{"id":102,"date":"2009-05-30T08:03:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T13:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/?p=102"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:03:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T13:03:57","slug":"buyer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/2009\/05\/30\/buyer-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyer beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What we have all noticed in supermarkets has been confirmed by Statistics Canada; for the period of 12 months ending in April, the price of food bought in stores <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/subjects-sujets\/cpi-ipc\/cpi-ipc-eng.htm\">has increased significantly<\/a>. The average increase is 8.3%, but this statistic hides another reality; the price of some foods has increased much more. Such is the case of fresh vegetables (+26.0%) and fresh fruits (+16.8%), of which Health Canada recommends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hc-sc.gc.ca\/fn-an\/food-guide-aliment\/basics-base\/quantit-eng.php\">between 7 and 10 portions daily for adults<\/a>. For these products, the consumer must absolutely compare prices in different stores, because differences are important and prices vary considerably from week to week.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer must also be vigilant with respect to changes in product sizes, a phenomenon that manifests itself in recent years, but gains momentum it would seem. Thus, I have recently noticed that the large size of cheese bar of a well known brand has recently diminished from 600\u00a0g to 500\u00a0g&#8230; while its price increased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we have all noticed in supermarkets has been confirmed by Statistics Canada; for the period of 12 months ending in April, the price of food bought in stores has increased significantly. The average increase is 8.3%, but this statistic hides another reality; the price of some foods has increased much more. Such is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.uqam.ca\/consumption\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}