Loblaws vs No Frills: The Same Products Cost Us More

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#canada #movingtocanada #inflation
We compared grocery shopping prices in Toronto Downtown, and went to Loblaws ( expensive) and No Frills (cheap). In this video we share shopping experience, quality of food, how different the stores are and compare how much you pay for the same product in two stores: Loblaws and No Frills. We bought the same food brands in both stores.
00:00 - Intro
02:34 - Experience Shopping in Loblaws
09:24 - 2 Weeks Later - What we did
10:46 - Shopping in No Frills
16:00 - First Look an the Receipts
16:59 - Final Results and Conclusions
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@abdulqadirnulwalla7332 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much for the video. Great editing and very informational

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@user-vh7st5gn8b 9 ай бұрын

Excellent video! Thank you for your work!

@MakeThatChange 9 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@kubrabozdag3084 Жыл бұрын

I enjoy watching your videos, thank you!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

@p4bl3ns38 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! This information worth its weight in gold ! 👏

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@liu6795 Жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing this, especially in this inflation time.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@enmanuelpaulino5496 Жыл бұрын

I love the video, it helps a lot. Great job guys, keep it up !!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

@MueresEnElMar Жыл бұрын

Really useful and accurate, thanks!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙌

@nematmirayala 11 ай бұрын

Thanks guys, that was a deep detailed comparison which can be pretty useful based on the category you want to shop for👌🏻

@MakeThatChange 11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!🤗

@milkdromedaquantic8593 Жыл бұрын

This channel is a gem!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

🥰🙈

@sacphilip Жыл бұрын

Wow you guys did a phd in grocery shopping with this. Every detail taken into consideration

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Hahaha glad you liked it! We had fun making it

@coolheeling Жыл бұрын

Very interesting topic, useful and fun too 👍

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@titoronoh6966 Жыл бұрын

Very informative as Anastasia says..I liked the tour of both stores..Well presented video..I get to learn more about Canada and more about you guys..Keep up the good work

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching - your support means a lot!

@1975edgard Жыл бұрын

A hell of job you've done. Good and interesting video.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

@countroshculla Жыл бұрын

Ok ladies, 2 months late but I love this video. I like these kind of comparison stuff, so kudos to you two. Make it series, please!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! We’d certainly love to turn it into a series. What would you like to learn more about here?

@ASH-was-my-handle Жыл бұрын

Love this video, just subscribed and I also learned that I am a nerd (I have my own excel sheets hahaha).

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

hhahaha nerds are the best!

@diamondzieman5508 11 ай бұрын

I love the uniformity. Love this

@MakeThatChange 11 ай бұрын

💕

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

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@danieladdo51 Жыл бұрын

You guys are doing fantastic job, may God continue increase you more wisdom, keep it up.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Thank you Daniel!

@ketan8421 Жыл бұрын

Great analysis!! Thanks for doing such a detailed video 👍 Mutton which I think i will get at Indian store.

@mrhellenkellers 3 ай бұрын

loving your vids. we need more shit like this. real life not the latest music videos. keep up the good work

@urielyairar9593 Жыл бұрын

What a great video!!!! You guys are awsome... (Lumos to Anna)

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Lumos🪄

@devinjohnson1999 11 ай бұрын

I love watching your videos. Even though I have been here 11 years, I still learn things about Canada. I wish I was friends with you (like neighbours and what-not); you are hilarious. But, my husband would drive you crazy (he drives me crazy) LOL :)

@johnutube5651 Жыл бұрын

Oh, I already pretty much figured out what to buy from where by sheer experience. Some of the items I should buy from Metro esoecially some fruits that have that crunch, some from Nofrills, Walmart, Real Canadian Super Store, Highlandfarms, Food Basics, Bulk Barn, Fresh Co, Chinese/Thai stores (Use them a lot in fact, especially for fish and veggies), Southasian groceries for certian ethnic items. When I go to one grocery, mostly I buy everything from there as time and gas can be saved that way.

@Hexe666999 Жыл бұрын

Now I am really happy that I have no frills close to me😂🎉

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Haha nice! 🙌🙌🙌

@salimkh2237 11 ай бұрын

No frills ❤❤❤

@randomz8428 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your efforts, much appreciated. To my knowledge small vegetables taste better than bigger ones, granted they are not spoiled, but they dont last as long so you have buy every week

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

You are right!

@romancherevatenko5658 Жыл бұрын

Perfect! Very interesting! It will be very helpful to compare in the future 2020/2022/2023/2024 etc and not only grocery's products.... It will be very interesting to compare different services (medical, entertainment, fines, goverment services etc)

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Definitely interested in keeping track of this grocery list for the next years to come! We will think about what we can do about other services! thank you for the request, Roman

@yingwaikwok6696 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your sharing, to spend so much time to make the video. I love grocery in Canada, they are huge compare to my city, I will make sure not to go to Loblaws, great tips!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching - glad it was useful!

@germanguerrero4355 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos so far, planning to move to Canada this year was hoping to see Avocados in this video but no problem are they expensive and also available at all seasons? I base my entire diet around them :P

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Yes, avocados are available in Canada 😊

@eleonn Жыл бұрын

One piece of music used on this video seemed to be taken out of Star Wars' bar scene! 🤣

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

hahahaah you've got a good ear!

@bonniebrown1305 Жыл бұрын

This is a great video! Very informative! I regularly shop at Food Basics or No Frills. We have a Loblaws- based store n my small town (Ontario) and the prices are outrageous! P.S. I would buy the chicken, vacuum seal it and freeze it right away!.

@Eminate2121 Жыл бұрын

Loblaws owns No Frills.

@kaisermarcellus Жыл бұрын

interesting to compare loblaws x no frills x walmart x food basics

@casebeth Жыл бұрын

As a data analyst I love your color coded spreadsheet

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

hahahah we're glad you appreciated that one

@casebeth Жыл бұрын

@@MakeThatChange if you are in the US and go to a proper farm or market things taste a lot better, but ya generally the genetically grown, year round fruit tastes like water :(

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

yup! sadly true American farm good doesn't make it to Canada =(

@casebeth Жыл бұрын

@@MakeThatChange sad. Fresh Fruits and vegetables in Spain are something I really miss about living there. Here I use a lot of frozen vegetables.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Nothing beats European fresh produce... or any produce outside North America for that matter....

@annavetrova8200 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. Can't help to correct maple syrup price you mention, it's ~$8-9 / 500ml. What you grabbed was a fancy souvenir bottle. Sorry to be a pain in the neck but it's the sacred food of Canada so we gotta be careful 🤣🤣🤣

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Haha all good - all we can say in our defence - those were the only maple syrup profucts we came across in the whole 2.5 hours at the store. 😃

@annavetrova8200 Жыл бұрын

My second comment to say thanks, very interesting, the spreadsheet was my fave part 🤓😆 I live in Halifax and shop in Superstore (our version of Loblaws), and I think I have a few answers. I think cheeses you bought were PC brand - it's Loblaws private label, will always be cheaper and same price through the chain. Private labels are generally a very good way to save. PC brand I find is good quality, they are usually produced on same factories as branded items. Stores use them as they just earn on turnover vs branding. Salmon: I suspect bigger and fancier Loblaws had a fish section and you got freshly filleted fish vs pre packed in No frills. That's why Loblaws was cheaper. Normally food freshly cut in meat / fish sections is cheaper, again I shop for those vs branded packages to save. Thanks again!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Gotcha! Thanks Anna for the insights🙌🙌

@Eminate2121 Жыл бұрын

Anna, Loblaws owns Superstore AND No Frills. These dummies just compared the same store with itself.

@annavetrova8200 Жыл бұрын

@@Eminate2121 I think it was intentional as they mentioned it in the beginning. They just wanted to compare two formats of the same brand to provide a more consistent comparison. Also they mentioned that they don't shop for most of these items regularly, so it's obsert to think they aimed for a deep dive review

@ARMY-73 Жыл бұрын

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@yukon666 Жыл бұрын

would be great to compare similar products in different chains, sobers for example and Walmart. but anyway its cool research.

@Eminate2121 Жыл бұрын

No it isn't. Loblaws owns No Frills.

@karenbrooks8915 Жыл бұрын

Olive oil? Something for cooking or making salad dressing?

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Both ideally

@AlexKasper Жыл бұрын

It's my impression or those prices are cheaper (5-10%) than in Vancouver, BC. Also, I buy the discount chicken, cut to size and freeze.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Life hack!

@TheGamingCanadian Жыл бұрын

That’s funny, especially when Loblaws owns No Frills LOL

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@andywood5699 Ай бұрын

Salmon may be more expensive in one store because the product moves quicker than in the other store. Some products may have different prices by the store manager in that particular store because that product needs to be moved. When an item is popular and the demand is high the store can raise the price because the demand is there. When the demand is low the price is lowered to move that item.

@MakeThatChange Ай бұрын

thank you for this insight.

@astelbele 6 ай бұрын

Next do a video on No Frills and Freshco and compare the same.

@MakeThatChange 6 ай бұрын

great idea!

@astelbele 6 ай бұрын

@@MakeThatChange Yes, I am curious to see the difference. Dont use any points rewards just pay the price and compare..I enjoy watch these types of videos. Thank you girls...

@MakeThatChange 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Stay tuned!

@martinsmith4836 Жыл бұрын

No frills and freshco is still cheaper than the rest . If they need to pay more to buy product, then I believe they have every right as a business to pass the increase to the consumer .

@kathleenhunter3666 Ай бұрын

it's my understanding that Fairlife milk is from the USA

@tsybze 4 ай бұрын

4:36.... "Hot dog"😄

@stephenng6541 Ай бұрын

Is like buying from Toyota and Lexus.

@markf9138 6 ай бұрын

In the UK, Pepsi contains artificial sweeteners that taste metallic and can literally kill people who have a very rare disease. On the other hand, Coca Cola uses standard sugar so it has more calories. Pepsi used to have normal sugar too, until the UK inrroduced a sugar tax. So perhaps Pepsi still has the old recipe outaide the UK. Standard Pepsi and Coca Cola don't taste very different but i find Pepsi has a slight zing/floweriness ro it.

@MakeThatChange 6 ай бұрын

wow! interesting to know!

@kassieh5794 Жыл бұрын

No Frills in Ontario is a real grocery store out here in western Canada No Frills is where Loblaws sends all the product they would never put on their shelves

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

That’s the same principle for all lower tier stores in Canada. Quality/freshness is lower in cheaper stores, but the producer is the same

@jrmg5556 10 ай бұрын

someone have this for Montreal?

@sonnyc3826 8 ай бұрын

in my city which is down the highway from Torotno im in St.Catharines a place they may have visited the only store that has remotely as large a selection as lowblaws in Sobeys and its expensive you know what the prices are everywhere you see by visiting different stores i go to the cheaper ones like Food basics and no frillls soemtimes...soemtimes the same thign will be 2 dollars cheaper at another store we also live in famrland or by it so theres locals that have markets or sell freshly grown things..these are often mroe expensive but soemtimes i buy local just to support the famrers and stuff and well it is fresh right? theres quite a bit of that here...as opposed to the big cities like Toronto..but stuff is still far too expensive...a famrer in Canada once said he sells his chicken for 2.25 or so per kg but in teh grocery store they prices it at 12.25 so theres a problem there it shows how greedy the store owners are or how much we're gouged or ripped off..i mean theres no reason other than greed why its like that..that lone says eveyrthing about how much we pay or overpay for literally eveyrthing in Canada..

@sentinelparadox Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Indeed always check fresh produce especially eggs. Grab refrigerated items from the back. Did not realise there would be lactose intolerant people from europe, mostly seemed like an asian issue. Has Anastasia ever found a dairy free cheese that actually melts properly. I find both Coke and Pepsi to have a distinct flavour. While coke has a subtler taste and seems a little more carbonated, whereas Pepsi is sweeter. Coke may be broadly popular everywhere like the Queen in chess, but Pepsi is always King.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Most cheeses, actually, have little to no lactose ( the more aged it is the less lactose survives) - so we often get away with real, just more aged cheese instead. Fun fact - everyone becomes lactose intolerant with age - some experience the effects stronger, some less. Great distinction between pepsi and coke - duly noted!

@sonnyc3826 8 ай бұрын

salmon is expensive and its an aquired taste but very healthy i googled it before as ive eaten salmon in trying to make a better diet and even farmed salmon isnt far off from wild caught..i mean wild caught is better but farmed still isnt bad for you its better that alot ofotehr things..spinach i also like fish in general is good and tasty salmon is much healtheir than most fish though as im sure they know Anastasia is cute,,, i mean they both are i guess..

@MakeThatChange 8 ай бұрын

❤️

@reseeddb6083 Жыл бұрын

О, и котейка есть.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

главный персонаж!

@Roman-mo4mi Жыл бұрын

How did you get 20.04%? (124.66 / 109.50) * 100 = 113.84 Meaning One store is 13.84% more expensive that the other. You could go the other way. (109.50 / 124.66) * 100 = 87.84 Meaning the cheaper store is 87.84% of the more expensive one. Again the difference is 12.16%. Am I wrong? :)

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

20.04% is the average of the column (average delta) aka 20% is the average difference in price for all items we looked at. Hope it helps.

@Roman-mo4mi Жыл бұрын

@@MakeThatChange Makes sense, but is probably not the number people are looking for. :)

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Perhaps, all depends on your methodology!

@DeborahThird-og1uo Ай бұрын

Lonlaws IS No Frills; also own Shoppers, etc etc

@MakeThatChange Ай бұрын

Loblaws is both a holding company and a higher-end grocery store. This video compares two stores of the same chain, but with different price points.

@evagreencoin Жыл бұрын

Hot Dog 😂

@s.r7675 Жыл бұрын

Prices are not that different then uk

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Really? Just to confirm, did you convert CAD to £?😊

@VoiCeSbeHinDtheWaLL 9 ай бұрын

Loblaws is no frills lol. All same company

@MakeThatChange 9 ай бұрын

yes, yet the prices are not the same. please watch the full video ;)

@irfanbd08 Жыл бұрын

u guys are data analyst in disguise of nurse , huh ?

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Data is king!

@cdnsoul5808 Жыл бұрын

I never, ever use self-checkout. When people use self checkout, they are actually taking someone's job away. Think about that next time.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Those jobs have already been taken away by then though

@TONI__KROOS Жыл бұрын

@@MakeThatChange Just curious..Are you canadian?

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Naturalized Canadian

@TONI__KROOS Жыл бұрын

@@MakeThatChange ok and which one is talking?😅

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

Both!

@Eminate2121 Жыл бұрын

You dummies, Loblaws OWNS no-frills.

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

What makes you think that this is new information for us?

@ABD-od2xh Жыл бұрын

please share the cheapest option for all groceries in ontario!

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

We found that the small Asian/Chinese stores around the city often have the best prices. Looking at the cheap grocery chains - Food Basics is probably the cheapest in Ontario

@ABD-od2xh Жыл бұрын

@@MakeThatChange thanks a lot

@MakeThatChange Жыл бұрын

you are very welcome!