Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Grocery Mergers? Not So Good
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Discusses corporate ownership, monopolization of grocery stores. Price increases here (Vancouver, B.C.) are staggering.

* Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264717

#FoodSecurity #inflation #FoodCosts #PriceGouging #PandemicProfiteering #Loblaws #NoFrills #WholeFoods #ShoppersDrugMart #persagen

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Jun 11, 2023 at 6:00pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 11, 2023

Food prices here in Vancouver are horrible.

Loblaws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaws) owns No Frills, Shoppers Drug Mart (SDM). I buy my butter and eggs at SDM - which is the cheapest in my area >> SALE prices: 1 lb. butter, $5.29 | 1 doz. eggs: $3.59

The regular price for 1 lb butter at "No Frills" is $6.49.

If you can afford it, there's Jeff Bezos' Whole Foods ...

* Loblaws Is Crushing Canadians With High Food Prices — While Raking in Enormous Profits
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/loblaws-food-prices-profits-inflation/

Loblaws - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 11, 2023

* Dairy and poultry supply management in Canada, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_and_poultry_supply_management_in_Canada

* Canadian Dairy Commission, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Dairy_Commission

* (2021-11-05) Milk, cheese prices could soon jump 10 to 15 per cent
Canadian Dairy Commission's record-setting price hikes could have 'huge' impact, food analyst says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/milk-prices-increase-new-brunswick-1.6237730

#Canada #FoodPrices #groceries #CanadianDairyCommission #DairyLobby #persagen

Dairy and poultry supply management in Canada - Wikipedia