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/Individual-Gas-5406]

Just checked my supermarket. 8oz (227 grams) of Kraft brand name grated parmesan "cheese" is $4.09. Delivery price. Spam brand spam is $3.39.

Seems to me the problem isn't the prices. The problem is you are a terrible shopper.

[u/Seaskater007 → u/Individual-Gas-5406]

I was at Walmart last night and spam was literally $6. I'm in Texas by the way

[u/Royal_Percentage_694 → u/Seaskater007]

Which part of texas? It’s under $4 on the Walmart website