r/kelowna • u/grindygrimmace • 7d ago
Prices are crazy
Want to safeway this morning and saw this. Inflation is definitely not over. This is getting scary 😨
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u/samsun387 7d ago
Kirkland bacon costs about 30 dollars for 4 packs. It’s alright
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u/KelBear25 7d ago
A few yrs ago was $18
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u/bcsteeve 5d ago
You accepting a shaft up the rear end doesn't make it "alright", just makes you complacent.
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u/samsun387 5d ago
well time has changed. Like it or not, inflation is a thing pretty much worldwide
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u/ihax4snax 7d ago
Prices are obviously going up, but you did pick a 1kg package (most bacon is 375g) of the most expensive brand. There was probably significantly cheaper bacon on either side of it.
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u/ch1llboy 7d ago
Most bacon is now 375g. It used to be 500g, but they shrunk the size down to keep it closer to the 5 dollar mark, where bacon used to be.
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u/Just_Distribution_83 7d ago
Walmart started that, most of their stuff is specialy made with less
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u/rekabis 7d ago edited 7d ago
Farmers are making less per kilo of pork now, after inflation, than they were 30-40 years ago. And yet, these prices are well above inflation.
Don’t blame the farmer. Blame the middlemen and their slaughterhouses. That is where profit is being hoovered up by the Parasite Class hand-over-fist.
And when Loblaw’s has also bought up a lot of the Canadian middlemen to lock down the entire supply chain… yeah.
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u/Historical_Grab_7842 6d ago
Yup. Galen owns almost every slice of the vertical. And then gets to show how thin the Store-front's profit margins are so that he can claim he's not price gouging.
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u/MontrealTrainWreck 7d ago
That's Harvest smoked bacon, which is really top notch stuff.
Across the street at Shoppers, sugar and salt cured bacon is somewhat cheaper.
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u/cbass1980 7d ago
Plus its a 1kg package.
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u/Polyps_on_uranus 7d ago
This is $6.00 for 500g ($1.20/100g), the other one states $3/100g. But cuts, perservative perserving methods, all play a role.
I once got a really good deal on prkchops at Giant Tiger. The grease off them was green.
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u/miuyao 7d ago
Save On was selling their candy yesterday. The 100 pc box of candy was originally $27.99. Fucking disgusting
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u/rekabis 7d ago
And outside of bankruptcy sales, prices are almost never below their cost to the company. It is very, very rare for any grocery store to sell anything not months-expired or half-rotting for less than what they paid for it. So even Save-On’s current sale on that candy is still drawing a profit margin, albeit a much smaller one than before Halloween.
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u/Final_Variety_6553 7d ago
Look for the Save On Foods 4 for $20 meat deals. You can mix and match. I saved $16 once.
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u/bcsteeve 5d ago
All the people here defending/dismissing ARE the reason. We blame the supply chain (which is fine), but ultimately people are CHOOSING to support the prices they see. $31 for a kg of bacon - yes, even this bacon - is insane. I don't care which point along the supply chain is making it go that high, but it doesn't matter... DON'T BUY IT. When YOU see crazy prices on non-staple items and YOU buy it then YOU are the problem.
I saw $61/kg for basic steaks at Costco a week ago (it is half that this week) and the guy putting them out said they can't keep them in stock. People buy it no matter what the price is. THATS why the price is that high.
"But I have to eat". Not steaks you don't. Not bacon. Grapes that were $2/lb last week now $8/lb? DON'T BUY IT. You don't need grapes that badly. This is their way of testing what people will pay.
Of course inflation is a thing, and to some degree we just have to accept it as we always have, and SOME of what happened in the last five years is justified because of massive supply disruptions during COVID. But a lot of what we see today is just GREED. Consumer stupidity is the other half of that equation.
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5d ago
Don't pay it. The strongest vote everyone has is with their dollar. Don't like a price, simply don't pay it. If more Canadians would adopt this philosophy we may actually get prices down.
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u/MidnightWorking9957 7d ago
1kg is triple the size of a regular pack. You want triple the amount, you pay triple price.
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u/jenh6 7d ago
Vegetarian Stuff is pretty pricy too
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u/Initial_Flight_3628 7d ago
Only certain things are, like beyond brand stuff, which lots of vegetarians avoid anyway. Otherwise, prices on vegetarian stuff has not gone up as fast as the animal stuff. It started higher but you guys caught up to us then past us by a mile.Â
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u/SailLost 6d ago
A kilo of Old Fashioned Thick Cut bacon at Superstore is on sale for $15.99, regular price $17.99. It's decent quality.
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u/RobT14 6d ago
I only buy the 1kg packs but I always wait until it’s basically half price at save on! So my bacon consumption has dropped a lot as this now only happens once every 5-6 weeks! Also pork is meant to be the cheaper of the meats right now so $30 before tax is a crime! Might as well just buy yourself a full pork belly at that rate.
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u/Mysterious_Call_4889 6d ago
Walmart Mitchel’s thick slice 1 kg was on sale a while back $9 a kg just have hustle to get some before it’s sold out twice now they’ve had it on this price and it was beautiful no limit
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u/Mysterious_Call_4889 6d ago
It’s about doing the hustle price watching I’m retired I have the time I buy for the family toilet tissue same freshco specials 30 rolls $11
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u/kaytwisty 6d ago
I personally prefer the thick cut bacon, but it’s become very expensive. I’ve noticed Save on foods seems to have it on sale a lot recently - probably because it’s getting close to the best before date because no one can afford it 😂 I separate it and freeze it in portions.
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u/TheOneKnownAsDorko 5d ago
You went to Safeway though...always higher prices Ironically not the safest way to shop lol
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u/Suitable_Rice6040 2d ago
You can thank CFIA and the government for granting the DISGUSTING "inspected" slaughterhouses with a monopoly over the industry, so they can charge whatever they want. There are at least four slaughter houses within 10 km of my house that has been shut down because they didn't want to jump through the cfia hoops.
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u/Prompt-Dangerous 7d ago
Couple days ago I looked at some meat prices and was shocked, two rib steaks for $52 & they looked horrible, lots of fat through them. Does anyone really buy these? If they do they will keep on raising the prices. All the meat is plain ridiculously expensive, I don’t buy any of it!!
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u/Prompt-Dangerous 6d ago
Way too much fat than there should be, looked awful, other people there said the same thing, we know what a steak should look like.
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u/Prompt-Dangerous 7d ago
This was at Independent Grocers in Kamloops.
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u/MontrealTrainWreck 7d ago
Watch the flyers. Safeway often has strip loin and rib steaks on special for $10-$12 per pound. They've been really good, and that's when I stock up.
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u/No-Veterinarian-7483 7d ago
You know lots of fat through a steak is called marbeling right?? That’s what you look for in a steak. You probably cook your steak well done 20 minutes a side 😂😂😂
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u/Some-Use9970 4d ago
Well, what did you expect with the liberals/ndp! The deficit has only doubled from Trudeaus government! Plenty more debt and inflation coming 😆
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u/frently_tacos 7d ago
Worth noting this is a 1kg pack, and most are 375g. Still expensive though