Look, I love St. Catharines--hometown proud, yo!--but if you said to me "You can live in St. Catharines, or live in Montreal for the same price", well, vive le Quebec!

And Oshawa? Really?!

Your price might go down, but that's because you have the least amount of leverage. Same applies to customers, and to any smaller entity in the supply chain.

I'd also note the LCL, Empire and Metro didn't hesitate to push on supplier increases, but also didn't hesitate to raise resale at the same time. Most of them are seeing increased margins and they're all seeing higher profit, which, if we had a fair tax structure, wouldn't happen.

I work in distribution. Other than select contract negotiations at very high volumes, I can't think of the last time I saw a price decrease go through, though I will say our fuel surcharge at least isn't going up. So the rate of increase is slowing, but resale prices, by and large, are not going down. At best, this is the "new normal"

This is such a dumb headline.

The rate of price increases slowing doesn't mean that prices go down. It means that prices increase more slowly.

ETA: we aren't experiencing deflation. And we probably don't want to.