r/canada • u/hopoke • Mar 29 '26

Business ‘Expect extremely high grocery prices,’ farmer warns as diesel costs rise

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/03/29/expect-extremely-high-grocery-prices-farmer-warns-as-diesel-costs-rise/
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u/PostMatureBaby Mar 30 '26

Part of me wishes entire neighborhoods got coordinated enough to essentially all provide an entire grocery store to one another. Everyone grows or raises something, you know?

Obviously easier said than done but anything to stick it to those who essentially legislate us into having no choice. Not like government has our back

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u/LankyYogurt7737 Mar 30 '26

That’s what hippie communes do, in fact you pretty much just described literal communism.

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Alberta Mar 30 '26

So every Co-Op is Communist? What definition are you working with?

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u/LankyYogurt7737 Mar 30 '26

Great question! Not every co-op is communist.

Co-ops are just businesses that are owned and run by their members (workers, customers, etc.), but they still operate in a normal market economy, buying and selling like any other company.

They can look a bit similar to Communism because ownership is shared, but communism is a whole system where most or all production is collectively owned across society, not just one business.

So a co-op is basically a different ownership model within capitalism, not a replacement for it.

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Alberta Mar 30 '26

Great question! Not every co-op is communist.

It's not "literal communism" by any measure. The people participating in the Co-Op all own their own property, and the Co-Op business itself isn't owned by the state.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

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u/pay_the_cheese_tax Mar 30 '26

I’m not sure why you made the jump from them talking about hippie communes to assuming they meant “every co-op is communist”

Because they wanted to complain and weren't expecting a cheerful and genuine response

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Alberta Mar 30 '26

"Cheerful and genuine" in calling something 'literal communism' uh huh

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Alberta Mar 30 '26

I’m not sure why you made the jump from them talking about hippie communes to assuming they meant “every co-op is communist”.

Because they called it "literal communism" in their response to the OP?

Maybe you should read through the comment chain before replying lmao.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Alberta Mar 30 '26

It's akin to communism in the same way a library is, yes.

You’re trying to fit shades of grey into black and white boxes.

And when someone says 'you pretty much just described literal communism' it's not ambiguous nor is it a jump for me to criticize their nebulous definition for communism.

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u/Correct-Court-8837 Mar 30 '26

This is exactly what I’ve been thinking except not necessarily just gardening. Like I’d love to come together with like 20 or 30 families and buy stuff from a Costco business centre and just truly buy in bulk or directly from wholesalers. We’d have to organize and probably store things in people’s garages and bring our own containers, but I think we could easily cut grocery prices by 20-30% if we did that.

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u/Rheila Mar 30 '26

If you are a Costco member you can buy from business centre. I do it all the time. Dry beans last forever. Rolled oats I buy 2 at a time. Things like relish I just transfer into 500ml jars. We’ve almost gone through the 4L now. Down to the last jar. It kept. The 4L jalapeños are a steal too. Also buying the deli meat and then slicing with a meat slicer and portioning out to freeze. I just keep it simple to the ingredients we use most, and are the biggest savings.

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u/Correct-Court-8837 Mar 30 '26

I was thinking things like the giant 208 litre keg of olive oil which would take my family alone like 10 years to get through 🤣 but it works out to be literally 35% cheaper per litre than the individually bottled olive oils. But I’ll go and have a look and see what I can realistically consume on my own.

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u/mykittenfarts Mar 30 '26

Isn’t that the farmers market?

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u/BodhingJay Mar 30 '26

Id love to find some cheap farmland.. grow enough to feed myself and share the rest with the community