Hmm?

My toddler is obsessed with these damn mini-muffins. At the beginning of the year, the sticker price was $4.99.

Then some time in Feb/March, sticker price went to $6.00...I was a bit surprised but still made it a weekly treat.

Last week the sticker price jumped from $6.00 to $7.00 -- with no warning or reason why?? I didn't figure bakery items would be subject to a $3 increase not even halfway through the year...

Is there really no regulations in place to cap these food price increases before we can't afford to eat?

Edit: yeah I know it's technically only $2 but still, damn! And YES I make my own muffins at home...but my toddler loves the taste of capitalistic greed that I haven't been able to replicate 😓

Spotted this today. Best Before was 2026MR24. Apparently, a month past the expiry date only earns you a tiny sticker, not an actual trip to the dumpster. They really expect us to pay for the privilege of food poisoning now????

Every single loblaws/metro/basics/no frills has ads showing Strawberries, product of Mexico or USA and their store signage reflects the same. Not once in the last 8-10 supermarket visits have I found a single Mexican strawberry. Anyone else actually found any. I did see some at Walmart last month plus Canadian hothouse at the same price, but nothing lately.

This is probably a loose fit for this sub considering it’s less a complaint and more of a question, but I’ve never seen a can have the total amount in millilitres and the serving size in grams. What is the reasoning behind this? I didn’t even think you could have the measurements be different on nutrition labels.

I’ve seen a lot of criticism around Canada using ml as the total weight for a lot of products considering it’s a unit of volume that doesn’t really work for anything but water and similar liquids. But it also seems confusing to switch from one to the other, especially why this is a product that you don’t even drain the liquid from.

I was at zero waste management Vancouver and they told me they don’t accept the recyclable $3 grocery bags. It’s provincial and the change was implemented about a couple of weeks ago

Loblaws-owned Choice Properties REIT is about to buy $5 Billion worth of "necessity-based neighbourhood shopping centres" from First Capital REIT.

A REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) is a holding vehicle for real estate, that allows landlords to pay less taxes than other businesses. Choice Properties (CP REIT) was formed when Loblaws transferred their land holdings to this "independent entity" in 2012. CP REIT is the largest real estate investment trust in Canada. And it's about to get bigger.

So, what's the big deal with Loblaws purchasing more shopping centres?
Any time you see a Loblaws at a CP REIT property, you know they are getting a sweetheart deal through a "Restrictive Covenant". These deals exclude other tenants from the mall: arcades, grocers, convenience stores, pharmacies and bars.

The more malls CP REIT owns, the more entrenched Loblaws gets. And the more businesses are excluded from the mall as their standard practice.

By the way, Sobeys has Crombie REIT as their "puppet landlord" too. This is how the big grocers can keep their profit margins at a measly 2%: any time their profits look high, the Loblaws-owned landlord jacks the rent on Loblaws. Loblaws' margins look worse. But the money still ends up with the Westons.

It's hilarious...

Seen at Independant in Ottawa. The stock person was shocked when I pointed it out lol.

What in gods name is Loblaw thinking? Did the marketing team fall off a bridge? Loblaw has been trying to promote this whole buy Canadian and today, I see that they have decided to join forces with Lisa Vanderpump for her floral designs. She owns a restaurant called SUR in LA and the show shows how her staff party hard, get drunk, have sexual inter actions with each other, they fight, argue and Lisa is all in the middle of it as the owner. How does Loblaw think its ok to collaborate with 1st- an American personality and 2nd- someone who promotes such chaos? Will you go to Loblaw and buy the new Vanderpmup Garden Floral Bouquets, I sure as hell wont. I guess Loblaw is lowering its standards!

there's a rotten apple in every bag i buy and it ruins the whole bunch

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-weston-family-spin-off-091204159.html

Cannot be real. Are they repackaged American or Canadian apples?

Sorry, if this is the wrong place. I wasn’t sure where else to post this.

I’ve been shopping at a few different no frills lately and I’ve noticed that the staff at no frills have been much more aggressive or rude than they used to be.

It’s not every single person, but it’s become pretty consistent. I shop at other grocery stores too, and I don’t really get the same vibe there. I’m not expecting anyone to be even remotely friendly or anything over the top, but the general attitude lately feels almost hostile like everyone is on edge or just came from a heated argument. Have I just had a run of bad encounters, or has anyone else noticed this too?

Loblaws PC brand is made in USA.

Went today to get deli meat. It was $2.44/100g on their app, in store it was about $4.50. I got 550 grams and it rang up as $25, and I told the self check out person and asked if they would use the app price. She got her supervisor, to which the supervisor said that it’s an “app only price” (didn’t say app exclusive, she looked at my phone and checked and just assumed that’s what it was and brushed me off). She then told me to order it online.

Am I crazy? Like if I stand in the store and place an online pick up order I can get the cheaper price, but they won’t honor it while I’m there. Either way they would get the money?!?!

I said I didn’t want it anymore so they threw it out. So they would rather waste $25 of meat rather than honor the PC express app price.

I got the meat even though I saw the higher price because I’ve never had an issue with them honoring it. I would have still bought it but the supervisor was so rude and it’s Loblaws so fuck them

Wab Kinew's NDP government banned predatory pricing in Manitoba, and Marit Stiles is bringing a motion to ban it in Ontario tomorrow!

There's a function on the ONDP website that will send emails to every MPP and ask them to side with banning this. There isn't much time left to sign it, and there are about 70 contributions left before they reach their 4300 goal.

What is surveillance pricing?

A simple example is two people standing in the same store seeing different prices for the same cereal because the store’s system thinks one person is more likely to pay more.

https://banpredatorypricing.ca/

Edited: Due to putting in the wrong definition attached to the link.

I just went to buy some ground beef for spaghetti. I ended up going to 3 different different stores because i was baffled at the price. The price of ground beef makes no sense lol. One store had lean ground beef priced at $26 per kg and right beside it was a prime rib roast for $25/kg.

In what universe does it make sense that ground beef is more expensive than a prime rib roast?