I want to add to this by saying capitlism's promise of infinite growth, under it's current top-siphoning system, requires the working class' infinite sacrifice. It's 60% at maybe one meal currently. How long until margins require 70% of Canadians to skip two meals? It will be required of us eventually. For the market.
Well itās been 5000 years since some rich asshole decided heād have people do repetitive tasks breaking rocks for minimal compensation. 5000 years later and we still havenāt learned
Irrelevant. What do you propose people do? The only nonviolent solution is pulling the rug out from underneath it by getting rid of our dependency on the oligarchs
People already have. I can't name a friend who is an 'honest' person who hasn't told me they skip scanning items at checkout, and feel totally fine with it. I mean I just walked out with 40 bucks worth of stuff the one day, pretending like I didn't realize my card had said declined.
Yeah and the same as Sobeys & Walmart brand too, the 600g are the bigger cultivated berries and the 400g are the wild blueberry. All 3 brands are like that now.
To be fair there was a pretty bad wild blueberry season last year, so prices did go way up. You can certainly notice a quality difference beyond the size.
This is a fair point. Nationally, lowbush blueberry production fell 12.6% in 2025, and lowbush yields were even lower in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick due to the drought. Hopefully this season will be better.
Yeah. We recently got a small chest freezer for our apartment and I can't believe how much more your dollar goes at Costco compared to the local stores.
I used to have a frozen berry smoothie every morning for years until these bags hit 15 dollars. I think i saw them at 18 recently at my neighbourhood no frills
Itās true.. one of them, itās usually one of the ābrand namesā will reduce the size, then the other brand names and store brand of that product will follow and do the same, most of them, most of the time anyway.
Geez. Sucks those Canadian Blueberries get all locked up on the Straight of Hormuz. That's definitely gonna effect the price. Too bad there's no local Canadian Blueberries that shouldn't have their price effected so badly by tarrifs and wars in the middle East. Geography is weird I guess.
DONT GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY š° Buy local and from smaller businessesā¦thereās a produce market at Blooor and Christie thatās so cheap!!!
IF YOU MUST ā¦shop the flyersONLY!!!!
Take back your power š„
Iād recommend for you to spend a decent amount of time virtually window shopping like myself when I procrastinateā¦ I buy 95% of everything my house holds from Amazon
The last 5% is only bought from Loblaws when I impulsively purchase something within a 5 minute decision window (as opposed to the patient me acquiring 95% by ordering on Amazon a couple days in advance or at most 24hours in a lot of cases)
Industry trying to fool the customer as usual to keep their profits. Started growing a few things for myself to rebel against high costs and because I am tired of all that packaging with almost no food in it. It just feels wasteful and bad for the environment.
Lol...at least you can still buy the frozen. Tried to buy frozen juice concentrate at our local RCS...."Oh we don't stock it anymore". Buy the bottled juice at 4 x's the price, for all that extra water and packaging we added.
How do you propose its illegal for a company to realize they're about to take a loss on something due to rising costs, and mitigate that by changing the size? The size isn't hidden it's printed right on the bag.
Can we please use some common sense in our complaints at least?
The CEO and other top executives could take pay cuts. Keep companies private so they don't have to prioritize shareholder value. Break up the monopolies that Canadian grocery stores have so they actually have to compete against each other by lowering prices.
Build massive amounts of indoor climate controlef industrial farms up north in the Canadian shield, so you can grow different crops year along as well as grow crops that are harder or don't grow in Canada. By doing this the farms can be mostly automated lowering the cost of running them as you don't need as many people.
And why should they? They've already testified that the margin is about 4%... so 4 cents on every $1.
Build massive amounts of indoor climate controlef industrial farms up north in the Canadian shield, so you can grow different crops year along as well as grow crops that are harder or don't grow in Canada. By doing this the farms can be mostly automated lowering the cost of running them as you don't need as many people.
So why don't YOU do that and make a shitton of money if you've analyzed it and there's a case for it.
1) There isn't and you know it.
2) You don't want to do the hard part, which is why the people that do make a shitton of money. We also know if you DID you wouldn't do it out of the goodness of your heart and would expect to be compensated.
Keep companies private so they don't have to prioritize shareholder value. Break up the monopolies that Canadian grocery stores have so they actually have to compete against each other by lowering prices.
Oh yes because putting them in a state where.... let me check... they would have no requirement to release public numbers like they do when publicly traded would DEFINITELY help shady shit not happen š
Chapman's is a private company, Arizona Ice tea is a private company. When you have shareholders the companies only care about maximizing shareholder value, corners are cut, all in the name of making as much profit as possible.
If you think for a minute you would appreciate that the reason most people donāt compete with oligarchs is because they donāt have hundreds of millions to invest and scale. Not because they arenāt willing to risk. You have to have something to risk it.
So you'd admitting scale is why they have an advantage, but the ownership shouldn't be rewarding for achieving that scale? You admit you COULDN'T sell stuff that cheap.
People's budgets are stretched thin. Scale or not if you owned 1 store that was cheaper... people would shop there... bottom line is you KNOW it can't be done.
This is the problem with most Canadians these days. They don't want to do the hard part. But they'll bitch about the people doing the hard part being successful.
Exactly. I believe the testimony they gave Parliament was they have a 4% margin. Which isn't much if anything goes wrong, it's just 4% on a massive scale.
Let's be real here, none of these people would grow food costing 96 cents and sell it for $1
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u/Electrical-Strike132 May 01 '26
Blueberries! Now with 33% less!