Ten days in, 2008 is looking to be the most expensive year ever. Here in Vancouver, going to work and coming home has gone up by at least 50 cents a day. If you want to go to Surrey--or more likely, if you want to leave Surrey, it'll cost you a whopping five dollars. Unless you wait until dark--and who wants to be in Surrey after dark?--then you can escape for a mere $2.50.
Even the pizza on Hastings has gone up in the New Year. What once simultaneously filled and rotted your gut for nothing more than a loonie now flies out the door for a $1.25 per slice. Ranch dressing is still free, though, so drench that streetza.
The one-point cut to the GST has so far yielded zilch. Most retailers seem to have merely bumped their prices up so that what was a two-dollar coffee in 2007 remains a two-dollar coffee in 2008, keeping the extra two cents for themselves. So, hurrah for business, small and large, I guess. But for consumers, so what? The GST cut isn't bringing me any closer to my 150" TV or my $28 million condo.
mp3: "Pride of Egypt" by Andre Ethier
1 comment:
Nice to see some prices are going down recently, though. Let's hope it continues...
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