Like everything else in life, big business is taking over and increasing margins for financial performance gains. Loblaws stock is at an all time high and their growth projections are huge. Since more and more people are concentrating more of their shopping to a handful of businesses, a lot of places are boosting margins. End of story..
It actually doesn't hurt to look around smaller shops and compare. A butcher, a seafood specialty store, ethnic specialty stores and more. Heck, even some of the more expensive "yuppy" style markets have some really good deals on better products.
Sometimes the better play for grocery shopping is to bulk buy a lot of the same branded items at the discount or lower priced chain stores and then buy higher quality meat/fish/produce where it's better.
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