People in and around Toronto are finding it overwhelmingly difficult to stay in a decent mood after a visit to any given grocery store lately, as food prices continue to reach new levels of unaffordable along witheverything else in the city.

One customer stoked the ever-bubbling collective anger on the subject this weekend after finding (and posting about) an item at his local Sobeys that he found to be exorbitantly priced, adding toa long listofsimilar storiesin the last year or so.

"Never have I seen steaks near this price, even at a fancy restaurant just for the steak," the residentwrote on Twitteralongside a photo of two steaks on Sunday, one marked at $80.50 and the other, a whopping $91.29.

Canadians are more upset after the price of steak drastically went up at Sobeys in Ajaxpic.twitter.com/P9HHggcfCy

— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv)August 20, 2023

Of course, tons of reaction has ensued from shoppers who are likewise enraged about the cost of food in the region, which hasn't seemed to fall in months.

Many are chiming in to say that they have also never seen store-bought steak so costly, and that this is yet another sign of the economic times in which grocery store executivesare profiting bigtimeand the average person, indebted, is hardly getting by.

Idiots , just let it sit there no one will pay that price

— AllanC. (@AllanCow1958)August 21, 2023

Some say they simply refuse to dish out that amount of cash for certain items, and expect others will do the same, which could mean more food left on the shelves to expire, or more theft.

Of course, grocery giants like Loblaws are already responding to increased instances of shoplifting at their Toronto-area storeswith security gatesand other measures, while consumershave not been shyabout not paying for overpriced food and other goods.

(One law firm in the city, in response to a perceived uptick in people taking basic food staples and necessities,actually said it willdefend anyone caught stealing from a supermarket pro bono.)

People gonna be stealing steaks soon ... it's out of control. It's almost cheaper for us to eat at the@TheKegthen make a steak at home

— C.U. (@xrpgord)August 21, 2023

While retailers have blamed inflation and an increase in costs on their end for the huge jump in prices facing consumers, food inflation continues to spike higher than the rate of inflation for other goods and services, according to Statistics Canada data.

StatCan'sConsumer Price Indexfor July shows that food inflation was up 8.5 per cent year-over-year, compared to the general inflation rate of 3.3 per cent.

I'd expect those prices in the Northernmost region of Canada where it's flown in....but Ajax? That price? better be a chef w/staff in the cart too!@sobeysCanadians are BROKE!@theJagmeetSinghyou're doing what again?@PierrePoilievreWTH?

— BRUCE WADE (@BRUCEWADE690805)August 20, 2023

Even budget supermarketshave given residents some serious sticker shock lately, with everything fromeggsandchickentovanilla extractandMaple syrupdoubling or more.

Quite a few peopleare noting in this specific case, though, that the steak in question — a very large AAA-grade tomahawk — would always be a pricey luxury item that people shouldn't be complaining about if it's not in their budget.