When the grocery cart becomes a ballot box When geopolitics is broadcast into living rooms every night, it inevitably follows Canadians into the grocery store. The checkout lane has become the only ballot box many consumers feel they control Rising prices will impact consumer holiday spending habits: Numerator The survey shares shopping habits around five upcoming holidays Demand for Asian cuisines extends from restaurant menus to grocery aisles Lunar New Year amplifies curiosity when it comes to exploring new formats and flavours After 80 years, Minute Maid's frozen canned juices are getting put on ice Coca-Cola is ending Minute Maid’s frozen juice line, citing changing tastes and waning demand for concentrates The Super Bowl of snacking is, well, the Super Bowl In Canada, the Super Bowl functions less as a sporting event than as a nationwide, synchronized snacking exercise Nostalgia and novelty fuelling changes in Canadian consumer tastes Kerry’s Global Taste Charts highlight what’s 'now,' what's new and what’s next in consumer food tastes for 2026 Economy stalled in November and may have contracted in Q4: StatCan Retail trade expanded 1.3% in November Canada’s new Grocery Code of Conduct is here, but don’t expect any instant price drops: Opinion Canada has experienced significant food price inflation, but the drivers are largely external to and outside the scope of the Grocery Code of Conduct Bot shoppers and beauty foods: Grocery’s next big shifts Nourish Food Marketing’s Jo-Ann McArthur on the latest developments in AI-driven shopping and wellness-focused foods Buy Canadian movement at grocers could ramp up again during trade talks With the Canada-United States-Mexico free trade agreement up for review this year, it sets the stage for an intensified rhetoric on tariffs 1 2 Next Last
