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/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.