The uptick has triggered concern among Canadian grocers even as the rise in food prices helps pad their bottom lines. Grocery prices were up 11 per cent year-over-year in October and they're not expected to ease any time soon. The total cost of groceries for a family of four is expected to be $1,065 more than it was this year, according to the most recent edition of Canada's Food Price Report.
Charlebois said inflation and grocery theft are affecting one another, meaning when prices go up, shoplifting surges, and to offset the loss, businesses have no other option but to further increase the prices. "Retail crime, including theft and arson, is sadly higher than it historically has been at Walmart Canada and across the entire retail industry," she said.Fefer said the company is implementing measures to prevent and reduce theft in order to keep prices low and keep its employees and customers safe.
"There is great concern among Canadian businesses right now about crime, and crime in Canadian workplaces," he said. "Shoplifting is definitely being felt more, especially as we've come out of lockdown and restrictions." "Fewer people on the floor ... makes shoplifters feel a little less intimidated to go in and take something," he said, adding that employees and customers alike feel more "intimidated and nervous" walking into the stores.
She pointed to the economic downturn, a growing resale market for stolen goods and an increase in organized crime as other factors behind the surge.
Wage theft is more concerning.
I don't agree with stealing but with the cost of groceries right now I'm not surprised that theft is up. People are starving and just want to eat.
Maybe grocery chains can reset prices to actual value.
Stop with that nonsense.
JustinFlation
Unfortunately, thats what happens when grocery stores overcharge, take advantage of people and blame the trucking industry. I would love to see an app that shows MSRP on all food! It’s a terrible time!
Wow shocking what do you think is going to happen when need to food to survive. Food is not a luxury item it's a necessity to stay alive.
It's either stealing or starving. Easy choice.
Our government is failing us. Subsidies oil industries, yet has us starving...
That's fucking JustinTrudeau for ya.
Trudeau's legacy
The Liberals are running the show!
elonmusk
OMG were gonna need surveillance cameras, right?! And these won't be used for a social credit system, right?!
Trudeau loves to help increase all the prices on products in Canada. Making every day items more and more expensive. What an amazing PM.
Trudeau taking out of peoples pockets, bound to happen
Domestic terrorism same as on diesel prices while its 70%cheaper to produce diesel compared to regular gasoline 1 litre of gas in Buffalo NY 1$ in Canadian dollars
What I wanna know is how much food is spoiling and being tossed in the garbage because ppl can't afford to buy it?
Looks like a bullshit story to restart restrictions and eventually have pick up only service.
Canada is broken. Here is yet another example.
This big stores will pay for supporting the Globalist big time .. they did not care about small business during covid 19 ....
Lower the price of lettuce .
A polish sausage in their pants?
If we follow our governments lead, we should all be able to steal and break laws repetitively and get away with it. 🤔 CanadaIsBroken TrudeauMustGo
Not surprised
It’s fine. The Liberals will subsidize them next.
Thanks to this guy. 👇🤡
They should also look at internal theft! Underpaid staff know how to get around security to at best to help their families and at worst to make a profit. I’ve caught guys at the other end buying garbage bags full of groceries, mostly expensive items meat etc.
I was really disappointed by the number of people that think stealing is OK. Want to eat out but can’t afford it? Just dine & dash. Low on fuel? Top off and take off. Running short on food? Steal it from your grocer. Low character people do low character things.
Shoplifting and property crimes tell that the country is broken! These things are a lie because Trudeau says the country is not broken.
TRUDEAUMUSTGO In Chinada we call it survival under Trudeuches tyranny Not Shop lifting. Grocery store are price gouging and with record profits tell me I'm wrong and you can go fk your hat 👒
Love those record profits from Loblaws
Unfortunately... it will not get better. It only took Justin Trudeau 7 years to get us to this point. Not sure how we even fix it now... maybe slow it down. People are hungry and homeless. Justin spends $12 000 a month on groceries... some have none... He is out of touch...
Liberal Canada!
Not really surprising is it? A couple weeks ago I paid $5 for a head of lettuce at Food Basics!
I though Trudeau said that this country is not broken. People are stealing food while we are sending billions to other countries. We are broken.
I was in NY this summer and they were selling canned goods etc at one store for 44 cents. As a Canadian I haven’t seen anything below a $1 in years. I was actually shocked that you could purchase food for less than 50 cents.
It will only get worse. This Government went from being incompetent to being downright dangerous.
Thanks Galen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Inflation? It’s called Carbon taxation
Translation: People forced to steal amid grocery giant price gouging, grocers threaten to raise prices more anyway.
Supermarkets dump so much food tho why don't they just give it away
You mean that when people can't afford food, they steal it? It's almost like everyone should be paid a living wage, and society should help those in need.
You can call it inflation or whatever you want but plain and simple DIESEL fuel which has always been and should be .10 cents a litre cheaper than gas, is $1.00 more !!! ridicules its 1/3 of the refining process. Every single thing you buy comes on a diesel powered truck or train
Why don’t you do an article about wage theft next?
Surprise surprise
Remember, if you see someone steal food, you didn’t.
They steal from us! So consider us returning the favour.
Nobody should be surprised by this
But “Canada isn’t broken” —JustinTrudeau 🤡🌎
*expropriation
Shameful reporting. Basically an op-ed from Loblaws. Be better 🙄
No Shit Sherlocke! What the hell did you expect. I mean when covid struck feds threw out money for CERB up to 2000 a month. Now this is worse. Household budgets are blown to bits and it's now the most expensive time of the year for Canadians. Xmas and winter. Good luck everyone!
Amid corporate greed I believe you mean.
Can't afford to eat. Thank the Trudeau government
This is so sad, this is not what Canada is!
I'll never rat out someone stealing food to feed themselves or their family. Aren't millions being sent to puppet regimes & Nazis abroad? Could have used that...
Make everything a banana at self checkout
Thanks Trudeau
So it’s ok for the government to steal from us every day of the week, but now stealing is on the rise when a person has to feed themselves or their family. How about stop taxing us to death so we could actually afford to buy things again.
The government is failing us. Can't afford food or housing ...
Maybye Trudeau could help out farmers with the tariffs imposed on them with the public having to cover ot because the USA benefits from the Ukraine War. Now, if CBC did, Journalisim, they would report on this. Prove me wrong CBC. This will be good
It's like Trudy said, it's not broken it's just poor AF. I've had to start prostituting my self, worst part is I'm hetero and most of my clients are old male liberal politicians. 😢
You will own nothing and be happy. 😊
JustinFlations fault.
LIFE IN BC - Price Gouging is “Normal” under Communism
Perhaps a sign that Canada is broken. Or at the very least showing some significant cracks.
I noticed a gap in this 'report'. Here, let me fill it for you: Loblaws reported $17 billion in revenue in 2022 Q3 alone, up 30% over the previous year. Sobeys and Metro also posted higher profits this year. We now return you to your regularly scheduled CTV corporate propaganda.
Just another new normal day in Trudeau's Canada
What a shock 🙃
With all the profit they are making, I don’t think it’s going to be missed. Only in the owners pockets
record profits corporate greed
During the revolutionary War the price of bread got so high ordinary citizens couldn't afford it Their solution was the women went to the stores and took the bread I just wanted u to know that
Gee! Who didn't see this coming?
Ah yes and yet we keep voting for liberals
It’s probably the unvaccinated
Blame Trudeau! It’s on his watch
Hey CTVNews. Why can't you quote some bites from PM Justin Trudeau who spends $22000 on his groceries, funded by Canadian taxpayers? He said he didn't care about inflation as it would take care of itself.
Inflation?. Its corp greed, record profits don’t happen during an actual inflationary time period. This is an artificial inflation period, brought on by corps to regain losses due to pandemic shut downs. But everyone blames a war that’s still going yet inflation is slowing.
Good
it’s only stealing when the poor take from the rich. Tale as old as time
Our money getting lifted by big corps and government
Ya think ?
When you rob the people they rob you back
Stop replacing cashiers with self checkout machines.
Hmmm i wonder why?!?! The Liberachi government is responsible
Let's let our Trust Baby Tyrant pay all our groceries for a year straight out of his Trust Fund!
I wonder why
How's that 8.99 iceberg lettuce tasting.. all the taste of carbon tax and more 👍
A tit for tat, people tired of getting ripped off on everything and really can't blame people that are on the edge of starvation.
Dah you think so.
You guys are such trash...
It was before inflation, but nice try.
The higher food prices go, the more they will see this.. people have to eat. Boy, am I ever going to enlarge my little backyard garden this year.. growing up, out and pots everywhere I can.
food bank use has soared in Canada, families are in crisis... and this is what comes up with (and yes - I believe CBCNews and GlobalNews ran similar stories) The media is nothing more than a neoliberal echochamber
Im getting my monies worth! Got kids to feed!
I don’t ever remember Canada having these kind of problems. At least not in my lifetime.
Good
Wait till the looting starts to keep a float.
Grocery stores need to improve their theft prevention strategies. All stores should adopt the saveonfoods model. Their store security monitor the aisles & confront thieves head on. I've witnessed them in action. Impressive.
Maybe grocery chains can stop gouging people.
Stop blaming things like shoplifting or the need for food banks on inflation. Put the blame where it belongs with stores like Loblaws, Real Canadian Stores or Shoppers Drug Mart. Put the blame with greedy bastards like Weston. Greednomics
Keep being greedy and gouging prices and the people will respond their way. There is no reason why the food prices should be the way it is. They're robbing us blind, so the people are being fair and doing the same ! Keep on
Duh
Totally moral and fine thing to do.
'Grocery shoplifting on the rise in Canada amid inflation, industry insiders say' Surprised? Trudeau says Canada's not broken 🤡 .
History taught us Marxism and Left wing push middle class to poverty, governmental associates move to the top.
Good
And Canada isn’t broken. Great job liberals 😡😡
Sometimes, when the self checkout asks how many bags I used, I hit ‘0’ even though I used one.
Well when companies are price gouging
Trudeaus Canada.
Thank Justin Trudeau for this.
Good. It’s fine the federal government will feel bad and subsidize this loss.
Crazy inflation and self check outs.... are you really surprised? How about reporting real problem
No shit, Sherlock.
Justin Trudeau said Canada isn't broken though!
Perfect excuse to install more surveillance, ultimately force people to shop online (where their data can be mined). Ever use the automatic check-outs? Camera right in your face....
Liberals are awesome. We should elect them in again. 😂🤮
Blame Trudeau/Singh Crime Syndicate and the Fake News who protect their corrupt ass
🤷🏻♀️ and? No one to blame but JT and his state funded media
Thanks to this guy. 👇🤡
I saw 2 people break out into a fight in the open over meat
Oh but Canada is not broken, remember? Canada is just great, nothing wrong with Canada, everyone just does as their told and the daddy government just gives us everything we want. With all our money being given for dental care & child care, we shouldn’t complain about food!
Good thing they're gouging the heck outta us so they can deal with the loss
People can't afford the corporate price gouging
Crime is only going to get worse. Trudeau is destroying Canada
Record profits. No sympathy for grocery chains.
Thanks to JUSTINflation
Which will only raise prices higher
Prices about to rise again. 😑
This is why even though most grocery stores have 2 entrances they now only use one. Shoplifting is out of control and we all pay for it.
Thanks to Justin Trudeau's high taxes and him soon Tripling the Carbon Tax *Liberal supporters being like* 'Let's Vote him back in again!'
Say it media, say it... Liberal inflation. 🇨🇦🦨
Grocery clerks will be armed with AK-47 rifles if my bill passes .
Grocery clerks will be armed soon with AK-47 riffles if my bill passes .
Only corporations, and politicians are allowed to steal.
Welcome to Trudeau’s Canada where people have to resort to crime just to eat. TrudeauIsDestroyingCanada
Spare us the industry propaganda. No mention of record profits, just the comment that the industry has “no choice” but to increase prices when people try not to starve.
It’s everyone for themselves
Good way to get stolen carbon taxes back.
This is the only form of theft that is justifiable. Heartbroken for these families.
Trudeau's Canada. Keep raising those taxes. He won't be happy until every citizen is an involuntary criminal so he can release his storm troopers (RCMP) on anyone he sees as a threat to his power.
Becomes mire and more like China in every aspect
And?
That’s the sign of a country that’s not broken.
Because some cannot afford to eat, CTV is genius...
Good. Trudeau stole 375 million just for himself. Gave CTV took 200 million. 27 billion unaccounted for. Why should people starve? Look at our country's leader
Heroes.
Good!!
Run expensive fruit and veg through as bananas 4011 ... saves a fortune. Follow me for money saving tips🤣
The Liberal Government make people do crazy things when desperate.
Justin Trudeau I did that
No shit and it's easier to steal just like stealing a car. No one wants to go to a food bank. Give an inflation check for 6 months. fordnation give all that off shore casino surplus to the people.
Thank JUSTINflation
Ain't life great with Trudeau? Imagine if he didn't give 1. 3 billion to the CBC and another 600 million to fake news hacks like the CTV.
Trudeau is slowly putting Canadians into poverty. We tried to warn you.
Shoplifting and violence towards staff.
What do you expect. Some people don’t have a choice they have to eat and feed their children.
Perhaps grocery giants could stop gouging the hell out of Canadians. Let’s start there.
Zero sympathy.
When its $5 for a bell pepper ask yourself why.... DUH
It is almost like the cost of living is far too high, and families need to eat.
We saw commercials in movies yrs ago and laughed at the ridiculous prices and the idea in Canada people not able to buy food… And we live it as corporations make millions and the poorer are on the street standing by fire barrels to stay warm. WTF
Good. Actually 13$ for one watermelon should be considered theft.
The Liberal party is formalizing a new bill which will allow Grocery Clerks to carry firearms .
If ppl are stealing food something has to be very wrong.
It's the only moral response to the price gouging 'inflation' our corrupt leaders refuse to curtail or tax appropriately. I'm too afraid (and have money) but food shoplifters have my full respect and solidarity. What's happened with food prices is immoral.
More u steal more PRICES go up ..but go steal u just hurting everyone
Is the investigation on grocers continuing or has it been dropped
Trudeau has turned Canada into a 3rd world nation. CanadaIsBroken
Because Trudeau is making life harder for innocent Canadians with him raising Taxes, and will get more expensive when he Triples the Carbon tax!
My friend predicted this. How come the “experts” didn’t foresee this?
JustinTrudeau TrudeauBrokeCanada TrudeauIsDestroyingCanada TrudeauDictatorship TrudeauNationalDisgrace Trudeau VotePoilievre JustinTrudeau is doing an amazing job isn’t he.
I weigh my broccoli crowns as full heads of broccoli and my salted cashews as peanuts . Don’t tell SpaceMelankia
I don't blame them. I haven't bought fresh fruit or vegetables in well over a month. And the meat I buy is the smallest amount that gets stretched over for 3 meals.
Reminder: If you see someone stealing food, say nothing, move along. It’s none of your business. Let people survive.
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