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Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Canada is searching for an international grocer to enter its domestic market, after years of anger from shoppers over high food prices, much of it directed at one of the big players. But would an Aldi or a Lidl solve the problem?

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

No.

Taxing the billionaires that have profited off the status quo would, but under the rules of modern neoliberalism, market failures can only be fixed by more market economics.

Regulations? Public services? Nope, can't do that. Only more markets. That's the only solution we're allowed to consider, no matter how many times it's failed already.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why would an increase in competition not help?

[–] Tenoteve@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago

Because the other super market brands are also huge corporations and everything they sell is huge corporations. Which, in the end, only serve a few billionaires.

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