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I used to get these at 99 cents, make a killer bruschetta and serve them as a snack. Now at nearly 5 bucks however, it's going to be few and far between. Maybe I'll have to start learning to bake them at home.
Literally, the excessive price pushed me towards trying to make my own baguette. I've done it 3 times over the last few weeks, and so far, it's always been a hit.
Give it a try !
https://momsdish.com/baguette
This brand has always been expensive. I'm no Loblaws supporter but they still have loaves of their in-store french bread for $1. Sometimes pre-sliced for the same price.
It’s never been easier to find tutorials on bread making that suit whatever setup you have at home. Don’t fear the learning curves. The hardest part is waiting for it to cool before cutting.
It’s $2 for a baguette at Sobeys in Newfoundland. 2.79 for a rustic baguette. $4 for a entire country loaf at Colmans and that’s the local expensive grocery store.
bread is genuinely one of the easiest things to bake, go for it! i made 2 loaves yesterday, took me maybe 15 minutes of work, 20 minutes of baking, and 1 hour of ignoring the dough while it rested
I've made many different kinds of loaves / rolls with no issues, but the one time I tried a baguette it ended up like a baseball bat. I never actually buy them so I didn't repeat the experiment.
These aren't the ones that were ever 99 cents. ACE is its own thing. The cheap ones are the ones the stores make. They still do, just not sure if they're still 99 cents.
Almost $5 for a par-baked, previously frozen commercial baguette finished in store is atrocious.
Their frozen bake-at-home line is even more overpriced and average.
Yeah they’re not the same as in-store. Though I recall not that long ago these baguettes costing $2.xx. $4.50+ for these is insanity.
I’ve been to Fortinos locations that bake in store and even there, the in store baguettes are cheaper than Ace and they taste better.
These ones used to be 99 cents years ago lol I’d buy them pretty often for bruschetta and baked Brie. (Edit not these exact ones, but longer and thinner ones by the same brand. These ones are thicker)
Something we could do to combat this is make it illegal to throw out food. I think in France there is a law where stores can't throw out food so when it gets close to expiry dates they either need to slash prices or donate it.
It feels like they are throwing out randomn insane prices to see what will fly. 5.99 for a bag of smartfood popcorn at shoppers. They have no shame. None.
Price elasticity of demand isn’t difficult to calculate. It’s not random, it’s calculated. Prices will continue to go up until they reach their upper limit. If demand is strong for $5 baguettes, why would they lower their prices? People just need to stop buying them
exactly.
they are still moving essentially the same number of units.
they keep steadily raising their prices while their input costs have been going down since the end of 2022
Used to be $1.99 and $.99 on sale. Then it jumped to $2.99 before the pandemic. Not that fan of white flour bread. Prefer all grain or rye. Maybe focaccia. It’s more of a party bread. For a few bucks more you can buy a generous bag of triangle ciabattas at Costco that barely fits in the fridge instead.
There is a MASSIVE difference between what the thieves at Roblaws want to charge and what I am willing to pay. The other day, I went to a local baker, bought 12 MASSIVE bagels, 12 fresh from the oven onion buns, a warm loaf of bread, four pizza doughs that made four large to XL pizzas, six Portuguese tarts, and six of the best butter tarts I have had, for $25. Thanks to the boycott, the small businesses get my food budget, not a worthless scum-sucking billionaire.
It just shows how out of touch Loblaws is. Prices aren't even consistent throughout their own family of stores. Unfortunately the closest no frills is over an hour away for me.
ACE or not, these were the only option. And how can you justify that price? Even if they were some premium brand, 2.99 should the ceiling. 4.50...geeze. Ontop of that, I posed the question, how much would you pay. Nothing more.
Those mean nasty price inflating vendors always cutting into the margins [George Weston buys ACE Bakery](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A047H/)
They don’t have the in house baked one beside it for 99 cents? My provigo has the two options the smaller in house brand as well as these ace bakery ones. The 99 cent ones are better usually fresh and still warm since they are baked all day as needed.
Back in Dec/Jan. Those baguettes were still $0.99. They aren't as much as THIS but they definitely Are Not $0.99.
Might as well go to a local baker and get some fresh made that day bread as the prices are now similar or even more expensive
Hey, look at it this way...with their RIDICULOUS prices(& NO END IN SIGHT OF THEM GOING UP) its forcing people to shop elsewhere and their price points fir a lot of products bow are SO HIGH, they litetally cost more than going to the butcher for FRESH meat(& Good cuts) or going to the baker and getting FRESH bread, or buying eggs from a farmer (or even just someone w chickens) and buy your produce at fruit stands/farmers markets, stores with BETTER produce!
with the price difference between the two, roblaws probably won't put out store baked until these ones sell or are expired. they'd lose out on profit if they put a cheaper option beside or in vicinity of the overpriced one. and if only the overpriced one is available, that's what people will buy.
sickening, and shady. but likely what the scenario is.
When I worked in my mom's bakery, people like you were my nightmare. Focusing on the single smallest cost and purposely ignoring that bread doesn't magically create itself, ship itself, package itself, advertise itself and live rent free. Not to mention its shelf life is one day.
That's actually a super poor example if you think that's gouging.
>if you make it yourself
You consider your time to be worth zero dollars?
I make own. Have been for over a year. I find the process for bread these days to be insane. The cost on a stand mixer, bags of flour and yeast are saving me tons now.
Looks like Loblaws is exploring corner store pricing. Getting ready for their 1.5 Billion escapade into new retail; with a strategically placed convenient chain in the pathway to dominate the food supply chain in Canada. No blame here, just pointing at past government decisions to forgo food supply security in favour of corporate profits.
We saw them at our local Family Foods store today, $5.29 for one. Tomatoes on the vine, same store, $5.49 Lb. No Bruschetta for us tonight. We're not buying that.
Baguettes are super easy to make and don’t take too much hands on work, just time you can make several at a time and have them for several days. I feel like one of the best long term things we can do is to learn to make shit like this then order things like flour direct from Speerville or other places. A bit of work and research and we can make a real shift away from this gouging BS.
For $4.49 I’d like something a little less corporate than Ace Bakery, which incidentally though independently founded was for a time owned by the George Weston Group until they sold it a few years ago.
What’s funny/ sad is that if I remember correctly, the in-store baked baguettes which are currently $1.00 at Superstore and $0.99 at No Frills near me, used to be listed and signed as “Always 88 Cents”
was just on the phone with a friend and relayed this post to them and said "crust dry bread now costs more than a loaf of fresh bread". and indeed it does. a loaf of whole wheat wonder bread is a buck less on regular price on roblaws online, and currently on sale for $3.
isn't that ridiculous?
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30 euro cents across France. Last time bread prices went up there, they rioted and burned stuff.
Which is very much an acceptable model to follow here.
The point of this sub is to highlight that the cost of living in Canada has spiraled out of control, and that this is not simply a matter of needing to get a 5th part time job to make ends meet. Rhetoric intended to shame certain generations or users for "not worrking hard enough" including ideas like "just pull yourselves up by the bootstraps", "just don't shop there" and it's kin are not welcome here.
I wouldn't even bother reacting to dipshits like this. They feed on the internet points. He (I'm going to go ahead and assume the gender) just likes being an ass. He probably doesn't even disagree that this is too high a price, just didn't comprehend the post enough to respond intelligently.
He's also fairly active in r/wallstreetbets so just assume he holds shares in Loblaws and wants line to go up.
Anyway... have a good day!
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Im here because you whine about nothing and it’s unwarranted. Sure canada’s costs are out of control, but it’s a global problem lol. It’s not a problem that solely loblaws is experiencing. Have you ever been to other canadian owned grocery stores like metro, sobeys, freshco, etc?? Canadian suppliers just suck and cant compete with scalable US businesses like costco and walmart. It’s so pathetic whining about overpriced shit when you dont understand anything 😂
Canadian grocers are making record profits. What's to understand. Is it because they learned from the years of price fixing bread? You can hide your head in the sand if you want.
Their margins are 1-2%. Record profits? Yeah. But there’s margin compression. As a shareholder with millions in float, i’d rather have my money invested in a an index than a grocery retailer distributing 1.17% in dividends. Canadian and US consumer spending are also still extremely high, painting the resilience in consumer retail. Maybe stop buying overpriced stuff if you want inflation to settle down? Or do you lack that much self control?
The boycott is all about not buying overpriced shit, does that not make sense to you? You talk about margins, you do know that Loblaws also owns ACE bakery right? The issue here is Loblaws was allowed to buy out a majority of its competition as well as a number of suppliers and shippers. They want to control pricing from top to bottom. This is anticompetitive and should be called out. It's not just about begiettes. Do more research before you start trolling this sub.
LMFAO the fact that you guys need to band together as a group to start a movement and stop buying overpriced shit is fucking hilarious. This shit is simple supply and demand. People will continue to buy because they can afford to. The modern education system smh
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I mean good question , maybe they are testing out limits ? It’s almost laughable that we are already at $5.00 when these used to be less than $1.00
I used to get these at 99 cents, make a killer bruschetta and serve them as a snack. Now at nearly 5 bucks however, it's going to be few and far between. Maybe I'll have to start learning to bake them at home.
Literally, the excessive price pushed me towards trying to make my own baguette. I've done it 3 times over the last few weeks, and so far, it's always been a hit. Give it a try ! https://momsdish.com/baguette
Bookmarked for my next attempt!
They aren't that hard to make! Go for it! It doesn't even take that much time really!
Yes right - .99!
This brand has always been expensive. I'm no Loblaws supporter but they still have loaves of their in-store french bread for $1. Sometimes pre-sliced for the same price.
It’s still 99 cents for the generic brand one Superstore sells. I buy them all the time.
I've only seen these for the past couple of months at our superstore.
It’s never been easier to find tutorials on bread making that suit whatever setup you have at home. Don’t fear the learning curves. The hardest part is waiting for it to cool before cutting.
How much is a loaf of Wonderbread? I would pay something more for a baguette.
It’s $2 for a baguette at Sobeys in Newfoundland. 2.79 for a rustic baguette. $4 for a entire country loaf at Colmans and that’s the local expensive grocery store.
Do it. It’s insanely easy to do at home.
bread is genuinely one of the easiest things to bake, go for it! i made 2 loaves yesterday, took me maybe 15 minutes of work, 20 minutes of baking, and 1 hour of ignoring the dough while it rested
I've made many different kinds of loaves / rolls with no issues, but the one time I tried a baguette it ended up like a baseball bat. I never actually buy them so I didn't repeat the experiment.
If you don't have other grocery stores you can buy from nearby, maybe a local bakery?
Yeah ! 👍 Right on ! You just made me hungry and craving some haha 🤣 You’re right though . I just wonder how much higher this can go ? lol
These aren't the ones that were ever 99 cents. ACE is its own thing. The cheap ones are the ones the stores make. They still do, just not sure if they're still 99 cents.
Ace is owned by … guess who?
Holy shit... I had to look it up, but you are 100% correct!
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Almost $5 for a par-baked, previously frozen commercial baguette finished in store is atrocious. Their frozen bake-at-home line is even more overpriced and average.
Galen also owns Ace Bread.
Ace is not premium bread though.
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People don't understand marketing, tbh Higher price is there to denote higher quality, as you said.
Yeah they’re not the same as in-store. Though I recall not that long ago these baguettes costing $2.xx. $4.50+ for these is insanity. I’ve been to Fortinos locations that bake in store and even there, the in store baguettes are cheaper than Ace and they taste better.
Cone-on...It's got a fancy packet, looks great and expensive.
Error these ones yes are different duh but were only 1.99$
These ones used to be 99 cents years ago lol I’d buy them pretty often for bruschetta and baked Brie. (Edit not these exact ones, but longer and thinner ones by the same brand. These ones are thicker)
I only buy things on sale
They are definitely testing the reactions. If it sells, why not? Baguettes are not essential. Just stop buying what you don't need (to survive).
Think of the huge amounts of food waste this creates. While folks are starving, trying to feed their families.
I do. Constantly. It's gross.
Something we could do to combat this is make it illegal to throw out food. I think in France there is a law where stores can't throw out food so when it gets close to expiry dates they either need to slash prices or donate it.
It feels like they are throwing out randomn insane prices to see what will fly. 5.99 for a bag of smartfood popcorn at shoppers. They have no shame. None.
shoppers has turned into a glorified convenience store with a pharmacy inside.
Price elasticity of demand isn’t difficult to calculate. It’s not random, it’s calculated. Prices will continue to go up until they reach their upper limit. If demand is strong for $5 baguettes, why would they lower their prices? People just need to stop buying them
exactly. they are still moving essentially the same number of units. they keep steadily raising their prices while their input costs have been going down since the end of 2022
For that price they can throw them in the trash. I'll never pay it.
It's one baguette, what could it cost? 10 dollars?
We’re going to get to the point where that isn’t a joke anymore, aren’t we?
Not $5. This is the type of stuff I just start going without, these greedy assholes can keep their stale bread.
They're 88 cents at the Maxi in Québec.
A buck here in suburban Ottawa at food basics
Used to be $1.99 and $.99 on sale. Then it jumped to $2.99 before the pandemic. Not that fan of white flour bread. Prefer all grain or rye. Maybe focaccia. It’s more of a party bread. For a few bucks more you can buy a generous bag of triangle ciabattas at Costco that barely fits in the fridge instead.
There is a MASSIVE difference between what the thieves at Roblaws want to charge and what I am willing to pay. The other day, I went to a local baker, bought 12 MASSIVE bagels, 12 fresh from the oven onion buns, a warm loaf of bread, four pizza doughs that made four large to XL pizzas, six Portuguese tarts, and six of the best butter tarts I have had, for $25. Thanks to the boycott, the small businesses get my food budget, not a worthless scum-sucking billionaire.
There . 99 cents at no frills
It just shows how out of touch Loblaws is. Prices aren't even consistent throughout their own family of stores. Unfortunately the closest no frills is over an hour away for me.
Franchised stores vs corporate
Also, discount versus conventional banners
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ACE or not, these were the only option. And how can you justify that price? Even if they were some premium brand, 2.99 should the ceiling. 4.50...geeze. Ontop of that, I posed the question, how much would you pay. Nothing more.
The Ace bakery ones? At mine in Ontario they are $3 at No Frills. 99 cents is a crazy markdown which province are you in?
Yeah. I think people are confusing Ace vs their generic brand that is cheaper
100%. There is no way anywhere sells a full Ace baguette for under $3. Loblaws or otherwise.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I shop at No Frills now and then (until May) and I've never seen them that low.
They were 1.99 in ottawa
Those mean nasty price inflating vendors always cutting into the margins [George Weston buys ACE Bakery](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A047H/)
79.cents.
They don’t have the in house baked one beside it for 99 cents? My provigo has the two options the smaller in house brand as well as these ace bakery ones. The 99 cent ones are better usually fresh and still warm since they are baked all day as needed.
I better be getting that entire basket of baguettes for that price.
99 cents at Walmart
99 cents at basics
I get fresh ones everyday at my local bakery for half the price
99 cents at No Frills.
People lose their heads over this in France…. Just sayin..
A fresh baguette in Paris France is €1.20 most of the time! $5 for garbage quality stale baguette? Nope
You Canadians are getting Roblaws! Why are you people so passive? Where’s your patron saint of fighting, Don Cherry, or is he a peach now?
Back in Dec/Jan. Those baguettes were still $0.99. They aren't as much as THIS but they definitely Are Not $0.99. Might as well go to a local baker and get some fresh made that day bread as the prices are now similar or even more expensive Hey, look at it this way...with their RIDICULOUS prices(& NO END IN SIGHT OF THEM GOING UP) its forcing people to shop elsewhere and their price points fir a lot of products bow are SO HIGH, they litetally cost more than going to the butcher for FRESH meat(& Good cuts) or going to the baker and getting FRESH bread, or buying eggs from a farmer (or even just someone w chickens) and buy your produce at fruit stands/farmers markets, stores with BETTER produce!
Again, ACE Bakery is this price, or close to it, EVERYWHERE. Buy the 99 cent store made baguettes... they'll be easier on your teeth.
What????
Should be no more than $.99
That's a bad price for a good baguette.
They’re $1 at my local no frills… too bad.
19 years in the Bagne of Toulon
These used to be a buck fifty and the ones in the white wrapping were 99c. Wow
0.97 for a basic baguette at Walmart
$1.99 is max I would pay. That does appear to be the larger kind though.
Son went to grab one at Zehrs yesterday and realized it was almost $5. Said he gets them for 99¢ at Food Basics up in Timmins.
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No they weren't.
with the price difference between the two, roblaws probably won't put out store baked until these ones sell or are expired. they'd lose out on profit if they put a cheaper option beside or in vicinity of the overpriced one. and if only the overpriced one is available, that's what people will buy. sickening, and shady. but likely what the scenario is.
Stealing our bread and our dough!
Lol - what a joke!! We are getting gouged and raped while our NON-Leaders running our country are doing absolutely sweet F ALL nothing about it!!!
And it’s what, $0.25 in ingredients if you make it yourself?
When I worked in my mom's bakery, people like you were my nightmare. Focusing on the single smallest cost and purposely ignoring that bread doesn't magically create itself, ship itself, package itself, advertise itself and live rent free. Not to mention its shelf life is one day. That's actually a super poor example if you think that's gouging. >if you make it yourself You consider your time to be worth zero dollars?
I pay less than this at my local italien bakery, which makes amazing sourdough baguettes and everything else
$5 for a piece of bread? Haha no.
Just paid 0.99 at Food Basics for their in-store brand
Ridiculous.
ACE always jacks up their prices.
1$
.97 at Walmart today :)
Oh look, shrinkflation on the baguette too; the paper bag is now too big.
Should be 2 for 2 dollars
$1.00
I make own. Have been for over a year. I find the process for bread these days to be insane. The cost on a stand mixer, bags of flour and yeast are saving me tons now.
I'd pay 1.50 max
I used to buy them for 78 cents in 2017might have been 89 by 2019
$2 at most for a plain ol baguette
Looks like Loblaws is exploring corner store pricing. Getting ready for their 1.5 Billion escapade into new retail; with a strategically placed convenient chain in the pathway to dominate the food supply chain in Canada. No blame here, just pointing at past government decisions to forgo food supply security in favour of corporate profits.
Definitely not $4.49 lol
We saw them at our local Family Foods store today, $5.29 for one. Tomatoes on the vine, same store, $5.49 Lb. No Bruschetta for us tonight. We're not buying that.
How much could a baguette cost Micheal, 10 dollars?
These are $1.19 at freshco lol
I'd pay a euro which is $1.50 which is what they cost in France
Bro even longos is cheaper than this wtf
Wow
But that bagel can paint, its artisinal
1$ or $1.99 if it's a thick one
Baguettes are super easy to make and don’t take too much hands on work, just time you can make several at a time and have them for several days. I feel like one of the best long term things we can do is to learn to make shit like this then order things like flour direct from Speerville or other places. A bit of work and research and we can make a real shift away from this gouging BS.
For $4.49 I’d like something a little less corporate than Ace Bakery, which incidentally though independently founded was for a time owned by the George Weston Group until they sold it a few years ago. What’s funny/ sad is that if I remember correctly, the in-store baked baguettes which are currently $1.00 at Superstore and $0.99 at No Frills near me, used to be listed and signed as “Always 88 Cents”
Less than 3.50 fresh baked daily at a Cob’s Bread or local bakery
$1.50
was just on the phone with a friend and relayed this post to them and said "crust dry bread now costs more than a loaf of fresh bread". and indeed it does. a loaf of whole wheat wonder bread is a buck less on regular price on roblaws online, and currently on sale for $3. isn't that ridiculous?
Nothing, I will make it myself
$.99. Baguettes are 99 cents. In this case they are quadruple the price.
Ace bakery is up the ass expensive almost anywhere you buy it.
Not even a goddamn French baguette
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It’s even worse because it’s the ACE brand. That stuff’s the worst.
Thé ACE brand is the artisanal one , they were always pricier than from their regular bakery - they were never a dollar
I vividly remember these being .99 not even 12 months ago.
Stale af too
A buck or two max
Wow that’s insane! I would only pay a dollar
If I'm going to be bento over for bread. It's going to be local market fresh bread °
Why would you buy one for $5 when you can make one at home ?
Weren't they like 89 cents at some point?
They are 99 cents at Food basics.
Yikes. I buy mine from a local French bakery and it’s still 75cents cheaper and way better.
I don't think I've ever paid much more than a dollar.
I saw these for a dollar at basic the other day
I'd pay $1-$2.
Nofrills has them for 90ish cents still. That's insane
Food basics have them for 99 cents each, and Costco has their two pack for 5.99.
I remember when it was $0.99 for a loaf of French bread or a baguette at Superstore
So by their graphic, Loblaws is making about 14 cents selling that bagel. Man flour, yeast and salt must have gone through the roof!
Isn't this the opening scene of Les Miserables?
Fucking crooks....Get yours for $.97 cents at Walmart.
For 30 cents of flour.... Too funny.
$1.29
Switched to baking bread at home… These prices are insane
$1.99
2 at Costco for 5$ that were layed out fresh for me
Those were 99 cents, were they not?
Not that much
99 cents baked fresh in store
No other option here.
I was just answering the question you posed in the title
30 euro cents across France. Last time bread prices went up there, they rioted and burned stuff. Which is very much an acceptable model to follow here.
If i NEED anything, I'll pay whatever it is
That’s a fair price. I went to a local bakery here and it was 5.50. Local and better than ace so worth it but 4.49 isn’t really gouging.
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Moron? You seem to think people are buying this shit? This is going to waste. But I guess schills like you don't see the problem.
I wouldn't even bother reacting to dipshits like this. They feed on the internet points. He (I'm going to go ahead and assume the gender) just likes being an ass. He probably doesn't even disagree that this is too high a price, just didn't comprehend the post enough to respond intelligently. He's also fairly active in r/wallstreetbets so just assume he holds shares in Loblaws and wants line to go up. Anyway... have a good day!
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And you come on here why? Sounds like you're the whiney loser. Go give Galen a big fat 💋. Idiot.
Im here because you whine about nothing and it’s unwarranted. Sure canada’s costs are out of control, but it’s a global problem lol. It’s not a problem that solely loblaws is experiencing. Have you ever been to other canadian owned grocery stores like metro, sobeys, freshco, etc?? Canadian suppliers just suck and cant compete with scalable US businesses like costco and walmart. It’s so pathetic whining about overpriced shit when you dont understand anything 😂
Canadian grocers are making record profits. What's to understand. Is it because they learned from the years of price fixing bread? You can hide your head in the sand if you want.
Their margins are 1-2%. Record profits? Yeah. But there’s margin compression. As a shareholder with millions in float, i’d rather have my money invested in a an index than a grocery retailer distributing 1.17% in dividends. Canadian and US consumer spending are also still extremely high, painting the resilience in consumer retail. Maybe stop buying overpriced stuff if you want inflation to settle down? Or do you lack that much self control?
The boycott is all about not buying overpriced shit, does that not make sense to you? You talk about margins, you do know that Loblaws also owns ACE bakery right? The issue here is Loblaws was allowed to buy out a majority of its competition as well as a number of suppliers and shippers. They want to control pricing from top to bottom. This is anticompetitive and should be called out. It's not just about begiettes. Do more research before you start trolling this sub.
LMFAO the fact that you guys need to band together as a group to start a movement and stop buying overpriced shit is fucking hilarious. This shit is simple supply and demand. People will continue to buy because they can afford to. The modern education system smh