Supermarkets are hiking prices faster than necessary — and profiting from inflation, Star investigation suggests - Toronto Star

As food prices have risen, so have the profits at Canada’s three largest supermarket chains. None of the three dispute their margins have grown, but all say attributing gains to increased markups is “simply inaccurate.”

For retired child-care worker Kim Agnew, inflation means putting TV dinners in her cart instead of meat. “It’s terrible. It was $13.50 for a pack of chicken thighs, but the frozen dinners were only … [+18738 chars]

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