By all means, and thank you for the opportunity.
Yes, we are in the grocery business. We are a fresh food producer. We're the first of its kind, a zero waste producer. We have an eco-conscious business, because we realized eight years ago that this was what was going to happen with the cost of food, so we have a zero waste policy. In that business, we are barely able to break even, but we are a small grocer in a downtown market, and the way we stay in business is through that zero waste policy.
I speak to this because the cost of food in just the last five years from a wholesale perspective has literally tripled, so the cost to a business owner who's selling food has tripled. That goes across the line for all the restaurants we supply. That goes for everyone.
Yes, we are seeing the cost of food increase at such dramatic rates that the people in Cobourg can't even afford the quality of life they had five years ago.