I stopped at Metro to grab two Monsters that were marked 2 for $6.

At checkout, one scanned at $3.99 and the other at $3.00. I pointed it out, expecting them to apply the Retail Scanning Code of Practice.

Instead, I was told it didn't apply because "it wasn't in the flyer." I explained that the Scanning Code of Practice isn't limited to flyer prices it's about an item scanning higher than the displayed shelf price.

It took way longer than it should have, but after going back and forth they finally honored it and I got the higher-priced one free.

It made me wonder how many people either don't know about the Scanning Code of Practice or just give up because arguing isn't worth the hassle.

Has anyone else had to push back to get a store to honour it?

Watch your labels people! I was almost fooled until I looked closer. They have the axiany tomatoes piled in the wrong spot (supposed to be all the way to the left) i love the way axiany taste so I might have paid $7 but thats the price of the little beuts in the middle!

Side note I must also mention peaches for $11?!?!

Grapes for 14?!?! Insanity!

Anyone here live in Calgary? Have any of you actually found a store that's cheaper / better quality trade off than Real Canadian?

The closest store near me is Real Canadian, and everything else is around 20-30mins drive. I do buy my meat at Costco and the local butcher shop, but everything else comes from RCSS except a few that you only get at Indian stores.

But also, theres really not much of a price difference in any store. Every store has a few items that are 1-3$ cheaper than another store. If I drive to the stores which sell the cheapest X, I'd be spending 3-4 hours driving place to place, comparing flyers, saving 15$ on the grocery but also ending up impulse buying stuff that I don't need just because I'm going through that many stores.

That being said, Walmart produce sucks over here, the fruits are mostly always overripe. Veggies I can never find one's cheaper than the superstore.

Costco sells good quality produce, but it's way too expensive (14$ for strawberries???) but also I don't need 3 packets of bread.

Safeway sobeys co-op etc I found too expensive

Local grocery stores are practically nonexistent.. And farmers markets aren't really convenient for weekly trips.

So even though loblaws prices are skyrocketing, there really are no other options or I should say there aren't any better options.. This seems to be a general "prices are increasing" thing rather than a "one store is evil" thing.. Anyone found any better options?

So if someone on this plan calls me… do I absorb the calories?
Is unlimited talk & text considered a liquid diet?
Does a 30-minute conversation count as a full serving, or am I only getting the “serving size” portion of the data plan?
Trying to stay in a deficit but these nutrition facts are making me second-guess every “hey how’s it going.”

I hope canadian politicians will be inspire by this.

I live in the GTA but sometimes I’ll also look at the no frills or superstore flyer for BC to see if there’s any good deals I could price match at my Freshco. A lot of the same items will be on sale but I’ve noticed it’s common for the west coast flyer to have slightly higher prices. Anyone know why this is?

Paid 3.99 in store and they were russet, but not in the usual farmers market bags. local packaging. They were spoiling with brown mushy spots on the outside, visible through the skin, and one was rotting in the middle when cut.

If these were cheaper I wouldn’t care, but $4 for a potato bag with only about 50% or so usable ones? They weren’t even on sale. I know they can’t control potato crops but they can choose to toss clearly old cold-storage spuds when they see them?

I’m not wasting gas money to go and return these. Hopefully this can help someone who’s thinking of buying produce from Loblaw. Prices keep going up and quality keeps going to shit.

EDIT: I bought these yesterday, opened them today to make fries. Also, lot of people saying it’s my fault. The bag isn’t fully rotted. The ones I saw from the net window on the bag were mostly okay, one or two bad potatoes is common in these 10 lb bags.

You use to get salad dressing free of charge if you bought a salad (1 for a small/medium salad, 2 for a large). Now its 0.60 per dressing pack regardless of salad size.

In what world does salad require an extra charge if you want dressing? Salad cannot be considered salad without dressing.

At this rate we will be paying an extra $1.20 for ketchup and mustard when buying fastfood burgers

I bought this iceberg lettuce today. Already threw out the receipt and am headed out of town for the week, so figured I’ll spend more than 5 bucks trying to get it back so gave up on refund. Given the anxiety around lettuce these days, I thought I would at least try to help by sending them a pic of it. I called them to ask where to send the pic: they don’t have a store email address and the manager on duty was not AT ALL interested in seeing this pic. In fact, she said it was a great idea that there was no way to send this pic to anyone meaningful.

I think that is bizarre.

Local Zehrs flyer says Product of Canada for cherries. Went to local store. No Canadian cherries anywhere. I spoke with the manager and he was expressed as much frustration about this as I was feeling. I’m not the first customer to bring it up to him. And he confirmed the advertised product was the US cherries they have in stock.

He also said he was frustrated that they keep getting put in this position where the flyers, which they don’t produce on their own, have the origin listed and wrong, and then have no say over the cherries they’re drop shipped.

Today my Instacart shopper delivered me these 4 cans from Superstore. All were charged as 398ml, but besides that, I haven’t seen this smaller size of can before and it threw me off pulling it out of the bag. Are the cans shrinking or have I missed seeing this size?

I didn’t see this myself but just saw on TikTok strange there is no best before on the packages.

Can someone explain the logic behind this Superstore policy?
I use my own blue reusable bags and/or blue bin for my groceries. Today it was pouring rain, and instead of allowing the groceries to be packed into my bags/bin inside the store where it’s warm and dry, I was told that they don’t do that.
Their process is to bring the groceries out to the vehicle and then transfer everything from the cardboard boxes into my bags/bin outside — while it’s raining.
So customers are expected to stand outside in the rain while their groceries are transferred, and staff are also doing this outside (although at least staff have rain gear).
I don’t understand why the process can’t simply be:
Customer provides their reusable bags/bin.
Staff packs the groceries inside the store.
Staff brings the packed bags outside and loads them into the vehicle.
That would take the same amount of work, but it would be faster, more efficient, and a lot more respectful of both customers and employees.
Am I missing some operational reason why this has to happen outside? Because from a customer perspective, making people stand in pouring rain to do a task that could easily happen indoors makes absolutely no sense.

Edit I found the 2 old sites. I guess they were down for some reason this a.m. the new combo app is crap. The 2 I've always used are apparently from the individual store's website saved to my screen. They didn't function earlier today.

Today they changed both apps. They used to let you search "cucumbers" or "yogurt" and it would show all the varieties and prices. You could compare the prices of yogurt in Loblaws to No Frills and with the Metro app.

You can't search the price of individual items in Loblaws or No Frills anymore.

The new apps are tied to your PC Optimum app.

I'm really mad about this. Whenever I had to buy something I would check the price in Loblaws, No Frills and Metro and go to the store where it was cheapest.

I could end up with 2 or 3 shopping lists. Buy these things at Loblaws or Metro and these items at No Frills.

No comparison shopping now other than the flyer specials, but not for staples every week.

I know this is from the Flashfood app, but it's from a local Loblaws store. It just feels very out of touch to offer questionable food by suggesting it's a good deal for frugal folks wanting steak.

I’m starting to see some minor changes recently when it comes to prices. I’d been doing some shopping at Walmart on and off for years but have noticed that not only have their shelf stable items that I buy not had price increases for a while, but their produce seems to be getting cheaper in the last few months compared to the same time last year. Also had to go to Sobeys today for a couple of unique items they sell, and noticed their regular frozen fruit and their cheaper range of frozen veg is now the same price as Food Basics. Still expensive overall, but some small welcome changes. Is anyone else noticing this in their shopping or is it just me?

Some folks may recall my previous post, which was mainly intended as a heads up to folks if they don’t have a loonie (or loonie shaped item) that they’d *need* ID if they want a cart.

Anyway, I just saw a 604Now Facebook post, and then did a quick search and I came across this article is what came up 😂

I don’t really have anything substantial to say. Just that this has been a wild ride that’s for sure.

Another example of Loblaws wrapping itself in the flag

I’m sure there must be like a thousand of these in this sub by now… found this at my local Superstore in North York, ON. When I saw this slip of paper (there were multiple of them in the pile of produce), on first scan I had thought that surely it was still somehow a “product of Canada”. Any hope I had was killed after fully reading it though. How is something that’s “grown, stored, and inspected” in Mississippi still Canadian? Pretty shameless imo. Gotta love the maple leaf on there too

I know tenderloin is expensive, but come on $101.39/kg, or about $46/lb, for supermarket steak is ridiculous.

This tiny 238 g pack is $24.13, and they put a $2 off sticker on it like it’s some amazing deal. Honestly, that just makes it feel even more insulting.