Alberta’s government says it’s meeting with some of Canada’s largest grocers to address food affordability in the province.
Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally says in a statement that the cost of food has gone up across the country and the world.
He says the government is meeting with grocery owners because lowering costs for Albertans is its top priority.
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Premier Danielle Smith told her provincewide radio show on Saturday that many Albertans are frustrated with their increased food bills.
She said the cost of items such as eggs, ham, chicken and milk has gone up.
Smith said the government plans to discuss with grocery store owners how to bring down the price of food staples.
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“Dale Nally, who comes from the grocery business, he’s meeting with grocery store owners to find out the kind of things that we can do to try to address the issue of food prices,” she said.
“Every time (people) go to the grocery store, they remember what it used to be and they’re saying, ‘How the heck did things get so expensive?'”
She is gonna send us all kostko gift cards for hot dog and pop deal.
Allow smaller Food Stores into the competition. The mega food stores have control of how far a smaller store can be from them. Why is this even allowed!? Makes me ticked the small food businesses can’t compete against those big conglomerates because of distance. This needs to change!
Yes please, work on a solution, but I sincerely hope that ‘government-run’ stores is not an option that is on the table. This is not a solution at all and will only compound the existing problem.
How about Marlaina pressure the oil companies to lower gasoline and diesel prices for Albertans?
Grocers are not the problem. It is massive printing of dollars that devalues the Canadian dollar that is causing inflation. Because of inflation if an orange doubles in price what can a grocer do, they will not sell the orange at a lose.