THE PRICE OF FOOD IN IQALUIT, NUNAVUT 

I'm Mexican and I work on the renovation of the North Mart when it burned down I had to clean the Tim Hortons and polish the floor with new wax. I thank God for allowing me to get to know that place full of magic, at first I was very scared to be so far from home, I am Mexican and I did not know ice. but the people of Iquialit are very good. I will always carry you in my heart with love from Mexico.

This definitely makes me not want to complain about grocery prices anymore!

Oh my gosh! If I was stuck paying those kinds of prices for food, I'd ration out every single bite...I'd NEVER overeat again! Fascinating videos ma'am. Thank you for all you do. God bless.

Omg the selection brand sparkling water got me like holy crap! $40 for sparkling water?!

my g/f moved from Winipeg to Nunavut to work in property management. hoping she can open up a pilates studio there! She says the prices for food is off the chain!

Due to the distance I can understand why the cost of goods are higher up in Nunavut and northern Canada. The problem I have is these prices are ridiculously high. It seems like price gouging.

I showed this to my grade two class as we are learning about communities in Iqaluit. Fabulous work and they LOVE the music. Thank you :)

Great video!!!! Maybe a video about Toonik time would be cool :) Or what the new pool is like. Video of the sealift and barges when they come in. Love your videos. Thanks for sharing!

Interesting and thanks for sharing! I saw a similar video posted showing grocery prices in Point Barrow Alaska. It seems to be about the same. Freight costs a fortune to get to the Arctic.

So expensive the michelinas, they are only 1 dollar in Toronto

Wow! Your prices are higher than here in Banff. Crazy high!! Great to meet you!

My best friend is management for that company in another community. She told me about the food prices when she first moved and I was blown away, but luckily yall get a subsidy for living up there.

Me: Wanna go to Nunavut! Nunavut:

I've just changed my plans of going to the peaceful & frozen Iqaluit for retirement. My pension plan will not make it.

OMFG!!!!😮😮😮 I will NEVER EVER complain about NYC grocery prices ever again after seeing the astronomical prices for groceries in Iqaluit.

Currently live in Ontario, planning to take a trip to Iqualuit. Good to see your video before take off.

Very nice video. I'm flying there on this Year's Canada Day and staying at Frobisher Inn where Northmart right next to it. Definitely will do one shopping there (Y)

I'd definitely recommend broccoli sprouts for areas such as this, since it's kind of grow your own salad type of food which is extremely healthy, tasty and will save a bundle.

Love the music!! Prices agreed high. Jamming out to this song~

This is similar to prices in Remote Australia as well.....there have been calls to increase the government subsidy....Darwin and Alice Springs which are our most remote urban zones but are much bigger places have prices at about 75% this.....with population centres comparable to Iqualit almost the same

It’s triple of what it costs in Montreal

Wow!! The 'Pre-subsidy' prices are even more insane!!

and successfully setting it all up. Olivia, has reconstruction begun yet on the Northmart warehouse that was lost last November?

Hi Olivia, I’m planning a trip to Nunavut and à was wondering if there’s any talk up there about the ferry service that’s supposed to start in 2020.

Some of the prices aren’t as insane as I imagined but it’s interesting that the price goes up by weight in many cases. I guess that’s the side effect of having to ship / fly everything in

OH MY! I will never complain about prices of groceries ever again! That is crazy!!!

Thank you video,I recently got a job in Nunavut and I'm about applying for my PR while my employer for my LMIA

Well stocked store. Anything fresh must be flown up, probably from Montreal. The cost of air freight is easily 2 to 3 times that of the product itself. Exceptions should be canned goods etc that are brought up on the summer sea lift. Question: Is Amazon still offering free delivery to Iqaluit to Prime members? I heard they cut it off to outlying towns like Arctic Bay as they were losing lots of money on every item.

Thank you Olivia I knew stuff was expensive even some items caught me off guard. An unfortunate side effect of living on an Island a really big Island but still

This is absolutely unreal

Those prices hurt just looking at them, and I'm not even in Canada. I know you don't know the answer to this, Olivia, but I was curious to myself whether the stores in your area, if they buy in bigger bulk than they do, when they do order things to sale, (like ordering two or three times the amount they already order, in one sitting), if that would help with the prices. That's not for you to try to answer, Olivia. That's just something I thought of on my own out of curiosity. Cause, I was thinking that maybe, if they stored the extra items in like a warehouse building that they own, instead of having to ship them annually, maybe that would lower shipping costs for them from having to ship less often, and then they could pass the savings on to their customers. But, I'm not an economist or a business owner or anything like that, so that's just me speculating. You have great taste in music, Olivia.

it's midnight in Dubai! Paused the video, let me grab the cereal. Those rucola/lettuce boxes cost the same in here, mostly imported from France.

Would having a green house with solar uv lights work for growing some of your own food? Is it too cold to keep chickens?

I assume the prices are in Canadian so would be less if in American dollars. Doing quick calculations in my head, the prices are about double compared to what I pay here. I noticed some of the shelves were empty and I wondered if they were sold out or just hadn't restocked them yet. It seems localities that are isolated always have a shortage of something. I love your videos Olivia! Keep em coming!

Awesome, I’m looking at doing a placement at the hospital, this was very insightful.

WOW! Thank you to show this to us.

Really interesting that frozen pizza is more expensive than frozen fish

Those are what I remember and that is the subsidized price. Crazy.

Wow. This makes even Iceland look inexpensive. Makes sense though and thanks for sharing!

The prices seem reasonable overall, considering that there is no road network outwards and sealift season is very limited.

Hi from Winnipeg! This is insane! Eating healthy up there should t be a luxury

Interesting .. Thanks for Sharing

Prices are ok for Iqaluit. Imagine the logistics to bring all the stuff up there... Everything is coming by plane and assume its coming in weekly... or even less than that, so yeah prices are ok. I assume also you make a lot more money on your job than lets say in Ontario or Quebec... Great video! Thank you! :D

What are the cheaper things you can eat in Iqaluit? I have a potential job offer there in the skilled trades and i'm kinda worried that food and heating costs will be completely unaffordable.

Do prices there fluctuate by the season? I would think they might go up in winter time given that there would be more involved in transporting food that distance during the winter.

What an eye opener...

Scarily enough, these prices seem not that far off from our regular prices in Northern Manitoba... not a big stretch.

0:34 Your son says "Mom, why can't we order food thru Amazon?" hehe

Finally! Thanks!

The price of groshreys as you call them are hard to compare as I presume those are all in Canadian dollars. Just looking at a few of them and converting the prices, they are only slightly more expensive than you will find in Sweden.

Omg.than how much is one bedroom app for renting ?I live south Ontario

Wow! It’s 3 times more expensive than Hawaii prices.

Hello there, very interesting to see this upload. This is the most that I have seen about pricing. I am planning to list pretty much everything including dry goods for my own information. Do you think you can do an episode of just kitchen items, then toilet, pastas can goods. This will help anyone including me who are seriously planning to move there so we will have idea what else to expect. If you can:) Thanks this video though is very informative. Well done.

Wow , so expensive and I thought here Watson lake Yukon was expensive but that crazy 😜

And to think we subsidise a portion of those prices through taxes - what would these items cost if we didn't?

My first and for most important question is how do these residents afford these proces I mean where do they get money from (income)

Goodness I want to cry! This is outrageous the prices there! How can people from other parts of Canada help??

Very Very informative and well done! Thanks for sharing. I still think Ill try to get a job. Not too keep on staying in the US anymore. Even Iqualuit seems a better option. The baby is precious" Keep up the good work!!!!

Is there a way we can send things to the people there from us, I seen on a special that just a carton of orange juice is $12.99 here I can get it for $2.50 in Walmart (Florida)

What is your local TV and radio like? I mean AM & FM. Anything besides CBC/SRC?

you live on an island in the arctic thousands of kilometers away from the nearest city

May I know the name of the track at the very beginning of this awesome video?

Hello 👋🏼I’m looking to move to Iqaluit and I was wondering if there was a furniture store there?

Converted to USD these aren't too horrible, besides some items which are just confusing. Like its still 7$ for a tomato

Awesome, How about Gas stations & car dealerships like to see them. Prices are a bit high even converted to USD but not as bad as Alaska prices.

Those produce prices are so insane that it would make sense to erect a few buildings and turn them into 'indoor farms'. The buildings would be 'community gardens'. I've seen vids of people in the US & Canada who turn their basements into 'gardens'. Also people who have turned their basement, or just a room in their house, into growing micro greens (many turning that into a business). I couldn't live anywhere where I could not grow my own food!

I shed a tear for the people of nunavut

We have all this in Newfoundland and the prices are less than half of what’s mentioned here.. and all this while I was thinking thats expensive.. 😢

How much does it cost to ship your life there?? Like moving all of your belongings and cars?? Housing itself seems crazy and that's if you can find it because my online searches haven't shown too much.....Great video btw...

About what I thought, I can imagine some of my cheapskate customers having a heart attack in there. Thanks for this video I was actually thinking about this after I saw another video about Iqaluit

Did you watch the #CBCMarketplace show about high food prices in Northern Canada?

Love the music in the backround

No money symbols on the prices?! 0:35 the baby nodded his head with his hilarious face expression!

Sad that they have to pay such steep prices. All I saw was processed food. Just curious was there any Organic food there?

merci pour le partage :)

ya grocery's are expensive but what is your earnings up there?

The bag of selection brand fries for 10$ 😭😭😭 those are like 2.00 at Walmart in Ontario… sadly though a lot of these prices are pretty similar to how much groceries cost now with inflation. Some of this is just absolutely insane price gouging for Nunavut though😭

Great Video

No omg I cannot believe this! We live in Texas and we get things for 1/4 of the price here 😭 I can get most fruit 3 for $1 here and the Powerade is like .78 here 😱 I even visited Kauai Hawaii and I thought that was expensive! Some stuff was but this is even higher! Wow!!!

how much for black sea caviar to be washed down with some don perignon on special occasions??

Can someone talk abt. the wages ? How to make living for such insane price tabs at there ???

I wonder if they accept EBT up there?

How can people afford this? Are salaries there that high?

I think one of your fellow residents is Annabella Piugattuk...who was amazing in the film (2003/"The Snow Walker.") It is the most beautiful and moving film I may have ever seen. She is of the Inuit tribe I believe and this (then young 20 year old) just about tears ones heart. On the costs there? I am from the midwest U.S. and I could never afford to live there on my pension (am retired on Social Security.) My, what wages people must make there. I had to retire in 2000 and was earning $18 an hour and never made more than $40,000 a year but once in 48 years.

How much is laundry detergent?

Those prices are insane!

Holy crap its expensive to feed your self there..... I'm just curious how much is the cost to survive there ... Heating, water, food per week for a family ect ???? My wife and I are looking into moving there for a few years to experience it.... and we have a puppy How well do they do in the cold ??... does yours wear a coat in the winter? How about boots ???

are there any greenhouses there for growing vegies and/or flowers??

I thought food was expensive when I was in Iceland, but this makes those prices look like a bargain. At least the ice was free. :/

I live in the southwest of california and the food prices are extremly cheap

4:49 goddam, coming from California where its generally expensive to live...but that's insane If I saw that price for water in an actual store I'd probably faint XD

How much is a bag of ice?

Wow!

I did a quick approximate calculation on the Aquafina water. It came to about US$4.37 for one 710ml bottle. Not paying, even if I'm dying of thirst in the desert. I'll drink toilet water before paying that. :\

any takeaways in iqaluit?

How much is it to eat out??!

I think anybody who manages to set up a heated/lighted greenhouse operation up there is bound to become an instant multi-millionaire, the only glitch being that you have to already BE a multi-millionaire just to buy the land and all the materials to build it, AND transport all that material up there. The other issue would be how to power the heating and the lights during the winter, where I didn't see a whole lot of solar panels or windmills in any of the footage I've seen so far, which means that the power is probably imported too, most likely in the form of coal. But wow, those prices are too high. I guess the incomes are high too.

That baby is adorable 😊

Do they have Amazon Prime up there?

Outrageous