Movement urging people to boycott Loblaw gaining traction online

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  • A movement urging people to boycott Loblaw has been gaining traction online, with what could be thousands of shoppers taking their grocery money elsewhere in May. Loblaw's new president and CEO says Loblaw the company has been expanding its discount stores and offering new promotions.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 294

  • @user-xs9ij7rr9f
    @user-xs9ij7rr9f 16 днів тому +52

    Loblaws has more than just the Loblaws brand.

    • @iqao
      @iqao 16 днів тому +2

      🤫

    • @tylerfloodgate
      @tylerfloodgate 16 днів тому +7

      The organizers know that, einstein

    • @bdegrds
      @bdegrds 16 днів тому +2

      ​@@tylerfloodgatelol "organizers" need to focus on working and earning money

    • @worldtimmy2354
      @worldtimmy2354 16 днів тому

      @@tylerfloodgate need to get a job with your organizer bs

    • @jeffreysynced
      @jeffreysynced 15 днів тому

      @@bdegrdsHow very authoritarian of you. Disgusting.

  • @derek89273
    @derek89273 16 днів тому +38

    I shop at Walmart the prices are no different there. Go after the government.

    • @SMOOVKILL1
      @SMOOVKILL1 16 днів тому +4

      Walmart and the Walton family? Check the price and weigh your food. They already paid a huge fine for that.

    • @unknown-hi5cf
      @unknown-hi5cf 16 днів тому +2

      😂 Walmart bots everywhere

    • @derek89273
      @derek89273 16 днів тому +2

      @@SMOOVKILL1my point is no matter where you go the prices are similar.

    • @derek89273
      @derek89273 16 днів тому +2

      @@unknown-hi5cfnope, I save where I can. I have no loyalties to any grocer.

    • @wiiiz3
      @wiiiz3 16 днів тому

      no point of boycotting walmart. They are just way too big & powerful. lets stick to Loblaws.

  • @abiggs66
    @abiggs66 16 днів тому +38

    I’m in on that, we definitely need to boycott

    • @whatinthefuckisgoingon
      @whatinthefuckisgoingon 16 днів тому +4

      Boycott a Canadian grocery chain?
      America and WEF thanks you for your business at Walmart. 🙄

  • @ZoomZoomMX3
    @ZoomZoomMX3 16 днів тому +13

    They took away price matching!
    No wonder people are angry

    • @Jack_Waffles
      @Jack_Waffles 16 днів тому

      That's good. Now I don't have to wait behind some idiot holding up the line for 15 minutes while they price match half their grocery cart. Go buy it at the store where it is on sale.

    • @HDTube101
      @HDTube101 16 днів тому +1

      @@Jack_Waffles Exactly, This is why Walmart stopped price matching in 2020.

    • @angelanderson9515
      @angelanderson9515 14 днів тому

      When did the do that????

  • @SANJ0288
    @SANJ0288 16 днів тому +6

    Thr speaker wirh glasses is clearly a shareholder of Loblaws 😅

  • @annetoronto5474
    @annetoronto5474 16 днів тому +7

    This sounds very political, Jagmeet’s brother is working as a lobbyist for Metro supermarkets and Trudeau doesn’t want to take responsibility for messing up Canada 🇨🇦 with his tax and mass immigration policy.
    I shop at No Frills 90% of the time, I read the flyer and look at what points I have for products, I get $60 in points yearly. Our family of five adults spend $150 per week on food.

    • @whatinthefuckisgoingon
      @whatinthefuckisgoingon 16 днів тому

      It's 1000% political.
      They said on Friday we need more foreign grocery stores. Now this.
      They are trying to make our Canadian companies look like thieves when really Canada is expensive due to Trudeau.

  • @jenniferatkinson5519
    @jenniferatkinson5519 16 днів тому +9

    Powerful message. Hope they listen

  • @Magnolia7932
    @Magnolia7932 16 днів тому +28

    Loblaws is the largest monopolist. The prices are fixed with other grocery stores.

    • @o1ecypher
      @o1ecypher 15 днів тому +1

      Which grocery stores are owned by Loblaws?
      They include: Atlantic SuperstoreTM, Dominion, Loblaws, Maxi, No Frills, Provigo Le Marché, Valu-MartTM, Real Canadian Superstore, Wholesale ClubTM, Your Independent GrocerTM and ZehrsTM.

    • @charlesward9486
      @charlesward9486 15 днів тому

      Hey crybaby, learn what a monopolist is before you use the term. Mono means one! There are more than 1 grocery stores/chains out there! Now crawl back under your rock where you belong!

    • @charlesward9486
      @charlesward9486 15 днів тому

      Go back to school and learn what a monopoly is! If you can read!

    • @angelanderson9515
      @angelanderson9515 14 днів тому +1

      @@o1ecypher Also Shoppers.

    • @maxineporter8848
      @maxineporter8848 13 днів тому

      @@rps1689 And what does the Competition Bureau do? Do they have consumers in mind?

  • @heykerryann
    @heykerryann 16 днів тому +5

    Bob Loblaw blah blah blah. From a town with only Sobeys and Loblaws, it is what it is. Can’t afford gas to get to the grocery store anyway

  • @TorontoNeurospicyGirl
    @TorontoNeurospicyGirl 16 днів тому +17

    We're leaving Loblaws. Tired of getting ripped off. We price compared Loblaws to Walmart of the 100 most common items we buy... Walmart was 15-20% cheaper.

  • @l.faraday8767
    @l.faraday8767 16 днів тому +29

    I haven’t shopped at Loblaws for ten years and I’ll never go back.

    • @user-rh2tq1xe1i
      @user-rh2tq1xe1i 16 днів тому +1

      That means you do not shop at shoppers drug mart, no frills, T&T supermarket or use esso/mobil 1 for gas, they are all under the same umbrella or contracted with Loblaws

    • @brandon8900
      @brandon8900 15 днів тому

      I don't, but was unaware of esso, I'll make sure to get my gas elsewhere as well from now on ​@@user-rh2tq1xe1i

  • @PWingert1966
    @PWingert1966 16 днів тому +6

    I don't have to worry about the boycott. I am on disability living on 11,700 a year. I can only afford to get food from the food bank. That's what I've been doing for the last 15 years.

    • @leomai9507
      @leomai9507 16 днів тому +3

      This still affects you. I've worked at three food bank locations. More middle class & lower middle class people are relying on food banks during inflation to feed families. That means less to go around at food banks for people that are below the poverty line or disabled. The issue is only going to get worse unless they crackdown on monopolized grocery chains for price gauging.

    • @PWingert1966
      @PWingert1966 16 днів тому

      @@leomai9507 I realize this. I have seen what I get from the food banks decrease by about 10% in the last year. There was a news report where a senior person at the food bank said if they can't get more cash or reduce demand they may close. The only real solution is wages need to rise or prices need o fall. Going out for a combo meal for two at McDonalds is now about 20 dollars. Pre-pandemic it was about 12!

    • @charlesward9486
      @charlesward9486 15 днів тому

      LOL! Cry us a river!

    • @leomai9507
      @leomai9507 15 днів тому

      @@charlesward9486 Look in the mirror and take a deep reflection to see why you feel the need to be heartless towards other people.

    • @charlesward9486
      @charlesward9486 14 днів тому

      @@leomai9507 Keep crying! I don't care! You are nothing but expendable!

  • @natedenomme7774
    @natedenomme7774 16 днів тому +10

    I’m in

  • @justbe1451
    @justbe1451 16 днів тому +36

    Check out what their CEO got as a bonus! It's pathetic our government allowed this!

    • @plrt6794
      @plrt6794 16 днів тому

      I agree there should be measures in place to prevent corporations from taking advantage of people during a recession. However if the government implemented anything it you’d call them socialists.

    • @whatinthefuckisgoingon
      @whatinthefuckisgoingon 16 днів тому

      This government is now gaslighting you into boycotting a Canadian grocery chain for foreign. Don't do it.

    • @Alex-qo7ke
      @Alex-qo7ke 16 днів тому +6

      Allowed Capitalism?

    • @The.Machiiine
      @The.Machiiine 16 днів тому +5

      @Justbe: Allow what? It’s a private business. I’m not justifying his pay, (not my place). But, they could pay him whatever the company deems is suitable, as it’s not tax payer money, nor is it coming out of my pocket.
      They did $55 Billion in sales last year. That works out to $0.0007 per dollar, or $2 a year for me in grocery expense.
      Loblaws stock is owned by most Canadians, provincial& public unions/pensions. If Loblaws profits, your RRSP goes up.
      Why don’t we hear the same crying when the Federal Liberals just gave themselves raises, and gamed the election date to guarantee MP’s a pension for life after serving only a few years?
      What about the CBC giving the executives $25 million dollar bonuses, but laying off staff?
      Food makes up a small portion of your annual expenses. Why don’t those students and armchair protesters cry about a 18% property tax increase in Toronto , over the past two years? That’s a MUCH bigger hit to the pocket, especially if you’re a senior on fixed income or low income. You know why you don’t hear them cry? Because the protesters are students who’ve suckled on their parents’ teat, or unemployed, or renters (who have the taxes downloaded to them as rent increase).

    • @robertb8629
      @robertb8629 16 днів тому +4

      Why should the government be involved at all?

  • @vincentbenedetto1892
    @vincentbenedetto1892 16 днів тому +8

    Food inflation is under 2 percent. Hahahahahahahahha

  • @cindyhook2697
    @cindyhook2697 16 днів тому +22

    We live in Barrie, Ontario. We have always shopped at Zehra’s..one of the Loblaws store. But unfortunately, the prices have already risen 2 to 3 times! How are people with children supposed to live like this? Scrap the carbon tax Mr. Trudough. We will be boycotting this store and looking for small, independent grocers from now on. 🙏👩‍🍼🕊🕊☮️

    • @user-xs9ij7rr9f
      @user-xs9ij7rr9f 16 днів тому +6

      Grocery stores prices went up because of supply chain. Supply chain resolved and prices are still going up. Carbon tax accounted for .15% of inflation. Let me spell it out for you...corporate greed, Of course poilievre protects his corporate buddies.

    • @derek89273
      @derek89273 16 днів тому +3

      Go to Walmart or metro, no difference.

    • @Trythis837
      @Trythis837 16 днів тому

      @@user-xs9ij7rr9floblaws makes 3.5% on their products. How is that greedy?

    • @unknown-hi5cf
      @unknown-hi5cf 16 днів тому +5

      You need to focus on supporting Canadian business owned grocery stores. Not American owed like Walmart.

    • @PWingert1966
      @PWingert1966 16 днів тому +4

      Go to the food bank. start living on it like 23% of everyone in Ontario is!

  • @kimcorscadden3645
    @kimcorscadden3645 15 днів тому +2

    I was a No Frills customer for years but since Covid they’ve raised the prices so much that Walmart is now cheaper so that’s where I shop. It’s too bad because I’d much rather shop Canadian.

  • @Dude99124
    @Dude99124 16 днів тому +10

    Boycotting Loblaws is a simplistic way of thinking. Loblaws is not the problem it’s the Canadian dollar, compounded carbon tax and shipping logistics of cross-border shipping that’s increasing do to more food coming from the US do to high production costs in Canada.

    • @letzsnuggzz
      @letzsnuggzz 16 днів тому +6

      Excuses. Excuses. Excuses. Why is it that the some of the same products can be bought at dollarama at much cheaper prices? Stop being a bending boy for these corporations. Those excuses are old and no longer wash.

    • @Starcatt966
      @Starcatt966 16 днів тому +6

      That’s completely WRONG!! It is as simple as corporate GREED!! It’s not that hard!!

    • @tony--james
      @tony--james 15 днів тому +4

      then why are they raking in record profits,

  • @turnleftrighthere2605
    @turnleftrighthere2605 16 днів тому +8

    Some Farmers Markets are starting in May too!

    • @Trythis837
      @Trythis837 16 днів тому

      😂😂😂😂😂 $30 for a chicken and $17 for a loaf of bread.

    • @olgaordina
      @olgaordina 16 днів тому +2

      June is strawberry season. Go out for a country drive near home farms you may be able to get really good prices on strawberries in June 🍓 🍓 🍓

    • @user-rh2tq1xe1i
      @user-rh2tq1xe1i 16 днів тому

      Way over priced. Farmers market is no way to save money. Yes, you support locals but you are not saving any money. Be honest

    • @angelanderson9515
      @angelanderson9515 14 днів тому +1

      Farmers markets can be very expensive, but if a lot of the foods are in season, you can get food for cheaper….
      They will have an abundance of them, and they will do anything to get rid of them …. That’s why they are normally cheaper in summer time.

    • @Jack_Waffles
      @Jack_Waffles 12 днів тому

      Farmer's market is a gimmick for stupid people. Just like the commercialized Flea Markets.

  • @justbe1451
    @justbe1451 16 днів тому +11

    Absolutely!

  • @MB-yh1ch
    @MB-yh1ch 16 днів тому +8

    Sylvain is correct. All grocers prices are out of control. The Grocers are at the end of a long line of everybody charging more, farmers(their expenses have really increased)/fuel/shipping/wage increases/taxes/etc. And what about product shrink-flation, that is the fault of the manufacturers.

    • @angelanderson9515
      @angelanderson9515 14 днів тому

      Everything is out of control. We are all going to be skin and bones soon. (Middle class and poor people especially)

  • @Brave-828
    @Brave-828 9 днів тому +1

    Farm Boy has lower food prices and most of their food is organic.

  • @robertb8629
    @robertb8629 16 днів тому +1

    You already were able to do this, it's called switching grocery stores. This isn't revolutionary...this is how consumer choice works.

  • @BobSmith-ij5et
    @BobSmith-ij5et 16 днів тому +2

    Giant tiger here I go

  • @InterestedCitizen
    @InterestedCitizen 16 днів тому +9

    Too bad we couldn't impose on these very-caviar-level CEO's to eat plain white bread and processed cheese sandwiches for a couple of weeks to show them how unhealthy it is To be forced to eat what is cheap, not healthy or tasty. (no offence to bread and cheese 😊).

  • @LuckyMorrison
    @LuckyMorrison 16 днів тому +21

    Boycott Shoppers Drug Mart

    • @whatinthefuckisgoingon
      @whatinthefuckisgoingon 16 днів тому

      I will continue to support Canadian grocery chains and stores. Any foreign companies can FK right off.

  • @lewislauzon3381
    @lewislauzon3381 16 днів тому +2

    Boycott them till there out of bussness if they don’t comply . They will be at the bottom of the shelf

  • @ExplorationConservation
    @ExplorationConservation 11 днів тому +1

    I only support small local businesses now. Makes me sick the profits there making while Canadian are hurting and how they slowly fired and laid off Canadian throughout the years to only hire immigrants to take advantage of the governments benefits like the refundable tax credits to profit even more. This goes for almost all big retailers in Canada and makes me sick to see Canadian struggling to eat than put on the streets and fired from their jobs to make room for immigrants. 😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

  • @lililinda6947
    @lililinda6947 16 днів тому +1

    I live in a small city without too many options, there is metro and the Loblaws brand stores such as superstore, YIG, no frills. Without fail I shop at metro there are better options and the sale prices, even regular prices on many products, are lower than superstore for example.

  • @unknown-hi5cf
    @unknown-hi5cf 16 днів тому +2

    What? Theres ppl boycotting things? Omg. 😱

    • @whatinthefuckisgoingon
      @whatinthefuckisgoingon 16 днів тому +1

      Federal government and media doing a bang up job replacing Canada.

    • @unknown-hi5cf
      @unknown-hi5cf 16 днів тому

      @@whatinthefuckisgoingon 🇺🇸🇮🇱

  • @RR-xu5xk
    @RR-xu5xk 14 днів тому +1

    No Frills is still my go to store. Compared to Basics and Freshco, No Frills is much better and you get pc points. Loblaw banner stores are much better than Sobeys and Metro. I will continue to promote Loblaws banner stores over the others.

  • @PadrickNonis
    @PadrickNonis 15 днів тому

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LEADS THE WAY

  • @SuccessForever1234
    @SuccessForever1234 15 днів тому

    BOYCOTT already passed onto friends and family…..we shop at East Indian & Mom & pop grocery stores

  • @charlesward9486
    @charlesward9486 15 днів тому +1

    Shopping there tomorrow will be great with all of the whiners boycotting it! Looking forward to it!

  • @urbanlumberjackedup
    @urbanlumberjackedup 16 днів тому +1

    I always thought loblaws put a premium on their merchandise because its stores are fancier/cleaner than other stores like walmart and frills. To cover for the added overhead. I feel like if you want cheaper prices then better shop at no frills. They are both PC anyway.

  • @shirleyavarell2674
    @shirleyavarell2674 15 днів тому

    Too little, too late! Joining the movement!

  • @andg5194
    @andg5194 14 днів тому +1

    We are not boycotting Loblaw chains on Westcost here.
    Real Canadian Superstore and No Frills tends to have lower prices.
    Walmart sometimes but their grocery selections are limited.
    Other than Loblaws and Walmart, we are left with Safeway and Save-on Food, both are much more expensive.

    • @rps1689
      @rps1689 14 днів тому

      You know something is fishy when a product from NB is cheaper in Superstore in BC than in NB.

    • @andg5194
      @andg5194 14 днів тому +1

      @@rps1689 it goes both ways, BC caught Dungeness crab, BC grown blue berries and cherries, all cheaper in Toronto than B.C. WTH...

  • @williamterrymasters1934
    @williamterrymasters1934 16 днів тому +1

    Zehrs is my grocery store no people can stop me from getting my groceries there only GOD can 😂

  • @justiceleague9658
    @justiceleague9658 16 днів тому +1

    We need anti-trust investigation, regulation and punition in this country, especially in Retail & telecommunications industry

  • @288theabe
    @288theabe 15 днів тому

    Remember how well this worked with gasoline companies in the early 2000s? This whole thing is laughable....

  • @support8187
    @support8187 15 днів тому +1

    I shop at Centra, the Asian supermarket and Dollarama. Anytime I go to Zehrs, sobies, Loblaws I only buy 1-3 items max. And even with those few items I'm out $30 lol.

  • @dickroot1937
    @dickroot1937 16 днів тому +4

    vote with your money

  • @o1ecypher
    @o1ecypher 15 днів тому +1

    Solution, For every dollar the big grocery stores earn in profit, a percentage of each dollar should go towards reducing the prices for the things that matter. let's vote for that
    a country's poverty is largely due to the hoarding of wealth by a few. if a country only prints and issues a limited amount of money the more rich people hoard that wealth it makes the worker ever more poorer. since the 80s the charts and graphs show that the CEOS are paying the worker less and hoarding more of the companies wealth to themselves. when it should be in the pockets of those who work.

  • @Joesmith-dt9sy
    @Joesmith-dt9sy 13 днів тому

    The pension greed party leader has a brother working for metro food companies, no conflict of interest here.

  • @user-rx4vl8ep2e
    @user-rx4vl8ep2e 16 днів тому +1

    not happening. where should we shop instead? Sobeys that's owned by literally lob law's founders brother?...

  • @goldenottawa
    @goldenottawa 15 днів тому

    If you do nothing then nothing will change. Therefore try to do something.

  • @jaimieseejaimiedo
    @jaimieseejaimiedo 16 днів тому

    According to the owners pricing is up to the customers....soooo

  • @canadarecordsofficial
    @canadarecordsofficial 15 днів тому

    Where do I sign petition?

  • @boyfrmnewyork
    @boyfrmnewyork 16 днів тому +12

    Break-up the company...

    • @JessT-vg7ib
      @JessT-vg7ib 16 днів тому +1

      how about no

    • @aetherfox4404
      @aetherfox4404 14 днів тому

      Start your own and compete, shouldn't be hard with everyone boycotting them right?

    • @rps1689
      @rps1689 14 днів тому

      We used to have structures that reduced the formation of these monopolistic outfits and the tools to divest them if they arose. But that pretty much came to an end over time with tthe policies that stemmed from supply side economics and it BS trickle down strategy. The structures and tax regime we have now; favours the biggest corporations and oligarchs, reduces competitive advantage, bleeds the bottom continually to sustain growth at the top.

  • @GlueNotGlitter
    @GlueNotGlitter 16 днів тому

    “Just one grocer”… THIS May. We can add another one in June. And another in July. Other grocers need to act, or they’ll also see the boycott coming their way.

  • @rps1689
    @rps1689 14 днів тому

    Boycotting has no effect on the financial gains on such a monopolistic outfit. What we are seeing with the big five grocers here is monopolistic competition, which is when any product is being offered by a handful of sellers effecting a small competition between them hence very little control from the buyer front.
    The profit margin that they report only represents what percentage of sales has turned into profit; hidden profits are never reported in the profit margin. And you will never get full info on the slotting fees nor the savings they get through accounting schemes and gimmicks which they off shore into trusts.. There are no lack of economists telling us big grocery retailers are being disingenuous and careless with their facts and figures.

  • @ty5tto
    @ty5tto 14 днів тому

    Well when you have selfcheckout and cut staff hours of course the company profits.

  • @pacman3556
    @pacman3556 16 днів тому +13

    Instead of boycotting just use the self checkouts and steal half your groceries.

  • @mg79277
    @mg79277 16 днів тому

    There are issues but some smaller independent stores sell far cheaper consistently
    Soooo……
    Just waiting for Aldi’s
    They’d get the snot kicked out of them if they were here in Canada
    One can only hope

  • @user-wn5th8nt9f
    @user-wn5th8nt9f 16 днів тому

    I use to go through the sales flyers to compare prices. For the last 6 years , I shopped Independence because it was closer, quicker and Canadian. NOW! I'm back to comparing prices in sales flyers and so do my friends.We exchange information every week on key items and the prices. Most of the time Walmart has some good price..Giant Tiger has some good deals. I was just in Food Basics and it wasn't too bad. The had thing is some people have no way of getting around, so they have to shop at the nearest retailer. If Thomas Loblaw could see this now, he would be rolling over in his grave..

  • @katherinelangford981
    @katherinelangford981 16 днів тому

    My small independant grocery carries Compliments products which means they are sourcing from one of the bigger ones as well. But I do buy there.

    • @JayandSarah
      @JayandSarah 15 днів тому

      Almost all independent grocers are serviced by massive corporate chains. There is no way for a small independent to actually buy their inventory aside from doing that. Vendors ship to massive distributions facilities, and no independent has that. Small local shops that maybe sell more local only products might, but they can't actually supply food to many people, they are just too small. Whatever the house brand is you see in them is the group they are buying through. And they can't buy some from here and some from there, it's a contract.

  • @alyssamary2371
    @alyssamary2371 15 днів тому

    Let's not forget that real people work for these companies. I understand the point but I personally need my job to get by. Finding a new job isn't that easy

  • @jimvalin75
    @jimvalin75 16 днів тому

    Don't forget best before dates rule the less you buy the more the price goes down unless they dispose of it and that's a whole other game

  • @flanagansreno7907
    @flanagansreno7907 15 днів тому

    Too bad most people have a me first mentality . Not a collective mentality to achieve a greater goal My family is more important than yours.

  • @TroyQwert
    @TroyQwert 14 днів тому

    Is it only about Lablows or all stores in their list?

  • @turnleftrighthere2605
    @turnleftrighthere2605 14 днів тому

    If you live in the GTA I’ll be featuring real Independent Grocers in GTA all month long on my social media. Even if you don’t boycott, it’s worth having a serious discussion on where you buy food & it’s impact. The majority market is controlled by chains now and we gave them that power.

  • @Nogie-sj5dd
    @Nogie-sj5dd 16 днів тому

    Ya that’s going to do it who are these scholars that think this stuff up they are so brilliant

  • @dmac5306
    @dmac5306 16 днів тому

    I hardly step foot in stores I used to rely upon for day to day groceries and toiletries. There are other options where the overhead is less greedy and savings gets passed onto customers. It's just a matter of time when people are forced to shop elsewhere due to lack of funds. Now or later, but it will happen.

  • @Th0rvidTheViking
    @Th0rvidTheViking 14 днів тому

    "Independent grocers are all over Toronto"
    All due respect sir, Canada is a LOT MORE THAN TORONTO!!!!

  • @Ellen-lm5yg
    @Ellen-lm5yg 15 днів тому

    Why doesn't he mention their profits?

    • @rps1689
      @rps1689 14 днів тому

      And profits which do not comport with inflation pressures due to rising cost.

  • @TroyQwert
    @TroyQwert 14 днів тому

    Suppliers? Why the same apples, ftom the same supplier, are mote expensive in Lablows than in their NoFrills? I love them apples! 🍎

  • @jeffreysynced
    @jeffreysynced 15 днів тому

    It may be small, but every movement starts small. Stick to it, people. This guy saying we need to boycott ALL big box grocers is a distraction. No movement starts that all-encompassing. Getting large numbers of people to synchronize takes time. It’s incremental.
    P.S. How many shares of Loblaw do you own, Sylvain? 😏

  • @evangolding5520
    @evangolding5520 16 днів тому

    Not everyone lives in a big city. For smaller cities, not everyone can go to a independent stores as they are usually located in pockets of the city that aren't always as accessible to transit routes, walking distance etc..

  • @CJFreeza
    @CJFreeza 16 днів тому

    Why expand discount stores and not just discount the products inside loblaws.

  • @wendywilsoncprcontemplativ3660
    @wendywilsoncprcontemplativ3660 16 днів тому +3

    It's because Loblaws prices are OUTRAGOUS and unjustifiable.
    Remember friends, Independant grocers are owned by National Grocers, a subsidiary of Loblaws.

  • @squishykrishy_
    @squishykrishy_ 16 днів тому

    I do hope everyone gets a chance to visit their local independent grocery store! I find the ethnic grocers are well priced!

  • @Dekison
    @Dekison 13 днів тому

    H mart not to bad imo

  • @GoBudsGo
    @GoBudsGo 16 днів тому

    All stocks are at an all-time high. Not just Loblaws. Gaslight much CP24?

  • @lewislauzon3381
    @lewislauzon3381 16 днів тому

    We’ll boycott the farmers market to if there out of touch

  • @Carrie-so3ro
    @Carrie-so3ro 10 днів тому

    Sylvain makes SOME good points - but he is also a bit wrong.
    He IS right that in Toronto & other areas, there are a lot of little stores for various groceries about. It may take more time & effort to go to 1 store for certain things & another for certain others - BUT you can even get together with friends, family &/or neighbours & see if you can EACH take a different location, all buying for all of you & then get together at the end of the day/evening to divide it. This means you can get better, fresher items at lower prices without having to do all the footwork yourself. (There is also St. Lawrence Market open all year long - with 2 big buildings on 2 sides of the street. I don't know what their prices are like now, but if they are about around the same or a little less than the big chains, I would rather give my money here.)
    He is wrong that the boycott would have been better months ago. Now that the weather is getting warmer, Canadians will have MORE CHOICES - with a multitude of farmer's markets starting up (separate from St. Lawrence Market), as well as "pick-your-own" farms to get the best & freshest items with the best flavour, farmer's side road stalls & a chance for people to grow on their own or in groups (or to share their land for a % of the produce with others when they don't want to grow items themselves) & people may even be able to do some container gardening on balconies even.
    **(If you do this, DON'T keep your produce safe FROM BIRDS BY USING NETTING - the birds often can't see the fine netting in time to stop & [destroy your netting - which doesn't help you] AND causes THE BIRDS EXTREME TORTURE when it get tightly wrapped around their foot or feet, cutting off circulation, turning them black, putting them in pain, eliminating their ability to walk, or land from flight or take off from dangers hardly at all! IT IS ABSOLUTE CRUELTY! - & Not helpful to you if it gets damaged anyways!
    INSTEAD, enclose your produce in a little glass (or plastic - even a homemade plastic tent) greenhouse - OR you can buy a statue of an owl, eagle, hawk OR a black silhoutte of one of these predators (available at some nature stores or by even photocopying an enlarged flying silhoutte from a book on these birds - & then colouring the silhoutte black & putting it in your window near the produce. Birds will not fly near these "enemies" & yet it is safe for them.)
    Don't forget to help others in need if you do grow your own & end up with too much of something (that you aren't trading with neighbours/family/friends for something else - whether at food banks, shelters OR with elderly or disabled neighbours who would not be in a position to grow anything themselves, or to larger families with a lower income.

  • @briansokoloski776
    @briansokoloski776 8 днів тому

    People need to make Home Made Soup Potatoes And Carrots and onions and salt and pepper more often a lot lower Cost than by Campbell's Canned Soup lasts for Days and Make Porage for Breakfast good protein and low cost No Name Oats Deals ❤❤

  • @alexbold9158
    @alexbold9158 14 днів тому

    What a naive generation! ,If you don't like the price shop somewhere else. Business are not charities, if they do not make money three's no employment for your family members neither. The government is the problem and that should be the target. If taxes go down so goes the price of energy and everything else altogether. Business have no choice but to adapt to the market. That's why small business are the first to go because they cannot keep up with the cost of production. That's why you need big players in the market. I use to leave in Russia where everything was cheap and provided by the government until the government run out of money and out of food. We starved to death and the population decreased for several years. Don't let Trudeau destroy our country!

    • @rps1689
      @rps1689 14 днів тому

      Some are naive and have no clue how big coprorations like Loblaws use accounting gimmicks and schemes that allow them to manufacture overhead they can write off that actually doesn't exist' basically getting their losses and failures socialized. Plus with these schemes they also distort the consumers' perception of value; the decoy effect, skimpflation, shrinkflation, and compound markup to name a few come to mind.
      Unfortunately too many in the younger generations think monopolistic outfits are "normal" and a fact or way of life. That price gouging is somehow "capitalism" and necessary. The days of enforcing antitrust and illegal price gouging is long gone.
      Price of energy has always been artificial, as there is no free market in energy, not even during the industrial revolution and since. All energy industries are a network administered oligopolies. Nobody would put up with paying the full price of energy. Not the powers that be, not the consumers.
      What you pay at the pump is all fabricated by algorithms that elude enforcement of pricing schemes. What is interesting is crude oil is purchased in long term contracts. Some folk think it is the spot price we all get quoted in the media. When the spot price rises, the pump price jumps fast, and when the spot price falls, we know what usually happens ; ) Note this happens in unison among brands, but of course the government says they can't prove price fixing or gouging, which is a lie, because the price is arbitrary and not based on shipping costs and other costs. Such is the reality when oil majors having economies the size of nations.
      Thanks to the policies that stemmed from supply-side economics, inflation no longer squeezes big corporations and the biggest companies, but does to small businesses, which experience the pressure of competing during inflation. No big corporation today is competing for low overhead and internal costs have nothing to do with consumer pricing. No wonder we have an economy where the small guy has to mitigate the lack of real capitalistic competition.
      The best way to reduce taxes for small businesses and to create a competitive advantage so they can compete with big companies, would be to progressively tax commerce instead of net profit so the largest of the monopolies and conglomerates are forced to self divest and spin off divisions and plants. We used to used to have structures and the tools to do this when we had capitalism under democracy instead of what we have now, which is "democracy" under captialism.

  • @alphamike9560
    @alphamike9560 16 днів тому +1

    Im in

  • @syedaliabidi1346
    @syedaliabidi1346 8 днів тому

    Boycott all of loblaws brands if you really want to Boycott loblaws...

  • @ZoomZoomMX3
    @ZoomZoomMX3 16 днів тому

    Farmer's markets are way overpriced!
    They are not a option.
    What deals do they offer I've never found any Ottawa farmwrs markets being even comparably priced to Walmart.

  • @barcelonachair6487
    @barcelonachair6487 14 днів тому

    Loblaw, Loblaws or Loblaw's? Since the late 70's I don't think I have ever seen it with an apostrophe or heard it pronounced in the singular. Is this re-branding?

    • @thankmelater1254
      @thankmelater1254 14 днів тому

      CBC has the same spelling. What a coincidence. Both are paid shills for the government which is employing and promoting people who don't know the name, for some reason, and sending the messaging out to the various arms of their propaganda outfit. Coincidentally not knowing the name - that tells the tale of where their news comes from.

  • @ZoomZoomMX3
    @ZoomZoomMX3 16 днів тому +3

    Your record profits shiw your gouging consumers.
    There is no excuses for this to continue.
    Loblaws is the leading grocery store and owner of many others rcss, no frills. Freshco...

  • @ivannightly1919
    @ivannightly1919 10 днів тому

    why i agree they are greedy truth is I volunteer to fill groceries for the elderly on a regular basis and Loblaws is one of the cheapest on average metro blows my mind on the difference for the same bag of groceries how ever elderly make me by at the preferred store to me boycott the carbon tax its adding to every thing and if you count forests we are a net negative carbon producer

    • @rps1689
      @rps1689 10 днів тому

      Canada's overall forests have not been a net negative carbon producer for decades. Canadian forest have become carbon sources, releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than they are accumulating in any given year. Trees are not simply vacuuming CO2 out of the air and making it magically disappear. We have to take into account how many trees have reached their equilibrium - trees full grown, the tiny amount they grow is offset by decay. Plus carbon exits older forests about as quickly as it comes in so the way; forests are not an infinite carbon sink plus trees don’t last forever and when they die and decay, chopped down and burned for fuel, or burn in a wildfire, they release all the CO2 they’ve been hiding away. This is why it is so important to protect new forests permanently.
      How do you boycott a baked in tax like the carbon tax?

  • @DaFactsNoNonsense1713
    @DaFactsNoNonsense1713 16 днів тому

    Good idea = this would be the only way they'll adjust their "dirty" business-model

  • @ty5tto
    @ty5tto 14 днів тому +2

    They need to boycott Metro one of the worst companies to work for with abusive Mangers who force customers to use selfcheckouts. The most abused employees are the cashiers.

  • @olgaordina
    @olgaordina 16 днів тому

    Dudes like: there is more than 1 in this monopoly game 😂

  • @rubixqueer
    @rubixqueer 14 днів тому

    NOK ER NOK

  • @darleneelvidge6380
    @darleneelvidge6380 15 днів тому +1

    I was in Shoppers Drug Mart, yesterday and myself and one other person was the only one in the store.
    I even when into Dollarama and there was only like 4 people in their.
    And there was no vehicles on the roadways either?
    End of the month know one has any “Money” to be out shopping for anything
    at all.
    They’re saying people are now eating expired foods they have in their house,
    or apartments.
    Because they cannot afford to keep going out and buying food all the time.
    Something needs to Change before this is a even “Bigger Problem” for the
    country?

  • @wc2260
    @wc2260 15 днів тому

    Loblaws made about 4% profit last year. Metro made 5% last year. Sobeys made 7.5% so think about who is making the big profit.

    • @rps1689
      @rps1689 14 днів тому

      And that's only the profits let alone the financial gains they have to report.

  • @user-xs9ij7rr9f
    @user-xs9ij7rr9f 16 днів тому +7

    Corporations said because of the lock down supply chain was the reason prices went up. Supply chain is resolved and they keep raising prices, the prices never went back down. Carbon tax accounted for .15% of inflation, poilievre protects the price gouging of his corporate friends.

    • @michaelanderson-harding
      @michaelanderson-harding 16 днів тому

      Where is the supply chain resolved ???

    • @gamerextreme4772
      @gamerextreme4772 16 днів тому

      Never ever

    • @richardrogers7479
      @richardrogers7479 16 днів тому +2

      You mean Trudope protects the corporates , his family are friends of the Weston family, he goes to their cottage in Point Au Barrel Ontario

    • @theowoytowich9959
      @theowoytowich9959 16 днів тому

      Carbon tax is more than 0.15% of inflation. That's what the Liberals want you to believe.

    • @The.Machiiine
      @The.Machiiine 16 днів тому

      Although you’re partially correct about supply chain levelling out, your comments about PierreP are unfounded rhetoric. Back it up. How does a party leader, yet to be elected , have any power?? See @ richardroger’s reply to you.
      Suggestions:
      ) Loblaw’s is expensive and sub-par produce. Shop elsewhere. Must shop weekly flyer deals.
      - produce (fruits/veggiea) are back to pre-pandemic prices in Toronto.
      Chicken & pork, lamb - same, back to 2019/2020 prices , particularly if you look at weekly flyers.
      Steak/ beef is still really!! high, except for ground beef.
      Eggs are up about 30%
      Milk, 20% higher
      Generally, I saw same or higher prices in Florida last month, but in USD$, so can’t be Pierre’s fault 😁
      Stay away from anything processed (in a box/ package, etc…)- this is where the majority of prices are up 30% to double

  • @ZenCorvus
    @ZenCorvus 16 днів тому

    Ya boycott then go the next day.
    Where youmgoing to go?

  • @kenlee8953
    @kenlee8953 16 днів тому

    Blob loss

  • @lauras2196
    @lauras2196 16 днів тому +2

    lets do it guys!!

  • @gregisaacs7546
    @gregisaacs7546 16 днів тому +2

    I don't think it is gaining momentum, this is the media being a dick. Sort of how like they occasionally bring up "Why do we tip at restaurants?" sort of segments. If you are hungry, you are going to buy food. If loblaws is too expensive, you are not going to loblaws. You adapt. That's how the free market work. This is why Walmart people do not shop at Whole Foods.
    You cannot boycott something you weren't buying to begin with

    • @olgaordina
      @olgaordina 16 днів тому +1

      There is 56,000 people who signed up this all started on reddit

    • @Trythis837
      @Trythis837 16 днів тому

      @@olgaordinaReddit?!?! Bahahahahahahahah well that all makes sense. Scum of the earth right there.

  • @stacy-annmorgan6685
    @stacy-annmorgan6685 15 днів тому +1

    I live in Atlantic Canada. Atlantic Superstore prices are robbery. I miss no frills. Not too close enough but yes we should boycott the big box chains. I love Costco though but I’m definitely trying to cut my shopping at Atlantic.

  • @user-bc4wz4wi4i
    @user-bc4wz4wi4i 14 днів тому

    Boycott boycott boycott

  • @wtfhellas
    @wtfhellas 16 днів тому +1

    But people still shop there, parking lots still full.
    If there is to be a proper boycott it has to be real and nobody goes.
    Carbon tax hurting yet?

    • @gamerextreme4772
      @gamerextreme4772 16 днів тому +2

      Boycott works if it is done properly and to involve lots of people

  • @nixcya3180
    @nixcya3180 15 днів тому

    I don't even know why people shop from this very expensive store!! There is freshco , food basic Walmart and many others then why are you still shopping from this greedy company? I stopped buying from Loblaws 2 years ago when i realized how much extra i have to pay while are there any stores have the same product for alot cheaper price. Smart up !

  • @dixonpinfold2582
    @dixonpinfold2582 16 днів тому +1

    Absurd. Loblaw's markups are around where they were before. Their prices went up because the food suppliers raised their prices. The carbon tax also has a hand in it.
    This is like walking down the street when it's raining, getting wet, and blaming the roof of your house for not keeping you dry.

  • @brandon8900
    @brandon8900 15 днів тому

    I haven't been to any Loblaw store in 2024, and will continue to shop elsewhere for the foreseeable future.