Been shopping at Safeway for 3 years for once a week. I stupidly(I know) didn’t scan some items during self checkout everytime I go. This past trip this week I was confronted before payment and asked if I was gonna pay for the rest and I said yes and paid for full. They didn’t say anything about ban. My question is are they going to build a case on me for felony theft ? I know its stupid to say now but I have learned how bad it is and will stop.

Umm yikes. 😳

Many Canadians have felt the squeeze at the grocery store over the past few years.
And with your household budget already stretched, even a small increase in the price of milk, meat, bread, fruit, and other essentials can make a real difference.
One frustrating thing about grocery inflation is that prices don't have to keep rising rapidly for groceries to remain expensive. Even when inflation slows down, prices usually don't return to what they were years ago.
The numbers back up what you're noticing:
Grocery prices rose about 22% between 2022 and 2025, compared with a 13% increase in prices overall.
In August 2026, grocery prices were still 2.8% higher than a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada.
The 2026 Canada Food Price Report forecast another 4%–6% increase in overall food prices this year.
there's real evidence behind what you're feeling. When wages don't keep up with food prices, families lose purchasing power even if they're buying the same things.

A redditor gave me this tip

"The online category bank of america customized cash credit cards also lets you get gift cards for groceries as well as including coding as online purchase when you load it into the Costco app and use the Costco app to pay at the register with its barcode scan (or Walmart/other wholesale)."

For when the paypal debit card 5% grocery card train eventually ends

Seen at Walmart 10/14/26–Butterball frozen turkeys $.97/lb.

A cashier at ShopRite in Jackson,NJ, charged me for an item I didn’t buy. There was no on line behind me, she rang up my order and when I got home I went through the digital receipt and she charged me for a box of macaroons which I didn’t buy. I’m diabetic and would never buy that crap! I wonder how often that happens.
Do cashiers keep stuff by the
register/scanner out of
sight and when the customer isn’t looking they scan the item? WTF?!?
$8.64!

I’m 30, and I’ve got it in my head that I want to run my own supermarket one day. Not a chain, just one store. The problem is I don’t really know what the first step looks like and the more I read the more lost I feel.

Stuff I keep going back and forth on:

Do I need to work in a store first? Part of me thinks I should spend a couple of years in one just to see how it actually runs day to day. Part of me thinks I’d be putting off the real thing.

How much money does this actually take to get going? Every number I find online is wildly different.

Is going independent even realistic now, or do you basically have to be part of a buying group or a franchise to get decent prices from suppliers?

What’s the thing that kills most new stores? I assume it’s not the stuff beginners worry about.

If you own a store or you’ve worked for someone who does, I’d really like to hear how it went. Even the discouraging version is useful.

Problem: The share of non-food across the chain was almost zero: 0.3%.

Solution: We rebuilt commercial operations across the country, and the category grew to 2.5%. In stores that sold alcohol and in stores without it, non-food delivered 5–7%.

What share of your sales does non-food bring in today, and is that a deliberate choice?

#Retail #Grocery #NonFood #CommercialOperations #CPG

You can now buy your very own ' Bachelor's handbag' ( without chicken) for $10

( Tried to post in the 'Woolworths ' sub, its awaiting approval.)

Thought Id try posting here .

Just gave me a giggle, had to take a photo

Lol

Hi all,

I was wondering, we go to supermarkets all the time, but how much time, money, effort and mental energy do we actually spend beyond the price on the receipt?

I'm talking about the things we've accepted as normal:

• Discovering something is out of stock only after arriving.
• Why can't I see exactly where a product is located before I go looking for it?
• Waiting in a queue that could perhaps have been anticipated.

These are just examples. I'm interested in what you notice.

What costs you time, money, energy or effort that never shows up on the receipt but has become so normal that nobody really questions it anymore?

I'd especially love to hear examples that supermarkets, customers or even employees rarely think about.

Both, honestly — and that's the part I didn't explain well.

We order to demand, but the wholesaler runs the delivery. So what lands on the pallet is what lands: one case dated this week, one dated three weeks out, same product code. We didn't choose that, and it happens whether we ordered one case or four. On a short-dated line we'd order one and get two dates anyway.

Where ordering discipline actually helps is a different problem — it stops you holding slow stock long enough to expire. It doesn't stop mixed dates arriving. Those are two separate fights.

I currently work in the publix deli. Did my research when I got interviewed and saw everyone complaining about it online. Took the job out of desperation. Been working there for about a year, yeah it sucks, all the usual reasons. I am at the low end of our pay scale because prior to this I had no food service or customer service experience. I want to jump ship to somewhere that will pay me more, but I don't want to "throw away" what i've learned the past year because if it wasn't for all the shit that sucked there's a lot of things I like about this job. Upon starting my research on other stores in my area I feel pretty bummed. Seems no matter the grocery store chain the deli has a bad reputation. Is there just something fundamentally flawed about how the grocery store deli functions ?