The Canadian government wanted grocers to keep it up to date on efforts to stabilize food prices. Sobeys and Metro refused
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Before you start blasting the new liberal government, give them a chance. Carney has done more since he stepped in to the role of prime minister since March 14, than he should have been expected to do. But he’s doing it. He’s dealing with shit that’s not just national, but GLOBAL. Canadians are not alone in the issues of housing, healthcare, food prices, etc. As far as I’m concerned, the global issue is oligarchy. There’s a secondary issue with the rise of fascism/nazism (a lack of history education, perhaps?) I can guarantee Carney won’t be handing out doughnuts and coffee to racists and Nazis…
The rise of fascism has nothing to do with our ignorance of history, but with the success of the fascists in convincing the general public that what they are doing is not fascism. Those who control the label, control the information flow.
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The rise of fascism has nothing to do with our ignorance of history, but with the success of the fascists in convincing the general public that what they are doing is not fascism. Those who control the label, control the information flow.
Hence, education. They don’t understand fascism because they haven’t been educated about fascism. It’s spreading across the globe and too many people seem oblivious. Perhaps history would be helpful? WWII? Those who are controlling the label are able to do so, because they control the education, or lack thereof: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fascism+definition&ia=web
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Fuck Sobey’s with an artichoke.
They bought Thrifty Foods here on the west coast and the purchasing became less local, staffing policies got shittier, pricing got worse, and it generally just fell into boycott territory for me.
The locally based grocery chain that remains here is pretty good so we still have that, but choice vanished, thanks capitalism.
Which is the locally based grocery chain in BC? The island has the Market Stores which are nice, but wondering about other alternatives.
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Which is the locally based grocery chain in BC? The island has the Market Stores which are nice, but wondering about other alternatives.
Country Grocer
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The Liberals play with fire ignoring CoL things like this when it comes to the future youth vote.
In Canada the gov doesn’t control prices. They can investigate and … oh, like they’re doing now.
Try again, Polievre.
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I’m in Southern Ontario. Where can I shop? We have a farmer’s market and butchers, but there’s stuff I need that they won’t have. I was shopping at Metro, because Canadian, but like… why does everyone have to be evil?
They’re capitalists.
You don’t get to be the size of Metro without being a selfish, greedy, asshole. Aka, a capitalist.
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In Canada the gov doesn’t control prices. They can investigate and … oh, like they’re doing now.
Try again, Polievre.
I’m very obviously not conservative, don’t strawman critical opinion. I voted Carney. I just see the youth getting fed up and think we’re fucked the same as the USA in 4 years if nothing is done about cost of living. Whether it can be managed or not. We have the same culture rot and decades of decline.
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The Liberals play with fire ignoring CoL things like this when it comes to the future youth vote.
of COURSE you are from shit.just.shit
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Hence, education. They don’t understand fascism because they haven’t been educated about fascism. It’s spreading across the globe and too many people seem oblivious. Perhaps history would be helpful? WWII? Those who are controlling the label are able to do so, because they control the education, or lack thereof: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fascism+definition&ia=web
One does not really have to go any further than the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church to see the proliferation of fascism in action, and also to see the tremendous effort to re-define fascism so that it does NOT apply to what the Empire has done in the past, and in fact many facets in it are still doing. Although the last Pope seemed to be trying to get the Empire away from operating in that mode, and we will see what the new Pope does.
My personal take is that the spread of fascism is being prompted by a particularly well organized institution that is co-coordinating a lot of the events that are feeding the fascist goals, and it is managing to stay below the radar simply because the news media refuses to call it for what it is. But the events are too well orchestrated, too well co-ordinated, too well funded, and too contiguous not to be planned by some central authority.
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Food price increases driven by inflation were not isolated to Canada, but other countries handled this issue very differently.
Bester said the way the Mexican government handled major grocers in their country was more direct, and prevented prices on groceries from increasing as drastically as they did in Canada.
Last year, Mexico’s government signed an agreement to control the price of a number of “basic” foods — 24 items in the “bread basket” including pasteurised whole milk, basic cornflour, packaged bread, whole chicken, rice, vegetable oil, and canned sardines, set at a maximum price to 910 pesos (about $60CAN). Major retailers, including Walmart, agreed to the terms.
“The government really took more of a carrot and a stick approach to freezing the prices of a basket of goods, bringing grocers in and saying, basically, ‘this is the way it’s going to be,’” Bester said.
Macdonald noted that the UK also approached grocery price increases differently than Canada.
“They brought the big grocery stores together to offer sort of a set of basic products at lower prices for a kind of house brand,” Macdonald said. “You’ve got the cheap bread for a certain set amount, the cheap eggs for a certain set amount, that sort of thing.”
In 2023, Canada’s big grocery chains exceeded $6 billion in profits — an increase of eight per cent from the previous year, according to the Centre for Future Work. The data found food retailers are now making more than twice as much profit as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Road to hell is almost always paved with “good intentions”. Then some fuck comes around and twists/corrupts the whole idea.
