By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Residents, retailers and an academic all have strategies on how to bring down the high price of groceries in Nunavut. No matter what the proposed solution, it\u2019s going to involve the federal government investing money, according to Nicholas Li, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University. In both Greenland and Mexico, government-owned grocery stores are used to subsidize prices. \u201cGreenland, outside of the capital, most communities are served by this chain of stores and it\u2019s basically government-run stores with the same fixed price everywhere,\u201d Li said. \u201cMexico has a whole network of government-licensed shops that all sell at the same price.\u201d Toronto and New York City have both approved pilot projects to test government-run grocery… <\/p>\n
By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Residents, retailers and an academic all have strategies on how to bring down the high price of groceries in Nunavut. No matter what the proposed solution, it\u2019s going to involve the federal government investing money, according to Nicholas Li, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University. In both Greenland and Mexico, government-owned grocery stores are used to subsidize prices. \u201cGreenland, outside of the capital, most communities are served by this chain of stores and it\u2019s basically government-run stores with the same fixed price everywhere,\u201d Li said. \u201cMexico has a whole network of government-licensed shops that all sell at the same price.\u201d Toronto and New York City have both approved pilot projects to test government-run grocery... <\/p>\n