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Clinton News-Record, 1974-09-12, Page 5You Just Can't Beat A&P Afouff, SCHNEIDERS, "RED HOTS" "GREAT ON A GRILLI" WIENERS 14. 79 , VAC PAC 13c LOWER THAN A YEAR AGO] SCHNEIDERS, SLICED, 7 VARIETIES '6-0Z 42 Chicken Wings LB 49? Sausages 74: • LB 78? Cottage Rolls LB $1 .0 8 Side Bacon Frozen Meats & Seafood Chicken Wings Chicken Cutlets Frozen Smelts 2. PKG 89? Sliced Boit & Gravy, Freezer Queen Salisbz Sittimagi:irsvy, 2-L8' PKG $ • Beef Patties TOWN , "GREAT ON CLUB A ILLI FROZEN W " 2-LB PKG $1 .68 COOKED Aims VAC PAC 0 GIBLETS OR LIVERS FROZEN Italian Sausage LB 78? Lamb Chops LB 98? 21c lb LOWER THAN A YEAR AGO, 5X BRAND, STORE PACK, 27c lb LOWER THAN A YEAR AGO( SX BRAND, HOT &'SWEET (STORE PACK) TOWN CLUB, SWEET PICKLED, VAC PAC "GREAT ON A GRILLI" IMPORTED, NEW ZEALAND SHOULDER TOWN CLUB SLICED 1-LB VAC PAC $1.29 GOLDEN SKILLET, FROZEN GOLDEN SKILLET, FROZEN LB 8 9fe LB 89? ALL PRICES SHOWN IN THIS AD GUARANTEED EFFECTIVE THROUGH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, 1914, FRESH PRODUCE FEATURES! ONTARIO, NEW CROP, NOM GRADE CARROTS BAG 5-LB 49? ONTARIO, WASHED, MINI GRADE POTATOES 10-lb bag 59f/ ONTARIO GROWN PEPPER SQUASH 2 for 39? ONTARIO GROWN BEANS GREEN OR WAX lb 29? 8 1 WEST' ST 7DERICH WHERE ECONOMY ORIGINATES -1..0$11;111. SAVINg. 1 .4 A Action rived! Your Choice! A&P, FANCY - 14-fl-o* tins ACTION PRICED! APPLE SAUCE MARVEL, 5 FLAVOURS •-• 411-II-ox tins ACTION PRICEDI FRUIT DRINKS SUN SQUEEZE, Eamon, Concentralod, Sweet or Unsweetened ORANGE JUICE 3/$111Q Action Priced! IN TOMATO SAUCE (SAVE 12r) HEINZ SPAGHETTI 39# 28-fl-oz tin Action Priced! AYLMER CHOICE CIVAir BEANS 11441-oz tin 4/1.00 JANE PARKER BREAD 60% OR 100% WHOLE WHEAT OR CRACKED WHEAT SLICED - BUY 3 LOAVES-SAVE 17c 24.01 $ •00 LOAVES JANE PARKER (SAVE 10e) Pumpkin Pie Full 8-inch pie 79% JANE PARKER, PLAIN OR WHEAT (SAVE 10c) Twin Rolls Brown 'N Serve pkg of 12 3 sha? JANE PARKER (SAVE 10c) Raisin Pie Full 8-inch pie 751 JANE PARKER, VANILLA (SAVE 4c) Macaroon Cup Cakes pkg of 6 552, JANE PARKER (SAVE 4c) English Fruit Cake 1-lb, 9'°z pkg 79% JANE PARKER (SAVE 10c) Date Crunch 12-oz foil fray 59ii JANE PARKER, ORANGE OR CHOCOLATE (SAVE 10c) Chiffon Cake 13-ox cake 75? JANE PARKER (SAVE 6c) Sweet Rolls JELLY TOPPED pkg of 8 69? JANE PARKER (SAVE 6c) Babka Coffee Cake 16,oz rake 89% Action Priced! PEPSI COLA 4 1641.oz bottles PLUS BOTTLE DEPOSIT AYLMER CATSUP 00 SAVE 47e OVER OTHER NATIONAL BRANDS 15-FL-OZ BOTTLES VALLEY FARM, FROZEN, CHOICE FRENCH FRIES 2 12-bz pies $1.00 POST Sugar Crisp oz.69c Action Priced! INSTANT COFFEE (SAVE 24c) Tasters Choice 1D Jo/$ IM9 Action Priced! WHITE, CHOCOLATE, DEVIL'S FOOD ROBIN HOOD CAKE MIX 19,,ox pi; 590 IN TOMATO SAUCE LIBIW'S SPAGHETTI SHIRRIFF - 7 FLAVOURS JELLY POWDERS CEREAL NABISCO SHREDDIES LILAC, PINK, WHITE, YELLOW ROYALE FACIAL TISSUES LIBBY'S, FANCY QUALITY TOMATO JUICE DEEP BROWN IN TOMATO SAUCE OR WITH PORK LIBBY'S BEANS ACTION PRICED! 3 14-FL-OZ TINS $1 .00 ACTION PRICED! 5 3.0Z PKGS $1 6 00 ACTION PRICED! 2 18.0Z PKGS $1 .00 ACTION PRICED! 2, 333 SHEETS $1 BXES OF -111 0 ACTION PRICED! 48-FL-OZ TINS $1 .00 ACTION PRICED! 19-FL-OZ TINS $1.00 1 • 1-LB A, PKGS FARMHOUSE, FROZEN, 5 VARIETIES Cream Pies MARTINS ACTION PRICEDI Pure Apple Cider 48-(1-oz tin 59%' MOUTHWASH ACTION PRICED! Colgate 100 12-fl-oz bottle 891z, POWDER ACTION PRICEDI ABC Detergent 2-lb box 83,ge WHITE, YELLOW, PUMPKIN ACTION PRICEDI Towels FACELLE ROYALE pkg of 2 rolls 85 51 ORANGE PEKOE ACTION PRICEDI Red Rose Tea Bags pk§ of 12b $1.89 Action priced! HEINZ SOUP TOMATO OR VEGETABLE 6 $ 10-FL TINS 00 GENERAL FOOD'S - 4 VARIETIES - HAMBURGER MEALMAKERS SKIPPY DOG & CAT FOOD BEEP & LIVER OR FISH DR. BALLARD'S CAT FOOD ELBOW MACARONI, SPAGHETTINI LIDO SPAGHETTI DETERGENT SAIL LIQUID NEILSON - FAMILY SIZE -''S VARIETIES CANDY BARS ACTION PRICEDI 3 7.0Z PKGS $1 600 4 ACTION PRICEDI 8 14'A-OZ TINS $1 .00 ACTION PRICED! 4 25 1/4 -0Z TINS $1•00 ACTION PRICED! 2 2.15 PKGS $1.00 ACTION PRICED! 24-FL-OZ PLASTIC MS $1 0 0 ACTION PRICED! 3 31 /2 -OZ BARS $1 .00 MONT ROUGE, PURE 110.11-oz tins $1.00 Apple Juice FIRESIDE Marshmallows 2 16-oz cello pkgs $1.00 FILTER CIGARETTES 20's OR 15's • Export A Cigarettes carton $5.19 MA LING, WHOLE OR SLICED ACTION PRICEDI Mushrooms 2 10-fhot tins $1.00 CORONATION Chocolate, Butterscotch, Tapioca ACTION PRICED! Puddings Damn 8 4-oz cartons $1.00 CHOICE, PITTED ACTION PRICEDI MP Cherries 2 14-f1-ox tins $1.00 MACARONI & CHEESE Kraft Dinner 4 71/4 -{n pkgs $1.00 CHERRY HILL, DANISH--6 VARIETIES ACTION PRICEDI Cheese Spreads 4-oz tub 39%- ACTION PRICED! Dill Pickles 320z. 59c goliNTON Ng.WS,RFCCHP, THURSDAY, .SEFTEmBER 1974-fokog ands more comprehensive and concerted attack on marketing And sales malpractices, For low-income Canadians, housing is one of the most ex,. Pensive items in the family budget, surpassed only slightly by the amount spent on food, "Prices and the Poor" states that in 1969. Canadians in the bottom fifth of the income scale, and living in cities and towns. with a population over 1,000 paid over twice the proportion of their income for housing that families in the highest fifth paid,. In 1969, ac- cording to Statistics Canada, 0.3 percent of all Canadian families living in cities and towns with a population over 1000 owned their own homes, But among families in the bot- tom fifth of the income scale, Only 37 percent owned their own homes, In the 11 largest cities in Canada, home owner- ship among this lowest income group was down to 23, 6 per- cent. And unquestionably A very large portion of these low income borne-owners were senior CitiZens who had bought their homes many years ago when prices were still low, Additionally, whole neigh- bourhoods in almost every major Canadian city are being transformed from low,incerne housing to more profitable uses profitable that is to the owners, but disastrous to the low-income renters, The felieWing,Are some of the recommendations made by the 'National. Council of Welfare in their- report "Prices and the Poor"1 1. Benefit levels of social security programs should be escalated according to tin index Which takes into account the real growth in the national in- come and not, just the inflation factor reflected in changes in the cost of living, 2. An immediate analysis. must be undertaken of the nutritional status of Canada's poor, 0, A thorough and com- prehensive study of practices in t he o marke ting ther dith of food, rge as oth ing and well. As household. durables Met be undertaken, Price discrimination in loW,InceIng, neighbourhoods must be eliminated by governMent promoting a more vigorous competition policy, the en. couragement of food co-ops and a more comprehensive and con. certed attack on marketing and sales malpractices. 4. With respect to housing, funds and technical support provided to the non-profit sec- tor of the housing market must be increased greatly and there .must be rapid implementation -of a program of rent SO- $itlation within this sector, .5, There should be a public enquiry to explore the relation- ship between consumer credit and the poor. In the meantime, special incentives should be given to credit unions to in- crease the availability of WIN' cost credit to the poor and a. ,government or -government in. dustry program of subsidized or guaranteed low interest loans for low-income •001104M111e should be initiated. 411 COW sumer -credit lenders should be required to disclose their true annual interest rates in 4111 ISCIA vertising, These are some of the Wpm, mendatiens included in the Report by the National Council of Welfare entitled "Prices and the Poor", Copies may be ob- tained from the National Coun- cil of Welfare, Brooke Claxton Building, Ottawa. K14 0K9 I would be very interested in hearing your comments and suggestions, fir )W410011, Huron 1M))10 Last week I was discussing the „rather bleak outlook for feed prices over the next year. I mentioned the ides of sub- stitution for low-income. families and those on fixed in- comes, that the constant spiral of food prices has prompted people to substitute poultry for beef and hamburger for steak. But even substitution is net Super Right Canada Grade 'A" Beef 10c lb' Lower Than A Year Ago! BONELESS $ 128 BLADE or SHORT RIB ROAST lb ,,,i!ABT9.1)ARIG7.1iiiIIR VEAK $138 CROSS RIB STEAKS lb II- BEEF LIVER lb 98i FREEZER CUT BEEF HIPS .09 (CUT & WRAPPED TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONS, CONSISTS OF STEAKS, ROASTS, STEWING BEEF, GROUND MEAT & SOUP BONES) SUPER.RIGHT QUALITY, SLICED 75 to 90-lbs average much help any more as the OBEs of the substitutes have risen so drastically. The latest report of the National Council of Welfare published early this summer was entitled "Prices and the Poor - a report on the low in- come consumer in the Canadian market-place". The thrust of the' report is that the poor have their own' particular consumption patterns and in- flation has ballooned most exorbitantly in the areas of ex- penditure of the poor. For example, when the rich and those on middle incomes turned from steak to ham- burger recently to ease their own pains of inflation, the traditional diet of the poor skyrocketed. The report says that when food prices rise faster than the cost of living generally, the im- pact is twice as great on those with incomes below $3,000 as it is on those above $15,000 because the food component is twice as large in the budget of the poor, In other words, the lower a family's income, the greater the proportion of this income it' spends on food. Families with incomes , of less than $3,000 spent ap-• proximately 27,9 percent of their income on food while families with incomes over $15,000 spent only about 13.4 percent of their budgets on food. Thus, any change in the price of food will have more than double the impact on those at the top. The conclusion spelled out in this report is that the poor pay more to get less. This report points out that as the price of various products rises, most families will begin to substitute less expensive prodUcts for more expensive l:M.VinesOwever, the price of the , "product' being 'sub- i;tiluted will rOduct' which is ' rise hedause P ,fi ` demand has risen. Families will be forced to buy less of it and make their own sub- stitution to something further down the price scale. The substitution process lessens the impact of price in- creases for many families, Perhaps they might not like what they eat as much as before, but this is more a mat- , ter of taste. But what happens to those families who are already buying the least expen- sive items? What can they sub- stitute? The answer, of course, is that they are faced with the alternatives of either spending a great deal more propor- tionally on food (a non-existent alternative where a limited budget is already fully commit- ted) or simply eating less. This is precisely the situation which the poor are having to confront. For low income families the report says that staples are foods such as hamburger, weiners, liver, potatoes, pasta and bread. But in the 12 mon- ths covered by the Report, from December 1972 to December 1973, the cost 'of these com- modities rose much faster than the cost of food in general, hamburger jumped 35 percent, weiners went up 37 percent, liver 36 percent, potatoes 25 percent and pasta 40 percent. Bread went up 22 percent during the year. There is substantial, well documented evidence that the poor are charged more for the same goods and services than are the non-poor. The fact of the limited resources of the poOr results in the low-income market being characterized by factors such as lower sales volumes and slower turnovers of inventory,. This makes it relatively less attractive for merchandisers and leads to the charging of higher unit prices by retail outlets in these areas, What neighbourhood stores of- ten do offer in low-income areas is credit, The result is that once the lbw-ineorne customer is in debt for one month's groceries there is no choice where he buys the next. He is locked into the same neighbourhood store, using this month's cash to pay last Month's bill and sustain credit for this month's purchases. To remedy this situation, the government must start looking tit, a more vigorous competition i policy, the banning of discriminatory pricing within food chains, encouragement of consumer food co-operatives ti