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

  • guyrocket@kbin.social
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    8 months 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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      8 months ago

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

  • SirDankbud@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      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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    8 months 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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    8 months ago

    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

  • Otter@lemmy.caM
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    8 months ago

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

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      8 months ago

      Country wide. All Loblaws stores,

      Here’s the wiki list

      Loblaws

      Atlantic Superstore

      Dominion Stores

      Extra Foods

      Fortinos

      Freshmart

      Maxi

      No Frills

      No Name

      President’s Choice

      President’s Choice Financial

      Provigo

      Real Canadian Liquorstore

      Real Canadian Superstore

      Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix

      SuperValu

      T & T Supermarket

      Valu-mart

      Your Independent Grocer

      Zehrs Markets

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        8 months ago

        It’s so bloody stupid that a Loblaws owned grocery store gets to keep the name of Independent. Why do we tolerate this dystopian double-speak?

        Anyways boycotting isn’t viable for me so “shrinkage” will have to do.

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    8 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      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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    8 months ago

    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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    8 months ago

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

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    8 months ago

    So far so good… For me, Shoppers is harder to avoid than Loblaws or No Frills, but we’ll see how it goes.

  • the16bitgamer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

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

  • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I’d love to but I live in a small town with only 2 grocery stores. No Frills and Metro. I have to drive 30 minutes to another town if I want to shop somewhere else. They’re both expensive so I usually end up going to both and looking for sales.

    I have doubts that this boycott will actually make a difference. The world is fucked and controlled by the rich. The only way things will ever change is if the working class band together and force change. But we’re all too busy arguing amongst eachother about meaningless shit to do that.

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      8 months ago

      You’re not in a good position to boycott for sure, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many others who are. I think we can agree that the working class banding together is important. Let’s hope something positive comes of this

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      8 months ago

      I’m not convinced the boycott will make a difference, but it’s pretty easy for me to shop somewhere else, so I’ll give it a shot. If I had to drive 30 minutes, there’s no way I’d do it.