I have noticed a lot of things have gotten cheaper especially at walmart, you can get their cheap brand of chocolate for 1.00 each now, they used to sell around 1.49. they are made in europe and i think they are made by Lindt. Always good
for cheap tasty chocolate. Their own brands of food compared to loblaws are much cheaper but loblaws seems to be bringing their prices down too.
Food deflation hits Western Canadian grocers
Price wars, shifting consumer shopping habits atop business challenges for store owners
By Glen Korstrom | March 24, 2017, 2:52 p.m.
Price wars are forcing Western Canadian grocers to grapple with food deflation as discretionary spending tightens and consumers employ various strategies to reduce spending and trips to grocery stores, according to research from consumer behaviour consultancy Nielsen.
Grocery prices in Western Canada were down 0.9% at the end of 2016, compared with a year earlier, Nielsen vice-president of consumer insights Carman Allison told Western Canada’s largest grocery show, Grocery & Specialty Food West, in Vancouver March 20.
That is three times the 0.3% decline in food prices that Nielsen found nationally.
Business in Vancouver reported on the trend toward food deflation trend in September, but at that point, actual deflation was only taking place in the U.S. and Canada had a nominal 1.1% food-inflation rate.
The steepest drops in Western Canadian grocery prices at the end of 2016 were for fresh vegetables (-5.2%), processed meat (-3.9%) and condiments (-2.7%), according to Nielsen.
Its data shows actual purchases, Allison said, and not the proverbial “basket of goods” that Statistics Canada uses to determine the consumer price index.
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