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Excluding gasoline, headline inflation would have been 4.0% in June, following a 4.4% increase in May.

Canadians continued to see elevated grocery prices (+9.1%) and mortgage interest costs (+30.1%) in June, with those indexes contributing the most to the headline CPI increase.

The all-items excluding food index rose 1.7% and the all-items excluding mortgage interest cost index rose 2.0%.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230718/dq230718a-eng.htm?HPA=1

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[–] zephyreks 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

There needs to be services that directly connect farmers with consumers. The grocery store serves as a middleman that's honestly become rather useless given that many people use another middleman (Instacart, etc.) to actually get their groceries.

I'm open to building one and have a decent way of organizing logistics, but I have no idea how to reach out to farmers (who to reach out to, for what crops, and who is getting the most exploited by grocery stores).

[–] oneofthemladygoats 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Lufa model needs to spread across the country. They have a handful of urban greenhouses in Montreal, so a lot of the produce I buy is actually grown in the city, and everything else that they can't grow themselves is procured directly from the producers/farms, not from a re-seller.

(although, fuck their labour practices, I very much wish they had competition in the city so they would be pressured to clean up their act in that regard, I hate that I feel like I have to compromise my values in some way in order to buy local and direct)

[–] MacroCyclo 3 points 2 years ago

Lufa is good quality and fresh (usually), but it certainly isn't cheap!

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