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Aren't all the chains and other corporations doing the same price fixing? Or did Loblaws do something extra shady?
This decade and a half long bread price fixing scheme was something that set Loblaws apart
Profits were up 9.8% over last year, and dividends to shareholders just announced to increase 15%.
Earlier this year they were going to lower the "near-spoiled" discount from 50% to 30% but cancelled that after backlash. So none of the increase in sales/profits seem to be going to anyone other than shareholders and the Weston family.
Also Galen Weston has been going on a PR tour past couple of years to say "nothing to see here" "we totally aren't gouging you on the necessities".
I go to food basics and it's worse. I constantly find expired food in the fridges and shelves, items 2-3 weeks past. I went to buy fresh English muffins and found them frozen, when I asked they told me they freeze them and then thaw them out and shelf then when they're low, so they're charging me fresh food prices for frozen bread. They also never clean their produce shelves. There are stains on the shelves I've been looking at for 2 years.
Absolutely I'm not saying any chain is particularly good (my local save on foods has unionized workers, good bread but stupid prices for things other than grocery staples). Consumers need to force the oligopoly to compete with each other. A co-ordinated monthly rotating boycott would be an excellent way to do that.
Every worker in Canada should have a union and it's a disgrace to this country that they don't.
I'm a union worker so I refuse to use the self checkouts. When an employee points me to one I shake my head and refuse. I want to be checked out by a human who is treated well and is paid a fair wage, not by a machine that's just there so a corporation can cut out a worker.
They are all the same. But that Weston guy is extra unlikeable and visible.