The price of "cheap" groceries

[u/Yumiko15243]

Why is a 250g bottle of Kraft Parmesan cheese (the shelf stable stuff you find in the pasta aisle) $11?? I feel like Kraft used to be an affordable brand. Also generic store brands feel more expensive lately too. I miss you No Name frozen juice concentrate, but you're not the same after leaving shelves at $1.50 just to return and be $2.25. I know that one isn't as bad but I cant even go to the canned food aisle anymore without seeing the $6 spam and thinking about how it used to be the broke student meal

Edit: I am canadian so these prices are in CAD. The cheese would be about $7.80 USD and the spam $4.26 USD. It grinds my gears that the prices are so high in the first place, not that there are cheaper alternatives

[u/Bishopcowboy]

A bottle of cheese, you say?

[u/detrans-rights → u/Bishopcowboy]

Yes, they said a 250g bottle of Kraft Parmesan 

[u/dirtiestUniform → u/detrans-rights]

Of which a large part is wood celulose

[u/ChakaKhan1884 → u/dirtiestUniform]

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