{"id":905475,"date":"2026-09-22T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:32:20","slug":"groceries-identified-as-number-one-financial-stressor-for-atlantic-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905475\/","title":{"rendered":"Groceries Identified as Number One Financial Stressor for Atlantic Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/food-on-shelves-groceries-zoodles-fraser-farms-meatballs.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Groceries Identified as Number One Financial Stressor for Atlantic Canadians\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey shows that a third of Atlantic Canadians admit that it would be difficult for them to manage their financial obligations if their paycheque was delayed by a week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/payroll.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The National Payroll Institute <\/a>released the results of its 2026 Survey of Working Canadians today. <\/p>\n<p>It shows that more than half of Atlantic Canadians asked say the price of groceries is their greatest source of financial stress. <\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that more than half (55 per cent) of all working Atlantic Canadians now spend all or more of their net pay. <\/p>\n<p>President of the National Payroll Institute, Peter Tzanetakis says everyday living costs have been identified as the top stressor for respondents. <\/p>\n<p>He says that includes groceries and household products. \u201cIt really is hitting the household budget significantly.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) A recent survey shows that a third of Atlantic Canadians admit that it would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-905475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905475","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=905475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}