Local farming is done with far less efficiency than large scale farms. The energy required to transport food is insignificant compared to growing it.

Exhibition A. Useless human being.

Oranges have dropped in price too. Around $0.60/lb for large ones, even at big box stores and $0.40/lb for small ones. For the past few years, it was usually at least $0.80/lb for large ones at this time of the year.

Just an observation :fullofwin:

Maybe they stopped that stupid tradition of throwing oranges at each other in Italy? Because of this, there is an overabundance of oranges, LOL.

Perhaps the lower prices may have something to do with the previous years' prices being high due to damaged crops. That or oranges from other countries other than the US are making its way to NA driving prices down.

that is tomato's not oranges lol, my buddies sister actually went a few years ago and she said it was beyond wild.

The tomato one is lame compared to



http://www.festivalpig.com/orange-throwing.html


they have one in Spain as well................


oranges hurt more than tomatoes


tomato juice running down the tits of a hot Italian chick or orange juice............. I dunno, orange juice would taste better.......... sticky nipples, FTMFW!!

maybe it's still allittle too cold, but time to start growing your own fruits and vegetables

^+1

Are we trying to become the most expensive city in the world? :facepalm:

Not trying,I think we already are.

... You know there's no HST for groceries right?

Maybe if you only buy pop and chips.
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I don't see a problem. Prices fluctuate all the time and many food have close substitutes. What about cutting those extra sports channels? I bet it will offset more than 5% overall food costs.

However, I can see that restaurants might take this "opportunity" to drive up menu prices. Oh well.
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People in Egypt and Libya would like to have a word with you.

For sure, food and utilities prices have gone up. But so have people's incomes.

Overall, we are still very privileged and our social safety net is large. Food in Vietnam may be dirt cheap, but wages are also very low there too.

You should be more worried about local prices going down instead of going up. Prices fell during the depression, and people were anything but joyous.

Bananas actually went up in price a couple weeks ago. I work at a produce wholesaler that supplies T&T and Kin's and sometimes to Safeway and IGA.

Between the crazy storm in Mexico a few weeks ago and the cold weather in Cali and Arizona, produce prices have been shooting way up.


Even though prices will fall back in line, probably in a few months, I don't suppose the retail prices at major chains will come back down. For that, smaller stores are a lot more flexible.

our wage is higher but i dont think it has been changed in the last few years.

other prices are going up way too fast and there is almost no breathing room

Fresh produce prices are always flucuation due to supply and demand.
I would never use that as any indication of inflation or deflation.

As Evofire mentioned, there was a big freeze that hit southern Calif/northern Mex/Ariz and that is what is causing the higher prices and lower qualities on items like Tomatoes, peppers, leaf lettuces, and zucchini's.

Heck, even Wendy's has a sign on the menu that says they are not putting tomatoes into their burgers unless asked for.

Might need to move out of BC lol
Can't afford shit
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crude prices go up = petrol prices go up, medicine goes up, food goes up, everything that needs to be transported goes up

meanwhile we have some of those highest amounts of crude/natural gas in the world but we get shafted -_-

even saudi arabia only charges its citizens pennies a litre and our population is about the same and our GDP is 2X that of saudi arabia (they have free healthcare and education too but theirs is including university) -_-

I shop at No Frills and Superstore and bananas were 58¢ / lb.

I don't think those stores go through produce wholesalers.

BTW, milk prices at Superstore was ridiculous this morning. $4.19 at No Frills, though. Same company owns them, too. Go figure.

Eggs, same thing. Cheaper at No Frills. $1.99/dz for large.

eggs are 1.99/dz for large at superstore I remember. Only thing is...the limit is ONE.

force me to checkout 4 times now if i want 4 :(

When i was in NY over NOV-DEC, i shopped at trader joes and stuff there is fucking cheap, yeah it is all there name brand most of the time but they buy so much of one kind and have a great price , 4 99 for organic 3.79L of milk compared to what like 12.99 here, i know its the states just saying

I wasn't talkin to you oldman. I was talking to slick there shopping in the states. Unfortunately he doesn't realize that the USA has way lower standards for food and use growth hormones and chemicals banned in Canada. The us company tried to bribe the Canadian officials to use the bovine growth hormone for starters. Even tho they refused the bribe they still lost thier jobs. Hence the power of monsanto. The video i posted earlier talks alot more about their evil ways.
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Oh, so solly.........

Slick, LOL.

Yes, definitely! An example is being able to purchase fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides in economies of scale. The savings in bulk purchases may even negate the higher transportation costs of moving the finished goods to the points of sale.

However, like some members have written in this thread, you could grow your own food for personal consumption and save money if you have no other alternative of making money. However, if you could have made more money working or doing something else in the time spent setting up and maintaining your backyard garden, then the fruits of your labour are costing you more than you think.

Nothing like eating the fruits of your own labour.

It's not about saving money anymore. Being out in the garden is great therapy. You should try it.


I see you corrected the spelling of Shaughnessy.


.......... god bless.

that might be the case, but cow's in the US are injected with bovine growth hormone and Canadian cow's are not. I'd rather buy less tainted milk and pay more than getting some weird kind of cancer down the road. Also many crops are heavily subsidized by the US government with taxpayers money - corn, wheat, sugar, etc. which ends up being overproduced and artificially lowering the price of food. This is exactly why junk food is expensive and you can buy a meal at mcdonalds for $5. Furthermore, a lot of food grown in the US is also genetically modified. Crops with a gene that is herbicide resistant has been reported to have a three-fold increase in herbicide use. Personally, if I had the time, I'd rather grow my own food or pay more to buy local / organic.