
A Look at the Impact of COVID19 on Grocery Shopping in Canada
Statistics Canada released an interesting report today on recent grocery store sales in Canada. I thought I would provide a perspective on what I thought were a couple of highlights in the report. Sales are Up It is hardly a surprise that sales in grocery are up in April. We saw a significant bump in sales just as home isolation began. That included some panic buying/hoarding behaviour as people wondered about the supply of food, particularly given some shortages that led