I'm not completely sure if the 95¢ sign was actually referring to the bread or to something else, but if it was, that was some insanely cheap bread! (It could have also been $3, but I'm assuming that sign was referring to whatever was on that cart.) You can't even get a single bagel at Safeway for that price any longer, and that's not even taking into consideration how much less the Canadian dollar is worth compared to the US dollar. It looks like Real Canadian Superstore currently sells French bread for $1.25 CAD, compared to around $3 USD at Safeway in Seattle -- I don't know what Superstore's quality is like, but Safeway's bakery products aren't all that great any longer so I doubt what I can get here is worth roughly three times the price.
Huh, 95 cents CAD is almost nothing so I wonder what they are selling for that cheap. Perhaps Canadian grains are quite heavily subsidized and thus bread is cheap there? I'm not sure, I usually don't think of anything being cheap in Canada relative to here, lol. Bread isn't as expensive here in Houston as it is at Seattle Safeways, but still, it is pretty hard to find much for the equivalent of 95 cents CAD at the bakery here other than bolillos.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Safeway bakeries, I was at my local Randall's today and it seems the glass in the cake display, the section for the big cakes like wedding type cakes, shattered and they had to put a clear trash bag type thing over it. I wonder what happened there! Also, when I entered the store, I was greeted by a large red sticker stuck to the door from the Harris County Fire Marshal indicating that the Randall's was in violation of some fire code. It must not have been anything too bad since the store was still open and it was actually pretty busy today so I couldn't just sit there at the door reading the violation sticker. But, yeah, you never know what you'll see at a Safeway property, lol. I obviously did brave whatever safety violation might exist at that store to do my shopping and, like I said, the store was pretty busy.
Considering that they're apparently selling French bread for just $1.25 now, I think it really was the bread that they were selling for that price back in 2021! While the overall cost of living in BC (and especially Vancouver) is quite high, I've found that their grocery prices are often a lot lower than in Washington. And while Washington's grocery prices have shot up in recent years, this isn't entirely a new thing -- I remember us stocking up on stuff at Thrifty back when we used to drive to Vancouver Island in the early 00s (before the Canadian dollar rose in value in the late 00s, along with the cost of driving on the ferry).
DeleteYikes, sounds like your Randall's is having a bad week! Safeway/Albertsons seems to be struggling with maintenance at their stores -- I know mine has constant problems with the elevator and escalator to the parking garage (and with leaks in the parking garage, and ventilation in the parking garage...), while the Port Angeles store had an automatic door that was broken for years that only recently got replaced. That being said, my parents weren't very impressed to find the first Kroger they went to when they were in your area had most of its refrigerated cases out of order, so maybe it's not just Albertsons!
Huh, I wonder if your parents remember which Kroger they went here here that had the broken refrigerated cases. It wouldn't surprise me if they are those newer style cases with the thin plastic plexiglass-type doors!
DeleteYeah, it wouldn't surprise me! I don't remember if it was somewhere in Houston itself or if it was when they had gotten to Galveston, but they ended up having to go elsewhere to get milk!
DeleteInteresting, the Galveston Kroger was one I covered on The Year of Kroger last year. There is a Randall's very close to the Kroger in Galveston so I wonder if they ended up there. That would have provided somewhat of a familiar Safeway experience, but that 1980s Randall's has an entirely different layout than what they'd be used to at a Safeway!
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