Bibbi wrote:
Why is food so overpriced in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick?
My personal experience was backed up by the Star's price comparison on healthy eating throughout Canada. The quality of vegetables in grocery chains is also lower than in the rest of the country. I would certainly agree that something is wrong with the farm/grocery distribution system.
Nothing's wrong with the grocery/distribution system. Why would anyone want to pay for some shitty second rate Okanogan apple when they can stock New Zealand ones for only $1.99 lb?
I suppose someone's gonna try and tell me the peaches from Kelowna are better than the Mexican ones, too!
The what, try and convince us you can grow wheat in Saskatchewan?
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They're not gonna load up the chain store with local stuff when you know the guy 20 kms down the road sells you a whole lamb for $35 - you can see how you're ripped off. But flash freezing it and flying it all the way from Australia almost justifies $20 for a couple of chops. You have no way to know the Aussie only got $25 for the whole lamb and the shipping wasn't that much. Bigger profit margins, and reinforced by perceptions.
You want to buy 100lbs of apple for .45/lb and sell them for .79/lb, or New Zealand Granny Smiths for 99c and sell for $1.99? Your choice: make 34c/lb or $1.00/lb profit.
The whole food system is screwy. Look at it like this, you can almost always find hamburger on sale in your area for way less than
Hamburger Helper. The only thing it "helps" is to lighten your wallet!
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