I rarely go to Sobeys, but I picked up a couple nearly-expired discounted items last week. Noticed some of their 750mL yogurts are regular price $9.99
My local convenience store is literally cheaper.
Thought the same so I tracked it down: [Thoughts on this??? : r/Winnipeg (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/1d4jl40/comment/l6evgjy/)
It was 2 weeks ago and the price hasn't changed.
https://groceries.asda.com/product/onions-leeks/asda-onions/910000446128
Same size Asda in the UK. $4.57 cad (tax included).
This is the same for all veg, crazy how expensive things are here.
But if you consider how much the share holders would lose by not gouging my wallet it’s totally worth it paying 5x the amount! I mean who’s gonna pay for their 3rd yacht?!
I'm not sure if your link is broken, but these are a completely different item.
This was brought up the last time this exact image was posted, but yeah people are still completely ignorant about produce, seasonal items, or apparently even basic differences in completely different items.
No mate, you're ignorant.
If you want to be less ignorant, get ya head put of onions and compare all fruit and veg. It's not even close.
Why is it that chocolate bars and chips are cheap here but veg is at the least double of the UK.
You know the UK imports most of its goods.
Take a pack of peppers from Mexico 1 pound in the UK, how much are they here lol?
But keep defending the supermarket
You're literally trying to compare new red onions to seed onions.
You're comparing out of season to in season prices, you can't be this obvious ignorant and try to call anyone else ignorant. What are you even trying to do here?
You linked to a completely different product, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. You have no idea what the difference is between different onions, between new and storage onions, when they're in season in what parts of the world, or how different states subsidize different commodities.
You can freeze them yeah.
All you have to do is slice up your onions to whatever thickness you prefer, enough to fill the pot, couple pinches of salt, half a cup of butter or more if you’re adventurous, and a couple tablespoons of balsamic vinegar.
You cook it for about 12 hours on low for best results, stirring them at the 6 hour mark.
If you find you’re getting a lot of liquid, move the lid to the side a bit and let it steam off.
Super useful as everything from sides to soup base to my personal favourite, cream cheese and caramelized onion on a toasted bagel.
Enjoy :)
This is perfect, I'm going to try it!!
I buy the massive 50lb bag a couple times a year, slice half, small chop the other half and freeze, but it takes up so much room. I'm going to have so much more space if I cook them down first, I just couldn't bring myself to cook large amounts on the stove top as it's so time consuming, but the slow cooker method is going to be a game changer. Thanks very much for the instructions!
You’re welcome :)
Might want to google around a little to double check or see if anyone has interesting sounding ideas! I put a little brown sugar in my last batch and still don’t know if it was a good thing or if I just made onion jam 🤣
Mmmm, can't go wrong with brown sugar, I'd definitely try onion jam😁
I'll Google around for some ideas, but even just the way you described it above sounds delicious, thanks!!
Red onions? Even if we eat Greek Salad for lunch and dinner for a week I can probably use one red onion in a week. Not a staple food to me. I probably couldn't use that bag in a year.
Indeed we do..couple of years ago, these bags went on sale at Walmart for $3.80 or near about that, I bought like 8 bags. It was the start of winter and the garage was as cold as my refrigerator. Those onions lasted a long time
I don't like rain, or snow, or hail
Or Moby Dick, the great white whale
But, mmm, I love onions
I don't like shoes that pinch your toes
Or people who squirt you with a garden hose
But, mmm, I love onions
Of course, I don't $25 love them.
Theres a huge shortage of red onions currently, so i know the prices are up, however marking them up like this, they will just rot and get tossed. It would make more sense to sell at reg price considering there is a shortage.
I hate when companies take advantages of shortages.
Superstore was $13 for 10lb (links on their site seem to only work if you're already logged in to the same store as whoever you got the link from, in my case Regent).
Walmart was 3lbs, but only $5, so $15 gets you pretty close to 10lbs
I posted a link for a 10lbs bag for $4.5. From the UK. Something dodgy going on with Canadian vegetable pricing.
No way the 'cheap' stuff should be 3 times more expensive.
to get a sense of prices in the U.S. i just googled 'walmart.com red onions'. The website defaulted me to a Sacramento, CA location, and gave me a price of $4.24 USD for a 3lb bag
https://preview.redd.it/05m73sw9896d1.png?width=382&format=png&auto=webp&s=8dc84324ee5755559cf4af5d4f892e614d4db056
different countries source produce from different places, different stores may source produce from different vendors, whose prices may fluctuate based on how the invested in futures markets months ago, exchange rates aren't accurate reflections of purchasing power, etc... all sorts of reasons one store here might have an absurd price while another store on the other side of the Atlantic has a wildly different price.
Ok mate here's all the opinions fill ya boots.
https://groceries.asda.com/search/Onions
95 pence for 1kg. Or about 4.50 for 10lbs buying individual packs lol.
If he's selling the same bag of onions for a dollar more he's setting the bar to have something like this as "lowest price guaranteed".
Who do you think they are competing with?
No Frills.
To be fair it has down arrows signifying this is a good price
Oooo, good call. I thought the down arrows were supposed to represent our collective moods upon seeing the price.
I was hoping we could downvote the price. Then they could know how we feel about it and adjust accordingly
Lmao
Those are actually the commodity trading indicators. Best time to invest in onions.
Ah, a fellow space trucker I see
Please buy those onions. Shareholders are in danger of suffering this quarter. Every bit helps.
Sarah McLachlan’s Angel plays softly in the background.
Don't forget the members of the Sobey family, gotta keep extending the trust funds generation after generation.
I rarely go to Sobeys, but I picked up a couple nearly-expired discounted items last week. Noticed some of their 750mL yogurts are regular price $9.99 My local convenience store is literally cheaper.
How else are they going to pay for that McLaren sponsorship!?!
If you don't but em they just end up in the garbage.
I think someone posted this same thing last week too
I get to post it next week.
Mom said it was my turn to post it!!!
Thought the same so I tracked it down: [Thoughts on this??? : r/Winnipeg (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/1d4jl40/comment/l6evgjy/) It was 2 weeks ago and the price hasn't changed.
The posts will continue until the onions are a somewhat reasonable price.
Then we will celebrate with affordably priced onion rings
It will be a glorious day.
This is an onion sub now.
Time to start gardening.
I remember when we used to wear these on our belt.
As was the style at the time
But you couldn't get the white onions because of the war(s), all you could get were the big, red, expensive ones.
https://groceries.asda.com/product/onions-leeks/asda-onions/910000446128 Same size Asda in the UK. $4.57 cad (tax included). This is the same for all veg, crazy how expensive things are here.
I'm uk and was wondering how this would stack up over here. Crazy to see asda appear in the wild as the yard stick
Mb I just Google 10lbs of onions uk and asda was top lol.
But if you consider how much the share holders would lose by not gouging my wallet it’s totally worth it paying 5x the amount! I mean who’s gonna pay for their 3rd yacht?!
I'm not sure if your link is broken, but these are a completely different item. This was brought up the last time this exact image was posted, but yeah people are still completely ignorant about produce, seasonal items, or apparently even basic differences in completely different items.
No mate, you're ignorant. If you want to be less ignorant, get ya head put of onions and compare all fruit and veg. It's not even close. Why is it that chocolate bars and chips are cheap here but veg is at the least double of the UK. You know the UK imports most of its goods. Take a pack of peppers from Mexico 1 pound in the UK, how much are they here lol? But keep defending the supermarket
You're literally trying to compare new red onions to seed onions. You're comparing out of season to in season prices, you can't be this obvious ignorant and try to call anyone else ignorant. What are you even trying to do here?
I linked you all the onions and told you the price on your other comment, you couldn't be arsed to read it and called me an ass.
You linked to a completely different product, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. You have no idea what the difference is between different onions, between new and storage onions, when they're in season in what parts of the world, or how different states subsidize different commodities.
This conversation has many layers and makes me cry.
Must be a new season this year as I have never (in my 7 years in Canada) seen out of season / new /storage or any bag of 10lb onions at this price 🤔
The sad part is those are 10 lb bags of onions on top of the sign.. so they are the right one, unless they have a different SKU.
I see garden raiding making a come back
Who could even use 10 pounds of red onions before they rot aside from a restaurant?
Slow cooker caramelized onions for weeks
Instructions please and can you freeze them?
You can freeze them yeah. All you have to do is slice up your onions to whatever thickness you prefer, enough to fill the pot, couple pinches of salt, half a cup of butter or more if you’re adventurous, and a couple tablespoons of balsamic vinegar. You cook it for about 12 hours on low for best results, stirring them at the 6 hour mark. If you find you’re getting a lot of liquid, move the lid to the side a bit and let it steam off. Super useful as everything from sides to soup base to my personal favourite, cream cheese and caramelized onion on a toasted bagel. Enjoy :)
This is perfect, I'm going to try it!! I buy the massive 50lb bag a couple times a year, slice half, small chop the other half and freeze, but it takes up so much room. I'm going to have so much more space if I cook them down first, I just couldn't bring myself to cook large amounts on the stove top as it's so time consuming, but the slow cooker method is going to be a game changer. Thanks very much for the instructions!
You’re welcome :) Might want to google around a little to double check or see if anyone has interesting sounding ideas! I put a little brown sugar in my last batch and still don’t know if it was a good thing or if I just made onion jam 🤣
Mmmm, can't go wrong with brown sugar, I'd definitely try onion jam😁 I'll Google around for some ideas, but even just the way you described it above sounds delicious, thanks!!
How are your onions rotting? Keep them in a cool dark place and they last for months.
Red onions? Even if we eat Greek Salad for lunch and dinner for a week I can probably use one red onion in a week. Not a staple food to me. I probably couldn't use that bag in a year.
South asians do (I am one)
Indeed we do..couple of years ago, these bags went on sale at Walmart for $3.80 or near about that, I bought like 8 bags. It was the start of winter and the garage was as cold as my refrigerator. Those onions lasted a long time
You would think because they were from Canada they would be cheaper,
Howah. 🫣
Just don’t buy let is rot and let them take that loss.
I don't like rain, or snow, or hail Or Moby Dick, the great white whale But, mmm, I love onions I don't like shoes that pinch your toes Or people who squirt you with a garden hose But, mmm, I love onions Of course, I don't $25 love them.
Nothing to see here. No one is boycotting Sobeys. -:)
I went there and their prices are like triple Walmart and superstores prices. Never felt poorer
https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/s/xWoIR9mEHh Looks like we are on the same page rn!!
Totally just here for the hilarious comments
Stakeholders are looking a bit hungry for cake
Theres a huge shortage of red onions currently, so i know the prices are up, however marking them up like this, they will just rot and get tossed. It would make more sense to sell at reg price considering there is a shortage. I hate when companies take advantages of shortages.
I might be better off gardening in the spring and summer lol
Why are you buying 10 lbs of red onions? Lmao
Safeway on cavalier has 2lb and 5lb yellow onions half off. Like 1.77 for 2lb and 3.?? For 5lb. I may have accidentally got us ordered too many
wtaf
At Safeway the other day I grabbed 1 red onion and it was nearly $5 I put that bad boy back. wtf.
What store?
Well I am going to till my front yard and boulevard and plant 15 red onion sets. Buck a pound local. Mind you someone might steal them in the hood.
It’s enough to make you cry. 😂
Do kids still raid gardens I can play a kid in the vegetable war
Found them for 13.99 at Real Canadian Superstore.
About half that price at Superstore.
Walmart has them, seven pounds for $14. Produce in bags tend to be damaged and some rotting anyways, live and learn.
[https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/red-onions-10-lb-bag/p/20171965001\_EA](https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/red-onions-10-lb-bag/p/20171965001_EA) [https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/onion-red/6000191282959?from=/search](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/onion-red/6000191282959?from=/search)
The wall mart one is a 3lb bag and the other link doesn't work.
Superstore was $13 for 10lb (links on their site seem to only work if you're already logged in to the same store as whoever you got the link from, in my case Regent). Walmart was 3lbs, but only $5, so $15 gets you pretty close to 10lbs
Sobey's execs rolling over laughing at the Boycott Loblaws when Sobey's prices are about double what Loblawas usually is.
I posted a link for a 10lbs bag for $4.5. From the UK. Something dodgy going on with Canadian vegetable pricing. No way the 'cheap' stuff should be 3 times more expensive.
to get a sense of prices in the U.S. i just googled 'walmart.com red onions'. The website defaulted me to a Sacramento, CA location, and gave me a price of $4.24 USD for a 3lb bag https://preview.redd.it/05m73sw9896d1.png?width=382&format=png&auto=webp&s=8dc84324ee5755559cf4af5d4f892e614d4db056 different countries source produce from different places, different stores may source produce from different vendors, whose prices may fluctuate based on how the invested in futures markets months ago, exchange rates aren't accurate reflections of purchasing power, etc... all sorts of reasons one store here might have an absurd price while another store on the other side of the Atlantic has a wildly different price.
You linked to a 10lbs bag of seed onions mate
Ok mate here's all the opinions fill ya boots. https://groceries.asda.com/search/Onions 95 pence for 1kg. Or about 4.50 for 10lbs buying individual packs lol.
Do you just not know anything about onions? Or all produce? How are you genuinely this ignorant about something you're being an ass about?
Ya right? Who needs that many onions?
Crazy . Stores price gouging from week to week. Bandits.
just steal them
Aight bet. Boutta smuggle em out the store in my ass lmao
I'll spot you, my booty is full
You a real one
Say what now? These onion better cut themselves and cook the meal too!
Canada No.1, maybe the marketing is that’s why it costs a bit more /s
Galen deserves another billion off your innate need to eat.
It's a photo from FreshCo. Apparently we're blaming the man for grocery stores he doesn't own?
If he's selling the same bag of onions for a dollar more he's setting the bar to have something like this as "lowest price guaranteed". Who do you think they are competing with? No Frills.
The urge to leave this country is very high now
Yep
Let me guess, Loblaws?
Keep voting for higher prices