Early run to the grocery store this morning (tennis was rained out) and I was a bit flummoxed by the sudden increase in prices from last week. I saw a 3 lb. bag of avocados for $9 and eggs were $3.60 a dozen, to name a couple of shocks. I didn't buy the avocados but I did buy the eggs. Butter was also up in price but I did buy it too.
However, on the way home I noticed that gas was $1.87 a litre quite a bit down from the over $2 price a week ago. This is courtesy of our Premier, Doug Ford who promised to reduce the tax on gas if he was re-elected. Glad to see he kept his promise this time!
Harvey mentioned yesterday that the price of gas had dropped. I like that as I am going to have to fill the car again next week.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Me too! Even though I didn't vote for his party's candidate in my riding.
DeletePrices are just crazy everywhere at the moment. Our current floods in NSW will impact our vege prices even more.
ReplyDeleteI have been following the news from NSW. Pretty tragic all round!
DeletePrices are shooting up here too. It's all quite worrying - not personally but more generally. I think perhaps prices have been kept artificially low for quite a number of years now and, complicated by what's going on globally, they've reached tipping point and fallen over.
ReplyDeleteI wish our petrol prices would go down though!
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I think you are right, Joy. I know a lot of the farmers here have to get subsidies to keep their produce prices low.
DeleteWe'll be doing a grocery run on Thursday, so we'll fill up the car then. Eggs use to be a cheaper way of getting some protein, not now but I guess the egg/poultry prices going up is a result of the Avian Flu that destroyed lots of flocks in the province :(
ReplyDeleteThere never seems to be a shortage of eggs, maybe more so where you are.
DeletePrices are getting quite high on everything, having to re-think our eating habits. Hubby has a Cdn Tire credit card, and gets gasoline at a cheaper price, he can get up to five cents off per liter, this discount depends on the amount of purchases he has made, during the month, however, they do not need to be made at the store, anywhere he uses it. Every little bit helps these days.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a reduction with the way the price of gas has been rising nowadays. I usually can cash in some P.C. Points at the grocery store to ease my bill a bit.
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