Trips to the grocery store are becoming more and more costly, and that trend is not expected to subside any time soon.
Sylvain Charlebois is a professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University. He says right now the food inflation rate is at about two per cent and the general inflation rate is at zero, meaning the price of food is increasing while nothing else is.
Charlebois expects similar increases over the next few years. COVID-19 has played a factor in the increase, and he argues that Canada’s geography does not help the situation.
He says food is cheaper in the United States because they have 320-million consumers packed into a smaller country, whereas Canada has about 38-million across a larger area, hindering food distribution costs.
