Grocery prices in this Canadian territory can only be described as "absolutely insane"
If you think the grocery prices in Toronto are bad, you should speak to someone in Canada’s north, where shoppers have been sharing photos of labels that are even more despicable than $10 butter at a Leaside Loblaws or aĀ $120 turkeyĀ at a downtown Longo’s.
The nation’s territories are notorious for exorbitant food costs, with small vegetable platters spotted for $70Ā and asparagus going for $32.99 a kgĀ even before this recent bout of soaring inflation.
The latest snaps from stores in Nunavut, posted to X on Tuesday, really put the issue into perspective for those of us living elsewhere in the country.
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Depicted are a 3.49L jug of orange juice for $26.99 (a slightly smaller 2.6L bottle of the same is currently $9.99 at LoblawsĀ in Toronto, by comparison), a 35-pack of bottled water for $83.49 (24 bottles of the same brand is listed for $4.99 at our Loblaws), and seedless green grapes for a shocking $28.19 perĀ kg (onlyĀ $8.80 per kg on the Loblaws website).
What people online seem to have the biggest issue with is the Nunavut price for cheese, with one image showing a large brick of Cracker Barrel medium cheddar forĀ $59.99 (at the TorontoĀ Loblaws priceĀ of $2 per 100g, the 2.3 kg itemĀ would be $46, assuming the weight on the label is correct).
In response, people are calling the rates “absolutely insane” and are wondering how anyone isĀ surviving in the region ā though getting by in Toronto isn’t easy, either, as we all well know.