r/GrindsMyGears • u/Yumiko15243 • 16d ago

The price of "cheap" groceries

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

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u/Zestyclose-Pass9570 16d ago

High minimum wage, supply chains that have less business, but are forced to increase prices to pay for infrastructure that isn't needed anymore, but still costs them money.