The cost of these grocery items went down in January
Posted Feb 22, 2023 02:30:00 AM.
Statistics Canada said that January's grocery prices were up 11.4 per cent from a year ago and 11 per cent from December, even as the country's annual inflation rate slowed to 5.9 per cent last month.
While many Canadians have lamented higher prices at the grocery store, the federal data agency found a few grocery items that were more affordable in January than in December.
Those items include:
- Lettuce: down 5.8 per cent
- Canned and other preserved fish: down 3.3 per cent
- Breakfast cereal and other cereal products: down 2.7 per cent
- Rice and rice-based mixes: down 1.9 per cent
- Oranges: down 1.8 per cent
- Fish: down 0.9 per cent
- Pasta products: down 0.5 per cent
- Fresh or frozen fish, including portions and fish sticks: down 0.1 per cent
This report by The Canadian Press was first published February 21, 2023.
