Who's to blame for rising grocery bills — and what are Quebecers doing about it?
The price of groceries is skyrocketing. So how are you making it work? People are going to all kinds of lengths to find deals. I take all the Flyers, I play them on the kitchen table, put the mall next to each other and compare prices from one to the next and if I can price match, I’m going to price match. It might be annoying to drive to different places, but I think it ends up paying itself off. When you save a good chunk of money on stuff that would cause double the price somewhere else. Some are also pushing back against higher grocery bills and what they see. As corporate greed. You’re gonna get nothing. Zero. You’re gonna buy nothing. At Loblaws, a Reddit group with more than 70,000 members and also people posting on Tiktok and Instagram have been calling for a boycott of Loblaws and its subsidies. Again, they said the company’s prices are making it hard for people to afford food. All by Love Loss reports higher profits. A critique would say that these are keyboard warriors. However, as I said, it’s a useful start and. I think a couple of months ago we saw that a similar social media boycott LED Loblaws to cancel a policy that they had introduced about prices. Experts recommend buying in bulk and growing your own food. People are sharing other ideas online, including lists of smaller local shops you can go to. But competing with large chains can be tricky. A product goes up 15% and my cost? I cannot raise it by that 15%. So my brother and I decide to raise it by 10% or 9% for our sales. Stay where they are and our sales don’t drop. We’ll make it up somewhere else. In a statement, Loblos says it continues to do what it can to combat inflation at its stores, arguing that some find real value there. The expert we spoke to says government should be doing more to control conglomerates hold on the market.