Soaring grocery prices have been top of mind for Canadians lately. From the month-long Loblaws boycott in May in protest of the sky-high cost of gr...
If you're curious about how much food costs around the world, we have you covered. Here are just a few of our stories comparing grocery prices in Canada to those in other countries.We checked out the grocery prices on a trip to the Philippines, browsing the aisles at Shopwise, a chain of supermarkets that stocks local products and imported items familiar to Canadian shoppers.
Just one example is white bread, which is 85 pesos/600 g in the Philippines and $2.97/675 g CAD in Canada. Read the full articleWe also compared grocery prices while on a trip across Europe visiting Germany, Spain and Portugal, curious to see if post-COVID-19 inflation was also wreaking havoc at supermarkets there."My friends and I had a three-day long stay booked in a Spanish village. We needed meals and booze for the six of us with not many restaurants around.
We headed into Fry's — a supermarket operated by the U.S. grocery retail giant Kroger Co. — to pick up some staples and decided to compare the prices to those of the Real Canadian Superstore. While visiting Jamaica, one Canadian headed to the supermarket to see how much residents pay for common grocery items.
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