'I'm appalled': Shoppers react to grocery price increases on the horizon
CTV
The cost of groceries in Canada is reaching a tipping point, forcing many across the country to change their shopping habits or their diets.
The cost of groceries in Canada is reaching a tipping point, forcing many across the country to change their shopping habits or their diets.
"I'm appalled. I'm really appalled because there is no need for these prices to be so high," one shopper named Gabriella told CTV News.
"I'm totally fed up. I mean, I have a fairly good pension, but it's going to be eaten up with these types of things happening," said another shopper.
On Tuesday Eric La Fleche, CEO of Metro Inc., said higher prices are coming to the company's grocery stores as early as next week as a pause on price hikes from suppliers is set to come to an end.
"We are negotiating as best we can and delaying as much as we can some of the increases requested by our suppliers," La Fleche told a virtual news conference.
"Unfortunately, there will be some prices starting to go up."
Grocers across the country will feel the same pressure, which will be then passed along to consumers.
