{"id":671107,"date":"2026-05-15T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:14:10","slug":"whole-chickens-priced-at-more-than-20-at-some-metro-grocery-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671107\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Chickens Priced at More Than $20 at Some Metro Grocery Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The price of a whole chicken at one grocery store in the St. John’s area on May 14, 2026 (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

Another affordability threshold has been surpassed with some whole chickens in the metro region selling at more than $20 this week.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a shocker even to Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie\u2019s Agri-Food Analytics Lab.<\/p>\n

He says as of yesterday, the average price for a whole chicken in Canada was $3.74 per pound, which makes the prices here even more surprising.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it\u2019s way more than $5 a pound which is really getting up there. And frankly, it\u2019s problematic, because we do have supply management in Canada. Poultry is supply managed; we are expecting to see more stable prices at the meat counter, especially for poultry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He believes feed that must be imported into the province and the associated transportation costs are contributing to high prices.<\/p>\n

While beef is excessively expensive right now, poultry is always considered to be much more affordable.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeef is very expensive, but beef is free market, same for pork, but chicken, we\u2019re not supposed to see prices increasing more than say, 3 per cent a year. That would be the average, tops. But right now, this year we\u2019re flirting with 10 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some grocers have since adjusted their prices and dropped them down to more affordable levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The price of a whole chicken at one grocery store in the St. John’s area on May…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-671107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671107","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=671107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}