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CHARLEBOIS: Grocery aisle of flags, cart of reality

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NielsenIQ: Canadian food product sales rose 4.4% year-over-year in the three-month period ending April 19 .

Over the same period, sales of American food products fell by 4.1% .

This coincided with peak tensions over the federal government’s counter-tariffs and calls for a boycott of U.S. goods.

The average Canadian is still spending around $311 per month on groceries.

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