News on Tillchecker
Aug 10, 2016 - Avocado demand has environmental impact. (more)
Jan 22, 2016 - The dollar, seasonal prices, and the California drought make the perfect storm (more)
Oct 29, 2015 - Food prices rose over 4% with inflation (more)
Oct 29, 2015 - Produce prices are rising. (more)
Oct 6, 2015 - TPP Not likely to affect groceries much (more)
Jun 1, 2015 - Some news on beef prices (more)
Apr 2, 2015 - Pastrami and Nutella are hit - now the backlash begins! (more)
Feb 6, 2015 - Food Prices to rise because of Canadian dollar slump. (more)
Jul 12, 2014 - Why plenty of lobster stock doesn't reflect at retail. (more)
May 27, 2014 - Things are not looking good for your BBQ. (more)
Mar 6, 2014 - Vendors are restricting grocery price discounts (more)
Feb 28, 2014 - Target has lowered food prices to draw people to their flagging stores (more)
Jan 9, 2014 - Sobey's demands cost cuts from suppliers. Let's see if they raise prices this year. (more)
Oct 23, 2013 - Sobeys forced to sell Safeway stores by Competition Bureau. (more)
Jun 12, 2013 - Sobey's, the owner of Thrifty Foods, is buying Safeway Canada. (more)
May 19, 2013 - Beef Prices rising for BBQ Season (more)
May 15, 2013 - Food costs get Canadians shopping around (more)
Feb 1, 2013 - Cost of Organic Food (more)
Dec 28, 2012 - Milk Prices in the US are positioned to rise. Could ours go higher? (more)
Nov 20, 2012 - Depending on how you consume, you can save by buying close or stale dated items, too. (more)
Sep 7, 2012 - Study into the actual benefits of organic food (more)
Aug 19, 2012 - A bit of local news regarding food prices (more)
Apr 11, 2012 - Cuts to food safety and product labelling will be haunting us soon. (more)
Apr 2, 2012 - Vanilla shortage may affect your ice cream prices. (more)
Mar 9, 2012 - Speculators playing with food prices again? (more)
Mar 9, 2012 - NYT talking about projected Food Price spike. (more)
Mar 2, 2012 - The tillchecker iPhone app has a great update out! V 0.9.2 (more)
Jan 31, 2012 - You thought that steak was expensive now? (more)
Jan 26, 2012 - A US food calculator to see where you compare in spending to others. (more)
Jan 5, 2012 - The tillchecker.com iPhone app is now available! (more)
Dec 23, 2011 - Every time I hear about prices relenting, an article stating otherwise shows up. (more)
Nov 16, 2011 - Walmart is eating some of the food price increases. (more)
Nov 16, 2011 - An article in the Times Colonist about increased crime related to food price increases. (more)
Nov 14, 2011 - Cooked food provides more energy than raw food. (more)
Nov 14, 2011 - Grocery Prices rising faster than wages. (more)
Oct 13, 2011 - What's in your healthy cereal? (more)
Oct 7, 2011 - Villages Pizza found in Grocery Stores now. (more)
Sep 30, 2011 - New Grocery Store Downtown (more)
Sep 13, 2011 - Competition in the Courtenay area (more)
Aug 19, 2011 - Where's my emails? (more)
Aug 18, 2011 - Thrifty Foods looking at plastic again. (more)
Aug 16, 2011 - Global Food Prices at 3 year high (more)
Jul 12, 2011 - Food prices affect our weight. (more)
Jun 6, 2011 - We aren't all Wal-Mart shoppers, especially in Victoria, but their clientelle are indicative of the state of our economy re: disposable income. And it's running out. (more)
Jun 1, 2011 - Mounting pressure on coffee prices from Latin America. (more)
May 14, 2011 - Maple Leaf is the next company to warn about food price increases (more)
May 10, 2011 - Is Silicon Bakeware safe? (more)
May 10, 2011 - Oxfam provides a Q&A on global food prices (more)
May 7, 2011 - Clinton warns about food prices rising. (more)
Apr 19, 2011 - Would you eat pale food? Would you be equally satisfied with a white cheese puff? There's an ongoing debate over the health effects of food colouring vs the need for food colouring. (more)
Apr 13, 2011 - Canadian Organic Farmers suing Agroindustrial Giant. (more)
Apr 12, 2011 - 55% of Canadians asked are putting off major purchases because of economic conditions. (more)
Apr 8, 2011 - Positive Future for Organic from tweet by Nature's Path. (more)
Mar 23, 2011 - How a Junk Food Vet made an industry out of carrots. Great read. (more)
Mar 22, 2011 - Birth order has been suggested to affect many attributes to a person. Now food allergies have been linked to birth order. (more)
Mar 22, 2011 - There are good ramen and bad ramen noodles. You can't judge it solely on price, but usually you can. Whether good or bad, this article gives you some ideas on how to give it a bit of life. (more)
Mar 13, 2011 - Chart with Seasonably available produce. This is a greener, more cost effective way to eat. (more)
Mar 8, 2011 - First, wheat, then corn and sugar shortages. Now they're talking about something people will really care about: Barley. (more)
Mar 7, 2011 - Studies on the effect of Biofuel on the price of food vary from 3% to 70%! (more)
Mar 7, 2011 - Ramen in Vancouver. Watching this made me hungry. (more)
Mar 7, 2011 - Essay about the end of Cheap Food. (more)
Mar 6, 2011 - Vancouver Sun article about how gas prices will affect a 5% price hike locally. (more)
Mar 3, 2011 - CHEK tv does a piece on food and oil price increases. Starts off with tillchecker.com! (more)
Mar 3, 2011 - And here it comes, from the wholesaler to the retailers. (more)
Mar 2, 2011 - Darron Kloster wrote about tillchecker.com "On the Street". (more)
Feb 2, 2011 - 22 Tips to save money on groceries. (more)
Feb 2, 2011 - 5 Economic reasons for increases in grocery prices. (more)
Jan 30, 2011 - Canadian food price increases have been modest so far, but more increases are coming soon. (more)
Jan 22, 2011 - Simple tips to shop for Chinese food. (more)
Jan 15, 2011 - I haven't looked into the veracity of the article, but here is someone's list of organic food that is worth the price. (more)
Jan 15, 2011 - Older buy still relevant article about how to save money at the supermarket. (more)
Jan 12, 2011 - Foodstock forcasts cut by US government. Food commodity prices rise. (more)
Jan 9, 2011 - Who gets your grocery dollar? Who deserves your grocery dollar? (more)
Jan 6, 2011 - Does a decline in Honeybees scare you? It should. (more)
Jan 5, 2011 - UN body warns of 'food price shock' (more)
Dec 22, 2010 - How ethanol is causing the cost of meat to rise. (more)
Dec 22, 2010 - Current Thrifty Foods ad only goes until Dec 24th. (more)
Dec 13, 2010 - Prime rib has a special place in my heart. It may in fact be quite a cholestorol filled place, but it's still special. Here's a fabulous article about prime rib. (more)
Dec 10, 2010 - *** NOTICE *** You may find items missing from your shopping lists. A programming error allowed a person deleting an item from their shopping list to delete it from ALL lists. NO PERSONAL INFORMATION or shopping list items were shared. My sincerest apologies. This error has been fixed. Click more to view your shopping lists. (more)
Dec 5, 2010 - Sugar prices may be rising if Monsanto loses a court case. See Food Inc, the movie, for background information. (more)
Dec 1, 2010 - Long term price scenario for food dependant on climate change. (more)
Sep 1, 2010 - World food prices on the rise. (more)
Jul 19, 2010 - I saw last week that someone had been buying a tone of cocoa in Europe. Now I see a hedge fund is playing with food commodities. This will only pressure food prices higher.. (more)
May 5, 2010 - Consumer demands can change the ingredients manufacturers put in products. High Fructose Corn Syrup is being removed from many products. (more)
Apr 29, 2010 - Foods worth looking for in organic. (more)
Apr 23, 2010 - Some history on the carrot. (more)
Feb 9, 2010 - A guide to Meat Cuts to help you pick and cook beef. (more)
Nov 20, 2009 - Possible grocery price war? (more)