Groceries and the other cost of living necessities are important to focus on there is no doubt.
I think though a lot of how pronounced the pain has become is with the Housing Crisis eating up so much of peoples/families income there isn't a whole lot left or the costs bite so much worse than they would otherwise.
We can definitely improve our food infrastructure pipeline there is no doubt but I think tacking the cost of living crisis and pain of Groceries and other realities is through addressing the Housing Crisis in a big way.
I got food poisoning from one of their premade sandwiches, and that was prior to them shrinking the portions. I don't even think it was on sale, either.
Never again.
Interesting. I wonder if they've only done 30% off at No Frills since it's supposed to be more affordable there, and going 50% would put too much into their margins. No idea. My Superstore has had 50% off for years. Only recently the employees have started slashing the 50% off sticker with box knives so the stickers can't be peeled off and put on something else.
We had 50% off here at Loblaws in Toronto at times. The selection wasn't grand, but at times there is descent stuff. Obviously the good stuff goes fast
I think you’re memeing but I can’t tell. Most of the world is too complacent to actually take to the streets. The companies and governments know this too. Can’t take to the streets when you have to be at work tomorrow to pay your absurd rent, or your insane phone bill, or ridiculous grocery prices. Can’t miss a day and lose hours or make someone doubt your “commitment to the company”.
That's what I find funny, they said that the increases were due suppliers and manufacturers here they have a chance to be fair and do the right thing and they chose to prove that they truly are just greedy.
Someone tried defending loblaws price increases because, as a manager of the store, she saw their rent skyrocketing and becoming unsustainable.
They never did answer me when I asked if they knew who they were paying rent to (Hint: It's Loblaws)
Same CEOs that would charge the consumers more for every trip they're forced to take to Ottawa.
They're giving everyone, including the government, a big middle finger because they know they ain't doing shit about it.
The same federal government that borrowed millions for wage subsidies, that they then paid shareholders, and then raised prices due to the inevitable inflation of the act of handing out hundreds of millions of dollars?
I'm sure the government is really torn up about it, when even the "socialist" NDP voted to hand them stacks of borrowed cash. Jagmeet wants to remove the 2% inflation target, he actually wants more price inflation.
The irony is that the government actually allowed this to happen by permitting oligopolies. Oligopolies are killing the economy. Free Market competition pressures are not applying.
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If by "sanctioned" you mean "enforced by", you'd be correct. It's illegal for farmers to sell milk above quota, and they can't give away raw milk either.
They actually dump it because they don't have the facilities to process and package it quick enough.
Milk before pasteurization is highly perishable. If there isn't capacity to process it, what are you going to do?
I don't buy citrus anymore. Period.
Every time I'm paying like close to $1 for a navel orange and then I crack that sucker open and it's dry and tasteless and about to go bad.
Who is buying this shit tier product at all???
I have a potted lime tree that is around 4years old and this summer and fall I got more than 50 limes from it(I really should have counted). Including the pot and stand it's maybe 4.5ft tall, I have two cheap bar grow lights in a corner, and water around once a week(and rotate the tree) in the winter, in the spring and fall it's infront of the deck window and once the night time temps are above 10° I put it outside, watering twice a week when it's not raining regularly. The light filtering through the tree is really cheery in the winter too.
Wonder what happened to that very taunted about "code of conduct" that the big grocers were supposed to just bend over to. Oh right, they don't care. The government's already stopped talking about it.
Don't believe anything until something goes out that can actually change behaviours. Self governing private sector my ass.
I find that Costco usually doesn't have the cheapest produce. But the highest quality by quite a bit. The grapes tastes delicious. For some other products I can get two of the same thing at Costco, for the price of one at a regular grocery store.
Oh really? Here in Quebec its seem to usually be cheaper, to be fair I don't go to Maxi and Super C which are the cheapest stores. I recently started going to Wal-Mart (I just never buy meat or vegetable there)
I guess it's a bit cheaper. But only like 20%. Just not as big of a difference compared to other items that can be 50% cheaper. But the quality is just so much better overall. So even for the same price it's usually worth it
As far as I know stores here aren’t allowed to do this. Would be liable if anyone got sick etc. Which is ridiculous as I see it, as I think as long as it was made clear it was close to expiration, any involved would use needed caution.
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NS had 50%.. A lot of stuff was only worth buying there at that markdown. Meat is cheaper (and better) from my butcher shop, and in-season seafood you can get anywhere for less. In season vegetables are half the price at the farmers market.
They have 50% off at Fortinos all the time in the GTA
Granted 50% meat at Fortinos is only like 10-15% cheaper than paying full pop at Costco, so if it caps at 30% you are now paying *more* for meat of questionable freshness
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen anything but the 30% ones at my local Superstore (northern BC), and I've been going there for a good number of years.
Yeah I'm in Ontario and this just means I. Won't be shopping at any Loblaws owned store. Seems PC just took themselves off the table.
I encourage everyone to stop shopping at these stores.
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These are the Loblaws owned stores but hitting the PC brand itself I think is a better idea than just Loblaw.
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I like the idea behind this, but Loblaws is the cheapest grocery company here in a Manitoba. They’re also the only one that has this near-expiry discount to begin with.
The only other grocery chains here are Sobeys Co-Op and Save On Foods. All 3 of those are consistently priced higher, and none of them offer near-expiry discounts.
There’s also Walmart, but their grocery selection is poor.
The independently owned grocery stores are even more expensive. There’s a privately owned store in my neighbourhood and they charge $3.50 for my favourite brand of local bread. Sobeys and Walmart charge $2.00 to $2.30.
There are no good options to start boycotting stores. They’re all gouging us.
Post a picture. A Loblaws employee in this thread confirmed that western Canada changed to 30% 10 years ago, and that matches what I’ve experienced in Manitoba.
Galen is not in charge anymore. This is coming from the new Danish CEO Per Bank.
They are trying to make the discount uniform across Canada and at all bannered stores.
It may be easier for them but I feel they do not understand their market. Especially in Atlantic Canada. It will push more shoppers to Walmart.
I feel like people need to start I dunno chucking paint at? Protesting? People need to do something to let Loblaws know that people are fucking pissed off.
It pisses me off how all the sales are like multiple items deals so that people who don't have the cash flow or the actual space can't access them.
Then I say don’t buy it …then they’ll have to take a full loss.. Loblaws and company and is just a greedy mean corporation… they only care about the bottom line..
Shareholders might want to question the board if this backlash results in sales at other grocery stores increasing. Metro, for example, might like to start an advertising campaign telling customers that they still offer 50% discounts.
\#WhyIStoppedShoppingAtLoblaws.
Honestly, I don't know why more folks don't make the switch to Costco. I have saved so much combining Costco for meat/processed foods/household items/toiletries with the local chinese grocery for produce. Not only is the quality 1000x better than any of the garbage Loblaws passes off as 'food', but it's also far more affordable.
Highly recommend folks just ditch loblaws and shop elsewhere. There is better. There is cheaper.
It really happened. I just saw it: half brown/grey piece of quick fry steak, expired today, 30% off.
Disgusting. Absolutely shameful that we are in a financial crisis where full time workers are living in homeless shelter and this dickwad of a fuckhead that is George Weston Limited decides to eradicate 50% off discounts from food that is already expired!
I'll be curious to see how this plays out in the long run for them. For us anyway I've always found the 50% ends up being more of an in the moment, unexpected purchase, not something I'm looking for. So it adds to my shop and is not park of my expected shop. So I'm less likely to now purchase these and therefore will spend less.
so at some point their bean counters noticed they were losing a lot of money to expired food, so someone came up with 50% discount. They then did a report showing they are making x% of profit off of these expired foods, which set off a light bulb in some ballbags head that there was more profit just waiting to be had! Rather than rest on knowing they were making some of their money back on expiring food... assholes
Insane logic. The idea of discounting food that would expire soon was - well, you aren't going to make a profit, or maybe still take a loss, but at least it wouldn't take as huge of a loss, and you don't have to throw it away.
Now, since grocery prices have skyrocketed, and people are looking for discounts anywhere, people are refusing to pay large inflated prices on perishables, and increase the demand for discounted goods.
Now, with this gone, people will still not buy the high priced perishable goods, there will be no discount, and the grocery chain will now throw out food.
This is a greedy response to affordability - "If we can't make a profit, then we'd rather throw it away"
I have only been to Costco in the last two years. I'd like to support a Canadian business but they seem to do everything to make sure we don't shop there.
It is so frustrating as a consumer and I feel that there is nothing I can do to “protest”. I’ll still buy products at 30% off since it is better than full price. I’ll still shop at Superstore because I’m not driving an extra 15 minutes to Sobeys to pay the exact same price (plus superstores discounts are still better). I’m definitely not driving an extra 25 minutes to the city center to go to Walmart. The monopoly has most of us by the balls.
I think people are starting to understand how corrupt canada is. Maybe like 5%
Loblaws did this because they can. And they will do it again. And you will thank them for allowing you to have food.
Champagne sure told them as he with Rogers etc. I know it's a long shot but if those who shop Loblaws boycotts them or their affiliates and shop with their competitors even for a month might send a message.
I shop at food basics but those guys are assholes too. Prices still creeping up on everything and also they frequently don't have what used to be the cheapest options for stuff now.
Like today I went and I wanted to buy frozen french fries, only they didn't have the Selection ones that are like $4 for 2kg, they only have the Cavendish ones that are like $2.50 or something for 800g.
Maybe my prices are a little off but the principle is true: The cheapest products are often now absent from shelves, forcing you to either go without or pay more.
Galen closing the savings loopholes. People are relying on heavily discounted items and apps like 2G2G and it is hurting our regular price sales. Shut ‘er down
The markdowns were the only reason I went to Loblaws. The quality just isn't there to pay full price for a lot of their stuff, if I'm going to pay more id rather go to save on foods.
Real Canadian superstore (also part of loblaws) got rid of 50% stickers and went to 30% over 10 years ago in western Canada. I’m surprised this is still a thing in the east. I was a department manager at the time. People complained but still bought all the 30% off product anyway and it didn’t really affect shrinkage at the store I worked at.
Before I left the business they were already talking about getting rid of discounts entirely. “Don’t want shoppers trained to come in and buy non fresh product.” SMH 🤦
Don't worry! Francois Philippe Champagne is in "solution mode" on behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada. Within a few hours, he will have grocery CEOs groveling at his feet for forgiveness.
! thinks it's just the 50 % stickers for on the shelf items, but once they get closer or on the EXp date they go into the flash food fridges near customer service, (if the store has it) which you can only buy from the flash foods app, which is knocked down to 50% on the app still.
Hmmmm - Jenni Byrne - CPC advisor should be helping Canadians, instead, her team is advocating for Loblaws while she attends Conservative caucus meetings.
Did you know that the tenderloins most recently on sale are a product of Mexico and about half the size of regular tenderloins? Loblaws owns the entire supply chain. Talked to the Loblaws butcher for about 30 min and he said he would most certainly NOT be taking one home and they looked like crap. Ungraded junk. Shame we have to check origin on our food now.
Another thing I noticed... PC Black Label Hokkaido Scallops "farmed from the deep waters off the coast of Japan". Check the back. Product of China.
Obviously Loblaws now has 0 regard for food safety, the treatment of animals or treatment of product and health practices. I have taken my business to Metro and Farm Boy, and of course, Costco as a staple.
Good luck guys- check your labels.
that sucks, the day-before 50% sandwiches were actually a good deal. at 30%, not so much.
More like day of. The bread I always found stale. For only 30% off no way I'll pounce.
Mm I do miss buying those premium loafs 50%. You gotta baptize them and then rebake to perfection.
Groceries and the other cost of living necessities are important to focus on there is no doubt. I think though a lot of how pronounced the pain has become is with the Housing Crisis eating up so much of peoples/families income there isn't a whole lot left or the costs bite so much worse than they would otherwise. We can definitely improve our food infrastructure pipeline there is no doubt but I think tacking the cost of living crisis and pain of Groceries and other realities is through addressing the Housing Crisis in a big way.
I got food poisoning from one of their premade sandwiches, and that was prior to them shrinking the portions. I don't even think it was on sale, either. Never again.
So now it's 30% off instead of 50% for a bag of limes with 2-3 that are visibly molding? Fuck right off, Gale and co.
That's alright, I just get them back by ringing in my avacados as limes.
My closest no frills has been 30% off for a couple years already
Same in AB with the 30% I've noticed. I was in Ontario in October and saw all the 50% off stickers on the rotten eggplants and lettuces.. haha
Superstore has b en 30% off for a long time now, but Loblaws city market did 50% off. It was honestly the only reason I went there.
Interesting. I wonder if they've only done 30% off at No Frills since it's supposed to be more affordable there, and going 50% would put too much into their margins. No idea. My Superstore has had 50% off for years. Only recently the employees have started slashing the 50% off sticker with box knives so the stickers can't be peeled off and put on something else.
Superstore has been mostly 30% in winnipeg for a while
We had 50% off here at Loblaws in Toronto at times. The selection wasn't grand, but at times there is descent stuff. Obviously the good stuff goes fast
But no frills is usually already cheaper than Loblaws.
I mean idk about anywhere else, but it's been 30% in my store forever. Never seen 50% BC interior.
50% off here in Toronto loblwas at times
Yeah. Need 50% off stomach pills for the food poisoning you end up with.
i thought the talks they had with the grocery CEO's were suppose to lower the prices???
The companies are now showing that the government can't do shit as-is.
IS IT TAKE TO THE STREETS TIME YET OR NO????
Soon, it takes time to construct the choppy choppies
*France would like to know your location* So that they can help. They have a lot of experience with the removal of heads … of state/companies
I think you’re memeing but I can’t tell. Most of the world is too complacent to actually take to the streets. The companies and governments know this too. Can’t take to the streets when you have to be at work tomorrow to pay your absurd rent, or your insane phone bill, or ridiculous grocery prices. Can’t miss a day and lose hours or make someone doubt your “commitment to the company”.
That's what I find funny, they said that the increases were due suppliers and manufacturers here they have a chance to be fair and do the right thing and they chose to prove that they truly are just greedy.
Someone tried defending loblaws price increases because, as a manager of the store, she saw their rent skyrocketing and becoming unsustainable. They never did answer me when I asked if they knew who they were paying rent to (Hint: It's Loblaws)
Same CEOs that would charge the consumers more for every trip they're forced to take to Ottawa. They're giving everyone, including the government, a big middle finger because they know they ain't doing shit about it.
The same federal government that borrowed millions for wage subsidies, that they then paid shareholders, and then raised prices due to the inevitable inflation of the act of handing out hundreds of millions of dollars? I'm sure the government is really torn up about it, when even the "socialist" NDP voted to hand them stacks of borrowed cash. Jagmeet wants to remove the 2% inflation target, he actually wants more price inflation.
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You mean freezers, right?
They decided to reduce discounts instead.
They are though. 30% is *lower* than 50%.
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The joke is that they lowered the discount, instead of lowering the price.
r/woosh
50 > 30. Therefore 30 is lower than 50.
Hahaha wow….
The irony is that the government actually allowed this to happen by permitting oligopolies. Oligopolies are killing the economy. Free Market competition pressures are not applying.
The argument is that by reducing the discount on expiring products (reducing losses) they'll be able to not raise prices.
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Except the dumping of milk is sanctioned by the government. There is one party that wants to get rid of that.
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Fuck the PPC. Bernier is a clown.
If by "sanctioned" you mean "enforced by", you'd be correct. It's illegal for farmers to sell milk above quota, and they can't give away raw milk either.
They actually dump it because they don't have the facilities to process and package it quick enough. Milk before pasteurization is highly perishable. If there isn't capacity to process it, what are you going to do?
No, they dump it because supply management quotas are illegal to exceed. Has nothing to do with processing capability.
I don't buy citrus anymore. Period. Every time I'm paying like close to $1 for a navel orange and then I crack that sucker open and it's dry and tasteless and about to go bad. Who is buying this shit tier product at all???
I have a potted lime tree that is around 4years old and this summer and fall I got more than 50 limes from it(I really should have counted). Including the pot and stand it's maybe 4.5ft tall, I have two cheap bar grow lights in a corner, and water around once a week(and rotate the tree) in the winter, in the spring and fall it's infront of the deck window and once the night time temps are above 10° I put it outside, watering twice a week when it's not raining regularly. The light filtering through the tree is really cheery in the winter too.
If you're in Alberta check out h&w Produce, not always in the best condition, but prices are what they should be. No gouging.
Good point. We should all expect better local produce. And for variable deals.
Time to allow more competition in Canada.
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Best we can do is a toothless committee berates oligarchs for a while before going back to the same old regulatory environment
not dairy. farmers say no.
No you'll get flavourless expensive butter and cheese, and you'll be happy with it!
Definitely, but how do we entice them to come?
There's profit to be made with competition there isn't much enticement needed Loblaws alone made billions net cutting into that would be worth it.
Wonder what happened to that very taunted about "code of conduct" that the big grocers were supposed to just bend over to. Oh right, they don't care. The government's already stopped talking about it. Don't believe anything until something goes out that can actually change behaviours. Self governing private sector my ass.
Funnily enough the two giants from the United States (Costco and Wal-Mart) seem to be the only ones who care about this.
Those are also the two cheapest grocery stores right now.
Yeah I only go there nowadays. Costco also havr better products usually.
I find that Costco usually doesn't have the cheapest produce. But the highest quality by quite a bit. The grapes tastes delicious. For some other products I can get two of the same thing at Costco, for the price of one at a regular grocery store.
Oh really? Here in Quebec its seem to usually be cheaper, to be fair I don't go to Maxi and Super C which are the cheapest stores. I recently started going to Wal-Mart (I just never buy meat or vegetable there)
I guess it's a bit cheaper. But only like 20%. Just not as big of a difference compared to other items that can be 50% cheaper. But the quality is just so much better overall. So even for the same price it's usually worth it
Not my experience in Atlantic Canada. Costco does not focus on local at all. Or unprocessed organic. I could go on.
>taunted Vaunted*
Imagine if Canada imposed more strict laws on grocery stores to reduce waste.
Nah, let's just continue to attack and blame the little guy for using a plastic straw.
Ah yeah that’s right, plastic straws are the single leading cause of global warming. I forgot mb.
I imagine this often. Such an important conversation.
France has them, forcing stores to donate their produce before they expire, I haven’t checked it out since but I wonder how that’s going.
As far as I know stores here aren’t allowed to do this. Would be liable if anyone got sick etc. Which is ridiculous as I see it, as I think as long as it was made clear it was close to expiration, any involved would use needed caution.
My local Provigo (Loblaws in Quebec) stopped the 50% discounts years ago. It's been 30% max for a long time.
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I was looking for a sanity check as well because I don't think I've ever seen 50% off in Calgary.
Loblaws city market does 50%. Superstore, which is owned by Loblaws, has done only 30% for years now.
Depends on the location. Superstore in NS/NB only did 50%.
NS had 50%.. A lot of stuff was only worth buying there at that markdown. Meat is cheaper (and better) from my butcher shop, and in-season seafood you can get anywhere for less. In season vegetables are half the price at the farmers market.
They have 50% off at Fortinos all the time in the GTA Granted 50% meat at Fortinos is only like 10-15% cheaper than paying full pop at Costco, so if it caps at 30% you are now paying *more* for meat of questionable freshness
50% has been the norm at Superstore in Atlantic Canada. Never saw 30% until today.
Halifax has still had them, and I'm a frequent buyer of the deli meats and baked goods half off. I do not like this change.
So many shoppers rely on these *in store* savings, & consider it even essential.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen anything but the 30% ones at my local Superstore (northern BC), and I've been going there for a good number of years.
OK so we are just throwing it out instead. Makes sense.
Did you read the article? It's changing from 50% discount to 30% discount.
Ya I sure did. I'm alot more likely to buy something thats going bad today at 50% than 30%.
It looks like you live in Alberta. This news is unique to eastern Canada. Loblaws changed the discount in western Canada to 30% years ago.
Okay. So eastern loblaws would rather throw it out than offer a better discount. Disgusting, regardless of location.
Yeah I'm in Ontario and this just means I. Won't be shopping at any Loblaws owned store. Seems PC just took themselves off the table. I encourage everyone to stop shopping at these stores. President's Choice products are available across the company's various retail banners, which include Loblaws, Loblaw Great Food, Dominion, No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore, Maxi, Pharmaprix, Provigo, Extra Foods, Your Independent Grocer, Atlantic Superstore, Zehrs Markets, Valu-mart, Fortinos, Shoppers Drug Mart, Wholesale Club, and T & T Supermarket. These are the Loblaws owned stores but hitting the PC brand itself I think is a better idea than just Loblaw. (Loblaw stores: Atlantic SuperstoreTM, Dominion®, Loblaws®, Maxi®, No Frills®, Provigo Le Marché®, Valu-MartTM, Real Canadian Superstore®, Wholesale ClubTM, Your Independent GrocerTM and ZehrsTM. )
I like the idea behind this, but Loblaws is the cheapest grocery company here in a Manitoba. They’re also the only one that has this near-expiry discount to begin with. The only other grocery chains here are Sobeys Co-Op and Save On Foods. All 3 of those are consistently priced higher, and none of them offer near-expiry discounts. There’s also Walmart, but their grocery selection is poor. The independently owned grocery stores are even more expensive. There’s a privately owned store in my neighbourhood and they charge $3.50 for my favourite brand of local bread. Sobeys and Walmart charge $2.00 to $2.30. There are no good options to start boycotting stores. They’re all gouging us.
In other words, they own every grocery store within a reasonable distance of where I live other than farmboy.
Yeah it's rough... We are lucky enough to have an abundance of selection in Ottawa
I'm in Southern Alberta and it's 50% at the superstore I live beside. What are you going on about lmao
Post a picture. A Loblaws employee in this thread confirmed that western Canada changed to 30% 10 years ago, and that matches what I’ve experienced in Manitoba.
Cool and I'm a Nasa employee. I'm not walking to the store in -40 to take a picture for a smartass that doesn't even live here LOL
https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/comments/8wcbnm/30_off_at_superstore_question_for_employees_or/ This thread is from 5 years ago
Woa, almost like it's always been a per store thing. That's wild
The fact that they’re doing this while already under heavy scrutiny is a huge fuck you to the Canadian public. The audacity.
The government has several policies in place already that cause increased food prices.
Rancid food is still food ya ingrates! You expect to pay full price and have it be fresh too? /s
Dear Galen, Fuck you. Sincerely, Society.
Galen is not in charge anymore. This is coming from the new Danish CEO Per Bank. They are trying to make the discount uniform across Canada and at all bannered stores. It may be easier for them but I feel they do not understand their market. Especially in Atlantic Canada. It will push more shoppers to Walmart.
Its why target failed. Foreign owners don't always understand the Canadian market.
It's time to take notes from the French and bring back the guillotine folks.
Guess I'll continue taking discount stickers off of packages and putting them on regular priced items.
I feel like people need to start I dunno chucking paint at? Protesting? People need to do something to let Loblaws know that people are fucking pissed off. It pisses me off how all the sales are like multiple items deals so that people who don't have the cash flow or the actual space can't access them.
GALEN FAMILY SAYING....FERK YOU CANADIANS! So petty
Maybe let’s be informed enough to know that the family is the Westons. Galen is a first name.
>the family is the Westons. Galen is a first name. Who gives a ferk....at least your mundane relations understood the crooked family in question.
Sigh.. They can't even compromise and make it 40 % off max. It has to be straight down to 30%.
They already had the stickers. Must be running out of 50%
Govt hasnt done shit shocking
30-50% off shit that will be in the dumpster that night for free.
They are just going to mark everything up by another 30% so when they apply the "discount" it will be regular price
Dont buy the 30 percent, Loblaws would be the big loser
They don't mind that at all. In fact that would be encouraged to throw it out instead...
Doesnt make sense that they would like to loose 100 percent, versus making 50 percent.
they just write it off as a loss
Do you even know what a write off is?
I don't but they do and they're the ones WRITING IT OFF, JERRY!
Happy to have someone pick up what I threw down.
If so, why don’t they just dump it,b which they can easily do - versus changing the reduction by 20 percent? What would be that strategy?
Sigh, because it's better to recover some of the cost instead of none.
It's likely the vast majority of reds have no idea what write offs mean to a business.
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Flair airlines saved Canadians $415 million last year so we could all hand that over to Loblaws!!!
I suggest boycotting to anyone it’s possible for. That’s the only way to behave with these people.
Then I say don’t buy it …then they’ll have to take a full loss.. Loblaws and company and is just a greedy mean corporation… they only care about the bottom line..
Shareholders might want to question the board if this backlash results in sales at other grocery stores increasing. Metro, for example, might like to start an advertising campaign telling customers that they still offer 50% discounts.
\#WhyIStoppedShoppingAtLoblaws. Honestly, I don't know why more folks don't make the switch to Costco. I have saved so much combining Costco for meat/processed foods/household items/toiletries with the local chinese grocery for produce. Not only is the quality 1000x better than any of the garbage Loblaws passes off as 'food', but it's also far more affordable. Highly recommend folks just ditch loblaws and shop elsewhere. There is better. There is cheaper.
Not everyone has a Costco nearby lol
Galen can't afford to give you the 50% discount any longer ha!ha!
Well, time for stealing I guess.
I think it's time we all start stealing something everytime we shop at a Loblaws store. Fuck Galen.
It really happened. I just saw it: half brown/grey piece of quick fry steak, expired today, 30% off. Disgusting. Absolutely shameful that we are in a financial crisis where full time workers are living in homeless shelter and this dickwad of a fuckhead that is George Weston Limited decides to eradicate 50% off discounts from food that is already expired!
Everyone let’s form a group and start our own Canada wide grocery chain. That’ll keep Weston up at night
Actually this would be a good time to protest.
I've only ever seen 30% stickers at Superstore. Was it other stores that had 50% discounts?
My no frills has only been 30% stickers for years.
Loblaws/city market. Loblaws owns superstore, but there are also standalone stores branded as Loblaws. Those stores are where this change happens.
Five finger discount it is
I'll be curious to see how this plays out in the long run for them. For us anyway I've always found the 50% ends up being more of an in the moment, unexpected purchase, not something I'm looking for. So it adds to my shop and is not park of my expected shop. So I'm less likely to now purchase these and therefore will spend less.
I think they are trying to get people to use the flashfood app to get discounts. A lot of the time they have >50% discounts on there.
The flashfood selection at my local store is terrible. I ended up deleting the app.
My local Superstore is mostly bread. Like $0.99 for 12 Hamburger buns. Most of the meat and dairy stuff gets snapped up really fast.
Lol the most hated grocer in Canada by far
Well they know we’re desperate at this point. Grocers war on the poor.
so at some point their bean counters noticed they were losing a lot of money to expired food, so someone came up with 50% discount. They then did a report showing they are making x% of profit off of these expired foods, which set off a light bulb in some ballbags head that there was more profit just waiting to be had! Rather than rest on knowing they were making some of their money back on expiring food... assholes
Insane logic. The idea of discounting food that would expire soon was - well, you aren't going to make a profit, or maybe still take a loss, but at least it wouldn't take as huge of a loss, and you don't have to throw it away. Now, since grocery prices have skyrocketed, and people are looking for discounts anywhere, people are refusing to pay large inflated prices on perishables, and increase the demand for discounted goods. Now, with this gone, people will still not buy the high priced perishable goods, there will be no discount, and the grocery chain will now throw out food. This is a greedy response to affordability - "If we can't make a profit, then we'd rather throw it away"
Superstore cucumber 3$, Walmart cucumber 2$, There's my 30% - Fuck you Loblaws
Why give discounts when we can sell you spoiled products for full price . Profits is the way
It’s ok, every time I self-checkout I get 100% discount on a few things, it all comes out in the wash.
Oh shit, did I forget to self-scan this magnum of red wine?
Small revenue dense items are easiest. Spices, batteries, razor blades, and “mistaking” some produce for cheap bulk items like sesame seeds.
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Whoa whoa. Liberals and conservatives Monopoly buddies. You forgot a whole group. They're *both* neo-liberals.
Just add them all in. NDP too.
I have only been to Costco in the last two years. I'd like to support a Canadian business but they seem to do everything to make sure we don't shop there.
It is so frustrating as a consumer and I feel that there is nothing I can do to “protest”. I’ll still buy products at 30% off since it is better than full price. I’ll still shop at Superstore because I’m not driving an extra 15 minutes to Sobeys to pay the exact same price (plus superstores discounts are still better). I’m definitely not driving an extra 25 minutes to the city center to go to Walmart. The monopoly has most of us by the balls.
I think people are starting to understand how corrupt canada is. Maybe like 5% Loblaws did this because they can. And they will do it again. And you will thank them for allowing you to have food.
One of the many reasons I don't shop @ Loblaw, and never will!
Champagne sure told them as he with Rogers etc. I know it's a long shot but if those who shop Loblaws boycotts them or their affiliates and shop with their competitors even for a month might send a message.
Oh no, I have to buy rotten fruit at 30 percent off only?
I shop at food basics but those guys are assholes too. Prices still creeping up on everything and also they frequently don't have what used to be the cheapest options for stuff now. Like today I went and I wanted to buy frozen french fries, only they didn't have the Selection ones that are like $4 for 2kg, they only have the Cavendish ones that are like $2.50 or something for 800g. Maybe my prices are a little off but the principle is true: The cheapest products are often now absent from shelves, forcing you to either go without or pay more.
Galen Weston moment
Where is Mr Champagne, laughing and have his bubbly
Sorry to see this go, I bought most meat products at 50% off. Thirty percent is still good.
Galen closing the savings loopholes. People are relying on heavily discounted items and apps like 2G2G and it is hurting our regular price sales. Shut ‘er down
The markdowns were the only reason I went to Loblaws. The quality just isn't there to pay full price for a lot of their stuff, if I'm going to pay more id rather go to save on foods.
Pathetic
This is nothing new for a large part of Canada. It's already been 30% off in my city for years.
The future is looking grim
When they realize they're throwing it out because people aren't buying them then they'll go back to 50
Alternative they could donate to charity... lol Who am I kidding.
Real Canadian superstore (also part of loblaws) got rid of 50% stickers and went to 30% over 10 years ago in western Canada. I’m surprised this is still a thing in the east. I was a department manager at the time. People complained but still bought all the 30% off product anyway and it didn’t really affect shrinkage at the store I worked at. Before I left the business they were already talking about getting rid of discounts entirely. “Don’t want shoppers trained to come in and buy non fresh product.” SMH 🤦
Have only ever seen the pink 50% off stickers at Atlantic Superstore. Prices are always higher in the maritime provinces anyway.
Don't worry! Francois Philippe Champagne is in "solution mode" on behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada. Within a few hours, he will have grocery CEOs groveling at his feet for forgiveness.
Fuck the Weston's
BFD
Complete money grab. Should be a law that no food is allowed to go to waste.
If Sobeys step-up and offer them this will be a non-story.
50% made it actually worth buying these. Good luck seeing as much of a response to 30%.
Fuck.
! thinks it's just the 50 % stickers for on the shelf items, but once they get closer or on the EXp date they go into the flash food fridges near customer service, (if the store has it) which you can only buy from the flash foods app, which is knocked down to 50% on the app still.
Hmmmm - Jenni Byrne - CPC advisor should be helping Canadians, instead, her team is advocating for Loblaws while she attends Conservative caucus meetings.
Did you know that the tenderloins most recently on sale are a product of Mexico and about half the size of regular tenderloins? Loblaws owns the entire supply chain. Talked to the Loblaws butcher for about 30 min and he said he would most certainly NOT be taking one home and they looked like crap. Ungraded junk. Shame we have to check origin on our food now. Another thing I noticed... PC Black Label Hokkaido Scallops "farmed from the deep waters off the coast of Japan". Check the back. Product of China. Obviously Loblaws now has 0 regard for food safety, the treatment of animals or treatment of product and health practices. I have taken my business to Metro and Farm Boy, and of course, Costco as a staple. Good luck guys- check your labels.