Is anyone else boycotting Loblaws? I don’t have many alternatives, but I’m doing my best to take my business elsewhere.

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    1 year ago

    American here. Just want to voice my support for this effort. Consumers are long overdue in striking back at companies making record profits from our necessities.

    Give those hosers hell, eh.

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      1 year ago

      People need to start voting with money a lot more, these “companies” lost their fucking minds since covid

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    I started a permanent loblaws boycott this week. Won’t be shopping at any of the other big names either. Preparing to participate in the boycott led me to sign up for a co op that I should’ve been using all along and I don’t see myself ever going back. Anything they don’t carry I can get at a local independent grocer and they’re usually a little cheaper than no frills anyway.

    Co ops are a solution to corporate greed, use them whenever possible.

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      Careful that it’s not “Your Independent Grocer” which is just another Loblaw shit.

      Edit: or L’Intermarche, which is the Québecois equivalent.

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t shopped there in years and have no plan to. I used to work for them and detest spending any more time in their stores.

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    1 year ago

    Is there a good source to learn about this (scope, list of stores, etc)

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    Yep. we started using local grocers when Loblaws prices skyrocketed and local grocer stayed reasonable. This month we stopped going to any Loblaws owned thing, might continue indefinitely if no reasults happen

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    Loblaws doesn’t feel the need to put any grocers near me so it makes it easy though I’ll miss T&T. There’s still Lucky’s though

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    The only places I’ve had to cut out was shoppers, and I go there so rarely that it really didn’t matter.

    Their grocery stores have been garbage for so long that “boycotting” is such a moot point to me. They’re the only nearby grocer that forces you to buy the amount of a listed item to actually get the discount (ie, if an item is 2/$6.00, buying one charges you full price, not $3.00). Between that and many items being ~5-10% higher than the other grocers, I’m not sure why anyone shops there to begin with.

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      And they’re always some ridiculous quantity for the item too. Like 4 4L jugs of milk for $18 or $8 each (made up example but not far off).

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    Doing my best— they just raised the price of pc ground turkey by 20%

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    1 year ago

    Haven’t been buying from the local super store for a while now, however I have stopped buying from Shoppers.

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    If we respond to this, does it count as virtue signaling?

    I avoided going to the bi-weekly coke sale at Shopper’s Drug Mart. Looks like I’ll be pouring my drinks a bit rich for the next little while. Ever since Loblaws bought them and the subsequent price increase, I’ve been less confident that it really is the loss-leader I’ve been led to believe it was. Then, my wife had a prescription faxed there since our local pharmacy had already closed for the day.

    I grumbled about it and had it transferred to the co-op, since I had been meaning to get set up there (3rd party insurance and all).

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      If we respond to this, does it count as virtue signaling?

      It’s more like personal accountability. If I tell people that I’m doing this, then I’m less likely to give it up in a couple of days.