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Price of beef, vegetables increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 safety measures, you may have noticed certain items are becoming more expensive.“We’ve seen prices increase since the beginning of the year really — even before COVID — especially at the meat counter,” Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, said.“Things have calmed down now — the food inflation rate is actually not as high as it was at the beginning of the pandemic.”“Of course the problem is the overall inflation rate, which is actually quite low, and so when you’re charging two per cent more for food and everything (else) is cheaper or not more expensive, then people actually notice that food is actually more expensive.” Expect higher prices, not food shortages due to coronavirus pandemic,