Up untill a week ago Nofrills carried these “three packs” of salmon for $10. Now the same pack contains two for the same $10. I thought it felt light when I bought it yesterday.
This comes to about $0.02 increase per gram, and a $1.10 price increase overall. Or a 11% increase in price overall. Meanwhile inflation is at 6-7%?
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I’d have more sympathy if this was something like peanut butter or eggs instead of smoked wild salmon.
While these price changes can certainly come in part from corporate greed, there may be some other costs at work being applied; the increased difficulty of agriculture in a world where the climate is getting out of control, or as someone else mentioned the war in Ukraine having an effect on agricultural exports from the area.
I’m at least trying to be flexible in my preferences. I try to be aware of the carbon offset associated to the food I buy, or the amount of land needed to produce it. We can also get a bit too used to certain foods actually being subsidized by the government, primarily meats. It doesn’t necessarily mean I can eat cheaply, but sometimes I pick up an option I wouldn’t normally consider that either saves me money or satisfies me even more.
The cost increase is one thing, like you said there may be valid reasons why pricing for these particilar salmons increased more than inflation did. The disgusting part here is in my opinion the sneaky way its done: by shrinking the package you are (again in my opinion) lying to the consumer by leading them to believe you are paying the same as you were before, as the package looks mostly the same.
Arizona Ice Tea the fucking OG.
Still 99 cents for a huge ass can.
Respect.
El busto coffee too
Is this near the sign that says “Always $10”? :\
lol
The ever reducing diameter of wraps is the thing that gets me the most. Do they think we won’t notice?! It’s maddening. I want a big wrap.
You’d think with a wrap it’d be easier to just stuff it with cheap starch and keep it looking big and satisfying in the display case.
For that they just put all the filling in the middle, cut them in half and only display the cut side for stuffed looking cross section. Meanwhile half or more of the wrap is empty.
its literally impossible to make a burrito in Australia. every wrap is made for ants
I paid like $8 for 115g of marinated salmon last week because I wanted to try it, but it is getting ridiculous.
“our research shows customers want more manageable and convenient portion siz-”
THE FUCK WE DO
In restaurants… not the fucking store!
It went from 3 packs to 2 packs… they were broken up into manageable portions, and they removed a whole portion.
Complaining about the price of Smoked Salmon, Oh the irony.
Traditionally, samon was considered a pauper food.
What’s the irony?
Are we assuming that since this person purchases smoked salmon that they’re immune to, ignorant of, or in favor of lower purchasing power? Are we assuming this is a luxury purchase, so they are not entitled to slumming it up with the rest of us?
Let this person just enjoy their fish, whatever little amount they’re getting for $10.
Exactly.
A little bit of prepackaged smoked salmon is not exactly a giant splurge.
It’s just the cost of a banana!
For all we know this is their luxury buy of the month.
Agreed. That dudes argument gives me avocado toast vibes.
LOL! Sometimes the avocados are on sale and we get more than we need. So, I decided to try this avocado toast thing everyone was talking about.
It is good stuff!
Interesting that while there is only 2 instead of 3 in a pack, the total weight has gone down only 22% (from 255g to 200g, instead of 170g if the weight dropped by a third/33%). So the actual salmon pieces may be bigger?
This is still shrinkflation but there has probably also been previous hidden shrinkflation in the individual salmon pieces too and that bit has been slightly undone.
Usually when I buy bigger packs of salmon, the amount varies and the only thing roughly consistent is the weight. So if they decreased the weight, you might either get 2 bigger fillets or 3 smaller fillets depending on the package
Packages says right on them 2 packs and 3 packs. So amount isn’t changing on these particular ones.
Everybody blaming shrinkflation and nobody mentioning how terribly low salmon stocks are right now.
This is the first I’ve heard of this. What’s causing it?
Same reason for every animal resource: over exploitation of the resource, habitat destruction/pollution, and climate change. This isn’t a recent thing, salmon stocks have been declining over the last 4 decades. The response to this decline of course has been to continue extracting the same amount year over year.
Atlantic Salmon populations have been doing fine and have an LC conservation status. Most of the issues with other salmon are in the populations off of the US West Coast.
Alaska has been seeing their populations increase in large part due to government hatcheries and wildlife management.
Can someone please check on the salmon make sure they’re ok?
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It’s consistently amazing to me that people have no idea how the money system works; it’s only the economics of the country, no big deal.
Ah yes, the US Fed causing inflation in all of Europe and Canada too. It’s crazy how the Fed made inflation lower here at home though. I don’t know how they do that without there being some kind of series of global supply shocks.
I guess we’ll never know.
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Lol yeah the person who replied didn’t know what nofrills was but the bank of Canada also increased total money supply similar to how the us federal reserve did.
It’s like that episode of Next Generation “Remember Me” when the universe is shrinking and everyone’s disappearing and the Enterprise computer keeps gaslighting Dr Crusher trying to convince her it’s fine, everything’s fine, this is totally normal. But it’s not fine, it really isn’t.
You have to stop buying them now. That’s the only way the prices will ever stabilize.
Bidenomics at work
2 for the price of 3 is a whopping FIFTY% increase my dude, no frills feeling a lot more like Loblaws atm
I guess we’re all going vegan at this point
Look closer. It went from 255g to 200g.
My bad thanks
going vegan at this point
Eating vegan is even more expensive. Source: sample of 1 (me)
If you want to save money, go fruitarian. /s
every day I think breatharians are a little less stupid
Why would it be? I can get tofu and beans cheaper than even the subsidized rates of meat and cheese. If you buy processed vegan products, perhaps.
