🇨🇦 Looks like this boycott is gaining steam...
Avoid shopping at all Loblaw-owned stores, Shoppers Drug Mart, No Frills, Loblaw Real Canadian Superstore for the month of MAY 2024.
#roblaws #canada #poilievre #dougford #cdnpoli #onpoli #topoli
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@MayhamMonday
Same, I've been boycotting them for a couple of years now. I've considered Galen Weston to be scum for a long time now (since he was complaining about the minimum wage going up significantly for the first time in a decade) but the straw that broke my back was his reluctance to provide extra pandemic pay to his workers when they were one of the only major retailers allowed to remain open during lockdown and making money hand over fist.
@vickietorious @CatherineBabault 😳 Is Lifelabs a recent acquisition or did you mean Lifemark?
In 2022, Loblaws acquired the Toronto-based Lifemark Health Corp. from U.S. private equity firm Audax which added 300 private clinics to the Shoppers Drug Mart network.
@vickietorious Thanks! 😡 How soon before Ford renames Loblaws as "Ontario Health"
@Anne_Canada The key difference is Loblaws owns Shoppers Drug Mart -- now a massive player in the privatization of #Ontario's healthcare system.
Loblaws also owns..
Lifemark: physiotherapy, massage therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic, mental health & other rehab services.
MEDEO: app for online booking of doctor's appts
Maple Health: 24/7 virtual healthcare -subscription starts at $80/month
During the pandemic, our Conservative government in Alberta pushed all rollout of public health supports through their partners of: Shopper's Drug Mart and McDonald's.
Using McDonald's was particularly interesting, because it also meant you had to drive a car (no cyclists or pedestrians) and use their drive-thru (knowing that most will order something, out of embarrassment of getting "free stuff", and not hunger) in order to access publicly funded PPE.
I can't, btw, find any other instance of publicly-funded PPE being distributed through restaurant drive-thru windows, or any kind of drive-thru for that matter ('cause most people understand that "public" doesn't mean "motorists"). As we say too often here, "Only in Alberta".
I know I'm straying from the discussion of Loblaws, but the whole idea of private "partners" controlling access to public healthcare is all in the same vein, Shopper's or McD's.
In Ontario, #DougFord 'closed' Public Health depots and assigned covid vaccine distribution to Shoppers Drug Mart. Public Health was dependent on a private pharmacy chain for vaccine. It went as well as you'd expect..
@gemelliz
The last time I was inside a Loblaws, there was a couple shaking their heads in front of the bags of chips which were "on sale" 2 for $11. Prior to Covid those deals were frequently 2 for $3.50.
I told them about the boycott and they were immediately on-board.
I might blast through my local store a week before May to leave some leaflets explaining the boycott.
@trueslicky Loblaws is owned by the billionaire Weston family. "The family operations began with the purchase of a bakery in 1884 by American-born Canadian George Weston in #Toronto Ontario."
The Weston family currently owns or controls over 200 companies, including the Loblaws supermarket chain, Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy chain, Holt Renfrew, Canada, Selfridges, UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts, Ireland, De Bijenkorf Netherlands, Primark, Fortnum & Mason and Heal's.
I've been using Save-On-Foods (Jim Pattison Group) for 4 years now. Prices are generally good and they have home delivery.
The downside is they're only in some Western centres.
@gemelliz "This could become more of a movement against companies… the whole industry as a whole has potential for some change here as this thing plays out.”
Yessss! Let's keep going until they're all co-ops and other democratically run structures!
@alison Likewise. But recently I was booking a medical appointment using MEDEO - my family doctor's booking app - and noticed that too is owned by Loblaws.
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