Good Grief I'm stunned at the price of Groceries in Canada Video

RadishRose said:
Barrow Alaska, the End of the World!
How about 37 dollars for a half watermelon?

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WoW!!! that's just incredible... but I suppose it has to pay for the import I doubt there's anywhere in Alaska they can grow Water melons...:playful:
 

Hahaha, here's another mind-blowing thing about Alaska in the south- they can grow certain vegetables to tremendous sizes due to the sun being out all the time- even tho' the growing period is short.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/10/alaskas-giant-vegetables.html

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Wow! Those are huge. Can you imagine putting those Zuchinni’s in your vegetable crisper?
Even if you could carry them home, where would you store them?
Goid point CeeCee.
 
I thought about this thread when I was in the grocery store this morning.

I bought two small bananas that were grown in Costa Rica for 26 cents.

Imagine raising them and sending them over 4,000 miles to my neighborhood grocery store for 26 cents.

It's sad when you think about how much food makes that journey only to end up in a dumpster.
 
hollydolly said:
The point of this video is to show how much more Northern Canadians are paying for their groceries than Southern Canadians and why... and believe me there's a huge difference..

However..I just put the prices of the Cheapest item ( Southern) into currency converter .. and I am shocked even by Southern Canadian prices for groceries..

$17.99 for washing liquid... ( that's almost 14.00 pounds sterling)..there's no way on this earth we'd pay that for washing liquid or tabs... ours are half that price and even less depending on where we buy

The equivalent of 4.50 sterling for a bottle of Pantene in the south.. here it's a pound ( $1.75 cents) ..,...and the poor woman in the north is paying an astonishing astronomical $31 dollars Canadian for the washing liquid.. that's 23.50 approx in British sterling..


Good lord...:eek1:

How does anyone afford those prices?


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I was a bit afraid to look at this because it gets me a little riled when prices rise ridiculously and sounds like they have there.

How about $250. for ear drops here? Insurance doesn't cover. Some places here too are so high. The rents have gone way up. Everything has. Something has got to be done about it all over so people can breathe again..but what to be done I don't know. It's frustrating and sad.
 
Aunt Bea said:
The thing that I was trying to decide while watching the video is whether or not the government should involve itself.

If the government was not involved would the people have continued to live a native lifestyle or would they have eventually moved to a more habitable area of the country?

Where should the line be between our need for government support and our own personal responsibility?

Very interesting and thought-provoking video.
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I wonder the same thing! Why live there? I wonder how many have jobs or are they all funded by the government?
I wonder what kind of jobs there will be for thier kids? or are they going to continue to be funded by the government.

I always assumed that everyone should have to move to where the jobs are as many of us responsible one have.
Surely we can't live in an isolated community where there are no jobs and then expect government handouts all our life
 
Oddly enough my parents used to go to England once a year for decades and they always mentioned that things cost more in England, not less but we aren’t in the northern regions of Ontario either.
 

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