Do you remember that scene in Home Alone where Kevin McCallister screams in pain after using aftershave?
Well, that’s going to be everyone’s reaction once they hear how much Kevin’s grocery trip in the movie would cost today.
Canadian radio announcer for JACK 96.9, Meredith Geddes, took to TikTok to find out how much McCallister’s grocery trip would cost using today’s grocery prices.
In the classic 1990 film, the eight-year-old bought a loaf of Wonder bread, a TV dinner, frozen mac and cheese, cling wrap, half a gallon of milk, Tide laundry detergent, toilet paper, half a gallon of orange juice and a pack of army men and dryer sheets.
The grand total? Just under $20.
Geddes decided to fill up a cart with the same items at a Canadian grocery store, excluding the army men’s toys, and her total came out to be $64.71 before taxes.
In addition to the army men toys she found on Amazon for $13.79, her final bill came out to $78.50, that’s four times the amount McCallister paid in the movie.
Geddes ends off her video saying, “Anyone else want to go back to the nineties?”
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Last week, Canada’s annual Food Price Report was published for 2024 and it found that a Canadian family of four will spend an estimated $16,297.20 on food in 2024, an increase of up to $701.79 from the previous year.
The report also predicted that the country will face a widespread increase in food inflation next year because of rising costs of housing, energy, the influence of climate change and other expenditures.
Researchers say all provinces will experience price increases of up to 4.5 per cent.
