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Ham Steaks
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1.98
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CANADA GRADE A BEEF SALE
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Cut and wrapped for your freezer. Hanging weight 130-150 lb. approx. kg4.391b.1.99
Whole Hind of Beef
Cut anti wrapped for your freezer. Hanging weight 50-60 lb.
Sirloin, Wing, r -Bone Steak plus Regular Ground Beef kg 6.57 lb 2.98
Whole Loin of Beef
Whole Hi
Cut and wrapped for your freezer. Hanging weight approx. 60 lbs. kg. 395
u lb. • i "�
of Beef
Full Slice
Boneless Round Steaks kg.593 ib.2.69
Boneless
kg. lb 69
Rouu ndSteakRoasts■
Tenderized kg 6.37 lb. 2.8 6
Beef Cube Steak
Fresh
T -Bone, Wing or Sirloin Steaks � kg. 7.92 Ib. 31159
Lean g k 4.81 Ib. 2.18
Stewing Beef g
Regul
Groouur nd Beef kg. 3.70 ib. 1u68
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Regular 1/z and 1/z kg. 3.70 lb. I 66
GroundBeefandPork
Top. , 7.69 lb.3"49
Round Rouladen kg.
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Mainstream
Canada
Challetiging
tines,
changing
attitudes
By W. Roger rth
In the last couple o years,
people from Newfoundland
to British Columbia have
been forced to accept a hefty
dose of economic reality, and
the results have been fascin-
ating.
The "dose of reality", of
course, came in the form off a
recession that created mas-
sive unemployment, high
interest rates, near -record
business bankruptcies and,
most important, a great deal
of uncertainty about the fu-
ture, particularly as it per-
tains to jobs.
The result: the attitudes of
ordinary Canadians about
spending and getting value
for their hard-earned cash
has changed dramatically,
and people may never return
to the heavy borrowing, free -
spending ways that charac-
,, terized the 1970s.
It's true, Canadians gener-
ally don't have as much
money to spend, but they are
even shepherding the money
that is available. It seems
we've made the giant leap
from a nation of seemingly
uncaring spendthrifts to one
where frugality and value -
for -a -dollar are paramount.
Some retailers even contend
that consumers are becom-
ing so selective in their buy-
ing habits that the attitude
verges on stinginess.
._.The.e-videnee.?.- __ .._.....
Everyone in the country, it
seems, is developing a rainy -
day nest egg to offset the
threat of a personal layoff,
reduction in payor a cutback
in., the number of hours
worked.
What else could explain
the acknowledged fact that
Canadians are saving a stag-
gering 14 per cent of dispos-
able income (about $80 -bil-
lion), up 50 per cent from a
normal 9 to 10 per cent.
Attractive high interest
rates have certainly played a
role in this savings binge, but
there is little question people
are heeding the Boy Scout
motto "Be Prepared".
While Canadians are sav-
ing more, it follows that they
are spending less, which is
indeed the case. Imports of
mainly -manufactured goods
were down 13 per cent in
1982, and some major
department store chains are
losing money because of the
drop-off in sales.
Discount retailers and
PV�1'
gain basement opera-
tions, on the other hand,
appear to be picking up busi-
ness as consumers shop
around. It seems we're
really becoming price con-
scious.
Then there's the change in
borrowing patterns. Simply
put, we're paying off loans
rather than increasing the
balances to buy more con-
sumer goods. Consumer
credit ( as a percentage of
after-tax income) is now at
its lowest level since the
1960s, and even creditcard
companies are feeling the
pinch. Canadians are in fact
paying down those "plastic"
balances with the high, high
interest rates.
Restraint in wage settle-
ments, it appears, has sud-
denly become natural. One
union after another has
accepted the reality that
many companies cannot af-
ford big salary increases, so
mediocre raises or even
reductions have been negoti-
ated.
At the government level,
restraint programs have
been grudgingly accepted.
The point, of course, is that
the average Canadian has
reacted quite reasonably and
realistically to excruciating
changes in the economic en-
vironment. Savings are up,
borrowing is down and there
is real soul searching and in-
vestigation before major
consumer items are pur-
chased.
Now, it appears the reces-
sion is ending. Yet even•the
policies included in Finance
Minister Marc Lalonde's re-
cent budget may not be
enough to change people into
free spenders again. That
may take a long while in:
deed.
Dunant birthdate
Jean Henri Dunant, found-
er of the Red Cross Society,
was born on May 8, 1828, at
Geneva, Switzerland.
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