Canadian families to pay hundreds more a year for groceries in 2021

tehwegz wrote: ↑ I always watch what I buy. The price of some things can stand the test of time and not increase so much with inflation. I can piece together a super cheap (considering inflation) string of groceries for meal prep from Dollarama, Walmart, and Costco.

People are also hoarding and consuming more - likely out of boredom, and for the dopamine.

Another aspect they don't look at - is maybe, the smart ones at least, are cutting down their spending on the trillion dollar fast food industry. And by eating at home and learning useful life skills such as cooking or even catching/growing their own food, they learn to be more self sufficient and save even more money than they would otherwise have spent on dine-in and take-out, which the quality of is likely going down among all of this, and we are really just being guilted at this point to spend more on such extravagances.

Also - delivery/convenience fees and grocery services.

And people working these essential services obviously deserve to make more. I don't mind that cost somewhat covered by consumers but a lot of the big companies really need to step up.

100's more isn't anything crazy though, however due to the debt ratios in this country this could break some people if they don't start taking more control of their finances and cutting some unnecessary purchases out.