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Who's gouging you?
 
The store? Doubt it, since they're paying a lot more for stuff these days too. I work in a store, I see the invoices. Our prices have gone up like crazy. 
 
Is Rapala gouging you? Doubt it. For the past 18 months all we've heard are stories about higher raw material costs, higher shipping costs, and supply chain meltdowns. I'd bet Rapala's costs have also gone through the roof too. 
 
If you're getting gouged by anyone, it's a certain group of people in Ottawa. Inflation might be a worldwide problem, but we're making it much worse than it has to be by adding a pointless carbon tax to fuel. Every single thing you buy gets to the store in a truck, and trucks need fuel to run. So higher fuel bills jack up the price of absolutely everything.

You guys go on and on in threads like this about 'keeping the jobs here" while at the same time whining about how much things cost. How much do you think your Rapala knife would cost if it was made in Niagara Falls instead of China? By some union plant no less, where no one makes less than $35 an hour with benefits?
 
Stuff is made in China because consumers are cheap. Consumers won't buy a Canadian made T-shirt because it's going to cost $45. Instead, they whine about how expensive it is, then rundown to Walmart to buy a Chinese t-shirt for $5 - and think "that's more like it."
 
There is no free lunch here. If you want to support Canadian manufacturers, and you want people working there to make a fair wage, then stuff HAS to cost more than it does coming from China. 
 
If you want stuff to be cheap, then guess what, it won't be made here. 
 
That's reality. Get used to it.

You guys go on and on in threads like this about 'keeping the jobs here" while at the same time whining about how much things cost. How much do you think your Rapala knife would cost if it was made in Niagara Falls instead of China? By some union plant no less, where no one makes less than $35 an hour with benefits?
 
Stuff is made in China because consumers are cheap. Consumers won't buy a Canadian made T-shirt because it's going to cost $45. Instead, they whine about how expensive it is, then rundown to Walmart to buy a Chinese t-shirt for $5 - and think "that's more like it."
 
There is no free lunch here. If you want to support Canadian manufacturers, and you want people working there to make a fair wage, then stuff HAS to cost more than it does coming from China. 
 
If you want stuff to be cheap, then guess what, it won't be made here. 
 
That's reality. Get used to it.

You guys go on and on in threads like this about 'keeping the jobs here" while at the same time whining about how much things cost. How much do you think your Rapala knife would cost if it was made in Niagara Falls instead of China? By some union plant no less, where no one makes less than $35 an hour with benefits?
 
Stuff is made in China because consumers are cheap. Consumers won't buy a Canadian made T-shirt because it's going to cost $45. Instead, they whine about how expensive it is, then rundown to Walmart to buy a Chinese t-shirt for $5 - and think "that's more like it."
 
There is no free lunch here. If you want to support Canadian manufacturers, and you want people working there to make a fair wage, then stuff HAS to cost more than it does coming from China. 
 
If you want stuff to be cheap, then guess what, it won't be made here. 
 
That's reality. Get used to it.