~ Grocery. prices.in- . Terrace are

| steady and holding. Not so in

Vancouver, according to the ~

.-. .Province’s consumer. reporter ~

.# ° prices “are higher than down
;. «+ §outh, ‘but ‘fairly even ‘between
*. . . ‘the three ‘major grocery: outlets
, ‘serving our community. _

_ "Marlaina Gayle. Citing a ‘‘food

war’’, Gayle compared prices at

_ 10 Jower:mainland stores last:
tot week, listing items; prices and

noting a difference of $28.99 be-
tween food stores. A similar’ .
survey in Terrace shows that our

by. Stephanie Wiebe.

_ The Terrace. Co-operative .
Association, Overwaitea Foods
_.. and Canada Safeway Limited
'"- showed minimal price © varia-

tions, but due to advertised |
specials, in-store specials and
coupon discounts, some - dif-
ferences arose. These “special”? -
prices change weekly.

Last Thursday, Feb. I, the |
-32-item basket of listed groceries

Price war hasn't t spread.
to local grocery front: .

cost $122. 29 at Overwaitea,
$127.72 at Safeway, -and $120.15
at.Co-op. Bargain hunters could
‘save. about $4.00 more by clip-

“ping Overwaitea’s flyer coupons. .

for two of the items on our list,
also redeemable at Safeway. The .

Co-op does not accept. the com- -

petition’s coupons; however,
_ that. store still fared well in the
~gurvey.°- -

The list can be deceiving.
Some items listed were not ‘‘on
special’’ in all of the stores last
week, but they may ‘be. sale-
priced another week. Specials
differ from store to store. Savvy

shoppers stock up on sale-priced

goods.

Reg Piercey, manager of Co- .

Op’s .grocery " department said,
“We do: a fair amount of price

, checking. It’s comparative.”

- Overwaitea priced = Sunrype «
blue-label apple juice (one 'liter) -
at 84 cents for the first two tetra--
paks, \Safeway’s. ptice was 78 -
cents with the same limit of two.
Co-op had “no limits”. at 78.
cents. >.

Last week, “Overwaitea’s $:
manager, © ‘Schmidt | ‘said,

-“'We do ‘watch each other —. we

watch the.prices.”” He was leav- -
ing. for-a new. position, in Dun-

can, while: the: new - manager, .

John Chivildave had just arrived.

from ‘Burns: Lake that day,

‘Chivildave said he didn’t know |
the: local- marketplace yet, but.”

“usually, it’s quite comparative ,

with other stores in the area.’
- Both stores’ ‘Imahagement ad-

mitted they do check the | com-—

e check-

petition’s advertising flyers,

Don Bell from Canada Safe-
_ way’ 8. public affairs. department.
“in Vancouver. said that local :

. store managers are responsible 7
. _ for watching, competitors’ prices .

in their areas, 5 * .
- But ‘price’; is ‘not~ ‘alivays the
reason ' for’ capturing 4 food

. shopper’s. loyalty. “Selection,”

said one customer. “‘If the selec-
tion’s not there, I walk right
out.” A shopper with small chil-
- dren said, ‘‘I like familiarity.
Usually, I'm ina hurry.’”” Many
people s said they shop at all three
~ major. stores, préferring one
store’s meat cut, another’s prod-

-uce, and another’s bulk food.
section. One. customer felt it is’
important that. the physical

layout of the aisles at one store
was nicer’ than its competitor’s
design.
So, it seems there’s not a
‘food war” escalating in Ter-
race, as there evidently is in Van-

couver. But at Teast when Ter-

Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 7, 1990 AS

out —

race shoppers steer their carts
out into the parking lot, they.can
easily find their cars, and be
back home in minutes. ~~

‘Local man
wins award
from UBC

. “Terrace resident Leonard Ap- .
pleby has been awarded the Ir- ~
-win Davis Prize after turning no

a top-rank performance at Real

Property Law, a correspondence —

course offered by the Faculty of
Commerce and Business Admin-

istration at the University of

British Columbia.

Appleby, a first year student. .-

in the Urban Land Economics

program, received a $200 cash .
prize in connection with the .

‘award.

Comparing prices,

goer

4.68... |

ITEM & SIZE. .
Toothpaste Crest 100 ml 2 22
Diapers Huggies 44’s 14.07
' ~ Seda Crackers Christies 450 g
- Peanut Butter Squirrel 500 g * 2.62 °
Instant Coffee Maxwell 200g 6.89
Ground Coffee MJB 300 g 3.33
Flour Robin Hood 10 kg 8.59
Sugar (white) B.C. 4 kg 4.49
Wash detergent Tide 10 L re ee
_ Dish detergent Sunlight 1 L ' 3.62
Bakery Bread 1 loaf * 4.10
Eggs, large Grade A 1 dozen 1.72
Cheese slices Kraft 8’s 2.89
Garbage bags Glad 10’s - *2.69
Tissues Kleenex 200's 1.35
' Mushroom soup Campbell's 284 mi *.75 |
Miracle Whip Kraft 1L "3.28
Kraft dinner Kraft 225 g "68
Oli Crisco 1L 3.29
Mitk 2% 2L 2.25
Cake Mix Duncan Hines 500 g 1.63
Mushrooms, fresh 1 kg 6.59"
Bananas 1 kg - 4.74
Cabbage 1 kg - 4.74
T-bone steak 1 kg > 8.57”
Whole fryer, fresh 1 kg oo BBQ
. Evaporated milk Pacific 385 ml ~ 99
Straight cut fries McCain 1 kg - 2.35
.4.. Polish dill pickles Bick 1 L | 2.59,
Frozen Orange Julce Minute Maid 355 mi — .
Flaked Tuna Cloverleaf 184 9 2.89
- Tea Tetley 144’s 5.89
- TOTAL 120.15
. * denotes flyer. advertised sale

249 0.

tore
er

2:

here - _ - and there

OVERWAITEA |

2.98
12.98,
i 23g
me 99g

6.89
3.45
8.59
4,39
oo 91,4B
2.38

SAFEWAY.

VANCOUVER’S
“Food War” PRICE
1.24
9.98
1.49
1.59
4.58
1.81
5.88
2.93
819
2.32
43
1.34
2.26
2.02

\*

~ Change in funding policy sought —

The Regional Hospital
* District of Kitimat-Stikine has
endorsed the position of the

Thompson-Nicola Regional.

District (TNRD) on hospital
equipment funding. Both boards
state that the fultding of hospital
equipment has been a concern
for a number of years, and last
year the TNRD commissioned a
study to determine just how
serious the situation really is,
“We need $4,000,000 worth

of replacement | ‘equipment just
to bring the equipment in our
Regional Hospital District up to,

an acceptable condition,”’
reports Thompson-Nicola chair-
man Leroy Wagner. According
to Wagner, their dilemma is the
result of inadequate equipment
replacement funding over the
past 10 years, and the province
has to make some changes both

on a “‘catch-up”’ and ongoing »

basis.

Although they didn’t mention
a dollar figure, the Kitimat-
Stikine board agrees. ‘“We have
been after a change,’’ says direc-
tor Les Watmough. “And not
just a catch-up,

policy.”’ Director Bob Cooper
added, ‘‘It only makes sense that
over a period of time if we use
the equipment, through wear-

and-tear it will need replace. |

ment.’’ Cooper says they need a
“sound’’ policy for equipment
replacement rather than the
‘‘willy nilly’’ system that exists
now and it’s up to the Ministry.
of Health to change their policy.
A letter supporting the Thomp-
son-Nicola position has been
sent to Minister of Health John
Jansen.

band-aid .

_. “Note: sgt tank to Grocery Research Expert S. Onsteln. |

ra PUBLIC MEETING

Terrace City Council would like to
invite interested individuals to a public
' meeting to discuss the proposed

Tourism and Economic Development
Strategy. Copies are available from
City Hall. The meeting will be held:

Tuesday, February 13th, 1990
: 7:30 p.m.
L Inn of the West, West Banquet Roo

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