Canadian food inflation nearly double what official data suggests: Study
(www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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It's worth noting that this is a consumer perception survey. The study asked people if they thought prices had gone up. They didn't collect food prices six months ago and then compare them to the price of the same items today, which - presumably - is what Statistics Canada did.
https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/sites/agri-food/Dal%20Report%20Inflation%20(September%202021)%20EN.pdf
Also worth noting that people are perceiving prices rising because they are in fact rising.
Definitely. One way is to ask "Do you think prices are going up?" and another is to buy $1,000 worth of groceries and then six months later buy exactly the same things and see what the difference is.
OP's article does it the first way and Statistics Canada does it the second. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000201
Good point. I feel like, for me, food prices have gone down substantially. I love a good argument, but this is like arguing with a fucking child. Do some VERY basic research on CPI before talking any more.