Law & Order Toronto comes for nepo billionaire Galen Weston Jr.

[my_moloko]

🚨New Episode🚨 #LawandOrderToronto #CriminalIntent is back this Thursday at 8/7c on @city_tv or stream it on Citytv+ #LawandOrderThursday pic.twitter.com/U7Ob7xSFY0
- Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (@lawandorderto) April 8, 2024
The latest episode of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent may have felt extra familiar to Canadian viewers. The plot

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[yonkers]

r/loblawsisoutofcontrol for my canadian reddit friends

[wwgrogudo]

Ty for posting the subreddit. ❤️

[thebadunkadunk]

I was shook when I realized Loblows is a real thing and has nothing to do with Bob Loblaw

[pseudonygma]

Are they serious for a Loblaws boycott in May? Because I'm all for it. Some people are saying that outright boycotting is personally unsustainable, so some have suggested going in only for Loss Leader items and nothing else (literally go directly for those items, look at nothing else, pay and leave)

FYI, boycotting Loblaws means boycotting
1. Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix
2. Fortinos
3. No Frills
4. Zehrs Markets
5. Loblaw Superstore / Maxi & Cie
6. Valu-mart
7. Real Canadian Superstore
8. T&T Supermarket
9. Extra Foods
10. President’s Choice
11. No Name
12. Joe Fresh
13. Life Brand
14. PC Financial
15. Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice

https://brandsownedby.com/what-companies-are-owned-by-loblaws/

[my_moloko]

They absolutely are. I believe the reasoning is that a lot of us have been avoiding Loblaws stores here and there but then shopping there occasionally whereas a one month boycott where everyone participates would show Loblaws the true buying public of the people. Of course they can weather a one month boycott but as others have pointed out, that's also long enough to get people into different habits, shopping at other stores. I already avoid Loblaws about 95% of the time but I'm ready to cut them out totally.

[pseudonygma]

They've pretty much been driven out of Quebec because not only were they all terribly inconvenient to access without a car, they're so much more expensive than all the other grocery stores. They tried playing around with prices since they also own Maxi & Co and Provigo (eg. alternating discount weeks between Maxi and Loblaws) but they've already established themselves as the bougie grocery store to avoid so people didn't even bother making the drive to shop there. It also didn't help that their image was too "Anglo" for the Quebecois, lol

[solookup]

Out in BC (at least Vancouver), Superstore is one of the cheapest places for grocery. We're down to Walmart and Superstore as the lowest costs to buy food. I try to flyer shop as much as I can or wait for those ridiculous points deals I get from Superstore. There's no reason why I can spend 250 bucks and get 80 bucks back in points. Maybe they should just lower costs. (I spend a lot on diapers and formula so yeah)

[pseudonygma]

My was never my strong suit but here we get 15 points for every dollar spent and you need 10000 points to get a $10 back so that mean spending about $666 dollars to get a $10 discount? If my math is right, Vancouver has a better deal than Montreal.

I've seen so many people posting about price matching at Walmart in retaliation but this is exactly the type of thing that will kill the industry. Walmart is not only an American company that will be taking Canadian money out of Canada (less money in the money supply for everyone in the Canadian economy), they're absolutely shameless in using extreme pricing measures to force everyone out of business then leaving to suck the next town dry. I'm not gonna knock on people who really have no choice but Walmart has a long history of rendering business in small towns all across America into bankrupcy, so we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. :(

[bet_on_me]

I just moved to Ontario and I'm switching my prescriptions over from Shoppers to a local independent pharmacist. I'm also trying to find a small independent grocery store I can get most of my staples from so I don't have to do a ton of shopping at big-name grocery stores. It's hard though because one of my children has food allergies and the bigger stores often have more options that are safe for him. I just went back to work full-time too so it's hard to do all our baking and daily meals from scratch like I used to :( And the *other* bigger grocery stores are not much better with the greedflation.

[pseudonygma]

It's absolutely insane and it's infuriating hearing all these corporate bigwigs "justify" all these price hikes when you look at the raises they're giving themselves. Idc that it's probably written in their contracts when they were hired. Idg how anyone look at the state of the economy, the amount of stress and pressure their front line employees are daily from being understaffed and still think "Yes, good on me; I DESERVE this 55% raise (amounting to $8.4million).

I don't know how parents like you are managing it. Rent is so high that I'm never not anxious about money. That while "housing/rent should be 1/3 of your salary" days. People are lucky if they're rent isn't more than half their salary; there's no way any minimum wage full time worker can afford to live. So many companies don't even hire full time anymore since they don't have to give part time contract workers any benefits.

[my_moloko]

I found that subreddit when one of the instagrammers I follow did a rant about Canadian food prices. Some of the threads are truly upsetting and concerning. I saw one where the redditor wrote that the cost of groceries was influencing her ED and making her want to eat less. She actually thought she was eating more at one point because the cost of her groceries went up by so much. It's so fucked up.