Sentences with phrase «price of bread»

The annual online survey by Argyle Public Relationships and Leger Research found 47 per cent of respondents said their views about their grocer didn't change following allegations that at least seven Canadian grocers and bakery wholesalers co-ordinated the price of bread and related products for more than a decade.

He judged wage competitiveness largely by the price of bread.

Earlier this week Loblaw Companies Ltd., Canada's largest grocery chain, admitted it took part in an industry - wide scheme to jack up the price of bread.

I'm just saying that at the lower end of the scale, greed has no bearing on the price of bread unless you're the oil companies driving up the prices of everything in the country.

(I bake my own bread every now and again — I always end up proclaiming that the price of bread has suddenly become quite reasonable to me.)

In the winter of 1863, three thousand housewives in Richmond rioted over the price of bread; President Jefferson Davis went out into the streets and took the money that was in his pockets and threw it to the rioters to try to get them to stop.

The French Revolution was triggered by a doubling in the price of bread in two years.

Looking to 2009, Polson commented: «I don't think the price of bread will come down».

The price of bread has risen steadily over the past 12 to 18 months in pace with the leap in price for key raw materials, notably wheat.

«There's been on average a 10 per cent reduction in the price of bread, which is very significant; interestingly, we are not selling any extra loaves.

The court also declared that Mr Mark Jones, the bread category manager at the time, was knowingly concerned in the price fixing arrangement between Safeway and Tip Top in relation to the price of bread at Preston Market.

The allegations of misuse of market power concerned the supply of bread by Tip Top, Buttercup and Sunicrust Bakeries to retailers who discounted the price of bread.

Because if bread is all you can buy, you'd be pretty upset if the price of bread went up, but you'd have no option but to purchase it anyway.

The again, if you had the option to buy something else - maybe crackers, or pita, or bagels - you might do that instead, at least until the price of bread came down.

Therefore, if the price of bread goes up five cents, they might be annoyed, but probably not ready to organize a political uprising over it.

So when the price of bread goes up five cents, they're motivated to take action against whatever caused that to occur - rising wheat prices, new government regulations, etc..

As unemployment rose along with the price of bread, hungry citizens in Channel ports rioted against the shipment of grain to Britain.

1,972) combine forces to battle against the evil agribusiness Farmco that conspires to drive up the price of bread to six dollars a loaf.

Over the one year, your $ 3.00 has increased to $ 3.003, but the price of bread has risen to $ 3.045.

Again, these push you to make horrible choices so that you can stay in power; plentiful people and a shortage of cash might make you decide to keep the miners working hard, or to massively hike up the price of bread.

If, as a result of grain embargoes by Russia and (possibly) Ukraine, the price of bread doubles this year, the impact on the world's urban poor — many of whom are living on less than $ 1.25 a day — will be devastating.

The price of bread, the basic food supply, reportedly rose to 80 percent of a peasant's income.