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Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket (www.bbc.com)
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Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become.

She fixated on one grocer in particular: Loblaw, the dominant food retailer in Canada, boasting nearly 2,500 stores.

Her Reddit group - named LoblawsIsOutofControl - was filled with photos of grocery items for sale at seemingly egregious prices, like C$40 ($29.36; Β£23.06) for 1.4 kilograms of chicken.

Soon after, Ms Johnson and others banded together to launch a nation-wide boycott against Loblaw, saying they were fed up with the disparity between rising food prices and record profits.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I went into superstore and the produce and meat sections were awful.

All the produce was near expiry, the potatoes had eyes growing and were soft, the onions had holes in them. I just left, I couldn't pay those prices for produce with days left on their life.

Metro was immediately better.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my case, the Metro I go to has awful vegetables. They're like you just described. It really depends on the location.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

I just assumed it was because of the boycotts and they were sitting out for longer