When my local grocery store started fucking with the price tags, I was shocked to find that in Ontario, most of the pricing regulations are voluntary self-regulation. Guess what, they’re not volunteering anymore.
Meanwhile Doug is in bed with Loblaw’s, and SGM has practically insinuated itself as a profit-taking branch of our healthcare system.
Unit pricing isn’t already required?
I don’t remember seeing a shelf tag that didn’t have unit pricing in the grocery stores I shop at.
Yah but now it’s forced.
Yea this has been a thing in Québec and it’s easier to compare.
My recommendation would be to also set a minimum font size, sometimes it’s on the small side (on purpose, I’m sure)Always always always gotta be shopping by price per unit/weight/litre etc etc. it needs to be basic financial literacy that is taught and made accessible by transparency laws like this. It’s crazy the amount of people that I gotta explain why you buy in bulk and why not every food item is actually super worth it at the dollar stores.
buy in bulk
Within limits. Buying a 20kg bag of potatoes may be less per unit than a 5kg one, but if half of it spoils before it gets used then the 5kg one is better. Similarly, bulk chips may be cheaper to buy, but eating a family size bag of chips by yourself because you haven’t been taught to portion control is worse than buying pre-portioned snack size bags. And then there’s also the FOMO marketing tricks: “two for one discount, limited time offer!” Do you really need two? Would you have bought even one, if it hadn’t been “on sale”?
Absolutely correct — I for example know that if I buy my canned teas in bulk at Costco, I will drink WAYYYY more than if I didn’t.
But if it’s items like trash bags or laundry detergent, absolutely buy in bulk because you will use it at a largely fixed rate anyways. Bite the bullet of the higher initial cost IF YOU CAN, and slowly you will save money by ironically spending more money — initially. It’s not so different to the infamous boot economic theory but with food.
I just trust nothing these criminals say. if a company tries to communicate, they are just lying. that’s all there is too it.
