Loblaw report shows food inflation slows to 1.7% in September

By Public Technologies
  • Loblaw released its October Food Inflation Report today, highlighting September food inflation of 1.7% year over year, down from August's 2.8%.
  • Headline inflation climbed to 3.1%, driven by higher gasoline prices; food prices remained significantly above levels five years ago.
  • Rising freight costs, commodity volatility and new tariffs are creating pressures across the food supply chain.
  • Supplier cost increase requests are growing in size, prompting challenges to unjustified increases.
  • Successful pushback has blocked hundreds of millions in proposed cost increases so far this year.


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