The problem is that the percentage of profits, not just revenue, as indicated by the 15% dividend raise, is increasing which means more is being scraped off the top by Loblaws which isn’t from input costs which Loblaws likes to blame but greed.
Revenue and share of profits should be should have steady growth commensurate to inflation at most for an essential service like Loblaws. Really government should treat housing, food, water and energy as essential with better regulation across the supply chain.
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Can someone chime in? Why aren’t there chains of grocery stores run by the government to ensure prices are minimal and people can get food at fair prices? Does any country do that?
Co-ops are better than government run anyways, since the members are the owners, invested members can make the right choices for the store/community/region instead of a blanket provincial/federal policies.
Go to your local co-op.
If you don’t have one, make one.
Piece of cake, I’ll just start a coop.
Canada general co-op assistance: https://canada.coop/en/starting-a-co-op/
USA non-profit, but food co-op specific: https://fci.coop/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Startup_Guide2017.pdf
BC produced, but usable anywhere: https://bcca.coop/app/uploads/2020/06/BCCA-Cultivating-Coops-2018-1.pdf
Still doesn’t make it easy.
If you want easy, just pay loblaws a premium to run grocery for you.
Like most people, that’s exactly what I’ll do. I already work multiple jobs. Ain’t nobody got time to start a coop.
Start a co-op that pays living wages (all the ones I’ve been a member of do) and you can solve two problems at once.
I dunno, I live in a place run by a co-op and it’s really just a group of tyrannical old people with nothing to do, who want to control everyone’s life and are every bit as greedy as corporations.
If it’s run by a group of tyrannical old people that can’t be usurped, it’s not really a co-op.
They can be usurped. Just nobody wants to run it, young residents don’t want to be involved or don’t have time, so you end up with the old busy bodies with nothing to do running it. They run unopposed a lot
Then you get what you get. we live in a Strata, people complain the council makes decisions they don’t like, but nobody steps forward each year at vote time to offer themselves as a new council member.
Correct. At the yearly meetings that include elections, there’s like a 25% turnout at most
I think you found your problem.
If they did that here, we’d just be hearing about how the government spent 50b on building and “online grocery ordering system” with Loblaws Food Consulting Inc
And the system would be down and crash within 5 days of launch
Because that model has never sustainably resulted in lower prices and higher quality anywhere in the world?
What country has tried it?
Just a random thing. Isn’t it crazy Loblaws doesn’t accept Amex.
T&T even accepts Alipay and WeChat pay.
T&T is owned by Loblaws…
Just too expensive for them
Edit: can you imagine being the one that makes the most money, but still too cheap to accept Amex?! Like a millionaire still living in his mom’s basement…
Giant Tiger accepts AMEX lol
Yeah, I don’t blame anyone for not supporting amex.
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Amex and credit cards in general are a tax on our society, especially the poor. The wealthy get “rewards” which just come from increased prices to cover the high credit card fees. The less wealthy don’t get as much of the extra fees back as rewards but still have to pay the higher prices.
We should strictly regulate credit card fees like the EU has done.
