numbeo quotes a gallon of Milk in Texas at 4$+ and it is so wrong, I have never found those prices in any of these grocery stores listed up in Texas. It’s always below $3.
Eggs were more volatile during the pandemic but they have significantly come down and i usually buy a dozen between 1$-2$ per package dozen.
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Grocery prices are cheaper overall in Canada than in the U.S.. At least they are in Ontario compared to surrounding states. Go to any American border community and notice how the retail is suffering because very few Canadians are shopping there unlike in the past.
Very well researched video! New to your channel.
I am going to be a bit counter culture here. We all know that groceries are expensive in Canada, but it is possible to still live on a low budget without sacrificing quality of life.
We live in Toronto, a family of three & medium sized dog; two adults and teenager. We spend about $300/ month on groceries for all of us (we make our own dog food to supplement kibble). I know, I know most people think I am lying, but it really is possible. We shop sales, loss leaders, clearances, store specials only from major grocery stores. We stock up when things are at rock bottom prices. We don't eat that much meat and buy seasonal produce. We have built a working pantry over time, and cook at home. There are liquidation and discount grocers, too. Utilizing store points & loyalty programs saves a lot. We also use digital offers and grocery discount apps like Too Good to Go. I know we could save even more, but this seems comfortable for our family.
I agree it is insane how expensive regular prices are, but we just have made a conscious choice not to give our hard earned money to these large corporations. The key is to make the choice of spending some time to plan your grocery shopping around the sales (we spend about 30-45min /week on home food inventory, meal and shopping plan) and what you already have. A huge part is to avoid food waste. About 30-40% of food is wasted in Canadian households (similar rate in the US).
Long answer to hopefully encourage others that we don't have to pay the crazy prices and there is choice 🙏🙂 There is an excellent TH-camr called Adventures in Groceryland from Nova Scotia and on Instagram, Kat from Living on A Loonie. They have amazing tips weekly how to save money.
Thanks again for a great video ❤️
These are exactly the same strategies I am using in Ottawa🇨🇦. Butter, for example, comes on sale every 8 weeks and I stock up then. I adjust my meal planning based on the sales that I find each week. Batch cooking, freezing leftovers, dehydrating, and canning, also help me to maintain a well stocked pantry. I keep a close eye on my food inventory and rarely waste food. Using these steps, I have found a way to beat inflation!
@@sheldaadams8300yes! It used to not be worth canning, dehydrating etc., but now it does. There is always something we can do 💪
We buy lots of foods on sale for half price and growing vegetables in our backyard.
We are eating less meat and fish.
Sorry this is not related to video, but I already become Canadian, I lost landing paper when I first arrived in Canada, where I can make new?
Is landing paper ever need in any case like apply government programs like apply pensions or TFSA or anything?
What documents usually need for apply?
I lost ID password too for login government site, even if not living in Canada I can make new?
What documents need if make new bank accounts in Canada as a Canadian if not living in Canada? Do I need to hire someone to report my tax if have some bank savings and not living in Canada?
Hospital is free or not if I only stay few month in Canada? Have to apply health card or not?
What address I can put for bank and driver license if I'm not living in Canada?
Which site I can search and can rent a place if only stay few month in Canada? What is cheap option?
I'm confused about everything, I hope someone can kindly reply.
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Lots of cdn dont know to shop. Quote huge prices when cheaper is easily available. Ive commemted on some (like chicken breast at metro being $26 when the flyer clearly shows $4.99) Milk/milk products expensive because of Milk Marketing Board !!!
If everyone shopped only during sales, there would be no sales.
High Tax (yes Carbon Tax) and High Min Wage in Canada is completely ignored. Those metrics are a result of massive government spending and debt causing a loss of buying power. As an example, if you had $100K in 2019 it would be worth $70K in buying power today. If you made $60K in wages in 2019, did your wage go up 30% to $78K in the last 4 years? Canada also has a massive decline in Productivity, GDP per Capita is expected to lower the standard of living in Canada compared to other countries each and every year. Add all factors to the equation and the cost of living across everything is snowballing, the poor and middle class feel the effect the greatest. You really can’t ignore the massive wealth transfer government created over the last 8 years. Add it all, its not just a NDP argument regarding competition.
Retirees are flush with cash due to higher interest rates. A huge windfall as my income has tripled the past two years.
Deficits are much high per capita in the U.S. than in Canada.
You can cross the border with dairy and meat?
Not enough competition in Canada as a result of higher prices in Canada !Also higher taxes including the Carbon tax in Canada !
I have 3 kids and we are that kind of a family that never budget for the food.. we were ok with that before. But I can feel the pinch of high food prices lately.
Not always the case. Depends on which state you live in. NJ and NY, grocery prices are comparable to ON, sometimes even more expensive. ShopRite vs NoFrills. TX for sure is much cheaper.
Resident of Switzerland here. Swiss prices may seem enormous when seen in USD, but for those earning here it is not as bad as it seems. Being moneywise, going to cheaper options and less eating out helps a lot. I dare to say 20$ will not give me a lot in Loblaws, but 20 CHF in Migros (Loblaws equivalent) will give more. Based on salaries, 20 CHF is more like 30$..
What's a topical profit per month for an individual.
@@testingthewaters7541 It depends on a place, but let's consider the most expensive city, Zurich. The average salary is approx 100k according to websites like jobs ch or glassdoor. It is paid in 13 parts, leaving gross income 7,7k per month. Check Numbeo per details, but it is possible to rent 1 bdr outside city center, in walkable nice location for 2,4 k per month. Taxes are much lower so this gives aroung 6k after all deductions for pensions etc. It is possible to buy a lot in cheaper stores for 20-30 CHF for grocery, or using brand stores in regular ones. Law forbids to pay rent more than one third of gross income and it is easier to rent 1 bdr in Zurich than in Toronto. I lived in both.
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It depends on a place, but let's consider the most expensive city, Zurich. The average salary is approx 100k according to various websites. It is paid in 13 parts, leaving gross income 7,7k per month. Check Numbeo per details, but it is possible to rent 1 bdr outside city center, in walkable nice location for 2,4 k per month. Taxes are much lower so this gives aroung 6k after all deductions for pensions etc. It is possible to buy a lot in cheaper stores for 20-30 CHF for grocery, or using brand stores in regular ones. Law forbids to pay rent more than one third of gross income and it is easier to rent 1 bdr in Zurich than in Toronto. I lived in both. Zurich is affordable in comparison to Toronto.
@@testingthewaters7541 It depends on a place, but let's consider the most expensive city, Zurich. The average salary is approx 100k according to various websites. It is paid in 13 parts, leaving gross income 7,7k per month. It is possible to rent 1 bdr outside city center, in walkable nice location for 2,4 k per month. Taxes are much lower so this gives around 6k after all deductions for pensions etc. It is possible to buy a lot in cheaper stores for 20-30 CHF for grocery, or using brand stores in regular ones. Law forbids to pay rent more than one third of gross income and it is easier to rent 1 bdr in Zurich than in Toronto. I lived in both.
Why grocery’s is more expensive? Because our dollars has lose purchased power, we buy to the Unites Estates and pay in USA dollars , so you have to convert and add transportation cost them comes profit for the retails supermarkets , the only time we see prices in Canada coming down is in the summer from locals growers , in the USA seem like everything is cheaper, because they have huge population and sell in bulk the more you sell ,the better the price ,
I noticed that there is much much less people shopping in the supermarkets
Groceries in Canada have always been higher than the US, nothing new.
Unfortunately, everything is more expensive in Canada. Canada has become one of the most expensive " if not the most" in the world if we compared minimum wages to expenses. ThisPM we have now is pure evil.
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I visited a Costco in Canada, I was shocked, the same things cost double compared to the US costco.
Numbeo is BS. I don’t trust their index in America, i constantly buy half the price of what numbeo quotes in the US. I have not bought milk over 1$ per liter in the US. I have consittenly bought 2.5$ max per gallon (3.78l).
Don’t quote target, target is ridiculously expensive and it’s not a grocery store. You can compare same name grocery stores, Whole Foods Canada, vs Whole Foods US.
Costco Canada vs Costco US.
depends what state in the usa
There are a few reasons. Dairy is controlled and prices are set. As for food brought in it cost more to truck it around. And then there is that damn carbon tax to boot.....
They are more expensive in the same town! Two grocers, same product exactly, $5.50 more.
there's no competition in Canada in most sectors. Along with trash wages, and out of control real estate, it's a shitty existence here.
Uh what? Between Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal and Greater Vancouver, more than 1 in 3 of every Canadian live in three CMA. Additionally, roughly 52% of Canadians live within the 750 mile long Quebec City-Windsor corridor. The equivalent would be the US having 165 million people living along Interstate 90 between Boston and Indianapolis. Canada is in fact an infrastructure planer's wet dream. It is insanely easy to build infrastructure that services most of its people, which makes Canada's lackadaisical public services even more sad.
No the real reason Canada pays for more groceries is lack of competition, inefficient labor, low automation, high transportation costs (see lackadaisical infrastructure above) and the fact that it imports a large amount of food from abroad.
Also fun fact, contrary to popular belief, Canada is the FOURTH largest landmass, after Russia, China, and the US. It is only larger geographically to the US because it has more territorial waters due to having a third coast.
I was telling my friend this after i spent a week in Montreal. She was like, no way. But yes way. I bought the same things i normally buy while i was there and it must definitely was higher even though i bought less since i was in a hostel and had limited storage. I was wild out of my soul when i went to a metro something supermarket and saw precut chicken breast that cost 18 Canadian bucks 😮
It was stated in the video but didn't put enough of a fine point on it: we need more Costco and Walmart grocery outlets. They offer significantly lower prices per weight, have already been established in Canada, and offer the best short term solution to this problem
Loblaws competes favorably against Walmart where i live.
Where do you live?? I’m on the East side of the GTA and I’ve seen the exact same products 33% cheaper at Walmart over Loblaws. I wish they were the same prices here
Not a fair comparison using Loblaws and Target. So they took one of our most expensive grocery store chains and compared it to a budget department store that also sells groceries. If they wanted a fair comparison they should've used used the Walmart grocery divisions for both countries. Also, of course anything dairy based in Canada is going to be more expensive because we have a dairy board that raises prices artificially to benefit dairy farmers. Also I've never paid frickin $11.42 per pound for chicken breast. More like $7.50 a pound at No Frills and as low as $4 a pound when it's on sale (so I stock up then). I was just in a Wegman's in Ithaca, New York and compared it to the prices in Vancouver where I live and the prices of most packaged goods are equal to more (compared to No Frills where I shop) when you factor in the currency difference (and sometimes even just plain cheaper without even factoring in exchange rates). And again, not anything dairy or meat.
Because Canada is up north and cannot produce many of groceries. Tomatoes are expensive here in MN too.
In addition to many of the points made here we there is also another reason. Our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since becoming prime minister has doubled the rent, more than doubled house prices, increase food all due to reckless Government spending as well as letting in millions of people into the country with no homes for them.
"At least we have 'free healthcare'" is what I used to say, but do not even have that anymore.
Free but unreliable.
Monopolies? Lack of competition? But why ppl buy the same apples in Metro, Sobeys, Lablows and NoFrills from the same wholesale supplier with different prices? Why they even choose to buy in Metro and Lablows if there is NoFrills? Ppl can afford to shop across the border but they don't want to change habits domestically. I am not done yet. Why Wholefoods and Walmart in Canada are not cheaper and sell the same stuff we buy in domestic groceries?
I personally don’t find US prices any better than in Canada. Similar to US content creators, comparing Target prices with Loblaws is not quite fair either. $1.97 CAD for a loaf of Great Value white bread is not cheap either but of course I can also opt for a 97c stick of French baguette there too. But certainly things are not cheaper say for a bundle of herbs is at least 60-70% more now. Or a pork roast for that matter.
Groceries are very expensive in the United States. I used to live in the USA so I still receive on,I e flyers from food4less. I can tell you, the groceries are more expensive in the United States. I’m comparing where used to live. Milk is $13 a gallon in the Bay Area, California. Sorry, each state has different prices. Buffalo/Niagara Falls has always been the cheapest place to live for decades for various reasons
I checked wegmans online (Niagara falls, ny) and I didn’t see anything cheaper in the United States compared to where I live in Canada, sorry
This is one of the reason my parent and their friend move out of Canada.
To where?
If you are a for profit company and you are allowed to rip of consumers, you will. Should basic grocery (milk, bread eggs etc) be a for-profit business maybe but likely it needs to be regulated otherwise it is not hard to see how profiteering can happen.
Nunavut Canada is insane for prices on eveything. It's shipped by plane or ship.
more farms in the US of A sister. although we have strawberry farm i can go pick from strawberry bush we buy california and mexican grown strawberries at grocery which means import. import=more price
We also pay more for cars and our homes. Our companies are the problem we really do not have any competion , they have a monopoly. Get rid of lobbying, that's part of the problem.
Government intervention enables monopolies.
Way more expensive than in the US. As a Canadian I'm amazed at how affordable things are when I visit the US
Are you in BC by any chance?
@@njam101 nope. Northeastern Ontario
@@jizzaymzI'm in Northeastern Ontario also. Near Sudbury. It's very expensive for groceries and everything overall. 😊
@canadiankabingurl9782 yeah Sudbury isn't too far from here (Temiskaming Shores). It's gotten unfathomably expensive over the past couple of years up here.
@@jizzaymz Yes that is true. I just travelled in 5 U.S. states and almost everything was much more expensive there including food. The only cheaper things were gasoline and cases of beer.
Taxes?
Can i go to US and buy things and come back without any customs or taxes at the border?.... is it possible?
Groceries are much, much more expensive in Hawaii and California compared to Canada. Your video doesn’t narrow down different regions and states. On a recent trip to Hawaii, canadians’ jaws drop on food prices. That’s true with California too.
Well if you compare average prices to income ratio you can see the differences is huge. Toronto vs New York for example, average income in New York is doubled, but the prices is quite similiar.
Hawaii being expensive is due to transport costs as its food have to be imported from the mainland.
To much taxes in Canada not enough competition so they push up the prices .. I think that’s the main problem
Qatar and Dubai literally import everything from abroad. They source meat from Brazil producers and you can find better tasting steak on the shelves of grocery stores in Dubai and Qatar for less than $18 per kg! The Canadian beef lobby of course will keep saying their meat is better than Brazilian meat and safer when literally every country in the world is importing Brazilian meat with no health issues.
Because Qatar and the UAE cannot produce food locally due to being deserts.
High tariffs and protectionism which benefits local industry elites.
Your comparison is not what I experienced. Large metropolitans save more on foods. groceries have many levels of outlet. If just on cost of foods leaving out spending power etc... then I can sure that the food costs in the metropolitan US mostly are higher than metropolitan Toronto, and is about the same in rural town, (excluding remote and extremely remote towns in Canada) I travelled to the many parts of the U.S.A. almost every second week. I visited many grocery stores every time for the same purpose of your video, I always curious whether American do save more on foods or not. Stores I visited like Costco, Sams Club, Aldi, Walmarts, main US chains, Ethnic grocery stores like Supermercado and Asian grocery stores. I found that grocery cost is the same or more in 95% of major U.S. cities if you are from Toronto. And doubled or more if you eat more fruits and vegetables. US costs of: Bread same or more, dairy products lower, meats same or lower, Seafoods same, Fish lower. vegetable more, fruits same or more... grains products in bulk... same or higher... I stopped shopping in the US for the last 3 years. only buy stuffs that are not available in Canada.
Canadian here. I lived in Japan for 10-years, travelled around Asia. Eating out is 3x more expensive here than Japan, but groceries are a little less; However, in Asian countries you will get 60% less in quantity either way lower soil mineralization. Therefore, Canadian groceries are reasonable compared to most countries (with the exception of Latin American countries). Canadians are fat, so I’m glad people are being forced to skip meals 😂
I agree about the eating out part especially. In Japan there are so many delicious and healthy dining options!
Actually they got caught in Canada for fix prices on Bread during covid and all they got was a slap on the wrist at least Sobey's decided to give a rebate to consumers but most people never even heard about it .The news covered it up and it was never talked about again. Who knows what other prices they were fixing or are still doing to this day.
Give it a couple of years, between monopolies and carbon tax the gap on food cost will widen between the US and Canada. Also Americans doesn't have a housing crisis as that of Canadians who have to choose between a roof over their heads or food.
Solution: buy from small neighbourhood markets and force more competition.
I’m not an expert on expert on the economics of the grocery industry. Just based on my recent experience traveling extensively in the US during 2022 and 2023, I found that grocery price inflation in the US was greater than that in Canada. What I mean by this is that in the past, there was a greater difference between prices before 2020 than there is today. In fact, I found many items were very similar in both countries after exchange rate was factored in.
Consider another factor Cargill and ADM are major commodities investors here in the USA and they have a major sway on the value of agricultural goods here.
you can't compare target to loblaws you would need to compare to public to loblaws, the rest of the video your perfect on, but there are many things Canadian companies can do. if you look at the States all dollar store have a frozen food section maybe our dollar store should look into this also
180$ and walked out with 2 bags .
Not to long ago , 180$ would have filled the trunk of my car .
北米の買い物の習慣的にしかたないのかも。
大きいスーパーで一度に大量の買い物してたら、小さいスーパーは潰れて寡占になる。
10:11のカートなんてIKEA並のサイズ😳
economies of scale....plus taxes added on the way to the food store...
The super markets made so much money over the pandemic but still not content. I used to get a large bottle of sarprito oil for 5.99 now it's 11.99. why such a big price hike??????. The markets are like carpetbagger sucking on their customers for profits.
SHIPPING AND CARBON TAX NUFF SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Growing your own food is like printing your own money.
Maybe because they are grown and manufactured in the USA very little of our food is actually produced or grown in Canada 🇺🇸🇺🇸🌺🇨🇦
Thanks to lib and JT for the inflation.
No mention about subsidy differentials between countries is a bit disingenuous…
Starvation or austerity policies are never disclosed publicly. The wealth of peoples can easy estimated what families pay on to live based on salaries. See the minimum salaries 15-17.3 dollar per hr or family Domestic live-in 2848 dollar per month, subtract from this rent which is estimated average 2100 dollar month, then utilities around 400-500 dollar month (or more) and from these a family will have 8.15 to 11.44 dollar day for food and other necessities. If these peoples are not helped from donations they can not survive. Insane policies with prices from businesses on collaboration with elected peoples are devastating citizens. Retired peoples are close to "paradise".
I really don’t know the reason why we pay so much for groceries in Canada but if I had to guess, greedy corporations since we don’t have much competition. Just look at the profits from loblaws since the start of the pandemic, in the billions. Canada needs more competition to lower food prices in my opinion.
Not really. Try bureaucracy, Canada being oversized and underpopulated, etc.
Good informative video
Seriously!!! We all know why it's so expensive here! Especially being born and raised here!!!
New arrivals are going to be dealt a harsh reality in the form of abject poverty. Those already trapped here by false promises should be shouting from the roof tops, STAY HOME.
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D'uh. If everything is shipped from Mexico, and it's further than the USA, then you tack in higher fuel taxes on the way..
Is the carbon tax factored into these prices?
True food is expensive, but there are still farmers' markets. Crossing the border to load up hyper-processed food sounds good if you want to trade in some life years for dollar savings. 😅
Without trying to be mean, the lady you showed "looks" more American than Canadian despite the high-perspective shot...😢 worth the savings? The looks are only the symptoms.
Farmers markets are even more expensive, unless, maybe, you can get out of town to the real ones.