we dont need Europeans or Americans or any Eastern nationality, we got bots and AI, and btw that is why you can t survive, it was well planned, just like covid after the far right regimes had taken over just to make sure you behave, have a nice day
...eye/teeth exams/issues .not covered by the government (our money)???...yet allowing insurance companies and multimillion food chain companies to manipulate prices of necessities ??...it's a shame..it's all about the money and greed...cheers ✌️
@@richdiana3663 Not really! There is people who know when to quit! Hell, one of the best examples is the guy who made that bird-game for mobile-phones! He took it of the sales plattforms after he made bank! He could have made a lot more money, but didn't see the need!
I’m a senior. I live in an old rv in an rv park. After I pay my lot rent, electric, phone, insurance, propane, I buy groceries. After all that’s is paid I have no money left. The food I buy is the cheapest of cheap. It lasts me for just over 2 weeks. The next two weeks of the month. I’m living on peanut butter and jelly and oatmeal. My health is suffering for lack of good nutritious food.
Why is your phone so much?! Get mint mobile or boost! As far as for electric maybe senior lifeline I heard about it from a neighbor. Take care Im worried about everyone I know.
I also suggest food pantries. There is not a stigma like in the past. You could check with your state Dept of Human Resources for SNAP (formerly food stamps) benefits.
Try container gardening. Seeds are cheap. Barter or trade for grow pots. Just adding a few veggie plants can yield a nice amount of veggies. Cucumbers are easy to grow, so are bell peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and radish. If you are not able to grow some home grown veggies, I too, recommend food pantrys or food banks.
Nobody is dumb, stupid , nieve or ignorant. We consumer's know the the quanity and quality have gone down while the prices have gone up. Its not rocket science. Im not a FOOL. F these corporate schmucks 😎🎭✌️
Yet people keep buying “food” that is harmful to our health. And those same folks then complain about how expensive it is to go to the Dr. getting pills to mask a more serious problem. Poor diets ! Eat real foods. Period. Health is wealth
@@michaelm4597 No, because Libs increase the cost of production at the farm level, distribution, and retail level all at the same time with carbon taxes and fertilizer taxes...Fert taxes have made fertilizer go up 800 percent in the last 6 years and it was already the biggest direct cost of production. Then runaway taxes on fuel... that at every level dramatically also increases the end prices.
I’m a person who really enjoyed my trips to the market. The opportunity to try new items is absolutely gone. More than half the shelves are empty. I’m not starving, but my favorite store is now a job to be carefully negotiated. Those of us on limited income are being strangled.
I heard from a friend that everything in Canada is more expensive food, clothing and houses, the only good things about Canada is free Healthcare and heated floors
You don’t have to be a genius to know if there’s only 5 corporations who, between them, own most of the grocery stores in one country, there’s going to be excessive profits and price gouging.
This is sickening. The worlds rich enough to have sustained everyone comfortably but due to power greed and ego, so many suffer...suffer, work, pay txes on houses we " own"....YET that f ing 1 percent...😂 fing laughing at us " robots" working ourselves to literal death. Day after day...........what a joke
We all know the food inflation started with the war in Ukraine. If our governments really wanted to solve the problem, all it would take was to oppose US Imperialism and endless wars. Global western Big Businesses are the Lords and Ladies. They own most of the world and fight to own the rest. Creating debt slavery all over the globe and killing millions of people.
I’m fighting back in my own way. I’ve decided to not purchase anything beyond my needs. This reduction in spending in combination with an overall “rethink” of what’s important is working for me. Food prices are atrocious! I’m revamping grocery lists to maximize flavour, nutritional needs. The center aisles in stores contain mostly crap. Remove the crap and those really pricey items on the perimeter can be somewhat more affordable. I’m not eating in any restaurants -there is nothing on a menu I can’t cook for myself. I’m soooo done with corporations stealing my hard earned money!
@@Rexhunterjwhat else are people to do? Stop working? In which case you’ll just go hungry once the money runs out. Do you imagine anyone from big business gives a s*** about you being homeless and starving because you refuse to work for them? How do you galvanise an entire population to do so at the same time, in order to have any impact at all?
1) I think if you buy processed foods (which is mostly what supermarket shelves are filled with) you are wasting money and getting very little nutrition. Supermarkets make most of their profits from processed foods. You are paying for convenience, ease of preparation. You can eat cheaper by choice: Various beans and veg are fairly cheap and you can make good healthy meals if you cook, but too many folk don't cook nowadays. 2) Yes, it takes time but you can cook once & get enough for several portions to freeze for other days. And 3) you can also put a bunch of veg & one tiny piece of meat in a slow cooker to have a tasty meal when you get home, so very little time spent. 4) Shop mostly for items on sale and stock up when they are cheap. 5) Buy from farm stands, where you can see how the food is grown & the money stays in the community instead of Big Food pockets. (Difficult if you don't have a car.) 6) It makes sense to share some things with a friend or neighbour so you split the cost and the item of veg or fruit doesn't sit around till it's spoiled: split celery, bag of beans, or carrots, broccoli, also cauliflower, basket of peaches, etc. so many things. 7) It helps if you can learn to preserve some foods when they are in abundance, in season, and very cheap. I buy very little packaged foods so I have very little waste & recycling. I hope some of these points are useful to some readers.
All the not sold products going into garbage is insane, groceries prefer to trash instead of put on sale…some groceries do a part of some products at reduced prices but not all their products and many others don’t even do it…laws should by implemented in that way so no food is waste not on voluntary will, it should be either on sale in stores or donated to food banks…
Or donated to farmers. I try to get expired foods, mainly milk and veggies for my pigs and birds.I have a few stores that let us pick it up. I had the veggie guy at Wingo laugh and say they will be throwing it away not giving it away.
true the food prices here in sw florida, although, a little bit more than pre covid; they never got as high as ive seen other places and have settled back into regular prices
@@susiefairfield7218 I’m in Kentucky. Just for an example, Mayo was $1.79 pre covid, and 6 months ago it was $7, now it’s $6.59. Hardly back to near pre covid prices. And that’s just one example. The other things I’ve bought are similar. They’ve all come down about 2% but it’s still up 50-100% what it was 4 years ago.
Come to California, you may think different. It’s the poster child for how a state government can ruin a state. By taxing and over regulation. As far as food a little fish has kept the state from releasing water for thousands of acres of farm land in the center of the state. Yes environment over food production for families. They have even decided what companies are certified to ship pork to the state. Politicians are just as Greedy as any Corp. California has proven that.
I do not know about UK, thanks got i do not live there, but to compare to France, prices in USA are way higher. How can they afford any fruit or vegetable is beyond me.
Here in the Eastern US about 10 years ago, there was a boycott against a chain supermarket called “Market Basket”, over a change in corporate ownership. To make a long story short, calling it a success is an understatement. Consumers nearly drove them out of business, leaving their stores empty, and decorated with cashier receipts from other markets that shoppers took the time to tape on their windows. It was the most successful boycott I’ve personally seen in my 67 years. Market Basket capitulated, and met the demands of consumers. It’s possible to boycott successfully. People just need to stick with it, and NEVER BACK DOWN!
I have my groceries delivered because I have mobility problems. They used to bring them down my driveway on a trolley. Now I spend the same but it all fits in a few paper bags. I can't imagine what it is like for families.😢🤷♀️
Stop blaming stores, landlords. It’s the politicians printing money. Inflation is a tax and it’s the govt creating it. Don’t elect politicians that promise you everything for free, you will pay for it in higher prices.
I’m surprised everyone is blaming corporations when the politicians are the ones that caused this along with carbon tax which taxes everything down the chain
We are being steam-rolled here in Canada. Keep in mind that we can't grow our own fruits and veggies, year round, so most of it is imported - and they don't often send us their best stock. Exporters send us bottom of the barrel quality food. Was in Europe not to long ago myself, and it's considerably better food and cheaper.
@@minoozolala Min, of course, Europe of a very big place. Im not at all making reference to any part of Europe that is considered "rich" or "well off". I'm talking about second tier countries within Europe that have it better than we do. Its difficult to phanton, but travel is other countries reveals of interesting facts. Believe me SECOND TIER countries in Europe are better off than most of Canada.
@@olivergoncalves1217it is so funny, i live in summer in Finland andnthe rest of the year in the south of France , i like apples Gala which are grown in France. Guess what - they re much cheaper and of better quality than in France. I m still bewildered. In Finland they re fresh and firm, in France they re all wilted and no taste. And way mor expensive
@@bambinaforever1402 Last weeks batch of apples went straight into the compost bins. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that fruits are probably picked early and left to ripen on the way to us? All I can tell you is that waste has been significant so I only buy a few days worth of fresh fruits as a time to mitigate the waste of the fruit and the money.
milk, eggs butter and bread, all the snacks and crap the grocery can choke on it. keep to basics and you wont starve. Stop wasting time on convenience.
I crunched the numbers on our budget, taking things down to cost per meal. It's the snacks, drunks and baked goods, that push any budget over the top. It's afirdable to make a baked good.
There needs to be a law in place where if there is ANY adjustment to the product whether there is a substitute in ingredient or a reduction in product quantity that it is loudly communicated on the packaging and at the retail sticker for a minimum of 60 days. Consumers should be protected by these giants who are glowingly trying to trick us.
Deregulation is the way to go. This has been going on since the1970's. Get accustomed to living outside and eating less often. Credit and stupidity are the american dream. We have finally made it.
Atleast in Canada there are foodbanks and other social programs for the poor and the needy, but in my country there is nothing like this, poor people suffer starvation no matter what.
We need investigation like this in Australia We have a big 2 plus Aldi and a few independent grocers Price gouging is endemic while farmers keep going under
Every single person I talk to about this grandstands about going to a farmer market/butcher, but you pay on average 30% more at those establishments, wether it is the owners trying to make ends meet on rent or they are greedy I cannot tell, but I cannot afford local butcher meat, I have to go buy 'cheap' grocery store mince beef.
How does rogers have the nerve to talk about this, when they charge us some of the highest prices in the world, for access to our phone and internet services
In the small town (in the U.S.) where I live Walmart is not the most economical. The best market is call Cost Savors. They advertise 10% over cost. They don’t always have the brand I want, but they are very good.
In Australia, we don't have much competition. We have 2 major duopoly of grocery stores - Woolsworth and Coles. They don't own smaller chains of grocery stores which makes it very difficult for Aussies to shop as we don't have many options to shop. We do have smaller grocery chains like IGA, local fruit markets, Asian markets and Costco but it's not as widely accessible for everyone. We don't have Walmart here where they sell groceries. We are quite limited in this country.
The value of the currency falls constantly. If they make the same percentage profits, the raw number goes up, as it should. The villains are the criminals who are causing the value of the currency to drop. (the government)
An additional way the manufacturers are masking price changes is by having different unit price labels. one manufacturer will tell the price per pound and and another will price per liter.
The system is broken and the system is not broken by accident, nothing went awry. The policies and decisions in place are by design. If we can take a rocket ride into space for 25 million dollars for a half hour ride, that was accomplished because they wanted to. There is too much money to be made in stopping poverty, homelessness and privatized incarceration for example for anyone to want to end these scourages.
Here in the states, food went up by a huge amount. I was paying $3.98 usd for bone broth, and it's now $5.98. Lamb meat went from $7.50 a pound to $12.50 a pound. All in the past 2 years,it's insane. That's a 50% + increase.
I wasn't convinced by Galen G Weston's speech, he didn't look convinced either but then he isn't affected by the increases in food gas, rent, etc, he has the income and most likely claims for his produce. Profits are through the roof for corporates of food supermarket chains....While the shopper has less and less but paying over double at an over inflated cost....
An extra $1M per DAY in EXTRA profits cannot be justified or explained away by Galen Weston or any other major grocery CEO. Consumers are being gouged - plain and simple. Yet, even though Weston got put in the hot seat by that committee and Jagmeet Singh in particular absolutely nothing has changed. On the contrary, food prices have continued to climb unabated. Andrew Barclay cited "edible fats and oils" specifically have gone up by 80%, making it sound like the exception and not the rule, but I disagree. A lot of food items have gone up 50% and even 100% or more. The cost to buy the same basket of groceries today compared to pre-Covid is like night and day. It's absolutely criminal and I think the government should be ashamed of itself for allowing it to happen and doing nothing about it. Weston's claims that input costs are to blame is total BS. GREED is to blame. Ditto for soaring rents and ridiculously high gas prices. It seems like every industry is jumping on the greed bandwagon and increasing their costs unnecessarily, using the pandemic as justification for doing so. What a joke.
I was buying Mozzarella yesterday in Lidl. It used to be 89 cents and now it is 1 eur 15 cents. HOW IS THAT 20% ?????? Who counts the percent obviously is not familiar with mathematic.
ALDIs is the only grocery store trying to keep their prices low as much as they can below the other stores. Will always shop more often there…reason their produce goes bad quickly is that it’s supposed to do that. Freeze it.
I watched a guy looking at grocery prices in Montreal. I compared it to my Target in Chicago (Illinois) and converted it all to CAD. In the US, before sales and coupons, it was over CAD 40 cheaper. With coupons/sales/rewards, it was over CAD 65 cheaper. Those leaders saying that the price is up everywhere and that it is similar all over the world is completely false.
I think it was about a month ago tide pods sneakily reduced size and added 5ish $ to the price. Only reason I noticed was the fact that I work in the business. Point being that prices are not up by 11% like they are trying to say over and over.
the olive oil at my WinnDixie store in Florida is Buy One Get One for $25 this week. Grateful that; although elevated a little, the prices haven’t sky rocketed here, yet
I stopped buying my food from grocery stores. I found a local beef farm and a local dairy farm and now buy my food direct from them. It's actually cheaper now to do that. Sort of crazy. That used to be a 'luxury' purchase to me.
its funny how a show about unaffordability made by a company that is trying to monopolize the telecommunications sector and their prices per service is BS lol
That's the only item I buy which has actually doubled. When I first began buying it regularly just before the pandemic, the giant 52-ounce bottle of organic olive oil by Kroger's "Simple Truth" brand was $12.49 USD. Now it's $24.99.
Generally across the economy the rate of inflation was effectively averaging around ~ 25% during 2022 - 2024. The Annual Cost of Living Adjustments for pensions both government and private (depending on the generosity of the pension fund management) was between 3 to 6% during that time frame. That is why greater porportion of seniors are populating the food bank lines, are being evicted from apartments that they could formerly afford and are the fastest growing sector of the impoverished in this country.
We needed this kind of video same problem in America had different price said to me that switched signed I saw protested then dropped price told them put what happen on Facebook they did not know I took pic so could get them and city get them for price gouging
social system main goal is to ensure that theycan pay the rent , but not to own what you payed for. Nothing more then a plaster on a severly bleeding wound and hoping that the wound heals itself while losing blood.
the only way to solve high food costs is to have cut-throat competition at all levels of food production, especially at the grocery store level. This is a free market - groceries stores can and will try to maximize profits. Jahmeet Singh thinks we live in a socialist country when talking about taxing excess profits. If there were 15 - 20 grocery store companies, Loblaw would be forced to compete heavily for any extra profits. Look at Airlines, grocery stores, cell phone providers in the US - they have stiff competition. If Loblaw raises their prices too high, consumers should have 15 other grocery companies to go to - that is a healthy, competitive market - Canada needs to be way more competitive and get rid of monopolies.
I really want to watch this type of thing, but it's just depressing. Why watch it? Can't do anything about it. So I just keep finding ways to cut back. I am overweight anyway so it won't hurt me to lose some food items that I didn't need anyway. Sick of corporate greed.!!!
@anniesshenanigans3815 part of why some people are overweight is the corporations have stripped nutrients out of food as well. It has been replaced with fillers and additives and FRUCTOSE!
So everyone is saying “buy local” (for beef). I can chunk a rock at the neighbor’s cows where it is “local”. Was driving and watch the owner of that Ranch drive a brand new Lamborghini onto the gravel drive heading toward the Ranch. I truly hope he was able to pay cash, cuz I cannot imagine how sustainable it is when his clients can no longer afford his beef.
How about those additional cost government putting on farmmers? Carbon tax, new label registrations. The carbon tax alone adds hundreds ks per year for a single Ontario greenhouse farmers. They all eventually paid by consumers. Not metion the impat to cost of shipping the produce to the local grocers.
Used to work for company, live company homes buyat company store, in debt for life. Now work, buy with credit, in debt for life. Same story larger scale.
Wheat right now is at 2010 prices ! When food prices are on a sale, that is a regular price that you should be paying! Prediction for farmers to make less income for the 2024 year!
well calculate how much a farmers cost is with diesel fuel NOT GASOLINE....brake down the fuel cost per acre ok....now..depending on how much acrage you have you will not believe the cost...count it at 1000 acres
In living in Ontario I can tell you from experience I can't even buy a box of cookies anymore like it used to be like very affordable at one point in time like I remember a box of cookies with maybe cost about four bucks not even even with everything else that is the basic necessities that you would actually need is expensive cooking oil itself is expensive that's why I resorted to baking my own cookies and making my own brownies at home because it's more affordable for me to just bake it myself not to mention all the poultry I have to get on sale which isn't bad but for most cases though it's not easy to find certain things especially like with me I would have to plan my trips and be very cautious of how much I spend and I always keep track of it and a lot of people by the time they're done paying their bills they don't even get money for groceries and it sucks
I think food, utility, housing etc prices will continue to go up and up. As the years and decades go on. 1. Due to climate change effects, loss of land, arid soil and crops. 2. Increasing wars and conflicts globally affecting food distribution and costs. 3. Mass Capitalism on a scale never seen before. Where companies and multi corps keep pushing the profit margins further and further up. Where high prices become the social norm of what we are seeing now. Control of the media and governments to keep the prices high. Manipulation of the markets and economy to meet their own agendas. 4. In the end good quality food, shelter, water, etc will cost a premium. 5. Society is at a divergence point the Haves and Have Nots. 6. Rise up, Speak up, don’t lose the fight for food, shelter security 7. I work in healthcare and I am already seeing the affects poor housing, food, shelter, affects you mentally, physically and socially. I live in Australia where there was an investigation into the food stores profit gouging. Making record profits. The media and news on the outcome has gone quiet. How can we change the system when they control it.
Farmers should start selling directly and on mass to the public. All grocery stores should be mandated to include their parent company in their logo. SO EVERYONE IS AWARE - Potash, Nitrogen and Phosphorus are required to keep soil healthy, two of those come from Russia.
I have every grocery receipt sense 2019. That is when food started to go up. Ukraine had nothing to do with it. The virus 🦠 to did. Today were over 50% everything has doubled.. including utilities.
Bugga bears burdens and begging for her face and women's all around the world s global depression foods shortage and medicine 💊 shortage and water supply shortage
Increase in cost of living 😂😂 make me laugh sorry but actually it's the Canadian dollar which actually loose purchasing power.. Called debasment of currency
I'm in the USA and food prices are very high here too. For some reason food prices in the UK are dirt cheap- that annoys me and yet they complain about how costly food has become.
@@bambinaforever1402 I was watching a video someone posted on UA-cam. They walked around a Tesco's. A pineapple for 1 pound. That's a $1.28 US dollars for a pineapple. Dirt cheap. No where in the USA can you find a pineapple for a $1.28. I was at a supermarket yesterday called Hmart and payed $3.99 for a pineapple which is considered a good price.
A 20% is still 20%% increase, regardless of the actual figures. It's relative to what the "normal spend " would be. If every bill increased by 20% but income didn't then the result is a degree of poverty.
Yet every politician is eating just fine and still top shelf as usual….. Since, due to the reckless spending in part, we’re in this situation…. what’s wrong with this picture?
How can Ukraine effect global food prices? America has been at war with a new country in the world every year and it didn’t inflate food prices like this. Is this not more to do with Gill Bates owning majority of the farmland in America now?
I’ve never understood why it should have affected food prices in the Americas. You have a variety of amazing climates, well suited to growing food of all types, so surely you could / should be largely self-sufficient? In places such as Northern Europe / Scandinavia we have to import huge amounts of our food as the climate doesn’t allow us to grow enough for the needs of our populations, yet food in the UK is sold cheaply by comparison to many countries. That can’t be just because of the difference in income, surely?
yeah, them claiming it is due to the Ukraine- Russia war was more of a political views related claim. It is the greed of corporations and the very rich in the US.
The greed is such that they specifically target the very things we need to survive in life...food and shelter...gas...
we dont need Europeans or Americans or any Eastern nationality, we got bots and AI, and btw that is why you can t survive, it was well planned, just like covid after the far right regimes had taken over just to make sure you behave, have a nice day
The greed is in all of us. It is one of our most basic qualities.
@@richdiana3663The problem is all companies want huge profits that is why greed is coming from.
...eye/teeth exams/issues .not covered by the government (our money)???...yet allowing insurance companies and multimillion food chain companies to manipulate prices of necessities ??...it's a shame..it's all about the money and greed...cheers ✌️
@@richdiana3663 Not really! There is people who know when to quit! Hell, one of the best examples is the guy who made that bird-game for mobile-phones! He took it of the sales plattforms after he made bank! He could have made a lot more money, but didn't see the need!
I’m a senior. I live in an old rv in an rv park. After I pay my lot rent, electric, phone, insurance, propane, I buy groceries. After all that’s is paid I have no money left. The food I buy is the cheapest of cheap. It lasts me for just over 2 weeks. The next two weeks of the month. I’m living on peanut butter and jelly and oatmeal.
My health is suffering for lack of good nutritious food.
This is the problem of this world, everything's price has increased with no benefits to the public.
Why is your phone so much?! Get mint mobile or boost! As far as for electric maybe senior lifeline I heard about it from a neighbor. Take care Im worried about everyone I know.
food pantries shop the ads & digital deals cook everything from scratch
I also suggest food pantries. There is not a stigma like in the past. You could check with your state Dept of Human Resources for SNAP (formerly food stamps) benefits.
Try container gardening. Seeds are cheap. Barter or trade for grow pots. Just adding a few veggie plants can yield a nice amount of veggies. Cucumbers are easy to grow, so are bell peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and radish.
If you are not able to grow some home grown veggies, I too, recommend food pantrys or food banks.
Nobody is dumb, stupid , nieve or ignorant. We consumer's know the the quanity and quality have gone down while the prices have gone up. Its not rocket science. Im not a FOOL. F these corporate schmucks 😎🎭✌️
Your a fool if you vote Liberal.. peace
Yet people keep buying “food” that is harmful to our health. And those same folks then complain about how expensive it is to go to the Dr. getting pills to mask a more serious problem. Poor diets ! Eat real foods. Period. Health is wealth
@@Greg-bx4idyeah, because conservatives fight for unions and regulations on corporations 😂
@@michaelm4597 No, because Libs increase the cost of production at the farm level, distribution, and retail level all at the same time with carbon taxes and fertilizer taxes...Fert taxes have made fertilizer go up 800 percent in the last 6 years and it was already the biggest direct cost of production. Then runaway taxes on fuel... that at every level dramatically also increases the end prices.
Please look at the bigger picture. The Federal Reserve doubled the money supply. This has driven up everything..
Classic case of asking the arsonists why fires occur. Everything but themselves is their obvious and expected response.
I’m a person who really enjoyed my trips to the market. The opportunity to try new items is absolutely gone. More than half the shelves are empty. I’m not starving, but my favorite store is now a job to be carefully negotiated. Those of us on limited income are being strangled.
In Canada food price keep going up not going down 😢 Whoever said food price going down is a liar!
I heard from a friend that everything in Canada is more expensive food, clothing and houses, the only good things about Canada is free Healthcare and heated floors
You don’t have to be a genius to know if there’s only 5 corporations who, between them, own most of the grocery stores in one country, there’s going to be excessive profits and price gouging.
This is sickening. The worlds rich enough to have sustained everyone comfortably but due to power greed and ego, so many suffer...suffer, work, pay txes on houses we " own"....YET that f ing 1 percent...😂 fing laughing at us " robots" working ourselves to literal death. Day after day...........what a joke
We all know the food inflation started with the war in Ukraine. If our governments really wanted to solve the problem, all it would take was to oppose US Imperialism and endless wars. Global western Big Businesses are the Lords and Ladies. They own most of the world and fight to own the rest. Creating debt slavery all over the globe and killing millions of people.
It stops when we stop, yet for some reason we keep going on.
People need to wake up and ask why they are working for nothing, to live for nothing?
They are rich bastards for a reason.
I’m fighting back in my own way. I’ve decided to not purchase anything beyond my needs. This reduction in spending in combination with an overall “rethink” of what’s important is working for me. Food prices are atrocious! I’m revamping grocery lists to maximize flavour, nutritional needs. The center aisles in stores contain mostly crap. Remove the crap and those really pricey items on the perimeter can be somewhat more affordable. I’m not eating in any restaurants -there is nothing on a menu I can’t cook for myself. I’m soooo done with corporations stealing my hard earned money!
@@Rexhunterjwhat else are people to do? Stop working? In which case you’ll just go hungry once the money runs out. Do you imagine anyone from big business gives a s*** about you being homeless and starving because you refuse to work for them? How do you galvanise an entire population to do so at the same time, in order to have any impact at all?
1) I think if you buy processed foods (which is mostly what supermarket shelves are filled with) you are wasting money and getting very little nutrition. Supermarkets make most of
their profits from processed foods. You are paying for convenience, ease of preparation. You can eat cheaper by choice: Various beans and veg are fairly cheap and you can make good healthy meals if you cook, but too many folk don't cook nowadays. 2) Yes, it takes time but you can cook once & get enough for several portions to freeze for other days. And 3) you can also put a bunch of veg & one tiny piece of meat in a slow cooker to have a tasty meal when you get home, so very little time spent. 4) Shop mostly for items on sale and stock up when they are cheap. 5) Buy from farm stands, where you can see how the food is grown & the money stays in the community instead of Big Food pockets. (Difficult if you don't have a car.) 6) It makes sense to share some things with a friend or neighbour so you split the cost and the item of veg or fruit doesn't sit around till it's spoiled: split celery, bag of beans, or carrots, broccoli, also cauliflower, basket of peaches, etc. so many things. 7) It helps if you can learn to preserve some foods when they are in abundance, in season, and very cheap.
I buy very little packaged foods so I have very little waste & recycling. I hope some of these points are useful to some readers.
No those points are not helpful. Almost all of the price increase has to do with raw vegetables, fruit, and raw meat. Basics.
Downsized to a 8x10 room. No freezer, fridge, stove, oven. Etc.
There’s only so much food I can carry on my back. I’m 63.
All the not sold products going into garbage is insane, groceries prefer to trash instead of put on sale…some groceries do a part of some products at reduced prices but not all their products and many others don’t even do it…laws should by implemented in that way so no food is waste not on voluntary will, it should be either on sale in stores or donated to food banks…
Or donated to farmers. I try to get expired foods, mainly milk and veggies for my pigs and birds.I have a few stores that let us pick it up. I had the veggie guy at Wingo laugh and say they will be throwing it away not giving it away.
Corporate greed and goverment apathy are the main reasons.
The farmers are not getting this money? 😂 We need more tea parties.😅
its bull crap. we are being robbed. we spent two weeks in florida and we regularly go to the states. the gas ans food is officially half the price
true the food prices here in sw florida, although, a little bit more than pre covid; they never got as high as ive seen other places and have settled back into regular prices
@@susiefairfield7218
I’m in Kentucky. Just for an example, Mayo was $1.79 pre covid, and 6 months ago it was $7, now it’s $6.59. Hardly back to near pre covid prices. And that’s just one example. The other things I’ve bought are similar. They’ve all come down about 2% but it’s still up 50-100% what it was 4 years ago.
Come to California, you may think different. It’s the poster child for how a state government can ruin a state. By taxing and over regulation. As far as food a little fish has kept the state from releasing water for thousands of acres of farm land in the center of the state. Yes environment over food production for families. They have even decided what companies are certified to ship pork to the state. Politicians are just as Greedy as any Corp. California has proven that.
People also on average earn less in the US. Not sure what their minimum wage is?
I do not know about UK, thanks got i do not live there, but to compare to France, prices in USA are way higher. How can they afford any fruit or vegetable is beyond me.
Here in the Eastern US about 10 years ago, there was a boycott against a chain supermarket called “Market Basket”, over a change in corporate ownership. To make a long story short, calling it a success is an understatement. Consumers nearly drove them out of business, leaving their stores empty, and decorated with cashier receipts from other markets that shoppers took the time to tape on their windows. It was the most successful boycott I’ve personally seen in my 67 years. Market Basket capitulated, and met the demands of consumers. It’s possible to boycott successfully. People just need to stick with it, and NEVER BACK DOWN!
They're talking increases like 11% ... 20% . BULL💩 ... I would say our grocery bill has almost doubled since 2021.
It has doubled.
Yeah, i went yesterday to lidl to buy mozzarella - it ised to be 89 cents last year and it is 1 euro 15 cents now. How is that 20%?
Back in 2010 where I go for groceries I can fill up the cart for a price of 3k pesos now it can only fill a basket.
I have my groceries delivered because I have mobility problems. They used to bring them down my driveway on a trolley. Now I spend the same but it all fits in a few paper bags. I can't imagine what it is like for families.😢🤷♀️
Stop blaming stores, landlords. It’s the politicians printing money. Inflation is a tax and it’s the govt creating it. Don’t elect politicians that promise you everything for free, you will pay for it in higher prices.
I’m surprised everyone is blaming corporations when the politicians are the ones that caused this along with carbon tax which taxes everything down the chain
I live in Europe. It's much worse in Canada.
Rogers is even worse though
We are being steam-rolled here in Canada. Keep in mind that we can't grow our own fruits and veggies, year round, so most of it is imported - and they don't often send us their best stock. Exporters send us bottom of the barrel quality food. Was in Europe not to long ago myself, and it's considerably better food and cheaper.
It’s not much worse in Europe. Europe isn’t a single country lol. Huge variations between the European countries.
@@minoozolala Min, of course, Europe of a very big place. Im not at all making reference to any part of Europe that is considered "rich" or "well off". I'm talking about second tier countries within Europe that have it better than we do. Its difficult to phanton, but travel is other countries reveals of interesting facts. Believe me SECOND TIER countries in Europe are better off than most of Canada.
@@olivergoncalves1217it is so funny, i live in summer in Finland andnthe rest of the year in the south of France , i like apples Gala which are grown in France. Guess what - they re much cheaper and of better quality than in France. I m still bewildered. In Finland they re fresh and firm, in France they re all wilted and no taste. And way mor expensive
@@bambinaforever1402 Last weeks batch of apples went straight into the compost bins. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that fruits are probably picked early and left to ripen on the way to us? All I can tell you is that waste has been significant so I only buy a few days worth of fresh fruits as a time to mitigate the waste of the fruit and the money.
I am a Canadian currently living in Mexico. Some food staples down here have risen 100% from what they were pre-pandemic. Things are bad all over!
milk, eggs butter and bread, all the snacks and crap the grocery can choke on it. keep to basics and you wont starve. Stop wasting time on convenience.
Yes you are right I live in England if you stick to a very basic cheap diet it's fine it's when you add snacks foods drinks it really adds up a lot
I crunched the numbers on our budget, taking things down to cost per meal. It's the snacks, drunks and baked goods, that push any budget over the top. It's afirdable to make a baked good.
Vegetables and fruits are too essential to be healthy
@@bhok5228-ff8bs buy frozen...cheaper and last longer
@@mohammedjeffali1076u should go back to your country
There needs to be a law in place where if there is ANY adjustment to the product whether there is a substitute in ingredient or a reduction in product quantity that it is loudly communicated on the packaging and at the retail sticker for a minimum of 60 days. Consumers should be protected by these giants who are glowingly trying to trick us.
This is why for many years now, I try and grow as much of our own food as possible. I know exactly what I’m getting
Deregulation is the way to go. This has been going on since the1970's. Get accustomed to living outside and eating less often. Credit and stupidity are the american dream. We have finally made it.
Atleast in Canada there are foodbanks and other social programs for the poor and the needy, but in my country there is nothing like this, poor people suffer starvation no matter what.
2023 my property tax went from $2500 to $10,400
Did your property value get assessed much higher?
Can you fight the increase?
Wow! That's horrible and must be scary
20%? False. Try 150% increase in food costs. We all know this to be true.
Xome to West Africa, just withun a year the basic cost of living jas risen by over 150%
We need investigation like this in Australia
We have a big 2 plus Aldi and a few independent grocers
Price gouging is endemic while farmers keep going under
Every single person I talk to about this grandstands about going to a farmer market/butcher, but you pay on average 30% more at those establishments, wether it is the owners trying to make ends meet on rent or they are greedy I cannot tell, but I cannot afford local butcher meat, I have to go buy 'cheap' grocery store mince beef.
Publix made 97% increase in profits on food. Shameful greed.
How does rogers have the nerve to talk about this, when they charge us some of the highest prices in the world, for access to our phone and internet services
In the small town (in the U.S.) where I live Walmart is not the most economical. The best market is call Cost Savors. They advertise 10% over cost. They don’t always have the brand I want, but they are very good.
Insane prices. Even store brand items are expensive. Lidl / Aldi aren’t cheap anymore. Pubs / fast food are the worst though … daylight robbery.
😂😂😂supermarket chains are so greedy knowing people need food to survive
In Australia, we don't have much competition. We have 2 major duopoly of grocery stores - Woolsworth and Coles. They don't own smaller chains of grocery stores which makes it very difficult for Aussies to shop as we don't have many options to shop. We do have smaller grocery chains like IGA, local fruit markets, Asian markets and Costco but it's not as widely accessible for everyone. We don't have Walmart here where they sell groceries. We are quite limited in this country.
would love an explanation as to why lobwlas and the other groceries made crazy profits.
how do you know they made crazy profits?
The value of the currency falls constantly. If they make the same percentage profits, the raw number goes up, as it should. The villains are the criminals who are causing the value of the currency to drop. (the government)
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The lockdowns created the inflation problem we have now.
Great documentary. Love the segment regarding "Seed" in Guelph. We need more of that and food producers need to support these initiatives.
An additional way the manufacturers are masking price changes is by having different unit price labels. one manufacturer will tell the price per pound and and another will price per liter.
I’ve invested in a few home hydroponic towers to grow at home.
You’re saying Russia caused inflation? No. Democrats approving a six trillion in new spending. That’s what did it. They printed the money.
The system is broken and the system is not broken by accident, nothing went awry. The policies and decisions in place are by design. If we can take a rocket ride into space for 25 million dollars for a half hour ride, that was accomplished because they wanted to. There is too much money to be made in stopping poverty, homelessness and privatized incarceration for example for anyone to want to end these scourages.
Here in the states, food went up by a huge amount. I was paying $3.98 usd for bone broth, and it's now $5.98. Lamb meat went from $7.50 a pound to $12.50 a pound. All in the past 2 years,it's insane. That's a 50% + increase.
I live in Brazil and basics foods are cheap but we pay high taxes .
This is so informative and so well done - looking at the big picture and all the various aspects.
I wasn't convinced by Galen G Weston's speech, he didn't look convinced either but then he isn't affected by the increases in food gas, rent, etc, he has the income and most likely claims for his produce.
Profits are through the roof for corporates of food supermarket chains....While the shopper has less and less but paying over double at an over inflated cost....
An extra $1M per DAY in EXTRA profits cannot be justified or explained away by Galen Weston or any other major grocery CEO. Consumers are being gouged - plain and simple. Yet, even though Weston got put in the hot seat by that committee and Jagmeet Singh in particular absolutely nothing has changed. On the contrary, food prices have continued to climb unabated. Andrew Barclay cited "edible fats and oils" specifically have gone up by 80%, making it sound like the exception and not the rule, but I disagree. A lot of food items have gone up 50% and even 100% or more. The cost to buy the same basket of groceries today compared to pre-Covid is like night and day. It's absolutely criminal and I think the government should be ashamed of itself for allowing it to happen and doing nothing about it. Weston's claims that input costs are to blame is total BS. GREED is to blame. Ditto for soaring rents and ridiculously high gas prices. It seems like every industry is jumping on the greed bandwagon and increasing their costs unnecessarily, using the pandemic as justification for doing so. What a joke.
I was buying Mozzarella yesterday in Lidl. It used to be 89 cents and now it is 1 eur 15 cents. HOW IS THAT 20% ?????? Who counts the percent obviously is not familiar with mathematic.
ALDIs is the only grocery store trying to keep their prices low as much as they can below the other stores. Will always shop more often there…reason their produce goes bad quickly is that it’s supposed to do that. Freeze it.
How is it supposed to do that? I will not buy produce there.. Zucchini in a package. Open it up back side was rotting.
I watched a guy looking at grocery prices in Montreal. I compared it to my Target in Chicago (Illinois) and converted it all to CAD. In the US, before sales and coupons, it was over CAD 40 cheaper. With coupons/sales/rewards, it was over CAD 65 cheaper. Those leaders saying that the price is up everywhere and that it is similar all over the world is completely false.
I think it was about a month ago tide pods sneakily reduced size and added 5ish $ to the price. Only reason I noticed was the fact that I work in the business. Point being that prices are not up by 11% like they are trying to say over and over.
Shrinkflation!!
Not only shrinkflation but price increase is well beyond "inflation ". Thank you for the information.
the olive oil at my WinnDixie store in Florida is Buy One Get One for $25 this week. Grateful that; although elevated a little, the prices haven’t sky rocketed here, yet
25 dollars for two bottles of olive oil is insane compared to the uk
@@Heirsone123 That's what I now pay for 52 ounces of organic olive oil in Los Angeles. Four years ago, it was half that price.
10 years of trudeau.
I stopped buying my food from grocery stores. I found a local beef farm and a local dairy farm and now buy my food direct from them. It's actually cheaper now to do that. Sort of crazy. That used to be a 'luxury' purchase to me.
Not where I live in Florida. Local Beef farms here are much higher than organic, grass fed at the store.
Same
Everyone should be charging big food for data theiving
Unaffordable Rogers TV, that is very true 😂
its funny how a show about unaffordability made by a company that is trying to monopolize the telecommunications sector and their prices per service is BS lol
Olive oil prices have doubled, but this is predominantly because of the dry and hot summers in southern Europe in the past couple of years.
That's the only item I buy which has actually doubled. When I first began buying it regularly just before the pandemic, the giant 52-ounce bottle of organic olive oil by Kroger's "Simple Truth" brand was $12.49 USD. Now it's $24.99.
Lots of so-called “olive oil” these days has never even seen an olive…
Generally across the economy the rate of inflation was effectively averaging around ~ 25% during 2022 - 2024.
The Annual Cost of Living Adjustments for pensions both government and private (depending on the generosity of the pension fund management) was between 3 to 6% during that time frame.
That is why greater porportion of seniors are populating the food bank lines, are being evicted from apartments that they could formerly afford and are the fastest growing sector of the impoverished in this country.
Your welcome! Your generation did this to us.
We needed this kind of video same problem in America had different price said to me that switched signed I saw protested then dropped price told them put what happen on Facebook they did not know I took pic so could get them and city get them for price gouging
social system main goal is to ensure that theycan pay the rent , but not to own what you payed for. Nothing more then a plaster on a severly bleeding wound and hoping that the wound heals itself while losing blood.
the only way to solve high food costs is to have cut-throat competition at all levels of food production, especially at the grocery store level. This is a free market - groceries stores can and will try to maximize profits. Jahmeet Singh thinks we live in a socialist country when talking about taxing excess profits. If there were 15 - 20 grocery store companies, Loblaw would be forced to compete heavily for any extra profits. Look at Airlines, grocery stores, cell phone providers in the US - they have stiff competition. If Loblaw raises their prices too high, consumers should have 15 other grocery companies to go to - that is a healthy, competitive market - Canada needs to be way more competitive and get rid of monopolies.
I really want to watch this type of thing, but it's just depressing. Why watch it? Can't do anything about it. So I just keep finding ways to cut back. I am overweight anyway so it won't hurt me to lose some food items that I didn't need anyway. Sick of corporate greed.!!!
@anniesshenanigans3815 part of why some people are overweight is the corporations have stripped nutrients out of food as well. It has been replaced with fillers and additives and FRUCTOSE!
Because the people need to be educated or will keep tolerating worsening conditions.
unaffordaaaable
in every waaaaaay
So everyone is saying “buy local” (for beef). I can chunk a rock at the neighbor’s cows where it is “local”. Was driving and watch the owner of that Ranch drive a brand new Lamborghini onto the gravel drive heading toward the Ranch. I truly hope he was able to pay cash, cuz I cannot imagine how sustainable it is when his clients can no longer afford his beef.
Every item amount to $5.00 or more!😮
How about those additional cost government putting on farmmers? Carbon tax, new label registrations. The carbon tax alone adds hundreds ks per year for a single Ontario greenhouse farmers. They all eventually paid by consumers. Not metion the impat to cost of shipping the produce to the local grocers.
Used to work for company, live company homes buyat company store, in debt for life. Now work, buy with credit, in debt for life. Same story larger scale.
Funny how when a concept like a living wage is enacted, ppl are shocked at the cost of goods, housing and services.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Wheat right now is at 2010 prices ! When food prices are on a sale, that is a regular price that you should be paying! Prediction for farmers to make less income for the 2024 year!
well calculate how much a farmers cost is with diesel fuel NOT GASOLINE....brake down the fuel cost per acre ok....now..depending on how much acrage you have you will not believe the cost...count it at 1000 acres
Get rid of the carbon tax! It's a no brainer.
In living in Ontario I can tell you from experience I can't even buy a box of cookies anymore like it used to be like very affordable at one point in time like I remember a box of cookies with maybe cost about four bucks not even even with everything else that is the basic necessities that you would actually need is expensive cooking oil itself is expensive that's why I resorted to baking my own cookies and making my own brownies at home because it's more affordable for me to just bake it myself not to mention all the poultry I have to get on sale which isn't bad but for most cases though it's not easy to find certain things especially like with me I would have to plan my trips and be very cautious of how much I spend and I always keep track of it and a lot of people by the time they're done paying their bills they don't even get money for groceries and it sucks
I started making my own cookies too. Next is bread.
Did he really said 40%??
5lbs of potatoes are $5.99. Give me a break!
Lol at Gaelin (or however he spells it) trying to deny their profit taking.
I think food, utility, housing etc prices will continue to go up and up. As the years and decades go on.
1. Due to climate change effects, loss of land, arid soil and crops.
2. Increasing wars and conflicts globally affecting food distribution and costs.
3. Mass Capitalism on a scale never seen before. Where companies and multi corps keep pushing the profit margins further and further up. Where high prices become the social norm of what we are seeing now. Control of the media and governments to keep the prices high. Manipulation of the markets and economy to meet their own agendas.
4. In the end good quality food, shelter, water, etc will cost a premium.
5. Society is at a divergence point the Haves and Have Nots.
6. Rise up, Speak up, don’t lose the fight for food, shelter security
7. I work in healthcare and I am already seeing the affects poor housing, food, shelter, affects you mentally, physically and socially.
I live in Australia where there was an investigation into the food stores profit gouging. Making record profits. The media and news on the outcome has gone quiet. How can we change the system when they control it.
The price of energy determines the price for all goods
All I see is toxic crap at prices that resemble gross hourly wages
Farmers should start selling directly and on mass to the public. All grocery stores should be mandated to include their parent company in their logo. SO EVERYONE IS AWARE - Potash, Nitrogen and Phosphorus are required to keep soil healthy, two of those come from Russia.
the problem is when feed price goes down, they just keep the extra profit
I have every grocery receipt sense 2019. That is when food started to go up. Ukraine had nothing to do with it. The virus 🦠 to did. Today were over 50% everything has doubled.. including utilities.
If you new how much super market,s throw out you would be shocked .
This is how socialism works
Bugga bears burdens and begging for her face and women's all around the world s global depression foods shortage and medicine 💊 shortage and water supply shortage
Expensive! Because you don't know the first thing about growing food you don't know where it's grown or how it's grown!! 💀
Europe isn't one country. The situation differs depending on the country.
Rodgers and shaw, talking heads
Increase in cost of living 😂😂 make me laugh sorry but actually it's the Canadian dollar which actually loose purchasing power.. Called debasment of currency
I'm in the USA and food prices are very high here too. For some reason food prices in the UK are dirt cheap- that annoys me and yet they complain about how costly food has become.
They re not dirt cheap, why lie
@@bambinaforever1402 I was watching a video someone posted on UA-cam. They walked around a Tesco's. A pineapple for 1 pound. That's a $1.28 US dollars for a pineapple. Dirt cheap. No where in the USA can you find a pineapple for a $1.28. I was at a supermarket yesterday called Hmart and payed $3.99 for a pineapple which is considered a good price.
A 20% is still 20%% increase, regardless of the actual figures.
It's relative to what the "normal spend " would be.
If every bill increased by 20% but income didn't then the result is a degree of poverty.
i grow my own veg and fruits . i buy beef and chiks only . i live on second floor of an app :)
Yet every politician is eating just fine and still top shelf as usual….. Since, due to the reckless spending in part, we’re in this situation…. what’s wrong with this picture?
21:54 does he mean per person: $240 per person in the household. Whose spending $240 per month on groceries and where can I find those prices?
Quit spending. It'll correct itself.
🤣🤣🤣 So don't eat?
@@MrXispas cut back. Food and shelter 😀
How can Ukraine effect global food prices? America has been at war with a new country in the world every year and it didn’t inflate food prices like this. Is this not more to do with Gill Bates owning majority of the farmland in America now?
I’ve never understood why it should have affected food prices in the Americas. You have a variety of amazing climates, well suited to growing food of all types, so surely you could / should be largely self-sufficient? In places such as Northern Europe / Scandinavia we have to import huge amounts of our food as the climate doesn’t allow us to grow enough for the needs of our populations, yet food in the UK is sold cheaply by comparison to many countries. That can’t be just because of the difference in income, surely?
yeah, them claiming it is due to the Ukraine- Russia war was more of a political views related claim. It is the greed of corporations and the very rich in the US.
Phosphorus and Nitrogen mainly comes from Russia.
Nightmare
just eat less. there problem solved.
Cattle consume 50 times what humans do.. Do not need to be a mathmetician to figure it out
Don't trust a thing loblaws says. Start taking pictures of prices for evidence.
Liars
BS dude the prices rose in covid 19 era especially cleaning 🧹 supplies or basic TP
Exactly. The prices went crazy on everything after 2020. Housing, food, clothes, cars everything.
this just me but why dont ppl grow their own fruit an vegtables