Well, Loblaws is run by George Weston Limited, chaired by Galen G. Weston—who makes an unsavoury appearance in the Epstein Files—so no surprise that he's willing to screw over Canadians without consent as well.

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

What does it say about him? How would I look that up?

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 12 points 5 hours ago

remember kids if you see someone stealing food from sobeys, loblaws, zhers, longos, shoppers drug mart, any of these places then no the fuck you didn't.

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

This is so dumb. This could have been a win-win for supermarkets. They could have stocked more, properly labelled, Canadian products, and have people buy more of them, and given themselves tons of positive PR. There must be some hidden profit motive here to keep stocking US products. Capitalists gonna capitalize.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 hours ago

The profit margin isn't that hidden. Distributors pay groocery stores for shelf placement, and big US brands have deeper pockets and can outbid Canadian alternatives. The winning play, then, is to find any excuse to label US brands as Canadian, and collect from both sides.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So 127 cases of maple washing, and $20,000 in fines total.

That’s the fucking problem.

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah please multiply the fine by the volume of impacted consumers and we should be on the right track.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

My local Safeway tags their broccoli as 'US or Mexico', my local 'wholesale' (Jim Pattison owned) refuses to list country of origin on its produce, and the local loblaws owned grocery store doesn't even bother carrying non-US produce.

If i had the energy to fix up my yard, we would 100% be growing our own produce in the summer, and if we had the money for a greenhouse we would probably be growing year round