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Over two-thirds of North Shore residents say they've changed their grocery shopping and eating habits in recent months in response to rising food prices.
In recent months, food price increases have outstripped even regular inflation rates, with the cost of food in June pegged at almost nine per cent higher than the price a year ago. Some experts have predicted the upward trend in food prices may soon be headed southward again. Until then, however, more North Shore residents are likely grilling burgers over steak and picking salads in their gardens, according to a recent poll.
The largest number of local respondents - over 45 per cent - stated they are making different food choices because of rising prices, including cutting back on the most expensive food items or eating less. Twenty-one per cent of locals responding to the poll said they have changed their shopping habits, including buying more food in bulk or on sale and growing more of their own produce.
Just under 34 per cent of North Shore respondents said rising prices haven't changed their eating or shopping habits.
North Shore News polled 1,958 North Shore News readers, and asked the question: How have rising food prices impacted you?
The poll ran from 6/22/2022 to 7/26/2022. Of the 1,958 votes, we can determine that 739 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult North Shore News readers who are located in North Shore. The margin of error – which measures sample variability – is +/- 2.2%, 19 times out of 20.
North Shore News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
