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In the North, those who have more money can afford cheaper food while everyone else has few options outside of the local grocery store. With the assistance of financial experts, Marketplace reviewed publicly reported share prices, dividends, revenue and expenses for the North West Company — the region's largest grocer — to gain insight into the company's operations, given that it's a near-monopoly with a steady stream of government subsidies.

The financial records suggest that despite a lack of competition among grocery stores in the Far North, and high sticker prices, the company's profit margins are roughly in line with the industry standard in this country, reporting approximately four cents profit for every dollar of sales.

Several years ago, the federal government commissioned NRG Research Group to take a deep dive into grocery retailing in Canada's northern communities. The group surveyed grocery stores, interviewed store managers and local residents, and analyzed data to identify the factors contributing to the high price of groceries.

NRG's report, published in , found that profits "did not significantly factor into the high cost. According to the study, most of the cost was in the logistics of transporting the food. Air is the most expensive mode of transport for cargo, and many northern communities are accessible only by air for much of the year.

Even when communities are accessible by truck — the cheapest mode of transportation — sometimes the ice roads are so long a truck can't store enough gas to complete its delivery and requires the help of a convoy of trucks carrying only gas.

Another factor is that most communities in Nunavut are not connected to the electricity grid. This means diesel generators have to power large freezers that can hold months worth of food that comes in on the summer sea lift while transportation is cheaper.

The Nutrition North program was tweaked in January to include higher subsidies for milk and frozen vegetables and to add more items to the list of subsidized goods, including some non-food items such as diapers. The changes also include a plan to provide new grants for hunters to alleviate some of the cost for those who provide harvested meat to their communities, although the specifics of that program are still being worked out.

Despite those efforts, the MP responsible for the Nutrition North file acknowledges the problem of food insecurity in the North is far from solved.

Jones says it's important that Inuit groups are a part of developing and implementing solutions.

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Amy Bentley, a professor of food studies at NYU, just went out to a lunch spot to buy herself some hot soup. People could trade down further and buy generic or private-label foods, said Erin Lash, an analyst at Morningstar. Packaged food companies are likely to keep prices high, Lash said, since their costs are also likely to stay high.

Next year, Lash expects packaged food companies to focus on offering multiple products at different price points, so that people have cheaper options. Through it all, Marketplace is here for you. We rely on your financial support to keep making that possible.

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