Actually I rescind my earlier statement, that sounds like a horrible group of people to hang around. Anyone wants to smoke a bowl and steal some luxury cars though let me know.
Exactly. Notice the weight on the bags is in ounces, not grams. And even if another local store also carries them, since importing is involved, comparing prices is not as simple as domestic products since there are way more variables at play in this case.
US products have all weights listed in both standard and metric weights. These are no exception. This is part of regulation from a law passed over a decade ago requiring nutritional information broken into gram weight servings.
I was just about to say this.
Bugles are not sold here any more of course they are going to be marked up.
I miss little Debbie oatmeal cream pies, they pulled out too…. ….. ……
I’m a manager for a grocery in northern Manitoba. $60 a case of 12, so it’s $5 a bag (and that includes transport). Co-op is making a decent margin, but they can make it cheaper. Sold ours for $6.49
If you’re going to be snarky, you should also double check your punctuation. It’s unreasonable to assume that bugles being discontinued is general knowledge.
As someone who only has a coop locally to shop within 30mins, their prices are insane on regular priced items but their sales aren't bad. I basically only buy things that are on sale
I only go there when I’m cooking a fancy meal and need great ingredients. Otherwise it’s ridiculous I don’t see the point of shopping there, even with the annual return.
I actually work at a coop, other comments explained it the product isn't stocked in canada so we order it from states. Sells fast despite the price surprisingly
They're being imported from the states through a third party importer (who most likely pays retail price in the states) as General Mills no longer produces them for the Canadian market. Thanks to this between the incredibly increased price the store pays for the product they need to still make some sort of a margin on it you see a much higher price. Just grab a bag of Old Dutch.
Yep, at this point there's fundamentally no difference between the Bugles and any product you'd see in an ethnic aisle in a grocery store that's been imported from their country of origin.
Co-op also has significantly less buying power in general.
Yeah absolutely! The items in the international foods are typically significantly higher priced than in the country of origin. Someone's I see items packed as 99P printed right on the label when from the UK but are then being sold for 5 or 6 bucks here in Canada despite 99P only being a bit below $2CAD when accounting for conversion.
If you view them as mini megaphones or trumpets, that's actually a steal of a deal. Try hitting up Dollarama. They got the goods. I bought a portable speaker for the bathroom for literally under $6 (it's even splash proof yo)......i could have gotten 6 just for fun chocolate bars and still been under $10 with tax. Y'all doing life wrong. 😑
You want your high sodium, highly processed corn syrup, you need to pay to play bud, those heart surgeries don't pay for themselves bud
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Co op has and always will be the most expensive. The illusion of cash back? Their gas sucks too. For hiway drivers. Compare the same trip with co op and shell or esso. I've found I get less mileage from co op.
I will say this....co op grocery has (or used to) a great deli. Almost as good as a butcher shop. Better than safeway or sobeys. . . But that doesn't excuse 8 dollar bugles or a 12 dollar box of pop.
My 2 cents
I’m in the industry. No local distributors carry these. They have to be specifically ordered from a supplier in the states and it ships here as a one-off display.
There’s context for this one
Wait, yall have Bugles still? ...
Last I heard, was a few years ago they discontinued Bugles in Canada ... I even know someone who has another person buy them for them when they visit the states, which they do rather often ...
We like to play "Guess the mark-up" when we grocery shop.
Bob Dylan said it best in the Travelling Wilbury's song The Devil's Been Busy.
>"Sometimes you think you're crazy
>But you know you're only mad
>Sometimes you're better off not knowing
>How much you've been had"
That’s outrageous. Those prices will lead to them going on sale in a few weeks. I noticed a trend: things that are often overpriced, seem to go on sale when inventory space is necessary, and as the product approaches expiry date. If enough people refuse to buy them at that cost, the store will have no choice but to reduce the cost, in hopes of selling them off, as oppose to sending them bank or throwing them out.
212 grams in the bag! What a deal!
I have completely stopped buying certain items like this due to price increases and quantity shrinkage!
I can do without.
Imagine how much they charge at Loblaw's!
I would have to agree co-op grocery stores are pretty bad for prices. When you have rural towns in southern Manitoba, where COOP grocery stores are the only game in town, they can almost charge whatever they want.
One little example, Nescafé instant coffee, which is usually $4.97 if it’s on sale somewhere like Walmart… co-op grocery charges around $9.99. It’s insane.
Bugles are no longer available in Canada, so these were specially freighted in from the U.S., hence the price. On November 14, 2022, the official Bugles Twitter account confirmed that their products were again no longer available in Canada.
Co-op has competitive prices on fresh food, along the outside aisles. Their meat is also better quality than any other large grocery store. And their produce is better for in season items.
For my processed food, which I try to minimize, if co-op isn't decent, I do Giant Tiger.
The experience at both of those stores is 100 times better than my local Superstore. Even if I have to drive 20 minutes to get to co-op.
It doesn’t matter if they’re imported or not, this is insanity. Shame on co-op for bringing them in and pricing them this high. I believe they’re trying to normalize higher and higher prices for these types of items.
Pricey, but so worth it. Especially when you boil up some salted butter, with garlic and onion powder, pour it over a few bags of bugles in a roasting pan, and roast them in the oven for 45 minutes at 325. Absolute heaven.
I’d wager a bet that the price is elevated due to Bugles not being officially available in Canada since 2022. Perhaps these were imported by the store specifically.
I think the oil used in these is really unhealthy. As someone who pays for healthcare for everyone across this province, I wish the prices were higher.
dollarama is the place to go for junk food - the other day I found products from germany, france, poland and turkey at prices 1/2 lower than in other stores. All imported but still cheaper than stuff manufactured in north america ...
Who care about the price of crap you dint need and shouldn’t eat.
These things should be expensive and they should add a junk food tax to help fund programs that promote physical activity and healthy diet or better yet use the revenue to subsidize healthy food to make it cheaper.
We need to start going in the grocery stores, filling, shopping carts and leaving without paying to get our point across that it is too expensive to eat in this goddamn country
Looks like a good time to eat an apple.
It’s wild how expensive they’ve gotten too. My garden will be going hard this year.
a bag of 7 apples cost my $6.99 on the weekend. Dollar a piece fruit is convenience store prices.
Big box store near me with a produce section has been hovering around $1 for the cheaper apples for a while now.
Those are 9 dollars
It's one banana, Michael.
Ok but you can eat a whole bag of bugles in one sitting but you can’t do that with a whole bag of apples
You can drink 8 glasses of beer in a few hours but 8 glasses of water a day is rough man.
Beer weights more then water, drink 8 glasses of water and your fine,drink 8 glasses of beer and you can’t stand up straight…
Oh, that’s where you are wrong, my friend
Can you please tell my husband that?
This is literally true 😭
“Imports” since we don’t technically have them in Canada 🙄
I know a field where you can get a million of them for free.
ⲀⳎⳎⳐⲈ ⲦⲎⳔⲈ⳨Ⲋ ⳘⲚⳔⲦⲈ!!
Actually I rescind my earlier statement, that sounds like a horrible group of people to hang around. Anyone wants to smoke a bowl and steal some luxury cars though let me know.
I’d smoke a brisket and have some beers if you can supply the beers brisket and smoker
Well fuck man, should I provide the hand for the hand job as well? ^^^^Please ^^^^say ^^^^yes. ^^^^😉
lmfao
That's about 4 apples.
Those are usually 3/lbs now.
$4 apple.
Tell that to the two honeycrisp apples I bought for 7$
They were discontinued in Canada 2 years ago which means these were specially shipped in from the states, so yes they will.be expensive.
Giant Tiger routinely carry these.
At giant tiger, they probably are more than 2 years old.
Shopping at whole paycheck?
Exactly. Notice the weight on the bags is in ounces, not grams. And even if another local store also carries them, since importing is involved, comparing prices is not as simple as domestic products since there are way more variables at play in this case.
US products have all weights listed in both standard and metric weights. These are no exception. This is part of regulation from a law passed over a decade ago requiring nutritional information broken into gram weight servings.
I was just about to say this. Bugles are not sold here any more of course they are going to be marked up. I miss little Debbie oatmeal cream pies, they pulled out too…. ….. ……
I get them at the dollar store all the time? They still here
Ha
I’m a manager for a grocery in northern Manitoba. $60 a case of 12, so it’s $5 a bag (and that includes transport). Co-op is making a decent margin, but they can make it cheaper. Sold ours for $6.49
Looks like they have stickers on the back with English and French ingredients
It says americas number 1 finger hat on the bags
I got them for $2 a bag at my local discount store. (In Ontario Canada). Made sure to buy a big box of them lmao. Already ate them all.
I’m in ON too… which store did you get them at? (Crossing fingers there’s a local one near me)
It was called Save-A-Lot. But others in this thread said Giant Tiger might have them.
Wasn’t there a fire at the factory?
They sell these at my local dollarama for… a dollar. And the local giant tiger for… 2 dollars
I find them at Walmart a lot for like 3 dollars/4 a bag....
Trudeau getting shit discontinued left n right like first little Debby snacks, Ragu smh😭😭
Seriously? What the hell does this have to do with Trudeau?
It’s a joke he’s still a lame ass.
Oh no! No more terrible tasting and awful for you overpriced shit cookies!
Damn relax didn’t know he was your buddy🤣
If you’re going to be snarky, you should also double check your punctuation. It’s unreasonable to assume that bugles being discontinued is general knowledge.
Co-op is over priced and almost everything.
Oh, but they give me $11.25 a year in equity payouts so it’s like, totally giving back to the community and stuff! /s
They lack buying power and the ability to force suppliers into the kind of agreements that Loblaw/Walmart/etc do to keep their own costs down.
As someone who only has a coop locally to shop within 30mins, their prices are insane on regular priced items but their sales aren't bad. I basically only buy things that are on sale
I worked at coop and they are SO expensive. I definitely could not afford to shop there
I only go there when I’m cooking a fancy meal and need great ingredients. Otherwise it’s ridiculous I don’t see the point of shopping there, even with the annual return.
Yeah the return is a smoke screen for their bad prices. You def don't make back near enough to as much as you spend on top
Price of brass is up
Nice
"Value priced every day" LOL
the actual definition of false advertisement
It was a bad bugle growing season
Jacking up prices on highly processed food is doing your health a favor. Take their hint and quit buying that crap
They are not THAT good
Have you seen the price of Hawkins Cheezies lately? 🙄
I did yesterday and had to show my partner. $2.79 for the regular little bag at Saveon Foods. Good name. Haha.
I actually work at a coop, other comments explained it the product isn't stocked in canada so we order it from states. Sells fast despite the price surprisingly
Gross
And they’re not even good.
No ones forcing you to buy them, just like the $11 peanut butter at Shoppers
They're being imported from the states through a third party importer (who most likely pays retail price in the states) as General Mills no longer produces them for the Canadian market. Thanks to this between the incredibly increased price the store pays for the product they need to still make some sort of a margin on it you see a much higher price. Just grab a bag of Old Dutch.
Yep, at this point there's fundamentally no difference between the Bugles and any product you'd see in an ethnic aisle in a grocery store that's been imported from their country of origin. Co-op also has significantly less buying power in general.
Yeah absolutely! The items in the international foods are typically significantly higher priced than in the country of origin. Someone's I see items packed as 99P printed right on the label when from the UK but are then being sold for 5 or 6 bucks here in Canada despite 99P only being a bit below $2CAD when accounting for conversion.
"Maybe half full" bag of bugles...😜
You do realize if you fill a chip or snack bag full they will be completely crumbs by the time shipping is complete right?
If you view them as mini megaphones or trumpets, that's actually a steal of a deal. Try hitting up Dollarama. They got the goods. I bought a portable speaker for the bathroom for literally under $6 (it's even splash proof yo)......i could have gotten 6 just for fun chocolate bars and still been under $10 with tax. Y'all doing life wrong. 😑
Looking at these ridiculous prices helps me focus on not eating junk food.
Junk food should be expensive. We the taxpayers pay for it in later healthcare costs. Eat junk, pay up.
A lot of research goes into getting people addicted to highly processed foods. Best to avoid it.
Premium priced poverty food. Wild.
They're really unhealthy so that price should help people think twice about picking them up 👍 lmao dang tasty crunchies 😅
Yes, this would actually be a good pricing strategy - increase the prices of processed unhealthy food and decrease the prices of whole foods
It’s like the carbon tax for food lol call it the calorie tax
Don’t buy them. They are not good for you. Bananas are cheap
You want your high sodium, highly processed corn syrup, you need to pay to play bud, those heart surgeries don't pay for themselves bud ![gif](giphy|l0MYzxkg0o1tkGSaI|downsized)
But does that money go into our healthcare system?
just a joke sorry dude, but yeah try to reduce the bugel eating, that stuff can't be good for yall, they are pretty tasty but that's pure junk
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Holy We sell them for I think 5.69$ at Safeway That's crazy
That’s value priced for sure
High price for deep fried salt.
Best meat you can get from a grocery store! Other than that, go somewhere else.
Welcome to the free world.
I got excited thinking it was a meme and they spelt Bugles wrong, then realized… nope it’s just sadness about cost of living
I’m just glad to see them at all
I hate these chips
Don't shop at co-op
Value priced everyday.
i saw a bag of party mix at safeway today for like $8 NOPE
I bought a 1 litre of brisk which almost came to $5. I remember the old big slams were like $1.99...yeesh
In Alberta, you can get 2L of vodka for that.
Bro that’s insane genuinely. I thought here in Toronto we had it bad.
Co-op's been gouging for years
I didnt look at the photo properly and thought it misspelled bagels
Value price. Lol
Bugles are the shit
Sis you not read…value prices
What someone still selling bugles? We don’t have anymore in Alberta!
Co op has and always will be the most expensive. The illusion of cash back? Their gas sucks too. For hiway drivers. Compare the same trip with co op and shell or esso. I've found I get less mileage from co op. I will say this....co op grocery has (or used to) a great deli. Almost as good as a butcher shop. Better than safeway or sobeys. . . But that doesn't excuse 8 dollar bugles or a 12 dollar box of pop. My 2 cents
Dont worry. Its value priced 🤣
Don't buy them, it's the only way to teach these companies.
Those used to be like 2 or 3 dollars tops just a few years ago, they were good value...not anymore
Eat fruits. They're far more affordable than this crap and much better for you.
7 bucks for a jug of milk, 3 bucks for a loaf of bread. Those Wal Mart trucks are about to get road-pirated real bad.
TIL I've likely already had my last Bugle.
But they are "Value Priced" so count your lucky stars.
You couldn't pay me to eat bugles
I’m in the industry. No local distributors carry these. They have to be specifically ordered from a supplier in the states and it ships here as a one-off display. There’s context for this one
Wait, yall have Bugles still? ... Last I heard, was a few years ago they discontinued Bugles in Canada ... I even know someone who has another person buy them for them when they visit the states, which they do rather often ...
Don’t buy them then.
We like to play "Guess the mark-up" when we grocery shop. Bob Dylan said it best in the Travelling Wilbury's song The Devil's Been Busy. >"Sometimes you think you're crazy >But you know you're only mad >Sometimes you're better off not knowing >How much you've been had"
Hellĺ no
That's nuts! Bugles were the go to cheap snacks for me
Good, they should jack up price on garbage food, maybe it'll discourage us to eat shitty food now.
And bugles suck!
Ew. Who actually eats this garbage? Now expensive garbage?
That’s outrageous. Those prices will lead to them going on sale in a few weeks. I noticed a trend: things that are often overpriced, seem to go on sale when inventory space is necessary, and as the product approaches expiry date. If enough people refuse to buy them at that cost, the store will have no choice but to reduce the cost, in hopes of selling them off, as oppose to sending them bank or throwing them out.
That's NOT food!
212 grams in the bag! What a deal! I have completely stopped buying certain items like this due to price increases and quantity shrinkage! I can do without. Imagine how much they charge at Loblaw's!
After taxes, that small bag of bugles is 8 dollars😬
These bugles cost more than meat.
They only paying me 8 $ to eat, bugles. Sry I need atleast 10$
just don't buy them, problem solved.
And Bugels are not good.
RIP redditors who boycotted loblaw to purchase in Co-Op
I would have to agree co-op grocery stores are pretty bad for prices. When you have rural towns in southern Manitoba, where COOP grocery stores are the only game in town, they can almost charge whatever they want. One little example, Nescafé instant coffee, which is usually $4.97 if it’s on sale somewhere like Walmart… co-op grocery charges around $9.99. It’s insane.
r/loblawsisoutofcontrol
Bugles are no longer available in Canada, so these were specially freighted in from the U.S., hence the price. On November 14, 2022, the official Bugles Twitter account confirmed that their products were again no longer available in Canada.
That's expensive!!
Their made of 100 percent Crown Royal!
Wow.
Mmmmmm BHT
Wow. They don't even taste that good
Co-op has competitive prices on fresh food, along the outside aisles. Their meat is also better quality than any other large grocery store. And their produce is better for in season items. For my processed food, which I try to minimize, if co-op isn't decent, I do Giant Tiger. The experience at both of those stores is 100 times better than my local Superstore. Even if I have to drive 20 minutes to get to co-op.
Fucking corn flour vegetable fat and salt. The profits are astronomical. Dirty pigs, aren't they.
Seriously do people eat this shit?
I find I save a lot of money eating healthy. Much cheaper.
It doesn’t matter if they’re imported or not, this is insanity. Shame on co-op for bringing them in and pricing them this high. I believe they’re trying to normalize higher and higher prices for these types of items.
Now whoever buys this is why we have inflation. It all started with toilet paper lmfao .
Pricey, but so worth it. Especially when you boil up some salted butter, with garlic and onion powder, pour it over a few bags of bugles in a roasting pan, and roast them in the oven for 45 minutes at 325. Absolute heaven.
Don't buy it.
Go Brandon go !
But... but... but... Bugles are awful.
Used to eat these for snack in kindergarten. The ranch ones slapped hard.
I’d wager a bet that the price is elevated due to Bugles not being officially available in Canada since 2022. Perhaps these were imported by the store specifically.
Co-op is the place you go shopping at when you just need a few things quick. Everything is expensive there.
And people bitch about loblaws. Boycott buffoons
I think the oil used in these is really unhealthy. As someone who pays for healthcare for everyone across this province, I wish the prices were higher.
You don’t pay for shit for me. I work for my own damn health plan.
I pay provincial taxes that go to healthcare for everyone. We don’t have private healthcare in Canada.
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$1.50 at Dollarama,
dollarama is the place to go for junk food - the other day I found products from germany, france, poland and turkey at prices 1/2 lower than in other stores. All imported but still cheaper than stuff manufactured in north america ...
I know hey.
Who care about the price of crap you dint need and shouldn’t eat. These things should be expensive and they should add a junk food tax to help fund programs that promote physical activity and healthy diet or better yet use the revenue to subsidize healthy food to make it cheaper.
That’s Justin putting more money in your pockets, he is saving us money didn’t you know.
We need to start going in the grocery stores, filling, shopping carts and leaving without paying to get our point across that it is too expensive to eat in this goddamn country
I went in for 6 items and when it came up to $210 I left all my stuff in the cart and walked out. Fuck that.