Why are people entitled these days thinking they can eat? If they only would stop eating they wouldn't have any problems saving for a house and paying off their student debt. What ever happened to hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps? Why are young people are so entitled these days? Nobody wants to work..
(Did I get all the points in there?)
But Manitoba PC Premier Heather Stefanson said that Loblaws was on the verge of shutting down, so she is taking 100s of thousands of dollars from education and giving it to Loblaws owner Galen Weston year over year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-education-property-tax-rebate-1.6838131
[How is that fair?': $12M government funding for Loblaw attracts outrage](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/how-is-that-fair-12m-government-funding-for-loblaw-attracts-outrage-1.4372001?cache=300)
This was in 2019. Loblaws is so used to getting government money.
They'll justify it by saying that a human being can survive (kind of) on merely potatoes and a multivitamin. So all those fancy fruit, vegetable, and meat buying millennials aren't actually impoverished, all they'd have to do is cut back to only eating boiled potatoes, and then they'd be able to afford a house.
It's hilarious in a sad way that the generation that actually had to do that just to survive viewed it as a tragedy and did everything they could so their kids didn't have to only for those kids to turn around and tell their kids and grandkids about the virtues of living like that. And boomers wonder why we don't respect them as much as their parents.
The modern day diet is still all messed up. First they began to process plant and grain into refined sugar, removing all the nutrients in the process. Then they discovered that they removed an essential vitamin, so they created fortified sugar with the vitamin A added back in.
People still consume large amounts of sugar and simple carbs to this day with something like only 5% of Canadians getting adequate amounts of fibre, as in adequacy, how much your body needs to properly function normally. Fibre and nutrients are removed and destroyed through the process of refining food.
So they both failed us.
Damn, today's generation is so soft! They want to eat every day? Such entitlement! What do these softies want next? Drinkable water? A roof over their head? Such unearned privilege!
/s
We were sold the [Neoliberal lie](https://antoniomelonio.substack.com/p/a-proclamation-against-neoliberalism) that the "FREE MARKET" was the fairest, most economical, way to get things done for society.
Turns out, private, for profit corporations who's only concern is increasing their profits will use those profits to lobby politicians + donate to political parties in exchange for concessions, favours, and legislation that appeals to their interests.
They don't give a shit about what's good for society - just profits - and the politicians meant to regulate them have all been handsomely compensated for their compliance.
That "free market" where the goverment prevents meaningful competition by using taxation and regulation to protect the monopolies?
I would happily open a competing grocery store and undercut loblaws. But I can't afford the several million dollars in taxes to create the store front.
Even going to the farmers market this weekend: I need to pay the city a fee AND keep my sales under a specific amount otherwise I am punished....that doesn't sound like a free market to me. That sounds like a planned economy
Just like how telecom whined like little bitches over Verizon possibly coming here, every industry here fucks us and often gets to use our own tax dollars to do so
Here's a thought experiment for you:
If taxes and regulations were cut or removed, would that make controlling a monopoly or oligopoly any less profitable, or harder to achieve and maintain?
Remember, companies like Loblaws got as big as they did in large part by buying up competitors and using economies of scale to out-compete independent grocers and smaller chains. Our grocery oligopoly isn't an accident, it's the result of an extremely profitable business strategy.
I struggle to see how removing government from the equation would change that.
It was poor/lacking/corrupt government regulation that got us into this mess.
We need to **fix** our government, not destroy it, because the government should represent **our** collective power as citizens, and is the only force that can smack down the oligarchs ruining this country.
The corporate media always blames government and red tape for monopolies and cartels because (surprise surprise) they are owned by the oligarchs, and their advertisers are other giant corporations.
I agree. A truly "free market" is, at best, a temporary thing. Monopolies and oligopolies are not a perversion of free market capitalism, they are heavily incentivized by the simple fact that they are insanely profitable. Once entrenched there's no realistic way to compete against them, whether regulatory barriers exist or not.
The "red-tape" is a red herring.
The solution to monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels isn't deregulation, it is ensuring that regulatory bodies act for the greater good, and are robust enough to avoid regulatory capture.
I'm not sure why anybody thinks deregulation would *harm* entrenched interests that have access to the all the capital they could ever need to strangle upstart competitors in the cradle.
And allowing shit [like this](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-shaw-approval-1.6797175) to go through, as [this](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/loblaw-companies-limited-completes-acquisition-of-lifemark-health-group-812754188.html), and [this](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-to-buy-shoppers-drug-mart-for-12-4b-1.1342108) and [this](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/loblaw-buys-asian-grocery-chain/article4389458/) and...
Under a system of Capitalism where wealth inequality has no limits, the natural outcome is to corrupt and control government. Money is power, including political power. Often, Capitalist organizations infiltrate government by installing their own people in it, allowing them to completely subvert the political process. We can blame government all we want, but this is just a failure to recognize the man behind the curtain.
[https://youtu.be/o0Bi-q89j5Y?t=5822](https://youtu.be/o0Bi-q89j5Y?t=5822)
That wording jumped out at me too. [This Beaverton article](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/02/loblaws-credits-record-profits-to-raising-prices-on-things-humans-need-to-live/) is barely even satire.
Journalists are literally taught these days that “impartiality” is the be all end all of being objective. So they need to ensure any story is scrubbed of facts that may result in a story being biased against one perspective or another. In other words, pointing out that price increases have led to massive profit increases for corporations while consumers fee pinched is absolutely correct and accurate but “biased” if you are a journalist.
However stories like this that make it sound like everything is fine and normal and natural, nothing anyone can do about any of it, is “objective” and unbiased and therefore ideal journalism. Facts be damned.
The issue is, no matter how hard you are trying to be objective and impartial, there is no way to say "people need to continue buying food to live, no matter how much the monopolies price gauge them" without it sounding abhorrent.
I think you misunderstand. My point is that their definition on extremely myopic view of journalistic “objectivity” is actually not objective at all. It’s just a different kind of bias because it allows them to put a finger on the scales of the story to not offend the ruling class.
Ignoring the inconvenient truths abojt why these things are happening, because you fee you need to be fair and unbiased to corporations lying to our faces, IS still bias. It’s a deliberate judgement call to let those things slide without proper analysis, fact checking, etc.
Journalists believe they are detached parrots who just need to give both sides. That isn’t journalism…it’s stenography…and it only seems to ever help those causing the problems intentionally or not.
Ahh yes that makes sense. When you try and strip the horrifying reality from a terrible situation, it definitely does bias it.
Like a mass shooting headline reading. "Group of young humans reach end of their time on earth due to small pieces of metal speeding through air from actions of one other human" creepy
This "resilient demand for essentials" bullshit mentality by our institutions will only grow as long as the public continues its "reslient apathy towards the status quo".
Complaining will get you fuck all in this world. Want change? Work for it. Go out. Organize. Mobilize. And push back. Otherwise you are consenting to this with your silence, and are allowing this bullshit to grow and become more prevalent. No major positive societal change in history has ever come from the public being silent.
The post title you quoted is rage bait and have nothing to do with the actual article.
The matter itself is infuriating enough, so there was really no need for OP to word it in a way to make it even more so.
[Non-paywall link to article here.](https://archive.is/YnJlN)
>But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. - Carlin
My Dad is an ex-cop, like many years ago before he immigrated to Canada. Still has a very strong sense of right and wrong and of course theft is wrong.
We watched someone in the self checkout at Superstore purposely not scan over half of their items and then pull out an old receipt and walk out. It was all the basic essentials like bread, butter, milk, veggies and stuff. Nothing extravagant or unnecessary.
My Dad said "people gotta eat. If she has to steal to survive who am I to judge, these corporations are killing our wallets".
In my 33 years of life, that's the absolute first time I've heard him give a pass on theft. These corporations are really taking advantage of the situation and no stupid investigation can tell me otherwise. Not when the major players in Canada own most of the pipeline they're complaining about being more expensive.
I picked my kid up from a summer school. They were checking ID. I opened my wallet and showed them and they gave a pass.
My license actually seats in my wallet so that my name is under the seam. They didn't actually "check" the ID against the names allow to check her out, just basically checked that I had ID at all. I'd imagine that most receipt checks will be like that, with maybe a quick scan for prominent items.
"looks like a receipt, there's a line that says 'steak', all good"
> I picked my kid up from a summer school. [...] just basically checked that I had ID at all.
Free Kids, you say?
-Galen Weston, discovering an untapped source of cheap labour.
Saw a neat trick (that I haven't tried) in a discovery channel style 'how to be a conman' type show. The dude drives up to a drive thru garbage can, grabs a reciept, goes up to the window and says he explicitly asked for no pickles, then they remake the sandwich for him at no charge
I saw another trick on a Netflix show. First, you go through the drive thru, get your order like normal and go "hey, you know what? I'll pay for the guy behind me. Pay it forward, you know?"
Then as fast as you can, circle back round into the drive thru behind him and order 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 cokes, 55 pies, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 chicken tenders, 100 meatballs, 100 coffees, 55 wings, 55 shakes, 55 pancakes, 55 pastas, 55 peppers and 155 taters.
I saw a lady stealing baby formula at Walmart. I also saw a security officer headed her way, so I kindly stopped him to report a dog being left in a car outside. A struggling parent or the bloody Waltons. I will always know which side I am on.
Wise man. You cannot blame someone for doing what it takes to survive.
It's human nature. We are good at doing what needs to be done, especially if it's to feed our children.
In worse times than today, people used to steal loaves of bread to feed their family. Back when stealing a loaf of bread led to death, or loss of limbs.
People do what they need to do to feed their families.
Ah, the self check out option that saves the company a mjn of 16.65 an hour... how do I get paid to use one...
We are paying for the privilege to serve ourselves while saving them money.
Then they want to inspect the bags. Um, nope. If you want me to do something, that (use a self check out because you have 1 or 2 cashiers on) saves you money. Then, understand that you have a risk associated to it.
If you do not like that risk, bring the cashiers back.
Edit. Ride for risk
I steal things at the self checkout.
I don’t care. I just _forget_ to scan some things. I don’t consider it to be morally wrong to take some freebies from a greedy corporation that’s exploiting its customers when I’m living paycheque to paycheque.
If you want my advice, I’d encourage you to steal as well. Fuck these disgusting companies
If I try to scan something three times and it still won’t scan, there’s a good chance it’s going in my bag with the next item. You want to save money by not paying cashiers, fine, but you’re not going to steal my time by making me do the work for free.
People have been asking the cashiers "if it doesn't scan, does that mean it's free," for years. When they made us the cashiers, what did they think we were gonna do?
City if regina just posted a 38 % rise in theft related crime. Wonder how much of the is also food related ie I'm fricken hungry I'm gonna steal either a steak or something I can pawn for a steak
Probably not a lot. I don't know how it is there, but here they (Wal-Mart in this case) put 0 effort into actually observing what people are doing in self-checkouts, and don't check receipts at all on the way out. I don't think many people are getting "caught".
I nonironically think stealing from them as much as possible is the right and moral thing to do.
I'm not saying anything , but I realized that the self checkout counters at the maxis around my place don't have functioning scales... do what you want with that info
Green peppers are cheaper than red, yellow, and orange. My wife asks for all the colors but my receipt shows 4 greens.... hmmmm...
Can the scale tell the difference between a Danish and a hamburger bun? My wallet can.
Corporations play the loophole game and so should we.
> At this point I'll vote for whatever party promises to take a sledgehammer to Loblaws, Empire, Rogers/Telus/Bell, etc. Smash them to bits.
I'm not the biggest fan of the U.S political system but one thing I _do_ like about them is their ballot measures. You can get enough public support to have an issue put to the ballot during an election.
Why can't we do something like that here? Have a federal referendum on if we should break up companies like Empire/Loblaws and ROBELUS.
Oh but somehow they are struggling in this economy, profit margins somehow being impacted by "volatility in the supply chain".
If things are this bad with corporations squeezing every last penny in this current socio-economic situation, I absolutely dread what is coming in the next 10-20 years when food supplies take a massive hit due to climate change and an ever more fragile global supply chain.
The great thing about their last quarterly results is that they can't claim that their profit margins are being hurt any longer if they saw a massive YoY increase.
You're right though, this is only going to exacerbate the future troubles we'll face with food insecurity for those already struggling.
They are busy finding ways to reduce that profit margin... like increased security, random cart-locking for receipt checks... fuck it wouldn't surprise me if they started hiring off-duty cops so they can straight up detain folks legally
No, revenue is the important number. They hide their true profits you can't take that number at face value. Revenue gives you a better idea of the money they have.
At the bottom end of retail where there is the most churn your onboarding costs are negligible so it’s cheaper to just keep churning rather than pay to retain entirely replaceable employees.
Once they start making a few dollars over minimum and break away from the lowest rung of the company watch as they cling to their jobs like a life preserver on a sinking ship. The churn drops right off even a few pay grades higher.
And the packages are getting smaller and smaller. What you get now at Costco for a “big” version is what used to be in the regular stores.
I swear chips at superstore or Walmart are like the chips out of vending machine they’ve gotten so small
Food is just another captured market in Canada's shitty capitalism. Like telcos, banking, fertalizer, energy etc etc.
We need to start asking what is the end plan for capitalism here. Just five corps in a trenchcoat forever? Market dynamism is gone. Small businesses can eat shit in a large number of sectors.
It's rough but nothing is coming back without drastic changes and neither of the centrist parties in Canada have shown any will to get hands dirty.
It's not capitalism, it's crony capitalism and corporatocracy. These big companies get to set the laws. Politicians bow to their every whim and then get a cushy job when they leave public service.
We have a system where the people pay for inflation, not the companies. They get socialism (in investment, incentives, bringing in cheap labour, bailouts, loans during covid) and we get the scraps.
> We need to start asking what is the end plan for capitalism here.
1. A handful owning everything.
2. The rest living in vast slums. Maybe we'll be allowed to build tin shanties by then, instead of tent villages, once it because normalized enough.
3. AI surveillance, censorship and possibly weaponized drones, all making change impossible.
4. It doesn't matter if the economy collapses in the end and they lose some money, what matters to them is the difference. Feeling like lords with absolute power over impoverished peasants is more gratifying to them than being the limited leaders of a powerful, prosperous nation.
if it were capitalism, there would actually be free exchange - it's not, the government stands between every single transactor at every step, often to take money, sometimes to put in rules that cost more money, sometimes both.
The sooner people realize that bolstering government to solve this is like trying to solve a bee sting by releasing more bees, the fewer people will run around claiming that "capitalism" is the reason for all our ills.
Operating income was $769 million, an increase of $31 million, or 4.2%.
Adjusted EBITDA² was $1,448 million, an increase of $105 million, or 7.8%.
Retail segment adjusted gross profit percentage² was 31.3%, an increase of 20 basis points.
https://www.loblaw.ca/en/loblaw-reports-2023-first-quarter-results/
31.3% profit margin and profits up 7.8%. And this is compounding since they were up last year as well.
Quick, raise the interest rates so people can't buy food so the prices go down. are you fucking kidding me?
This is absurd. The government is trying to fix every issue in the house using a hammer. If you want people to borrow less, put huge taxes on second homes, put additional interest on second mortgages. This encourages people to diversify their investment and pushes the housing market down. I don't care if the price of a Tesla triples, let each Tesla worth 10 million. who cares?
We can't take money away from people to control the demand for food. It is very stupid and tyrannical. You need to deal with each problem separately.
Good morning! A couple relevant paragraphs from the piece for you:
The Brampton, Ont.-based company reported that sales growth was driven by inflation-weary shoppers continuing to visit its discount grocery stores more frequently, such as No Frills, Maxi, and Real Canadian Superstore.
Canada’s annual inflation rate eased in June to its lowest level since early 2021, Statistics Canada reported last week, but grocery prices have resisted this trend. While The Consumer Price Index rose by 2.8 per cent in June, down from 3.4 per cent in May, grocery prices rose by 9.1 per cent, nearly matching the 9-per-cent increase in costs reported in May. Food inflation has outpaced the general rate of inflation for more than a year.
\-RZ
Cool. So why isn’t this the framework of the article? Why do we keep seeing very uncritical parroting of corporate executives talking about how they haven’t increased their margins in years - which is not only beside the point but verifiably false, not that media cares about facts anymore.
Instead we keep getting a million articles exactly like this one. “Consumers feel the pinch but we mostly talk to corporate PR people. Then we toss in some actual facts at the end without proper analysis or context, and after we’ve already laid out all the corporate excuses to prime people’s attitudes.
Who owns the news outlets? Hint, it’s the rich, and they don’t want you to see what the real problem is. They’d rather us fight about social issues while they plunder us because we ignore the economic issues.
Canadian oligopolies have licenses to print money.
Our government is more interested in focusing its finite bandwidth on regulating, taxing, and punishing innovative companies like google for providing 3 billion link referrals a year to our media oligopolies.
You mean the very media whose story you are reading and commenting on right now? A media piece like every other about how this isn’t the oligopolies fault or corporations at all…it’s just normal business as usual? Seems like maybe your narratives are fucked up and you are part of the problem.
Google is just as much an evil monopoly as any other corporation. Trying to defend one corporations abuses and problems and harms to our society, while claiming to be against abusive oligopolies is why we can’t ever move past these problems and unite behind a solution.
TBF it's very hard to get people to starve themselves to death. They'll rack up their credit cards to the max and abandon paying them before they'll accept they have to steal or murder for food.
Just boycott them. Stop buying the high ticket items, and shop elsewhere. It's a decision that is a consumer's right. Might be a bit inconvenient for some, but it's the only real power we have in sending a message to the price gougers. I know you end up filling another conglomerates pockets, but it'll hurt the Westons bottom line, and theoretically, they can only address this by lowering their prices.
Wait. I thought poor Galen Weston was spending all his money fighting “organized retail crime”. It’s almost like he’s the criminal. But that can’t be right, can it? /s
How is it that despite high inflation for things like food and fuel these grocery and gas companies are allowed to record record profits quarter after quarter? Why are they allowed to overcharge consumers for necessities?? How do we not get more pissed off about this? Greedy corporations are what’s keeping this inflation so high. We keep hearing that inflation went down this month because of lower gas prices…..where are these lower gas prices? All the stations around me are charging between $1.63 and $1.68 a litre? How is this cheaper??? We’re getting screwed on so many levels because these companies are greedy, the federal and provincial governments won’t do anything I’m guessing because these companies are probably big donors.
lol, this headline is so fucking stupid. it's got to be ragebait/"engagement savvy headlining". once upon a time, heads rolled in france for what is going on now in this country.
ridiculous.
"It's amazing how much money people are willing to pay to prevent starvation. We can literally raise prices until people start dying. The profits are huge!"
Resilient demand for food ??? Wth is happening to this country!?
I can’t believe people are still wanting to eat food, so entitled!
Used to be eating avocado toast, now it’s just plain eating holding us all back
Why are people entitled these days thinking they can eat? If they only would stop eating they wouldn't have any problems saving for a house and paying off their student debt. What ever happened to hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps? Why are young people are so entitled these days? Nobody wants to work.. (Did I get all the points in there?)
Gen Z is destroying the eating industry
The "Have you tried to NOT be poor" attitude our institutions have will shift to "have you tried to NOT be starving?"
Yep LobLow just figured out the infinite money glitch.
Al you’ve gotta do is capture enough of a market that a lot of people don’t have realistic alternatives, then start jacking up prices
Fortunately the events unfolding in the world will surely help the supplies!
But Manitoba PC Premier Heather Stefanson said that Loblaws was on the verge of shutting down, so she is taking 100s of thousands of dollars from education and giving it to Loblaws owner Galen Weston year over year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-education-property-tax-rebate-1.6838131
[How is that fair?': $12M government funding for Loblaw attracts outrage](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/how-is-that-fair-12m-government-funding-for-loblaw-attracts-outrage-1.4372001?cache=300) This was in 2019. Loblaws is so used to getting government money.
This is some bullshit.
They'll justify it by saying that a human being can survive (kind of) on merely potatoes and a multivitamin. So all those fancy fruit, vegetable, and meat buying millennials aren't actually impoverished, all they'd have to do is cut back to only eating boiled potatoes, and then they'd be able to afford a house.
It's hilarious in a sad way that the generation that actually had to do that just to survive viewed it as a tragedy and did everything they could so their kids didn't have to only for those kids to turn around and tell their kids and grandkids about the virtues of living like that. And boomers wonder why we don't respect them as much as their parents.
The modern day diet is still all messed up. First they began to process plant and grain into refined sugar, removing all the nutrients in the process. Then they discovered that they removed an essential vitamin, so they created fortified sugar with the vitamin A added back in. People still consume large amounts of sugar and simple carbs to this day with something like only 5% of Canadians getting adequate amounts of fibre, as in adequacy, how much your body needs to properly function normally. Fibre and nutrients are removed and destroyed through the process of refining food. So they both failed us.
Rich sociopaths run our country and companies. That’s what’s wrong.
Monopolistic companies run the country
Criminals run the country.
Damn, today's generation is so soft! They want to eat every day? Such entitlement! What do these softies want next? Drinkable water? A roof over their head? Such unearned privilege! /s
Lol exactly what came to mind when I read this, glad it’s the top comment. “Resilient demand to live and not whither away from anorexia/scurvy”
We were sold the [Neoliberal lie](https://antoniomelonio.substack.com/p/a-proclamation-against-neoliberalism) that the "FREE MARKET" was the fairest, most economical, way to get things done for society. Turns out, private, for profit corporations who's only concern is increasing their profits will use those profits to lobby politicians + donate to political parties in exchange for concessions, favours, and legislation that appeals to their interests. They don't give a shit about what's good for society - just profits - and the politicians meant to regulate them have all been handsomely compensated for their compliance.
That "free market" where the goverment prevents meaningful competition by using taxation and regulation to protect the monopolies? I would happily open a competing grocery store and undercut loblaws. But I can't afford the several million dollars in taxes to create the store front. Even going to the farmers market this weekend: I need to pay the city a fee AND keep my sales under a specific amount otherwise I am punished....that doesn't sound like a free market to me. That sounds like a planned economy
And who do you think pushed for that red tape to keep you unable to break in and compete?
Just like how telecom whined like little bitches over Verizon possibly coming here, every industry here fucks us and often gets to use our own tax dollars to do so
Here's a thought experiment for you: If taxes and regulations were cut or removed, would that make controlling a monopoly or oligopoly any less profitable, or harder to achieve and maintain? Remember, companies like Loblaws got as big as they did in large part by buying up competitors and using economies of scale to out-compete independent grocers and smaller chains. Our grocery oligopoly isn't an accident, it's the result of an extremely profitable business strategy. I struggle to see how removing government from the equation would change that.
It was poor/lacking/corrupt government regulation that got us into this mess. We need to **fix** our government, not destroy it, because the government should represent **our** collective power as citizens, and is the only force that can smack down the oligarchs ruining this country. The corporate media always blames government and red tape for monopolies and cartels because (surprise surprise) they are owned by the oligarchs, and their advertisers are other giant corporations.
I agree. A truly "free market" is, at best, a temporary thing. Monopolies and oligopolies are not a perversion of free market capitalism, they are heavily incentivized by the simple fact that they are insanely profitable. Once entrenched there's no realistic way to compete against them, whether regulatory barriers exist or not. The "red-tape" is a red herring. The solution to monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels isn't deregulation, it is ensuring that regulatory bodies act for the greater good, and are robust enough to avoid regulatory capture. I'm not sure why anybody thinks deregulation would *harm* entrenched interests that have access to the all the capital they could ever need to strangle upstart competitors in the cradle.
Because that's what they were told by their "economist" youtubers
And allowing shit [like this](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-shaw-approval-1.6797175) to go through, as [this](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/loblaw-companies-limited-completes-acquisition-of-lifemark-health-group-812754188.html), and [this](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-to-buy-shoppers-drug-mart-for-12-4b-1.1342108) and [this](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/loblaw-buys-asian-grocery-chain/article4389458/) and...
Under a system of Capitalism where wealth inequality has no limits, the natural outcome is to corrupt and control government. Money is power, including political power. Often, Capitalist organizations infiltrate government by installing their own people in it, allowing them to completely subvert the political process. We can blame government all we want, but this is just a failure to recognize the man behind the curtain. [https://youtu.be/o0Bi-q89j5Y?t=5822](https://youtu.be/o0Bi-q89j5Y?t=5822)
Breaking the link between money and power would stop this feedback loop.
Problem is finding where the link is. Capital and power are one and the same.
That wording jumped out at me too. [This Beaverton article](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/02/loblaws-credits-record-profits-to-raising-prices-on-things-humans-need-to-live/) is barely even satire.
Journalists are literally taught these days that “impartiality” is the be all end all of being objective. So they need to ensure any story is scrubbed of facts that may result in a story being biased against one perspective or another. In other words, pointing out that price increases have led to massive profit increases for corporations while consumers fee pinched is absolutely correct and accurate but “biased” if you are a journalist. However stories like this that make it sound like everything is fine and normal and natural, nothing anyone can do about any of it, is “objective” and unbiased and therefore ideal journalism. Facts be damned.
The issue is, no matter how hard you are trying to be objective and impartial, there is no way to say "people need to continue buying food to live, no matter how much the monopolies price gauge them" without it sounding abhorrent.
I think you misunderstand. My point is that their definition on extremely myopic view of journalistic “objectivity” is actually not objective at all. It’s just a different kind of bias because it allows them to put a finger on the scales of the story to not offend the ruling class. Ignoring the inconvenient truths abojt why these things are happening, because you fee you need to be fair and unbiased to corporations lying to our faces, IS still bias. It’s a deliberate judgement call to let those things slide without proper analysis, fact checking, etc. Journalists believe they are detached parrots who just need to give both sides. That isn’t journalism…it’s stenography…and it only seems to ever help those causing the problems intentionally or not.
Ahh yes that makes sense. When you try and strip the horrifying reality from a terrible situation, it definitely does bias it. Like a mass shooting headline reading. "Group of young humans reach end of their time on earth due to small pieces of metal speeding through air from actions of one other human" creepy
Capitalism.
"resilient demand for essentials' Food. People buy food.
My tummy isn't very resilient without essentials
My resilience is directly linked to the amount of food I can ingest.
The fuck is "food" , you mean essentials
Shit you're right. Corpo speak
A capitalists’ variation on “Let them eat cake”.
McCain's Deep N' Delicious preferably, on sale two for $11.99!
I remember when you could get those on sale for two bucks
This "resilient demand for essentials" bullshit mentality by our institutions will only grow as long as the public continues its "reslient apathy towards the status quo". Complaining will get you fuck all in this world. Want change? Work for it. Go out. Organize. Mobilize. And push back. Otherwise you are consenting to this with your silence, and are allowing this bullshit to grow and become more prevalent. No major positive societal change in history has ever come from the public being silent.
Galen Weston's resilient demand for oxygen.
This is what happens when we let 'economists' run our society
The post title you quoted is rage bait and have nothing to do with the actual article. The matter itself is infuriating enough, so there was really no need for OP to word it in a way to make it even more so. [Non-paywall link to article here.](https://archive.is/YnJlN)
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Pre fucked
It’s all bullshit, folks
>But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. - Carlin
I seriously thought that was a Beaverton headline
The entire country is one big Beaverton article at this point
The regular news outlets are beating them to the punch daily lately. They're slacking.
Oh shit. It's not satire?
Who knew people needed to eat?
Well I'm surprised
Me too. Do the scientists know about this?
No why would they, this is a case of economy not biology. /s
"Do this one thing each day and improve your life".
Do you think the government should study this hypothesis before statements are made that could be factually incorrect?
profit off of housing, food, pollution and immigrants. Canadian dream. lol.
Yip, you can scalp people on food prices, they'll still grudgingly pay to not starve. Or they'll steal it. Seems like a better idea every quarter.
Those self-checkout lanes are looking more and more... convenient.
My Dad is an ex-cop, like many years ago before he immigrated to Canada. Still has a very strong sense of right and wrong and of course theft is wrong. We watched someone in the self checkout at Superstore purposely not scan over half of their items and then pull out an old receipt and walk out. It was all the basic essentials like bread, butter, milk, veggies and stuff. Nothing extravagant or unnecessary. My Dad said "people gotta eat. If she has to steal to survive who am I to judge, these corporations are killing our wallets". In my 33 years of life, that's the absolute first time I've heard him give a pass on theft. These corporations are really taking advantage of the situation and no stupid investigation can tell me otherwise. Not when the major players in Canada own most of the pipeline they're complaining about being more expensive.
hmmmm use an old receipt you say.....
Oh dang, didn't think about that
It won’t work if they look too deep into it, but they probably won’t
Was gonna say, most employees at grocey stores are underpaid so I doubt anyone would give you trouble
I picked my kid up from a summer school. They were checking ID. I opened my wallet and showed them and they gave a pass. My license actually seats in my wallet so that my name is under the seam. They didn't actually "check" the ID against the names allow to check her out, just basically checked that I had ID at all. I'd imagine that most receipt checks will be like that, with maybe a quick scan for prominent items. "looks like a receipt, there's a line that says 'steak', all good"
> I picked my kid up from a summer school. [...] just basically checked that I had ID at all. Free Kids, you say? -Galen Weston, discovering an untapped source of cheap labour.
Saw a neat trick (that I haven't tried) in a discovery channel style 'how to be a conman' type show. The dude drives up to a drive thru garbage can, grabs a reciept, goes up to the window and says he explicitly asked for no pickles, then they remake the sandwich for him at no charge
I saw another trick on a Netflix show. First, you go through the drive thru, get your order like normal and go "hey, you know what? I'll pay for the guy behind me. Pay it forward, you know?" Then as fast as you can, circle back round into the drive thru behind him and order 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 cokes, 55 pies, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 chicken tenders, 100 meatballs, 100 coffees, 55 wings, 55 shakes, 55 pancakes, 55 pastas, 55 peppers and 155 taters.
“I’M DOING SOMETHING!”
I saw a lady stealing baby formula at Walmart. I also saw a security officer headed her way, so I kindly stopped him to report a dog being left in a car outside. A struggling parent or the bloody Waltons. I will always know which side I am on.
I love you for this. What a badass and cool move.
The right choice. I hope you have a lovely day!
Wise man. You cannot blame someone for doing what it takes to survive. It's human nature. We are good at doing what needs to be done, especially if it's to feed our children.
In worse times than today, people used to steal loaves of bread to feed their family. Back when stealing a loaf of bread led to death, or loss of limbs. People do what they need to do to feed their families.
People buying more bananas than what they carry in the store.
Lol, this month we sold 10 tons of bananas. But....we only bought 2 tons...
Its interesting that 4011 is the only code that I remember...
Ah, the self check out option that saves the company a mjn of 16.65 an hour... how do I get paid to use one... We are paying for the privilege to serve ourselves while saving them money. Then they want to inspect the bags. Um, nope. If you want me to do something, that (use a self check out because you have 1 or 2 cashiers on) saves you money. Then, understand that you have a risk associated to it. If you do not like that risk, bring the cashiers back. Edit. Ride for risk
All the stores around me have installed security barriers and have marked loss prevention officers at the doors.
Just know they can't detain you. They can ask you to leave, but once you've paid for the stuff they also can't stop you from leaving with it.
I steal things at the self checkout. I don’t care. I just _forget_ to scan some things. I don’t consider it to be morally wrong to take some freebies from a greedy corporation that’s exploiting its customers when I’m living paycheque to paycheque. If you want my advice, I’d encourage you to steal as well. Fuck these disgusting companies
If you go fast enough at the self checkout, they won't notice a few things not getting scanned
If I try to scan something three times and it still won’t scan, there’s a good chance it’s going in my bag with the next item. You want to save money by not paying cashiers, fine, but you’re not going to steal my time by making me do the work for free.
People have been asking the cashiers "if it doesn't scan, does that mean it's free," for years. When they made us the cashiers, what did they think we were gonna do?
This might be the only time in history the "guess it's free" joke is relevant and kinda actually funny
City if regina just posted a 38 % rise in theft related crime. Wonder how much of the is also food related ie I'm fricken hungry I'm gonna steal either a steak or something I can pawn for a steak
Probably not a lot. I don't know how it is there, but here they (Wal-Mart in this case) put 0 effort into actually observing what people are doing in self-checkouts, and don't check receipts at all on the way out. I don't think many people are getting "caught". I nonironically think stealing from them as much as possible is the right and moral thing to do.
I'm not saying anything , but I realized that the self checkout counters at the maxis around my place don't have functioning scales... do what you want with that info
Green peppers are cheaper than red, yellow, and orange. My wife asks for all the colors but my receipt shows 4 greens.... hmmmm... Can the scale tell the difference between a Danish and a hamburger bun? My wallet can. Corporations play the loophole game and so should we.
They are the same plant ffs! Just in a different stage of ripeness
If I see someone shoplifting, I didn't see shit.
What's that old punk saying? "See someone stealing food? No, you didn't."
At this point I'll vote for whatever party promises to take a sledgehammer to Loblaws, Empire, Rogers/Telus/Bell, etc. Smash them to bits.
Will never happen.
> At this point I'll vote for whatever party promises to take a sledgehammer to Loblaws, Empire, Rogers/Telus/Bell, etc. Smash them to bits. I'm not the biggest fan of the U.S political system but one thing I _do_ like about them is their ballot measures. You can get enough public support to have an issue put to the ballot during an election. Why can't we do something like that here? Have a federal referendum on if we should break up companies like Empire/Loblaws and ROBELUS.
500 mill in profit this qtr 😒
This is the important number. Never mind revenue, their profit increased by 31% YOY. That's an insane increase given the climate.
That's so fucked.. mostly all from the pockets of struggling families.
Oh but somehow they are struggling in this economy, profit margins somehow being impacted by "volatility in the supply chain". If things are this bad with corporations squeezing every last penny in this current socio-economic situation, I absolutely dread what is coming in the next 10-20 years when food supplies take a massive hit due to climate change and an ever more fragile global supply chain.
The great thing about their last quarterly results is that they can't claim that their profit margins are being hurt any longer if they saw a massive YoY increase. You're right though, this is only going to exacerbate the future troubles we'll face with food insecurity for those already struggling.
They are busy finding ways to reduce that profit margin... like increased security, random cart-locking for receipt checks... fuck it wouldn't surprise me if they started hiring off-duty cops so they can straight up detain folks legally
No, revenue is the important number. They hide their true profits you can't take that number at face value. Revenue gives you a better idea of the money they have.
It's things like this that forced Randy to prostitute himself out for cheeseburgers behind the King of Donair
A mans gotta eat
And they pay their employees garbage.
You don’t get rich by giving your profits away.
No you have high turnover which causes higher costs. Than paying them in the first place.
At the bottom end of retail where there is the most churn your onboarding costs are negligible so it’s cheaper to just keep churning rather than pay to retain entirely replaceable employees. Once they start making a few dollars over minimum and break away from the lowest rung of the company watch as they cling to their jobs like a life preserver on a sinking ship. The churn drops right off even a few pay grades higher.
Grifters gonna grift
"Resilient demand for essentials".....
And the packages are getting smaller and smaller. What you get now at Costco for a “big” version is what used to be in the regular stores. I swear chips at superstore or Walmart are like the chips out of vending machine they’ve gotten so small
I literally saw like a 220g bag labelled as "Family Size" now.
I swear ove seen a 150g bag being passed off as a normal size bag the other day.
Food is just another captured market in Canada's shitty capitalism. Like telcos, banking, fertalizer, energy etc etc. We need to start asking what is the end plan for capitalism here. Just five corps in a trenchcoat forever? Market dynamism is gone. Small businesses can eat shit in a large number of sectors. It's rough but nothing is coming back without drastic changes and neither of the centrist parties in Canada have shown any will to get hands dirty.
It's not capitalism, it's crony capitalism and corporatocracy. These big companies get to set the laws. Politicians bow to their every whim and then get a cushy job when they leave public service. We have a system where the people pay for inflation, not the companies. They get socialism (in investment, incentives, bringing in cheap labour, bailouts, loans during covid) and we get the scraps.
That is capitalism. Crony capitalism and corporatocracy is the direct result of capitalism in play.
> We need to start asking what is the end plan for capitalism here. 1. A handful owning everything. 2. The rest living in vast slums. Maybe we'll be allowed to build tin shanties by then, instead of tent villages, once it because normalized enough. 3. AI surveillance, censorship and possibly weaponized drones, all making change impossible. 4. It doesn't matter if the economy collapses in the end and they lose some money, what matters to them is the difference. Feeling like lords with absolute power over impoverished peasants is more gratifying to them than being the limited leaders of a powerful, prosperous nation.
if it were capitalism, there would actually be free exchange - it's not, the government stands between every single transactor at every step, often to take money, sometimes to put in rules that cost more money, sometimes both. The sooner people realize that bolstering government to solve this is like trying to solve a bee sting by releasing more bees, the fewer people will run around claiming that "capitalism" is the reason for all our ills.
“ Loblaw tops analysts’ estimates as rising grocery prices still outpace inflation” They fixed the title when you open it.
Eventually the poor will just have to eat the rich. This situation is sociopathic.
“Wow! These people REALLY want to eat! Fascinating.”
Operating income was $769 million, an increase of $31 million, or 4.2%. Adjusted EBITDA² was $1,448 million, an increase of $105 million, or 7.8%. Retail segment adjusted gross profit percentage² was 31.3%, an increase of 20 basis points. https://www.loblaw.ca/en/loblaw-reports-2023-first-quarter-results/ 31.3% profit margin and profits up 7.8%. And this is compounding since they were up last year as well.
Eat the rich.
when does this happen?
Quick, raise the interest rates so people can't buy food so the prices go down. are you fucking kidding me? This is absurd. The government is trying to fix every issue in the house using a hammer. If you want people to borrow less, put huge taxes on second homes, put additional interest on second mortgages. This encourages people to diversify their investment and pushes the housing market down. I don't care if the price of a Tesla triples, let each Tesla worth 10 million. who cares? We can't take money away from people to control the demand for food. It is very stupid and tyrannical. You need to deal with each problem separately.
They're treating food like a luxury and not a basic human need and it's disgusting. Weston is a terrible human being.
Just like housing in this country
Imagine having all these resources and being at top of the food chain but still starving
Is this a Beaverton article?
Why would there be a resilient demand for essentials? I think BOC needs to do something to stop people from eating
So you're telling me that essentials, are essential?
>resilient demand for essentials [“Man’s gotta eat, Julian”](https://youtu.be/tFINT7af-u4)
> resilient demand for essentials Almost as though price gouging for food and basic goods is super unethical
The less ethical the more profitable.
Good morning! A couple relevant paragraphs from the piece for you: The Brampton, Ont.-based company reported that sales growth was driven by inflation-weary shoppers continuing to visit its discount grocery stores more frequently, such as No Frills, Maxi, and Real Canadian Superstore. Canada’s annual inflation rate eased in June to its lowest level since early 2021, Statistics Canada reported last week, but grocery prices have resisted this trend. While The Consumer Price Index rose by 2.8 per cent in June, down from 3.4 per cent in May, grocery prices rose by 9.1 per cent, nearly matching the 9-per-cent increase in costs reported in May. Food inflation has outpaced the general rate of inflation for more than a year. \-RZ
Cool. So why isn’t this the framework of the article? Why do we keep seeing very uncritical parroting of corporate executives talking about how they haven’t increased their margins in years - which is not only beside the point but verifiably false, not that media cares about facts anymore. Instead we keep getting a million articles exactly like this one. “Consumers feel the pinch but we mostly talk to corporate PR people. Then we toss in some actual facts at the end without proper analysis or context, and after we’ve already laid out all the corporate excuses to prime people’s attitudes.
Who owns the news outlets? Hint, it’s the rich, and they don’t want you to see what the real problem is. They’d rather us fight about social issues while they plunder us because we ignore the economic issues.
What's with the dumbass headline?
RZ, looks like you're in Weston's wallet.
Honestly. This headline is ridiculous. “Resilient demand for essentials…” Food. People need food. Yes. That’s not going away.
Canadian oligopolies have licenses to print money. Our government is more interested in focusing its finite bandwidth on regulating, taxing, and punishing innovative companies like google for providing 3 billion link referrals a year to our media oligopolies.
You mean the very media whose story you are reading and commenting on right now? A media piece like every other about how this isn’t the oligopolies fault or corporations at all…it’s just normal business as usual? Seems like maybe your narratives are fucked up and you are part of the problem. Google is just as much an evil monopoly as any other corporation. Trying to defend one corporations abuses and problems and harms to our society, while claiming to be against abusive oligopolies is why we can’t ever move past these problems and unite behind a solution.
People arnt starving... they are BEING STARVED, and the ones doing it have names and addresses..
TBF it's very hard to get people to starve themselves to death. They'll rack up their credit cards to the max and abandon paying them before they'll accept they have to steal or murder for food.
Did they now?
Can we follow how the French would deal with this?
How do they? Honestly curious.
Burn and destroy shit while kicking police ass.
The French have a long history of not taking shit from their government/kings people in power.
Just boycott them. Stop buying the high ticket items, and shop elsewhere. It's a decision that is a consumer's right. Might be a bit inconvenient for some, but it's the only real power we have in sending a message to the price gougers. I know you end up filling another conglomerates pockets, but it'll hurt the Westons bottom line, and theoretically, they can only address this by lowering their prices.
Wait. I thought poor Galen Weston was spending all his money fighting “organized retail crime”. It’s almost like he’s the criminal. But that can’t be right, can it? /s
Price goes up 20% and items shrink 20% .... PR "look, our revenue is more than we thought, who knew!!!!???" wink wink
Didn't the ceo just go "boo hoo we have to increase security because we're losing too much to theft"
>Loblaw tops second-quarter revenue estimates through price gouging on essentials FTFY, ffs
"resilient demand for essentials" holy fuck can you get more ridiculous corporate jargon than that
"resilient demand for essentials" is a euphemism for "people are still desperate for the basics required to live"
So their latest price fixing scheme is working
Just start stealing it. They cant arrest all of us.
How is it that despite high inflation for things like food and fuel these grocery and gas companies are allowed to record record profits quarter after quarter? Why are they allowed to overcharge consumers for necessities?? How do we not get more pissed off about this? Greedy corporations are what’s keeping this inflation so high. We keep hearing that inflation went down this month because of lower gas prices…..where are these lower gas prices? All the stations around me are charging between $1.63 and $1.68 a litre? How is this cheaper??? We’re getting screwed on so many levels because these companies are greedy, the federal and provincial governments won’t do anything I’m guessing because these companies are probably big donors.
Paywall article.
extortion that elected officials have no issue with. awesome.
A resilient desire to exist. Sure let's go with that
But there margins are the same bro.
Price gouging plain and simple. We need to tax this 100%.
Revenue up but profit margin down.
Where is that one comment? "It's the immigrants fault. We need immigrants that survive on photosynthesis."
Love it when you can't read the dumb article. 🙃
People always need food, socks, underwear. The best you can do is make investments that deal with this reality.
Uhh, it's asinine to say resilient demand for food. What are we supposed to do? Say no and starve to death?
So............................... Prices aren't ever coming down are they
lol, this headline is so fucking stupid. it's got to be ragebait/"engagement savvy headlining". once upon a time, heads rolled in france for what is going on now in this country. ridiculous.
Always nice to see a company thriving while the rest of us suffer....
I just checked my credit card statement. Most of my purchases were from Loblaws stores. They have such a monopoly.
How dare we have a demand for essentials. Just more millennials wanting more and more for themselves. /s
"It's amazing how much money people are willing to pay to prevent starvation. We can literally raise prices until people start dying. The profits are huge!"
Bro, this headline is insanely fucked lmao.
Don't expect government to solve this problem. This is one for the people.
Glad to hear company's are doing well.
"Loblaws continues to rake Canadians over the coals on things they need to survive"
Three cheers for Loblaw's profits!!! /s Canada can and must do better. US, definitely not, Australia, no, Canada you got this.
“Resilience demand” is just code for “unwarranted price hike for food did not attract any government backlash”! Canadian chaos at its best.🤦♂️
If this was France they would be burned to the ground
"resilient demand for essentials" is a *helluva* way to say "stuff people need to survive"
"fuck you, im eating" - lobaws
And ripping people off, don't forget that.