According to the data, grocery prices are continuing an upward trend.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite being unchanged month over month, prices for food purchased from stores rose five per cent year-over-year in December,\u201d reads the report.<\/p>\n
StatCan found that coffee prices \u2014 which increased 30.8 per cent compared to the same month in 2024 \u2014 and fresh or frozen beef (16.8 per cent increase) remained the largest contributors to food inflation.<\/p>\n
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The report does note that the acceleration was driven by the temporary GST\/HST tax break<\/a> the government implemented from December 2024 to February 2025.<\/p>\n The report says restaurant food, alcoholic beverages, toys, games and hobby supplies, children\u2019s clothing and some grocery products, like potato chips and confectionery, were affected by the GST\/HST break.<\/p>\n \u201cYear over year, higher restaurant prices were the largest contributor to faster growth in the all-items CPI in December 2025,\u201d explains StatCan. \u201cPrices for food purchased from restaurants rose 8.5 per cent in December, compared with a 3.3 per cent increase in November.\u201d<\/p>\n However, coffee has been a major contributor to food inflation for months, as found in earlier StatCan CPI reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n A report from Loblaw<\/a> earlier last year shared that a poor growing season and United States tariffs are factors in increasing coffee prices.<\/p>\n kyozstorage_stock\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n A real-world consequence of this bean inflation is when Tim Hortons raised coffee prices<\/a> in Canada in October, shocking Canadians across the country.<\/p>\n Dalhousie Agri-food Analytics Lab\u2019s Canada\u2019s Food Price Report<\/a> (CFPR) 2026 reported that, despite the removal of counter-tariffs by Ottawa in September, it may still take time for lower prices to reflect in grocery stores.<\/p>\n \u201cCommodities with short shelf lives that move through the supply chain quickly will show more immediate decreases, whereas previously tariffed items with long shelf lives, like coffee, will take more time,\u201d explains the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cCoupled with the fact that many producers, manufacturers and suppliers are exploring international trade markets outside the U.S., it is unlikely that food prices will see a notable decrease soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If your morning routine is grabbing a coffee before work, it may be taking up a bigger chunk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-422889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"coffee\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tim-Hortons-drops-non-dairy-milk-surcharges-in-Canada.jpg\"\/ "\\"\\"")
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