While Canada’s inflation rate rose by 1.9 per cent in June, grocery prices rose by 2.8 per cent and in May by 3.3 per cent.
Grocery prices have been rising faster than overall inflation all year long.
In the United States inflation was also on the rise — consumer prices rose 2.7 per cent in June from a year earlier, up from an annual increase of 2.4 per cent in May, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
But unlike Canada, food prices there rose by much less than overall inflation. Food prices went up by a third of one per cent.
