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[aastra]

Pepper's is great. I love little neighbourhood-style supermarkets that have everything. Urban Grocer is also great.

[Victoria Watcher]

Urban Grocer is also great.

Is that a Safeway, or a post office?

[aastra]

It's both. Full service. It also has a Shoppers Drug Mart, a gas station, and a Baskin-Robbins. And a dry cleaner and an old-fashioned barber shop.

Some grass tennis courts, too. Although they're usually occupied.

Edited by aastra, 27 November 2022 - 03:29 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

No pickle ball or corn hole?

This town needs full time corn hole ranges. Bad.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 November 2022 - 03:33 PM.

[aastra]

Have you checked out Urban Cornhole? They're pretty good. Extensive selection of pickles. Beyond that I think your only other option would be Shut Your Cakehole.

[Victoria Watcher]

In case anyone thinks I’m being rude:


https://en.m.wikiped...g/wiki/Cornhole

[aastra]

 

In case anyone thinks I’m being rude:

 

Never in a million years.

[Nparker]

I saw "Corn Hole Ranges" perform at the Tinto Rocks festival once. I thought they were kind of crappy.

[lanforod]

It was a bit off target, anyways. Their shot fell flat.

[Victoria Watcher]

Langford-based online grocer making shopping local easy

 

BCause launched with the goal of making local food more accessible, and easier for producers to sell

 

https://www.vicnews....ing-local-easy/

[Nparker]

No indication how these local items compare in cost to standard grocery store offerings.

[Mike K.]

I saw cauliflower for $9.99 today. 1 litre of 10% coffee cream for $4.99 and a bag of Old Dutch chips for $5.69. That’s $21 for just those three items.

[Nparker]

This is why I shop at Walmart.

[Matt R.]

Cauliflower has been even more the last week or two. I bought bc hothouse tomatoes on the vine this week instead of my usual romas for work. Dollar equivalent meant 19lb of vine toms were free, almost half price.

It’s mostly seasonal with compounding factors.

Last year there was a turkey shortage due tot he flooding, this year it’s due to the avian flu!

[aastra]

Shortage crises are the only things we never seem to have a shortage of.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Mike K.]

I was watching a grocery store employee removing expired and unsightly food items from shelves the other day.

This got me thinking. Grocery stores order certain volumes of items, knowing that a certain percentage will expire. Non-processed items are of course the most challenging in that regard.

But as prices have risen, I haven’t seen fewer heads of lettuce on shelves, less salad packs, fewer bananas, or less cheese. Yes, some items are out of stock, but when in stock, the shelves are stocked as we expect them to be.

So with inflation being so high and consumption of goods supposed to have decreased, why are grocery stores still as fully laden with foods as they have always been? Should they not be reducing the volume of orders, therefore producers face less demand, and respond by lowering prices?

Yesterday I was at Costco. It was as busy as ever, as stocked as ever. But you’d think if demand was actually tempered that there wouldn’t be so much stuff everywhere.

[Victoria Watcher]

Shoplifting has surged to an alarming level across Canada, industry insiders say, with inflation and labour shortages cited as major factors behind the increase.

The uptick has triggered concern among Canadian grocers even as the rise in food prices helps pad their bottom lines. Grocery prices were up 11 per cent year-over-year in October and they’re not expected to ease any time soon. The total cost of groceries for a family of four is expected to be $1,065 more than it was this year, according to the most recent edition of Canada’s Food Price Report.

Inflation in food prices is one of the main drivers pushing more people to steal, says Sylvain Charlebois, senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

“There is a correlation between the two, absolutely. Theft is an ongoing issue. But the intensity actually does increase when food prices go up,” he said, noting that meat and dairy products are the top two stolen items.


https://www.cheknews...rs-say-1123539/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 December 2022 - 10:57 AM.

[Mike K.]

Why don’t they ever refer to their prior price forecast and compare it to what it actually was?

[Victoria Watcher]

This Greater Victoria grocery store chain is dropping Air Miles

 

But will shoppers be happy with its replacement at Thrifty Foods?

 

https://www.vicnews....ping-air-miles/