The average retail price of bread in Canada was three Canadian dollars per 675 grams in February 2022. The price has remained relatively stable over the survey period, with the average annual price remaining between 2.76 and 2.89 Canadian dollars. However, the price has increased in recent months. The cost of bread hit an all-time high in April 2016 at 3.06 dollars for 675 grams.
The Canadian bread market
Retail sales of bread in Canada reached around 3.53 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, this figure was forecast to increase to around 4.24 billion U.S. dollars by 2022. Sales of packaged or industrial bread clearly outperform those of unpackaged or artisanal bread - in 2017, total sales of unpackaged bread amounted to around 964 million U.S. dollars, whilst sales of packaged bread totaled approximately 2.57 billion U.S. dollars.
Statistics Canada collects prices for food, household supply and personal care items from food supermarkets and drugstores, prices for cigarettes from supermarkets, department stores, drug stores and tobacco shops, and prices for regular, unleaded gasoline from gas stations.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, January 2020 to February 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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