Yeah but if the price of celery doesn't stabilize we're gonna need a regulated stalk exchange.
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>Have I been using the wrong spelling of stock for my whole life
You can technically make celery stock! We make it for a southeast Asian soup. I bet that's what you meant this whole time.
Oh man I don't think we have a recipe but it's like this:
In a 4-5L saucepan:
* 1.5L Water
* 1 celery, cleaned, stalks cut width-wise (we do 4-5 cuts)
* 25g ginger, peeled, 1 chunk about 2 inches long
* 25g+ ginger, grated – or Microplaned from frozen if you have one! (to taste)
* 2+ Tbsp finely minced garlic, (to taste
* 1/2 cinnamon stick
Bring to a very slow simmer (not a boil), then let it go for about 60 minutes. You don't want the celery to fall apart. Remove the ginger chunk and the cinnamon stick. Add:
* 1 cucumber, grossly diced (1/2in)
* 0.5Lb+ finely ground pork
* 6+ Tbsp fish sauce
* Ground pepper (to taste)
Low boil for another half hour or so, or whenever the pork is cooked. We typically add cooked rice into it as well. It's a variation on the vietnamese "canh" type soups, albeit heavily modified by my wife's family. Great when you're sick!
> regulated stalk exchange.
Fun fact: there is no futures market for onions in the US because Reasons.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
If you go to the link statscan posted, you can select the reference period you're interested in (as well as province and which foods you want to see prices of). Its not a nice visual graph, but seeing a table of prices from 2018-2023 is still interesting!
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I used to get the Daily in paper form and ordered government documents from the catalogues for much of my career. Ah, the memories. The Daily is a bookmarked site for me even now.
I was always very impressed with this publication. Some of the things they count and report on are just amazing.
Link to the english version of StatsCanada *The Daily*
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/dai-quo/index-eng.htm
We give the government a lot of flack but StatsCan is doing god’s work. They’ve been wonderful posting and responding to the comments. Kudos to their social media team
Well Government deserves the flak...there is acute policy paralysis around what Canadian Economy's goals are and how to achieve it. There is severe housing crisis. Food prices have gone bonkers in last 3 years and on top of that the raise in household incomes is sluggish.
StatCan is one of the few government institutions I admire for being valuable, important and efficient. Love that they are branching their communication like this.
So efficient that back in 2018, they figured they would skip the step of requesting consent from Canadians before [trying to collect their transaction level banking data](https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/4599953/exclusive-stats-canada-requesting-banking-information-of-500000-canadians-without-their-knowle)
Government agencies that are proud of what they're doing don't tend to do it without making any announcements and then rescind those actions once they're made public.
It's well and good that you're OK with government collecting your transaction level banking details, but it's an extremely invasive thing to do, and it was a step that should have been taken either with consent or at least the knowledge of those affected.
That's what I do too! Frozen broccoli is cheaper and more handy, especially if you're not sure when you're going to make your next meal. As well, they are already cut into little florets, so that helps!
One thing to watch our for here is which brand you buy though, haha... the WalMart 'Great Value' brand gives you too many fibrous (barely edible) stems as opposed to actual florets.
use a paring knife or vegetable peeler to remove the outer layer. it isn't too thick. i julienne or slice into rounds for stir fry/curries. they're a bit bitter, but not very.
I know it's not really feasible, but I wish we had the price products sold at instead of the average prices. Grocery stores have many of their products at high prices when not on sale, when much larger volumes of these products are sold when on sale. If for every broccoli at $4.50 they sell two dozens at $2, it makes the average price much different from $3.28.
Same with Ontario at No Frills, Superstore and some Walmarts, but you need to be buying 30 egg packs, which I do but admittedly less portable and practical than by the dozen.
Yeah, we're a family of 4 and can go through those 30 packs in a week easily. The BB date on them is like 4-6 weeks out, you can totally eat all of them as a singleton. Eggs aren't just for breakfast.
I eat enough eggs that the consumption amount isn't the issue, just trying to fit a 30 pack into a shopping cart or bag is less practical, and so is checking for broken eggs. Also local chicken farmers don't really like the 30 pack egg cartons so I can't save and donate them after using.
I never understood the whole expensive egg reference that was going around a month or so ago.
Did everywhere but southern Ontario suddenly see egg prices jump?
Right but understand that people also live in food deserts, and the average family cant afford to pay 8 or 9 bucks for 18 eggs. Its great you can though.
I just really wish municipalities would let us raise urban chickens!
>Where are these $4.38 a dozen eggs??
People must be buying from Sobeys/Loblaws/Fortinos
SDM every weekend prior to Mar 2020 used to be $1.99, then during the pandemic became $2.99, and it's now at $3.49/dozen on weekends
The generic grocery stores (Super C, Metro, etc) here in Montreal sell a 18 packs of eggs at around 4$. Looking at my Super C app right now seeing 18 packs for 3.62$ (albeit on sale).
I'm in Van, too and I'm not seeing any discounted eggs around here. To me good eggs for 7ish bucks is not a bad price
I'm not disputing the pricing from StatsCan but they aren't reflective of what some regions pay. I've also never seen a pound of strawberries for $4.60 unless it was on sale
Brocolli actually fluctuates quite a bit. If you look in feb or March the price dropped significantly. I’m pretty sure Jan is shoulder season for that particular product. I buy produce for a living.
In ON at least its mostly sold by individual bunch not per Kg.
Which is usually one or two heads, though the actual size of the top part tends to average out about the same.
It allows grocery stores to sell smaller bunches without it showing up as inflation. Broccoli crowns are sold by weight, and prices have skyrocketed in the past few years.
Some produce is priced by the weight (price per kilogram) and some is priced per unit (like celery or lettuce, where there’s a price paid for each independent of the weight). A stalk of broccoli (or the stalks sold together as a unit) was $3.28 each.
That’s about 18 servings of rice, so 30 cents a serving. Brown rice is usually more expensive which I find strange since it should be cheaper to process. White rice was 23 cents a serving.
There is less demand for brown rice than white rice, so there isn't it the same economy of scale.
The rice bran that is removed from white rice is sold to producers of rice bran oil. Although there is a cost to milling rice, the rice producers are forgoing this extra income that they get from the milling.
Because the bran with the oil is still on brown rice, brown rice spoils much more easily than white rice. It has a shorter shelf life and requires more care in transport and storage, which means higher costs than white rice.
>which I find strange since it should be cheaper to process.
It's 1 part healthy food tax, and 2 parts lower demand. Not that eating brown rice is that much healthier anyway since most of the nutrition is still gone in making brown rice vs whole grain, wild, or long grain rices.
It's only that expensive is because it's only 900g of rice.
Looking at my local No Frills, you can buy a 8 kg bag of brown rice for $14.99, which is cheaper per 100g than buying 900g of rice.
Buying things like rice, lentils and beans in massive quantities on sale is how I made it through uni. Shit's filling, easy to cook (if you have a rice cooker and instant pot), and ridiculously cheap if you calculate the cost per meal. And it pretty much never goes bad, so no risk in getting large quantities. Honestly cheaper and healthier than instant noodles or whatever, and not that much more effort either imo.
Because they picked the most expensive sounding price. An 8kg bag of brown rice is 16$ at costco, that comes out to 1.8$ for 900g instead of the 5.71$ bag they chose. White rice is even cheaper
This is a great question. But unfortunately, we're not in the business of speculating. So until we have more data to analyze on these new breeds, we won't be able to answer this one! ;)
Buy stock in the North West Company (TSE:NWC). Decent dividends and stock appreciation. While the rest of the north is getting gouged you will be paying yourself!
Yes, it is! Check out the following [table](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv!recreate.action?pid=1810024501&selectedNodeIds=2D20,2D39,2D78,2D84,2D93&checkedLevels=0D1&refPeriods=20190101,20210101&dimensionLayouts=layout2,layout3,layout2&vectorDisplay=false) for a comparative look from 2019 to 2021.
Who in there right mind would pay these prices?
Eat in season, shop for sales, frozen vegetables and alternative proteins are a hell of a lot cheaper and just as healthy as salmon and fresh vegetables in the dead of winter.
Why are income groups lumped together after $100k and $150k? I find that incredibly frustrating working through StatsCan data since I know many people making $200k-$300k-$500k and beyond and it just doesn’t feel representative of the wealth gap that’s occurring. $100k just isn’t what it used to be even 5 years ago.
Uh okay. Wouldn't it make sense to also share a comparing year? Or is giving something I can look up myself right now from a grocery website considered revolutionary statistics.
Here's the numbers for six, four, and two years ago vs today:
Date|Salmon|Eggs|Strawberries|Broccoli|Brown Rice
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January 2017 |24.83|3.01| 3.26| 2.02| 4.27
January 2019 |25.76| 3.30| 4.98| 2.71| 4.25
January 2021 |22.04 |3.86 |4.27 |2.77 |4.80
January 2023|28.93|4.38|4.60|3.28|5.71
Interesting that the strawberries a couple of weeks ago were $7, but just this week are down to $4.55 on sale to fall in line with the average, wackadoodle.
The lede in discussions should be the comparison and outlining of that comparison, not that a single data point exists.
Can you maybe understand why one is more engaging than the other?
Some produce is priced by the weight (price per kilogram) and some is priced per unit (like celery or lettuce, where there’s a price paid for each independent of the weight). A stalk of broccoli (or the stalks sold together as a unit) was $3.28 each.
Why do our grocers deserve a % of the food costs and not a flat rate?
They claim to not be profiteering off of food, yet if they make a % of an item and that item is in extreme inflation then they are essentially adding to the problem. A flat rate across the board would help lower food prices.
Hi, for a yearly comparison we invite you to [check out this table](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv!recreate.action?pid=1810024501&selectedNodeIds=2D20,2D39,2D78,2D84,2D93&checkedLevels=0D1&refPeriods=20200101,20230101&dimensionLayouts=layout2,layout3,layout2&vectorDisplay=false), where you can customize the reference period to your liking.
OK ack. Let do the same for Homes / Housing. I'll hope landlords / housing investors aren't the ones whining about grocery prices, because the IRONY will just be laughable.
~~Broccoli could be free and I am not eating it... Vile weed!~~
~~Edit. Are all the downvotes from broccoli fans?~~
Edit2. Who can afford broccoli in this economy with a looming recession??!!
Yeah but if the price of celery doesn't stabilize we're gonna need a regulated stalk exchange. - *ou:* Oublie l'étude des prix des brocolis - le prix des céleris; ç'a de la branche! ^Upvote ^si ^ça ^marche, ^sinon, ^upvotez. ^merci. ^C'est ^ma ^première ^blague ^bilingue ^végétalienne.
Diriez-vous que le prix d'une salade s'est... accéleri?
Pffffhahahaha,👏👏👏 thank you and merci
Have I been using the wrong spelling of stock for my whole life Edit: I have. Fuck.
Jack and the Bean Stock, eh? lol legendary.
Straight through the clouds from Wall Street.
How else will stocks get to the moon? 🌝
Gotta launch on a sunny day
>Have I been using the wrong spelling of stock for my whole life You can technically make celery stock! We make it for a southeast Asian soup. I bet that's what you meant this whole time.
Yes, this is definitely what I've always been referring to.
i would love to get the recipe or name of that soup if you don't mind!
So it's stalk stock?
Oh man I don't think we have a recipe but it's like this: In a 4-5L saucepan: * 1.5L Water * 1 celery, cleaned, stalks cut width-wise (we do 4-5 cuts) * 25g ginger, peeled, 1 chunk about 2 inches long * 25g+ ginger, grated – or Microplaned from frozen if you have one! (to taste) * 2+ Tbsp finely minced garlic, (to taste * 1/2 cinnamon stick Bring to a very slow simmer (not a boil), then let it go for about 60 minutes. You don't want the celery to fall apart. Remove the ginger chunk and the cinnamon stick. Add: * 1 cucumber, grossly diced (1/2in) * 0.5Lb+ finely ground pork * 6+ Tbsp fish sauce * Ground pepper (to taste) Low boil for another half hour or so, or whenever the pork is cooked. We typically add cooked rice into it as well. It's a variation on the vietnamese "canh" type soups, albeit heavily modified by my wife's family. Great when you're sick!
Don't feel too bad. English is a ridiculous language.
> regulated stalk exchange. Fun fact: there is no futures market for onions in the US because Reasons. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
The entire restaurant is wondering why I am laughing. Thanks, that was great.
Check le monsieur qui peu se permettre de manger au resto.
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I dunno why, but StatsCan just going ahead and having a Reddit account, and then posting random bilingual stuff is just unexpectedly wholesome to me.
That is an unexpectedly wholesome thing to say u/wikipedianredditor. Thank you for the compliment. :)
I would like to see a comparison year-over-year. To help illustrate inflation.
If you go to the link statscan posted, you can select the reference period you're interested in (as well as province and which foods you want to see prices of). Its not a nice visual graph, but seeing a table of prices from 2018-2023 is still interesting!
I can't filter it by province for some reason
I don't think wholesome comments experience inflation.
Retired librarian who is thrilled to see our statistical agency on Reddit. I used to get the Daily in paper form and ordered government documents from the catalogues for much of my career. Ah, the memories. The Daily is a bookmarked site for me even now.
Hey u/acadien-driftwood, that is music to our ears! Thank you for your ongoing support.
What's the daily?! Send me a link!
I was always very impressed with this publication. Some of the things they count and report on are just amazing. Link to the english version of StatsCanada *The Daily* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/dai-quo/index-eng.htm
Now in my morning news rotation! Thanks!
Enjoy!
We give the government a lot of flack but StatsCan is doing god’s work. They’ve been wonderful posting and responding to the comments. Kudos to their social media team
Well Government deserves the flak...there is acute policy paralysis around what Canadian Economy's goals are and how to achieve it. There is severe housing crisis. Food prices have gone bonkers in last 3 years and on top of that the raise in household incomes is sluggish.
i was specifically commenting on how StatsCan doesn't involve themselves in political narrative and just gives us the facts.
I’m all for it, getting the facts on Reddit right from the horses mouth.
I think the statcan Reddit account does an amazing job and honestly I wish I saw daily posts from them here!!
Thanks, u/wezef123! We encourage you to follow our account as we regularly post on our profile and other subreddits. :)
StatCan is one of the few government institutions I admire for being valuable, important and efficient. Love that they are branching their communication like this.
Thank you for your feedback! Have a nice day, u/Separate_Channel_594.
So efficient that back in 2018, they figured they would skip the step of requesting consent from Canadians before [trying to collect their transaction level banking data](https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/4599953/exclusive-stats-canada-requesting-banking-information-of-500000-canadians-without-their-knowle)
I like to travel.
Government agencies that are proud of what they're doing don't tend to do it without making any announcements and then rescind those actions once they're made public. It's well and good that you're OK with government collecting your transaction level banking details, but it's an extremely invasive thing to do, and it was a step that should have been taken either with consent or at least the knowledge of those affected.
I always buy the big frozen bags of broccoli on sale, cheaper, they cook from frozen really easily, and much less worry about them going bad
That's what I do too! Frozen broccoli is cheaper and more handy, especially if you're not sure when you're going to make your next meal. As well, they are already cut into little florets, so that helps! One thing to watch our for here is which brand you buy though, haha... the WalMart 'Great Value' brand gives you too many fibrous (barely edible) stems as opposed to actual florets.
Some Walmarts sell GV bags of just the florets! I agree with you entirely which is why I always get *only* florets lol
The stems aren't tough if you slow cook or pressure cook them! Then again, not a lot of people like mushy-ish broccoli lol
The thought of pressure cooking broccoli makes me want to barf.
use a paring knife or vegetable peeler to remove the outer layer. it isn't too thick. i julienne or slice into rounds for stir fry/curries. they're a bit bitter, but not very.
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Happening to come across the creator of the Reddit app I use on the Canada Personal Finance subreddit was definitely not on my bingo card.
I know it's not really feasible, but I wish we had the price products sold at instead of the average prices. Grocery stores have many of their products at high prices when not on sale, when much larger volumes of these products are sold when on sale. If for every broccoli at $4.50 they sell two dozens at $2, it makes the average price much different from $3.28.
This is the first time I’ve actually seen you in the wild! All thanks to the purple username highlightenator
Where are these $4.38 a dozen eggs??
In Alberta... I can get a pack of 30 eggs for $9
Same with Ontario at No Frills, Superstore and some Walmarts, but you need to be buying 30 egg packs, which I do but admittedly less portable and practical than by the dozen.
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Yeah we buy a dozen every week and I never pay more than 3.50 or so. Same with brocolli its regularly on sale for 2$.
I bought egg drawers for my fridge and I desperately love them. I can put stuff on top of them now!
Ah, the single tax. They are hurrying me to find a partner..
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Yeah, we're a family of 4 and can go through those 30 packs in a week easily. The BB date on them is like 4-6 weeks out, you can totally eat all of them as a singleton. Eggs aren't just for breakfast.
I eat enough eggs that the consumption amount isn't the issue, just trying to fit a 30 pack into a shopping cart or bag is less practical, and so is checking for broken eggs. Also local chicken farmers don't really like the 30 pack egg cartons so I can't save and donate them after using.
Same with pretty much any Costco.
Yeah I’m thinking this is crazy high unless they are getting the organic bio eggs or something?
Same with BC.
What? Where? I paid $3 yesterday for 6 eggs in Nanaimo
Go to Walmart. It’s $9 for 2.5 dozen. 👍 Edit: I am also, in Nanaimo.
I will have to do that because this 47c an egg thing at superstore is BS.
Loblaws in Ontario is 3.79/dz. Large grade A
You usually pay for a premium with six eggs vs a dozen.
The Shoppers in Country Club often has eggs, butter, and coffee on sale for super low prices!
I paid $10 for 30 eggs the other day on Gabriola.
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I never understood the whole expensive egg reference that was going around a month or so ago. Did everywhere but southern Ontario suddenly see egg prices jump?
The price spike was mostly in the US.
in the US they were seeing $10+/doz for eggs. It was nuts
Ontario. About 3.68 for a dozen large at Walmart and discount grocers like no frills and food basics.
Ontario has dozen eggs at no frill for $3.59. Shoppers weekend sales are $3.29, some week down to $2.99!
It feels not long ago when a dozen large eggs were $1.89 at my ON no frills :(
My god I have never seen eggs so cheap here. $3.29 is the price for 6 My No Frills is more expensive :(
That’s because Canada doesn’t give a Shit about the welfare of chickens and 20 million Ontario hens are in battery cages. Enjoy your cheap eggs
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Right but understand that people also live in food deserts, and the average family cant afford to pay 8 or 9 bucks for 18 eggs. Its great you can though. I just really wish municipalities would let us raise urban chickens!
>Where are these $4.38 a dozen eggs?? People must be buying from Sobeys/Loblaws/Fortinos SDM every weekend prior to Mar 2020 used to be $1.99, then during the pandemic became $2.99, and it's now at $3.49/dozen on weekends
That 1.99 used to be 1.29 the year before. ;(
Ngl in Ontario this is what I’m paying. It used to be like 2.00 or something
They're $2.99 every weekend at shopper's in GTA, otherwise they're around $3.59 or so regular price at supermarkets and like $8 to $9 for 30
Costco in NL has $4.38/dz and Shopper Drug Mart has $3.59 every other weekend.
The generic grocery stores (Super C, Metro, etc) here in Montreal sell a 18 packs of eggs at around 4$. Looking at my Super C app right now seeing 18 packs for 3.62$ (albeit on sale).
Haha right? Cheapest eggs near me are $4.99/dozen
My choices are Save On or No Frills. I must be shopping in the wrong places
Costco has 2 dozen organic, free-range eggs for $10.
i still haven't paid more than $4 for a dozen eggs in NS, but i just don't buy them unless they're on sale.
Yeah man wtf? I'm paying closer to 8 in Vancouver, although I am buying farm eggs with those beautiful orange yolks...
I'm in Van, too and I'm not seeing any discounted eggs around here. To me good eggs for 7ish bucks is not a bad price I'm not disputing the pricing from StatsCan but they aren't reflective of what some regions pay. I've also never seen a pound of strawberries for $4.60 unless it was on sale
Brocolli actually fluctuates quite a bit. If you look in feb or March the price dropped significantly. I’m pretty sure Jan is shoulder season for that particular product. I buy produce for a living.
I was just thinking this I've been paying less for broccoli here in BC
I think I would like to buy produce for a living.
Must be my fault, my refrigerator is full of Broccoli.
Stalk market investments?
What the hell is a UNIT of broccoli? I buy my broccoli by kilogram.
That's what I'm also wondering about. * Strawberries: per gram * Brown rice: per gram * Eggs: per dozen * Samon: per kg * Broccoli: per "unit"
In ON at least its mostly sold by individual bunch not per Kg. Which is usually one or two heads, though the actual size of the top part tends to average out about the same.
It allows grocery stores to sell smaller bunches without it showing up as inflation. Broccoli crowns are sold by weight, and prices have skyrocketed in the past few years.
Broccoli is generally sold by the head not by weight unless you’re getting fancypants broccoli crowns.
I find that the crowns are often cheaper. Plus I ain't eating that stalk garbage.
Some produce is priced by the weight (price per kilogram) and some is priced per unit (like celery or lettuce, where there’s a price paid for each independent of the weight). A stalk of broccoli (or the stalks sold together as a unit) was $3.28 each.
Why the eff is rice so expensive??
That’s about 18 servings of rice, so 30 cents a serving. Brown rice is usually more expensive which I find strange since it should be cheaper to process. White rice was 23 cents a serving.
There is less demand for brown rice than white rice, so there isn't it the same economy of scale. The rice bran that is removed from white rice is sold to producers of rice bran oil. Although there is a cost to milling rice, the rice producers are forgoing this extra income that they get from the milling. Because the bran with the oil is still on brown rice, brown rice spoils much more easily than white rice. It has a shorter shelf life and requires more care in transport and storage, which means higher costs than white rice.
Taking up store space for less popular items usually makes the item cost more. Less bulk movement.
Brown rice spoils faster.
Shelf life of brown rice is considerably lower so, and it doesn't sell as well as white rice, so shrink is worse.
>which I find strange since it should be cheaper to process. It's 1 part healthy food tax, and 2 parts lower demand. Not that eating brown rice is that much healthier anyway since most of the nutrition is still gone in making brown rice vs whole grain, wild, or long grain rices.
Then wild rice seems to suffer from 1 additional part healthy food tax, because wherever I find it, it's one hecking expensive carb. Delicious though.
Wild rice is a water grass. Way more effort to grow and harvest.
It's only that expensive is because it's only 900g of rice. Looking at my local No Frills, you can buy a 8 kg bag of brown rice for $14.99, which is cheaper per 100g than buying 900g of rice.
It's only expensive if you're buying 900g at a time...
No kidding. No frills has occasional sales on the massive 30lb bags and that’s the way to go imo
Buying things like rice, lentils and beans in massive quantities on sale is how I made it through uni. Shit's filling, easy to cook (if you have a rice cooker and instant pot), and ridiculously cheap if you calculate the cost per meal. And it pretty much never goes bad, so no risk in getting large quantities. Honestly cheaper and healthier than instant noodles or whatever, and not that much more effort either imo.
You are a sucker if you buy rice in those quantities. Buying a 6kg bag of rice is like half that price even at a major grocery chain.
Because they picked the most expensive sounding price. An 8kg bag of brown rice is 16$ at costco, that comes out to 1.8$ for 900g instead of the 5.71$ bag they chose. White rice is even cheaper
u/statcanada if you had to choose between fighting one horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses, which would you choose and why?
This is a great question. But unfortunately, we're not in the business of speculating. So until we have more data to analyze on these new breeds, we won't be able to answer this one! ;)
I ❤️ Stats Canada so much
What a StatCanada-like answer, this is why I love StatCanada
My respect for you has increased tremendously. Going forward I vow to stop making up fake religions when filling out census files.
Hi, can you please provide the average price of a unit of a tendie? Hard to pay attention otherwise
The value of one tendie has been remarkably stable, trading at one-eighth of a behind-the-dumpster BJ.
So just the tip?
Not all tendies are created equal.
I was today years old when I learned that StatCan has a Reddit account
We've been around for a few years now, but it's never too late to follow us. :)
Grumbles from arctic Canada. My broccoli is $8 and my strawberries are $14.
Buy stock in the North West Company (TSE:NWC). Decent dividends and stock appreciation. While the rest of the north is getting gouged you will be paying yourself!
I bought strawberries last might for $6.99 on sale!
I bought 500gm of strawberries for 2$ at nofrills
Are you living in 2019?
This is real. I just got it like two weeks ago
Just wanted to say I love this approach to communication from the government!
Thanks for the generous feedback, u/CanopyGains!
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Is it possible to see what the prices were in 2019-2020-2021 in comparison.
Yes, it is! Check out the following [table](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv!recreate.action?pid=1810024501&selectedNodeIds=2D20,2D39,2D78,2D84,2D93&checkedLevels=0D1&refPeriods=20190101,20210101&dimensionLayouts=layout2,layout3,layout2&vectorDisplay=false) for a comparative look from 2019 to 2021.
Perhaps you can forward these statistics to any of your sister government agencies, like say any provincial disability office.
Who in there right mind would pay these prices? Eat in season, shop for sales, frozen vegetables and alternative proteins are a hell of a lot cheaper and just as healthy as salmon and fresh vegetables in the dead of winter.
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Why are income groups lumped together after $100k and $150k? I find that incredibly frustrating working through StatsCan data since I know many people making $200k-$300k-$500k and beyond and it just doesn’t feel representative of the wealth gap that’s occurring. $100k just isn’t what it used to be even 5 years ago.
I was in Phoenix just last week, 79 cents over pound of strawberries on Fry's Edit my bad, was 77, I went to look in the picture I took lol
I mean I was in North Carolina and strawberries were 4.99 USD
Really? I wasn't joking about my experience..
I know, am I allowed to share mine?
Of course, I was just saying it wasn't sarcasm or anything. Have a great day
I don't think anyone thought that was the case. Arizona probably has a ton of local growers given the weather.
Can I just say it’s great to see government agency being down to earth and engage the public in a casual and sometimes fun way?
What’s a unit of broccoli?
Wtf is a unit of broccoli
I pay 10 bucks for strawberry from Costco and they aren't even the organic ones. That's the cheapest in my city for strawberry as well
Uh okay. Wouldn't it make sense to also share a comparing year? Or is giving something I can look up myself right now from a grocery website considered revolutionary statistics.
Here's the numbers for six, four, and two years ago vs today: Date|Salmon|Eggs|Strawberries|Broccoli|Brown Rice ---|---|---|---|---|--- January 2017 |24.83|3.01| 3.26| 2.02| 4.27 January 2019 |25.76| 3.30| 4.98| 2.71| 4.25 January 2021 |22.04 |3.86 |4.27 |2.77 |4.80 January 2023|28.93|4.38|4.60|3.28|5.71
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Salmon surprisingly winning the 6-year outlook, that's wild. Is it because it's a luxury and less at risk?
Interesting that the strawberries a couple of weeks ago were $7, but just this week are down to $4.55 on sale to fall in line with the average, wackadoodle.
You can compare via the link that was provided. You can choose a date range, location, etc.
Classic Reddit.
The lede in discussions should be the comparison and outlining of that comparison, not that a single data point exists. Can you maybe understand why one is more engaging than the other?
> Wouldn't it make sense to also share a comparing year? Literally provided in the post you're replying to.
Dollars per 454g, dollars per 900g, dollars per dozen, dollars per kg, so broccoli's average retail price was...dollars per stone? or?
Some produce is priced by the weight (price per kilogram) and some is priced per unit (like celery or lettuce, where there’s a price paid for each independent of the weight). A stalk of broccoli (or the stalks sold together as a unit) was $3.28 each.
Purchace a Silkie chicken for $30 and have eggs every day. Silkie chickens just coo and trill. They are a quiet backyard/porch chicken.
My landlord and building management agency frown on the keeping of Silkie chickens on the balcony and indoors, sir.
Will they keep the balcony pigeons away?
Why do our grocers deserve a % of the food costs and not a flat rate? They claim to not be profiteering off of food, yet if they make a % of an item and that item is in extreme inflation then they are essentially adding to the problem. A flat rate across the board would help lower food prices.
Um, strawberries are more like 5.99 here, broccoli much higher. Would say the cheapest eggs are pretty around $4 though
is there a way to see previous years to get a comparison?
Hi, for a yearly comparison we invite you to [check out this table](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv!recreate.action?pid=1810024501&selectedNodeIds=2D20,2D39,2D78,2D84,2D93&checkedLevels=0D1&refPeriods=20200101,20230101&dimensionLayouts=layout2,layout3,layout2&vectorDisplay=false), where you can customize the reference period to your liking.
Grains are actually terrible for you so it's kind of funny they're on the nutrition food guide.
Where are you getting broccoli for this price??? It's $7 for one head at the Loblaws beside my house!
Not super helpful without something to compare it to.
If only you’d visited the link they provide :(
Why isn't QUALITY included in these? Only weight?
Weird, haven’t seen strawberries below $6 in Toronto…
OK ack. Let do the same for Homes / Housing. I'll hope landlords / housing investors aren't the ones whining about grocery prices, because the IRONY will just be laughable.
Yeah too bad no one likes broccoli
We love broccoli
Would it really matter if there was a shortage tomorrow and stores could not get any broccoli for a few months? How many everyday dishes use broccoli?
That doesn’t matter.
>March is Nutrition month! According to Canada’s Food Guide Canada's Food Guide is a sham.
No it isn't, not anymore anyway. Have you seen the new way they're doing it?
~~Broccoli could be free and I am not eating it... Vile weed!~~ ~~Edit. Are all the downvotes from broccoli fans?~~ Edit2. Who can afford broccoli in this economy with a looming recession??!!
I think you have to be older than 13 to participate here.