{"id":120112,"date":"2023-10-13T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120112"},"modified":"2023-10-13T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:59:01","slug":"inuit-reveals-the-crazy-prices-of-groceries-in-the-canadian-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/travel\/inuit-reveals-the-crazy-prices-of-groceries-in-the-canadian-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Inuit reveals the CRAZY prices of groceries in the Canadian Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Inuit model reveals shocking prices of GROCERIES in her remote Arctic community &#8211; where basic essentials cost up to THREE TIMES as much as mainland stores<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Willow Allen, 24, works as a model after being discovered on Instagram\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In one of her TikToks, she takes viewers on a grocery shopping trip\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She pans in on a variety of goods, showing how a bag of oranges costs C$16.99\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you think your grocery bills are high, read on and think again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An Inuit living in a remote community in\u00a0Canada&#8217;s Northwest Territories, 124 miles North of the Arctic Circle, has revealed the extortionate price of food she faces.<\/p>\n<p>Willow Allen, 24, who works as a model after being discovered on Instagram, takes viewers on a grocery shopping trip in one of her TikToks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, she pans in on a variety of goods, showing how a bag of oranges costs C$16.99 ($12.48), a pizza packs a punch at C$16.99 ($12.48), a box of blueberries comes in at C$9.99 ($7.34), but the tipping point is a packet of four chicken breasts priced at C$47.09 ($34.60).<\/p>\n<p>These goods cost considerably more than the connected areas of Canada where at Walmart, for instance, you can get four chicken breasts for C$14 ($10.29) and a stuffed crust pepperoni pizza, similar to the one Willow saw, will set you back half the amount at C$8.27 ($6.08).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436203-12619119-image-a-18_1697041179164.jpg\" height=\"494\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436191-12619119-image-a-19_1697041181079.jpg\" height=\"494\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Willow Allen , 24, who works as a model after being discovered on Instagram, takes viewers on a grocery shopping trip in one of her TikToks<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436183-12619119-image-a-20_1697041183750.jpg\" height=\"496\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436185-12619119-image-a-21_1697041186192.jpg\" height=\"496\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>In the clip, she pans in on a variety of goods, showing how a bag of oranges costs C$16.99 and a pack of minced meat comes in at C$11.30<\/p>\n<p>While the prices Willow shows in her hometown of Inuvik are high, she explains that in more remote communities costs climb even higher as everything has to be airlifted in.<\/p>\n<p>In Inuvik &#8211; which is the third largest community in the Northwest Territories with a population of around 3,240 &#8211; there is a highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it is easier to transport goods to Northmart, which serves as the town&#8217;s main grocery store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the TikTok, Willow displays the contents of her two shopping bags back at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In total she bought 18 products with the check coming out at C$215.51 ($158.34).<\/p>\n<p>The haul she shows looks pretty basic, with the items including a pizza, a pack of tortillas, a bag of pasta, a tub of hummus, a bag of feta and two packs of minced meat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To date her grocery shopping TikTok has been watching more than 3.5 million times, with many viewers expressing their shock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One commenter from Canada said: &#8216;Breaks every ounce of me to think that our government sees this and has not found a solution to help these prices to match the rest of the country.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436167-12619119-image-m-23_1697041362968.jpg\" height=\"497\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to her insights into life in the Arctic, Willow has built up a loyal following on social media with more than 672,000 followers on TikTok and over 122,000 on Instagram<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436197-12619119-image-a-33_1697041406053.jpg\" height=\"494\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436179-12619119-image-a-32_1697041404035.jpg\" height=\"494\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>A box of blueberries comes in at C$9.99 ($7.34), but the tipping point is a packet of four chicken breasts priced at C$47.09 ($34.60)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436169-12619119-image-m-36_1697041440375.jpg\" height=\"488\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/11\/17\/76436175-12619119-image-a-37_1697041445730.jpg\" height=\"488\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the TikTok, Willow displays the contents of her two shopping bags back at home. In total she bought 18 products with the total coming out at C$215.51 ($158.34)<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by Willow Allen (@willow.allen)<\/p>\n<p>Another viewer from the U.S. added: &#8216;How on earth do people survive on those prices?! I&#8217;m struggling in the Midwest! Wow&#8230; just wow.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government currently provides subsidies to the Arctic community for certain groceries, but as Willow shows, this does not go a long way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time the Inuit model has exposed the high prices of food in her region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a previous Instagram post, she created a video showing a variety of food prices at stores in the Canadian Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>Her accompanying caption read: &#8216;This is forced poverty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She intermixed photos of the grocery store prices with images of locals campaigning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In one still image, an Inuit\u00a0woman can be seen holding a board reading: &#8216;$2,000 a month to feed my family is forced poverty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In another shot, a man holds two signs with his collective plea to the government being: &#8216;Stop the crazy prices! I have to feed my family!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to her insights into life in the Arctic, Willow has built up a loyal following on social media with more than\u00a0672,000 followers on TikTok and over\u00a0122,000 on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other topics she addresses is the forced\u00a0displacement of indigenous communities and the art of hunting seals and whales to survive in such harsh conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After tying the knot in April, she is now expecting her first child.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/travel_news\/article-12619119\/inuit-model-shocking-grocery-prices-arctic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inuit model reveals shocking prices of GROCERIES in her remote Arctic community &#8211; where basic essentials cost up to THREE TIMES as much as mainland stores Willow Allen, 24, works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inuit reveals the CRAZY prices of groceries in the Canadian Arctic - cottontailsonline.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/travel\/inuit-reveals-the-crazy-prices-of-groceries-in-the-canadian-arctic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inuit reveals the CRAZY prices of groceries in the Canadian Arctic - cottontailsonline.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inuit model reveals shocking prices of GROCERIES in her remote Arctic community &#8211; 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