{"id":876441,"date":"2026-08-30T01:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876441\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:12:15","slug":"winnipeggers-facing-rising-costs-during-back-to-school-shopping-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876441\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeggers facing rising costs during back-to-school shopping – Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\tBy \tToni De Guzman<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 29, 2026 6:24 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Winnipeg bargain stores are seeing parents hunting for deals on school supplies for their children this academic season.<\/p>\n

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Back-to-school shopping generates more than $4.5 billion annually, and households can spend from $600 to $750 per child, according to a Retail Council of Canada report in 2026. With inflation rising to three per cent in July, parents say there\u2019s no way around it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m so tired of hearing about the rising costs, I mean, it sucks, but we all have to deal with it,\u201d said parent Graham Voth in an interview at Value Village.<\/p>\n

An organization that makes affordable back-to-school backpack kits for kids in northern communities saw an increase in interest.<\/p>\n

Danica Lazatin, sales and marketing co-ordinator at Tru-North Supply, said they\u2019ve filled 400 backpacks this season.<\/p>\n

The first day of classes is on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Toni De Guzman Global News Posted August 29, 2026 6:24 pm 1 min read Descrease article font…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[19961,49,48,548,44,97513,22073],"class_list":["post-876441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-back-to-school","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economics","tag-news","tag-rising-costs","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876441","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=876441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}