Movement urging people to boycott Loblaw gaining traction online
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- A movement urging people to boycott Loblaw has been gaining traction online, with what could be thousands of shoppers taking their grocery money elsewhere in May. Loblaw's new president and CEO says Loblaw the company has been expanding its discount stores and offering new promotions.
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Loblaws has more than just the Loblaws brand.
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The organizers know that, einstein
@@tylerfloodgatelol "organizers" need to focus on working and earning money
@@tylerfloodgate need to get a job with your organizer bs
@@bdegrdsHow very authoritarian of you. Disgusting.
I shop at Walmart the prices are no different there. Go after the government.
Walmart and the Walton family? Check the price and weigh your food. They already paid a huge fine for that.
😂 Walmart bots everywhere
@@SMOOVKILL1my point is no matter where you go the prices are similar.
@@unknown-hi5cfnope, I save where I can. I have no loyalties to any grocer.
no point of boycotting walmart. They are just way too big & powerful. lets stick to Loblaws.
I’m in on that, we definitely need to boycott
Boycott a Canadian grocery chain?
America and WEF thanks you for your business at Walmart. 🙄
They took away price matching!
No wonder people are angry
That's good. Now I don't have to wait behind some idiot holding up the line for 15 minutes while they price match half their grocery cart. Go buy it at the store where it is on sale.
@@Jack_Waffles Exactly, This is why Walmart stopped price matching in 2020.
When did the do that????
This sounds very political, Jagmeet’s brother is working as a lobbyist for Metro supermarkets and Trudeau doesn’t want to take responsibility for messing up Canada 🇨🇦 with his tax and mass immigration policy.
I shop at No Frills 90% of the time, I read the flyer and look at what points I have for products, I get $60 in points yearly. Our family of five adults spend $150 per week on food.
It's 1000% political.
They said on Friday we need more foreign grocery stores. Now this.
They are trying to make our Canadian companies look like thieves when really Canada is expensive due to Trudeau.
Thr speaker wirh glasses is clearly a shareholder of Loblaws 😅
Powerful message. Hope they listen
Loblaws is the largest monopolist. The prices are fixed with other grocery stores.
Which grocery stores are owned by Loblaws?
They include: Atlantic SuperstoreTM, Dominion, Loblaws, Maxi, No Frills, Provigo Le Marché, Valu-MartTM, Real Canadian Superstore, Wholesale ClubTM, Your Independent GrocerTM and ZehrsTM.
Hey crybaby, learn what a monopolist is before you use the term. Mono means one! There are more than 1 grocery stores/chains out there! Now crawl back under your rock where you belong!
Go back to school and learn what a monopoly is! If you can read!
@@o1ecypher Also Shoppers.
@@rps1689 And what does the Competition Bureau do? Do they have consumers in mind?
Bob Loblaw blah blah blah. From a town with only Sobeys and Loblaws, it is what it is. Can’t afford gas to get to the grocery store anyway
I haven’t shopped at Loblaws for ten years and I’ll never go back.
That means you do not shop at shoppers drug mart, no frills, T&T supermarket or use esso/mobil 1 for gas, they are all under the same umbrella or contracted with Loblaws
I don't, but was unaware of esso, I'll make sure to get my gas elsewhere as well from now on @@user-rh2tq1xe1i
Check out what their CEO got as a bonus! It's pathetic our government allowed this!
I agree there should be measures in place to prevent corporations from taking advantage of people during a recession. However if the government implemented anything it you’d call them socialists.
This government is now gaslighting you into boycotting a Canadian grocery chain for foreign. Don't do it.
Allowed Capitalism?
@Justbe: Allow what? It’s a private business. I’m not justifying his pay, (not my place). But, they could pay him whatever the company deems is suitable, as it’s not tax payer money, nor is it coming out of my pocket.
They did $55 Billion in sales last year. That works out to $0.0007 per dollar, or $2 a year for me in grocery expense.
Loblaws stock is owned by most Canadians, provincial& public unions/pensions. If Loblaws profits, your RRSP goes up.
Why don’t we hear the same crying when the Federal Liberals just gave themselves raises, and gamed the election date to guarantee MP’s a pension for life after serving only a few years?
What about the CBC giving the executives $25 million dollar bonuses, but laying off staff?
Food makes up a small portion of your annual expenses. Why don’t those students and armchair protesters cry about a 18% property tax increase in Toronto , over the past two years? That’s a MUCH bigger hit to the pocket, especially if you’re a senior on fixed income or low income. You know why you don’t hear them cry? Because the protesters are students who’ve suckled on their parents’ teat, or unemployed, or renters (who have the taxes downloaded to them as rent increase).
Why should the government be involved at all?
We're leaving Loblaws. Tired of getting ripped off. We price compared Loblaws to Walmart of the 100 most common items we buy... Walmart was 15-20% cheaper.
Walmart is 80% owned by USA. .
You gonna go get the cheaper poison food
Go with the other peasants!
Have you tried Metro or Food Basics ?
I don't have to worry about the boycott. I am on disability living on 11,700 a year. I can only afford to get food from the food bank. That's what I've been doing for the last 15 years.
This still affects you. I've worked at three food bank locations. More middle class & lower middle class people are relying on food banks during inflation to feed families. That means less to go around at food banks for people that are below the poverty line or disabled. The issue is only going to get worse unless they crackdown on monopolized grocery chains for price gauging.
@@leomai9507 I realize this. I have seen what I get from the food banks decrease by about 10% in the last year. There was a news report where a senior person at the food bank said if they can't get more cash or reduce demand they may close. The only real solution is wages need to rise or prices need o fall. Going out for a combo meal for two at McDonalds is now about 20 dollars. Pre-pandemic it was about 12!
LOL! Cry us a river!
@@charlesward9486 Look in the mirror and take a deep reflection to see why you feel the need to be heartless towards other people.
@@leomai9507 Keep crying! I don't care! You are nothing but expendable!
We live in Barrie, Ontario. We have always shopped at Zehra’s..one of the Loblaws store. But unfortunately, the prices have already risen 2 to 3 times! How are people with children supposed to live like this? Scrap the carbon tax Mr. Trudough. We will be boycotting this store and looking for small, independent grocers from now on. 🙏👩🍼🕊🕊☮️
Grocery stores prices went up because of supply chain. Supply chain resolved and prices are still going up. Carbon tax accounted for .15% of inflation. Let me spell it out for you...corporate greed, Of course poilievre protects his corporate buddies.
Go to Walmart or metro, no difference.
@@user-xs9ij7rr9floblaws makes 3.5% on their products. How is that greedy?
You need to focus on supporting Canadian business owned grocery stores. Not American owed like Walmart.
Go to the food bank. start living on it like 23% of everyone in Ontario is!
Food inflation is under 2 percent. Hahahahahahahahha
I was a No Frills customer for years but since Covid they’ve raised the prices so much that Walmart is now cheaper so that’s where I shop. It’s too bad because I’d much rather shop Canadian.
I’m in
Boycotting Loblaws is a simplistic way of thinking. Loblaws is not the problem it’s the Canadian dollar, compounded carbon tax and shipping logistics of cross-border shipping that’s increasing do to more food coming from the US do to high production costs in Canada.
Excuses. Excuses. Excuses. Why is it that the some of the same products can be bought at dollarama at much cheaper prices? Stop being a bending boy for these corporations. Those excuses are old and no longer wash.
That’s completely WRONG!! It is as simple as corporate GREED!! It’s not that hard!!
then why are they raking in record profits,
Some Farmers Markets are starting in May too!
😂😂😂😂😂 $30 for a chicken and $17 for a loaf of bread.
June is strawberry season. Go out for a country drive near home farms you may be able to get really good prices on strawberries in June 🍓 🍓 🍓
Way over priced. Farmers market is no way to save money. Yes, you support locals but you are not saving any money. Be honest
Farmers markets can be very expensive, but if a lot of the foods are in season, you can get food for cheaper….
They will have an abundance of them, and they will do anything to get rid of them …. That’s why they are normally cheaper in summer time.
Farmer's market is a gimmick for stupid people. Just like the commercialized Flea Markets.
Sylvain is correct. All grocers prices are out of control. The Grocers are at the end of a long line of everybody charging more, farmers(their expenses have really increased)/fuel/shipping/wage increases/taxes/etc. And what about product shrink-flation, that is the fault of the manufacturers.
Everything is out of control. We are all going to be skin and bones soon. (Middle class and poor people especially)
You already were able to do this, it's called switching grocery stores. This isn't revolutionary...this is how consumer choice works.
Boycott Shoppers Drug Mart
I will continue to support Canadian grocery chains and stores. Any foreign companies can FK right off.
Farm Boy has lower food prices and most of their food is organic.
Absolutely!
Boycott them till there out of bussness if they don’t comply . They will be at the bottom of the shelf
I only support small local businesses now. Makes me sick the profits there making while Canadian are hurting and how they slowly fired and laid off Canadian throughout the years to only hire immigrants to take advantage of the governments benefits like the refundable tax credits to profit even more. This goes for almost all big retailers in Canada and makes me sick to see Canadian struggling to eat than put on the streets and fired from their jobs to make room for immigrants. 😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Too bad we couldn't impose on these very-caviar-level CEO's to eat plain white bread and processed cheese sandwiches for a couple of weeks to show them how unhealthy it is To be forced to eat what is cheap, not healthy or tasty. (no offence to bread and cheese 😊).
I live in a small city without too many options, there is metro and the Loblaws brand stores such as superstore, YIG, no frills. Without fail I shop at metro there are better options and the sale prices, even regular prices on many products, are lower than superstore for example.
Giant tiger here I go
No Frills is still my go to store. Compared to Basics and Freshco, No Frills is much better and you get pc points. Loblaw banner stores are much better than Sobeys and Metro. I will continue to promote Loblaws banner stores over the others.
I always thought loblaws put a premium on their merchandise because its stores are fancier/cleaner than other stores like walmart and frills. To cover for the added overhead. I feel like if you want cheaper prices then better shop at no frills. They are both PC anyway.
What? Theres ppl boycotting things? Omg. 😱
Federal government and media doing a bang up job replacing Canada.
@@whatinthefuckisgoingon 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Solution, For every dollar the big grocery stores earn in profit, a percentage of each dollar should go towards reducing the prices for the things that matter. let's vote for that
a country's poverty is largely due to the hoarding of wealth by a few. if a country only prints and issues a limited amount of money the more rich people hoard that wealth it makes the worker ever more poorer. since the 80s the charts and graphs show that the CEOS are paying the worker less and hoarding more of the companies wealth to themselves. when it should be in the pockets of those who work.
Shopping there tomorrow will be great with all of the whiners boycotting it! Looking forward to it!
BOYCOTT already passed onto friends and family…..we shop at East Indian & Mom & pop grocery stores
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LEADS THE WAY
We need anti-trust investigation, regulation and punition in this country, especially in Retail & telecommunications industry
I shop at Centra, the Asian supermarket and Dollarama. Anytime I go to Zehrs, sobies, Loblaws I only buy 1-3 items max. And even with those few items I'm out $30 lol.
The pension greed party leader has a brother working for metro food companies, no conflict of interest here.
We are not boycotting Loblaw chains on Westcost here.
Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills tends to have lower prices.
Walmart sometimes but their grocery selections are limited.
Other than Loblaws and Walmart, we are left with Safeway and Save-on Food, both are much more expensive.
You know something is fishy when a product from NB is cheaper in Superstore in BC than in NB.
@@rps1689 it goes both ways, BC caught Dungeness crab, BC grown blue berries and cherries, all cheaper in Toronto than B.C. WTH...
Zehrs is my grocery store no people can stop me from getting my groceries there only GOD can 😂
Where do I sign petition?
Boycotting has no effect on the financial gains on such a monopolistic outfit. What we are seeing with the big five grocers here is monopolistic competition, which is when any product is being offered by a handful of sellers effecting a small competition between them hence very little control from the buyer front.
The profit margin that they report only represents what percentage of sales has turned into profit; hidden profits are never reported in the profit margin. And you will never get full info on the slotting fees nor the savings they get through accounting schemes and gimmicks which they off shore into trusts.. There are no lack of economists telling us big grocery retailers are being disingenuous and careless with their facts and figures.
Remember how well this worked with gasoline companies in the early 2000s? This whole thing is laughable....
There are issues but some smaller independent stores sell far cheaper consistently
Soooo……
Just waiting for Aldi’s
They’d get the snot kicked out of them if they were here in Canada
One can only hope
Too little, too late! Joining the movement!
not happening. where should we shop instead? Sobeys that's owned by literally lob law's founders brother?...
“Just one grocer”… THIS May. We can add another one in June. And another in July. Other grocers need to act, or they’ll also see the boycott coming their way.
It's because Loblaws prices are OUTRAGOUS and unjustifiable.
Remember friends, Independant grocers are owned by National Grocers, a subsidiary of Loblaws.
Is it only about Lablows or all stores in their list?
Instead of boycotting just use the self checkouts and steal half your groceries.
😂😂😂
Apparently they’re gonna start to get rid of self checkouts!!!!
Break-up the company...
how about no
Start your own and compete, shouldn't be hard with everyone boycotting them right?
We used to have structures that reduced the formation of these monopolistic outfits and the tools to divest them if they arose. But that pretty much came to an end over time with tthe policies that stemmed from supply side economics and it BS trickle down strategy. The structures and tax regime we have now; favours the biggest corporations and oligarchs, reduces competitive advantage, bleeds the bottom continually to sustain growth at the top.
vote with your money
If you do nothing then nothing will change. Therefore try to do something.
Let's not forget that real people work for these companies. I understand the point but I personally need my job to get by. Finding a new job isn't that easy
"Independent grocers are all over Toronto"
All due respect sir, Canada is a LOT MORE THAN TORONTO!!!!
According to the owners pricing is up to the customers....soooo
If you live in the GTA I’ll be featuring real Independent Grocers in GTA all month long on my social media. Even if you don’t boycott, it’s worth having a serious discussion on where you buy food & it’s impact. The majority market is controlled by chains now and we gave them that power.
My small independant grocery carries Compliments products which means they are sourcing from one of the bigger ones as well. But I do buy there.
Almost all independent grocers are serviced by massive corporate chains. There is no way for a small independent to actually buy their inventory aside from doing that. Vendors ship to massive distributions facilities, and no independent has that. Small local shops that maybe sell more local only products might, but they can't actually supply food to many people, they are just too small. Whatever the house brand is you see in them is the group they are buying through. And they can't buy some from here and some from there, it's a contract.
Don't forget best before dates rule the less you buy the more the price goes down unless they dispose of it and that's a whole other game
Not everyone lives in a big city. For smaller cities, not everyone can go to a independent stores as they are usually located in pockets of the city that aren't always as accessible to transit routes, walking distance etc..
I use to go through the sales flyers to compare prices. For the last 6 years , I shopped Independence because it was closer, quicker and Canadian. NOW! I'm back to comparing prices in sales flyers and so do my friends.We exchange information every week on key items and the prices. Most of the time Walmart has some good price..Giant Tiger has some good deals. I was just in Food Basics and it wasn't too bad. The had thing is some people have no way of getting around, so they have to shop at the nearest retailer. If Thomas Loblaw could see this now, he would be rolling over in his grave..
Well when you have selfcheckout and cut staff hours of course the company profits.
I hardly step foot in stores I used to rely upon for day to day groceries and toiletries. There are other options where the overhead is less greedy and savings gets passed onto customers. It's just a matter of time when people are forced to shop elsewhere due to lack of funds. Now or later, but it will happen.
Why expand discount stores and not just discount the products inside loblaws.
Sylvain makes SOME good points - but he is also a bit wrong.
He IS right that in Toronto & other areas, there are a lot of little stores for various groceries about. It may take more time & effort to go to 1 store for certain things & another for certain others - BUT you can even get together with friends, family &/or neighbours & see if you can EACH take a different location, all buying for all of you & then get together at the end of the day/evening to divide it. This means you can get better, fresher items at lower prices without having to do all the footwork yourself. (There is also St. Lawrence Market open all year long - with 2 big buildings on 2 sides of the street. I don't know what their prices are like now, but if they are about around the same or a little less than the big chains, I would rather give my money here.)
He is wrong that the boycott would have been better months ago. Now that the weather is getting warmer, Canadians will have MORE CHOICES - with a multitude of farmer's markets starting up (separate from St. Lawrence Market), as well as "pick-your-own" farms to get the best & freshest items with the best flavour, farmer's side road stalls & a chance for people to grow on their own or in groups (or to share their land for a % of the produce with others when they don't want to grow items themselves) & people may even be able to do some container gardening on balconies even.
**(If you do this, DON'T keep your produce safe FROM BIRDS BY USING NETTING - the birds often can't see the fine netting in time to stop & [destroy your netting - which doesn't help you] AND causes THE BIRDS EXTREME TORTURE when it get tightly wrapped around their foot or feet, cutting off circulation, turning them black, putting them in pain, eliminating their ability to walk, or land from flight or take off from dangers hardly at all! IT IS ABSOLUTE CRUELTY! - & Not helpful to you if it gets damaged anyways!
INSTEAD, enclose your produce in a little glass (or plastic - even a homemade plastic tent) greenhouse - OR you can buy a statue of an owl, eagle, hawk OR a black silhoutte of one of these predators (available at some nature stores or by even photocopying an enlarged flying silhoutte from a book on these birds - & then colouring the silhoutte black & putting it in your window near the produce. Birds will not fly near these "enemies" & yet it is safe for them.)
Don't forget to help others in need if you do grow your own & end up with too much of something (that you aren't trading with neighbours/family/friends for something else - whether at food banks, shelters OR with elderly or disabled neighbours who would not be in a position to grow anything themselves, or to larger families with a lower income.
It may be small, but every movement starts small. Stick to it, people. This guy saying we need to boycott ALL big box grocers is a distraction. No movement starts that all-encompassing. Getting large numbers of people to synchronize takes time. It’s incremental.
P.S. How many shares of Loblaw do you own, Sylvain? 😏
Why doesn't he mention their profits?
And profits which do not comport with inflation pressures due to rising cost.
Your record profits shiw your gouging consumers.
There is no excuses for this to continue.
Loblaws is the leading grocery store and owner of many others rcss, no frills. Freshco...
Sorry they do not own Freshco
I do hope everyone gets a chance to visit their local independent grocery store! I find the ethnic grocers are well priced!
All stocks are at an all-time high. Not just Loblaws. Gaslight much CP24?
Suppliers? Why the same apples, ftom the same supplier, are mote expensive in Lablows than in their NoFrills? I love them apples! 🍎
We’ll boycott the farmers market to if there out of touch
Too bad most people have a me first mentality . Not a collective mentality to achieve a greater goal My family is more important than yours.
I was in Shoppers Drug Mart, yesterday and myself and one other person was the only one in the store.
I even when into Dollarama and there was only like 4 people in their.
And there was no vehicles on the roadways either?
End of the month know one has any “Money” to be out shopping for anything
at all.
They’re saying people are now eating expired foods they have in their house,
or apartments.
Because they cannot afford to keep going out and buying food all the time.
Something needs to Change before this is a even “Bigger Problem” for the
country?
Ya that’s going to do it who are these scholars that think this stuff up they are so brilliant
Farmer's markets are way overpriced!
They are not a option.
What deals do they offer I've never found any Ottawa farmwrs markets being even comparably priced to Walmart.
Loblaw, Loblaws or Loblaw's? Since the late 70's I don't think I have ever seen it with an apostrophe or heard it pronounced in the singular. Is this re-branding?
CBC has the same spelling. What a coincidence. Both are paid shills for the government which is employing and promoting people who don't know the name, for some reason, and sending the messaging out to the various arms of their propaganda outfit. Coincidentally not knowing the name - that tells the tale of where their news comes from.
People need to make Home Made Soup Potatoes And Carrots and onions and salt and pepper more often a lot lower Cost than by Campbell's Canned Soup lasts for Days and Make Porage for Breakfast good protein and low cost No Name Oats Deals ❤❤
Corporations said because of the lock down supply chain was the reason prices went up. Supply chain is resolved and they keep raising prices, the prices never went back down. Carbon tax accounted for .15% of inflation, poilievre protects the price gouging of his corporate friends.
Where is the supply chain resolved ???
Never ever
You mean Trudope protects the corporates , his family are friends of the Weston family, he goes to their cottage in Point Au Barrel Ontario
Carbon tax is more than 0.15% of inflation. That's what the Liberals want you to believe.
Although you’re partially correct about supply chain levelling out, your comments about PierreP are unfounded rhetoric. Back it up. How does a party leader, yet to be elected , have any power?? See @ richardroger’s reply to you.
Suggestions:
) Loblaw’s is expensive and sub-par produce. Shop elsewhere. Must shop weekly flyer deals.
- produce (fruits/veggiea) are back to pre-pandemic prices in Toronto.
Chicken & pork, lamb - same, back to 2019/2020 prices , particularly if you look at weekly flyers.
Steak/ beef is still really!! high, except for ground beef.
Eggs are up about 30%
Milk, 20% higher
Generally, I saw same or higher prices in Florida last month, but in USD$, so can’t be Pierre’s fault 😁
Stay away from anything processed (in a box/ package, etc…)- this is where the majority of prices are up 30% to double
H mart not to bad imo
Boycott all of loblaws brands if you really want to Boycott loblaws...
Good idea = this would be the only way they'll adjust their "dirty" business-model
They need to boycott Metro one of the worst companies to work for with abusive Mangers who force customers to use selfcheckouts. The most abused employees are the cashiers.
Ya boycott then go the next day.
Where youmgoing to go?
why i agree they are greedy truth is I volunteer to fill groceries for the elderly on a regular basis and Loblaws is one of the cheapest on average metro blows my mind on the difference for the same bag of groceries how ever elderly make me by at the preferred store to me boycott the carbon tax its adding to every thing and if you count forests we are a net negative carbon producer
Canada's overall forests have not been a net negative carbon producer for decades. Canadian forest have become carbon sources, releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than they are accumulating in any given year. Trees are not simply vacuuming CO2 out of the air and making it magically disappear. We have to take into account how many trees have reached their equilibrium - trees full grown, the tiny amount they grow is offset by decay. Plus carbon exits older forests about as quickly as it comes in so the way; forests are not an infinite carbon sink plus trees don’t last forever and when they die and decay, chopped down and burned for fuel, or burn in a wildfire, they release all the CO2 they’ve been hiding away. This is why it is so important to protect new forests permanently.
How do you boycott a baked in tax like the carbon tax?
Dudes like: there is more than 1 in this monopoly game 😂
Im in
What a naive generation! ,If you don't like the price shop somewhere else. Business are not charities, if they do not make money three's no employment for your family members neither. The government is the problem and that should be the target. If taxes go down so goes the price of energy and everything else altogether. Business have no choice but to adapt to the market. That's why small business are the first to go because they cannot keep up with the cost of production. That's why you need big players in the market. I use to leave in Russia where everything was cheap and provided by the government until the government run out of money and out of food. We starved to death and the population decreased for several years. Don't let Trudeau destroy our country!
Some are naive and have no clue how big coprorations like Loblaws use accounting gimmicks and schemes that allow them to manufacture overhead they can write off that actually doesn't exist' basically getting their losses and failures socialized. Plus with these schemes they also distort the consumers' perception of value; the decoy effect, skimpflation, shrinkflation, and compound markup to name a few come to mind.
Unfortunately too many in the younger generations think monopolistic outfits are "normal" and a fact or way of life. That price gouging is somehow "capitalism" and necessary. The days of enforcing antitrust and illegal price gouging is long gone.
Price of energy has always been artificial, as there is no free market in energy, not even during the industrial revolution and since. All energy industries are a network administered oligopolies. Nobody would put up with paying the full price of energy. Not the powers that be, not the consumers.
What you pay at the pump is all fabricated by algorithms that elude enforcement of pricing schemes. What is interesting is crude oil is purchased in long term contracts. Some folk think it is the spot price we all get quoted in the media. When the spot price rises, the pump price jumps fast, and when the spot price falls, we know what usually happens ; ) Note this happens in unison among brands, but of course the government says they can't prove price fixing or gouging, which is a lie, because the price is arbitrary and not based on shipping costs and other costs. Such is the reality when oil majors having economies the size of nations.
Thanks to the policies that stemmed from supply-side economics, inflation no longer squeezes big corporations and the biggest companies, but does to small businesses, which experience the pressure of competing during inflation. No big corporation today is competing for low overhead and internal costs have nothing to do with consumer pricing. No wonder we have an economy where the small guy has to mitigate the lack of real capitalistic competition.
The best way to reduce taxes for small businesses and to create a competitive advantage so they can compete with big companies, would be to progressively tax commerce instead of net profit so the largest of the monopolies and conglomerates are forced to self divest and spin off divisions and plants. We used to used to have structures and the tools to do this when we had capitalism under democracy instead of what we have now, which is "democracy" under captialism.
Loblaws made about 4% profit last year. Metro made 5% last year. Sobeys made 7.5% so think about who is making the big profit.
And that's only the profits let alone the financial gains they have to report.
NOK ER NOK
I don't think it is gaining momentum, this is the media being a dick. Sort of how like they occasionally bring up "Why do we tip at restaurants?" sort of segments. If you are hungry, you are going to buy food. If loblaws is too expensive, you are not going to loblaws. You adapt. That's how the free market work. This is why Walmart people do not shop at Whole Foods.
You cannot boycott something you weren't buying to begin with
There is 56,000 people who signed up this all started on reddit
@@olgaordinaReddit?!?! Bahahahahahahahah well that all makes sense. Scum of the earth right there.
Blob loss
lets do it guys!!
Absurd. Loblaw's markups are around where they were before. Their prices went up because the food suppliers raised their prices. The carbon tax also has a hand in it.
This is like walking down the street when it's raining, getting wet, and blaming the roof of your house for not keeping you dry.
Agree
I live in Atlantic Canada. Atlantic Superstore prices are robbery. I miss no frills. Not too close enough but yes we should boycott the big box chains. I love Costco though but I’m definitely trying to cut my shopping at Atlantic.
But people still shop there, parking lots still full.
If there is to be a proper boycott it has to be real and nobody goes.
Carbon tax hurting yet?
Boycott works if it is done properly and to involve lots of people
One of the biggest culprits is the carbon tax .
Carbon tax has been too gradual over the years to cause the “inflation” we have seen for what is sold on the shelves in the 5 big grocer chains in Canada. One only has to look record-level profits which do not comport with inflation pressures due to rising costs.
Carbon tax has been baked in years before food prices spiked. Carbon pricing is just an easy scapegoat for price gouging.
What sucks is that carbon pricing systems provide a type of rebate to firms in the form of subsidies based on how much they produce, and they never pass on the savings to the consumer. The decoy effect, skimpflation, and shrinkflation, are just a few of the many ways to deceive the customer not to mention outright theft when it comes to posting the incorrect weight on packaged contents. Customers nowadays have to really examine the content of the products and be aware of how corporations over the years have distorted perceptions of value.
I never thought I would like Walmart...
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