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The Many Causes of Grocery Inflation

May 2, 2026

It can be hard to understand all of the forces that directly lead to your monthly grocery costs increasing forever, but this article does a good job of explaining it, and breaking down the points where our policy makers could be making things better and are choosing not to.

Canadian Grocery Profitability: Inflation, Wages and Financialization

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