Loblaws pretty sure people won’t care that coconuts labelled as “Canadian”
Loblaws pretty sure people won’t care that coconuts labelled as “Canadian”
Loblaws pretty sure people won’t care that coconuts 🥥 labelled as “Canadian”
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/loblaws-pretty-sure-people-wont-care-that-coconuts-labelled-as-canadian/
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Loblaws pas mal certain que les gens ne se préoccuperont pas des noix de coco 🥥 étiquetées comme « canadiennes »
// Publication en anglais //

ETOBICOKE, ON - Despite individual stores receiving fines for mislabelling some foods as Canadian, Loblaws head office remains confident that Canadian shoppers will not notice their new policy of labelling coconuts, pineapples, and imported Dutch gouda as domestic products.
Loblaw logs out all customers after ‘low-level’ data breach, where basic customer information was accessed
https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/03/11/loblaw-logs-out-all-customers-after-low-level-data-breach/
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Loblaw déconnecte tous ses clients après une brèche de données de bas niveau, où l’information de base sur les clients a été accédée
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2236795/loblaw-clients-fuite-de-donnees
#Canada #Loblaw #Loblaws #Provigo #Maxi #Pharmaprix #ShoppersDrugMart
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Case in point on that just announced #Loblaws #AIAgent new 'exciting' project based on your points card, and how likely will such be to bias your recipe toward PC partner products?
Corporate profiteering: Culprit behind Loblaw’s $10K fine for promoting imported food as Canadian? Broccoli slaw
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-superstore-fine-buy-canadian-imported-food-broccoli-slaw-9.7106279
On Wednesday, Loblaw posted $16.38 billion in retail revenue for the quarter
https://www.loblaw.ca/en/loblaw-reports-adjusted-diluted-net-earnings-per-common-share-growth-of-109-in-the-fourt-quarter-on-a-12-week-comparable-basis/
... and record profits DURING the COVID-19 pandemic
... m/w perhaps 1 in 4 🇨🇦 Canadians food insecure
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/6257-canadians-are-facing-higher-levels-food-insecurity
https://righttofood.ca/a-quarter-of-canadians-are-food-insecure-addressing-this-must-be-a-national-priority/
#capitalism #billionaires #Loblaws #Sobeys #profiteering #shrinkflation #FoodSecurity #corporations

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has provided CBC News with new details about the $10,000 fine it issued to a Loblaw-owned Superstore last month for promoting imported food as Canadian. The federal food regulator said the mislabelled product was a Loblaw-owned brand: President's Choice broccoli slaw.
Broccoli slaw triggered a $10K maplewashing fine for Loblaw
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-superstore-fine-buy-canadian-imported-food-broccoli-slaw-9.7106279
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Une salade de brocoli a entraînée une amende d’érablanchiment de 10K$ pour Loblaw
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#Canada #MapleWashing #Acériblanchiment #Érablanshiment #Loblaw #Loblaws

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has provided CBC News with new details about the $10,000 fine it issued to a Loblaw-owned Superstore last month for promoting imported food as Canadian. The federal food regulator said the mislabelled product was a Loblaw-owned brand: President's Choice broccoli slaw.
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Unless this $10,000 fine is greater than the profits #loblaws made mislabelling products then the fine is useless.
As long as fines are less than profits, then the fines are just another business expense to be incurred if caught.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/superstore-imported-canadian-food-fine-9.7099827

Canada’s food regulator has fined a Loblaw-owned store $10,000 for promoting imported food as a “Product of Canada.” The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the Toronto store used “maple leaf advertising decals” as part of an in-store display to promote a foreign product.