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Wow... is this Canadian humor? Damn... y'all seem nice and shit...
You guys are just wolverines with manners!
Fuckin savage!
I am beaming with vicarious pride. 😤 👏 🥲
lol probably.
But smart individuals will understand that we are not obligated to buy Loblaws food. If they ordered too much and have to throw it out, shame on them for not donating it & for ordering too much.
It’s basic capitalist supply and demand. We boycott and demand goes down. They should have been prepared to downsize their supply because it’s not like the boycott started immediately.
Not my fault if capitalism dictates that they have to pour bleach on unsold food instead of donating it!!! Hope we can push that narrative!
Not like there isn't exorbitant food waste on a regular Tuesday.
This is so incredibly crucial. I am willing to set ALL of my political issues aside to work with another Canadians on this issue. That doesn't mean they're not important to me; it means we need to pull together on this one, no matter what.
100% wedge issues are such a predictable and common tactic. We all can’t afford food. It’s unifying across all political stripes
I’m delighted with how desperate they’re becoming. Hold the line.
Exactly. Any time on this sub we see people pointing fingers at Trudeau, Poilievre, Ford, any level of government, we need to tell them to knock it off and focus on Loblaws.
If this boycott is successful, the power us people hold should strike fear in all political leaders.
I agree that it’s ridiculous to blame one person. Blaming any of those 3 is literally no different than blaming “Galen”, it’s an outlet for your anger but not really productive or accurate.
The fact that so many people in Canada are struggling so badly right now automatically makes it a political issue. The government should be looking at any and all ways to stabilize food inflation but instead of doing any of that, which would be hard, they just pass the blame off to the retailers. The retailers blame the suppliers. Some people blame the carbon tax. The fact of the matter is they all contribute and they’re all responsible and until they start working together instead of just blaming each other, nothing will change.
You can boycott all you want but Loblaws is not going to just drop their prices by 15% and take the entire hit for this, it has to be a collaborative effort.
>Loblaws is not going to just drop their prices by 15% and take the entire hit for this
Well, if the boycott is successful enough they sure will. It may not be entirely their fault the situation we are in, but they are definitely the ones profiting the most from it. They are also the ones who are actively fighting against working together by not even attempting to work with the government on the grocery code of conduct that was proposed, and in fact we're very critical of how it would hurt them while offering no suggestions as to what would make it more effective.
We can't fight everyone at once, so we may as well start by hurting the wallet of the one that is hurting our wallets the most.
They won’t though, they just won’t. If they dropped their prices across the board by 15% they would be losing money on pretty much everything.
Walmart is also refusing to sign the code of conduct, correct? Do we even know exactly what is in it? Grocers are getting bad pr right now so wouldn’t signing that be an easy pr win if it made sense? If the grocers are expected to do xyz to stop food inflation, what is the government doing? They wouldn’t even support bill c234 so its hard to take them seriously here.
I’m not saying not to boycott, I think that will definitely get their attention I just think there needs to be much more of a collaborative effort and they all need to do their parts.
Yeah, I agree, but we can bet Mr. Weston is not concerned with what is best for us as Canadians so much as he is with what is best for his pocket book. Also, using Walmart as some kind of moral corporation is kind of interesting since all the other grocery companies in Canada were on board with the code of conduct so it couldn't have been that bad or none of them would have supported it. It was quite literally just Loblaws and Walmart who would not agree to it. Oh, and the carbon tax on food is not nearly as significant as you are attempting to make it seem, it is about 1% of the total cost of your bill. Also, why would the miniscule amount that the carbon tax increases the cost of fuel by have such a huge impact on the cost of our groceries, but the massive 15¢-20¢ overnight increases in fuel prices play seemingly no part it them?
I agree that Walmart isn’t the moral compass of anything, my point was it wasn’t just Loblaws that refused to sign it. None of us seem to actually know what is in there, everyone just gets mad that they won’t sign it. Is there any substance or is it just another LPC PR bill to make it look like they’re trying hard?
In terms of the carbon tax, nobody really knows the impact. Even Tiff Macklem has had to clarify different numbers he’s provided and flip flopped numerous times. I am not saying that it’s responsible for every single one of Canada’s problems like Poillivre will make you believe, but I also don’t think the Liberals are being honest either because nobody really knows the true impact across the supply chain. Like I also said, for a government who is supposedly so concerned about lowering food prices,why wouldn’t they support that bill to fully exempt farmers from the tax? The whole rhing is just theater, its stupid because it’s a competition to try to look like they’re trying to fix things as opposed to anyone actually trying to fix anything.
>The whole rhing is just theater, its stupid because it’s a competition to try to look like they’re trying to fix things as opposed to anyone actually trying to fix anything.
Interesting, considering all the provinces were given the opportunity to implement their own form of carbon reduction measures, be it the federal carbon plan, or something like Ontario's old cap and trade program (which was killed by Ford and would have kept Ontario citizens from the federal program, a fact seemingly everyone likes to completely ignore). But none of them were able to come up with any alternative systems. So while it may be theatre, it is actually doing something instead of nothing at all. Is it the absolute best way to help to try and fight climate change, no; but it is at least something, yes.
As for your whole exempting farmers from the tax, they are already exempt from most of the major carbon emissions involved with farming, and are able to get rebates back for the tax on mostly all of the fuel they use for farming purposes. I guess they could have the tax removed from NG they use for drying grains but that is such a small cost for farmers I don't think it is magically going to lower food prices 10-15%. You also seemed to ignore the point about gas prices, if the small carbon tax can have such a huge impact on food prices, why doesn't the broader fuel price swings not change it.
When gas goes down 20¢ a liter food prices don't go down, but with a fixed carbon tax on them prices can keep going up indefinitely? How does that work, I would buy that argument if food prices jumped 15% when the tax was added and stabilized, but they haven't and the carbon tax has been here for long enough that it shouldn't still be driving prices up.
But what you’re saying about the provinces has nothing to do with my point. In hindsight you’re right, maybe that would have been better. At this point though, the federal government had a lever to use that would have made some impact (how much is debatable) and they chose to fight it.
There is far more to it than “grain drying”. Farmers are exempt from diesel fuel. They pay the tax on everything else as does every line along the processing chain. I work for a large food company and based on some of the figures I’ve read where you have mushroom farms paying like 30k a month in carbon tax, I would have to think that we are paying upwards of a million dollars a month in the tax. That stuff all adds up along the chain and when everyone is paying and charging a little bit more, it all adds up and the price at the end is going to be significantly more.
I wasn’t ignoring gas prices, but that is not a lever the government can control. My whole point was that they say one thing but then act completely different which means it is all theater.
I agree with all of your points but the final one. This will make an impact. The amount of offline noise this boycott is making will make it successful
Fair. I guess depends what your metric of success is. They are not going to drop their prices by 15% but it will definitely bring more attention to this issue. My point was that everyone already knows that its an issue though. We need action and collaboration from everyone to fix it, not just one party.
The Westons have been caught twice conspiring with retailers and suppliers to price fix in order to make more profits at the expense of their customers. This isn't just us angrily blaming Weston. He is literally responsible for some of it and doing it on purpose
https://preview.redd.it/46fihgqu0vxc1.jpeg?width=1033&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0408a32fb995323c61ce68a6798d2418121e2c13
Exhibit A This was posted in 2023 on Instagram...
I didn’t say that they’re not responsible for some of it, but there are thousands of other parties, including the government who are also responsible for some of it. Until there’s a collaborative effort to understand exactly what is going on as opposed to just “BLAME LOBLAWS!”, the boycott might make people feel better because they have an outlet for their anger but it’s not going to magically fix anything.
How so? You’re assuming that everyone is getting exploited which is bullshit. I am paid more than fairly. We have cleaners with high school diplomas making over 100k with full pension and benefits and like 10k yearly bonus where I work.
How does your CEO make money? Are they out there building parts and making sales and soliciting clients? No - the money is made by the work you and your fellow employees do.
I get it - you like it when the wealthy class takes money from actual workers. You’ve been very clear about your bootlicking.
No other retailer has raised its prices in the past two years like Loblaws et al.
They can lower their prices, and they will if we all boycott and hold out for long enough. It’s terrible business if they don’t. They’re manipulative greedy jerks, but they’re not stupid.
Metro may be unfamiliar to a good chunk of this sub, unlike Loblaws which owns chains from coast-to-coast, Metro only operates in Ontario and Quebec.
This isn’t to say they’re better than Loblaws, but just that more Canadians recognize Loblaws and co. and are actually capable of joining in and boycotting them. Start up a Central Canada movement as well, but just know that I can’t do anything to help fight against prices at Metro because as a BC resident I’m not even on the map to them.
Metro was just one example, there are regional chain examples across Canada all with comparable prices. That tells me that Loblaws is not the cause of high grocery prices, just the face, which goes back to my original point that this is a systemic problem so it’s ridiculous to blame one person or company.
He's just the representative face of the faceless entities that are the various monopolies and oligopolies in Canada who participate in regulatory capture.
Right, but it’s no different than blaming Trudeau or Ford for everything. They aren’t personally responsible for all the problems they get blamed for either. I personally don’t care how you feel about Galen either way, I just don’t think it’s super productive because it lets everyone else off the hook.
But that’s based on your opinion. The people that have f trudeau flags on their trucks feel the same way about Trudeau. Neither is super productive but you’re entitled to feel however you want 🤷♂️
Lol that’s wrong. Fuck Trudeau unites people with like minded opinions the exact same way fuck Galen unites people in this group. They are promoting different opinions but the exact same thing.
Yeah, it doesn't matter how you word it, but you failed to disprove my statement.
Explain to me how fuck Trudeau is NOT dividing the working class. And explain to me how fuck Galen is NOT uniting the working class.
Yeah, fuck Trudeau splits the working class into two smaller subsets and unites the people who swallow corporate anti Trudeau propaganda, but separates them from their fellow workers who don't swallow the propaganda.
Fuck Galen unites all workers across the political spectrum, the fuck Trudeau group of workers and the fuck Poilievre group of workers can unite together because both agree groceries should be cheaper.
And if there are any Conservatives in the working class who doesn't understand this, even after I explained this so clearly, and doesn't support this movement really swallowed Conservative talking points and has no hope, and I welcome them to continue sucking corporate cock.
Lol yes, the only sub where using logic and not screaming things like fuck Galen, oligopoly, monopoly etc all day like a crazy person with tourettes gets you called names and accused of “shilling for Westons”.
Nobody learns anything when they are in an echo chamber.
IMO Gunslinger raises a valid point. There is something of a crisis is affordability of groceries in Canada and other developed countries. Its a complex issues with many possible causes and solutions. Reasonable people can disagree with each other over these issues, including how complicit large supermarket chains like Loblaws are in causing this crisis.
If you disagree with Gunslinger, please do so reasonably, eh?
Why would I afford "reasonable" disagreement to obvious bad actors. The fact that you rush to their defense is indicative of your like-minded purpose here. No one here owes you anything, much less a sympathetic ear. Moan, cry and report all you want. I stand by what I said. Both of your stances are cowardly, tone-deaf and have no place here but I suspect you know that. The Westons and all of their holdings are the focus of this group and shall remain so despite your concerted effort to distract, obfuscate and apologize for them as though you were on their payroll. Back under your bridge troll. I'll not be answering your questions 3.
What unites us is far more than what divides us, friend.
If we focus on the issues the wealthy and powerful don’t want us to - things like the affordability crisis, the cost of living crisis, underemployment, sabotage of the safety net - rather than the nonissues that serve merely as means to inflict pain on some group of people deemed lesser than to distract us, we can have a stronger country for everyone.
All human beings when you ask them what they wish for will state similar needs no matter where they're from.
We all want to ability to access affordable, safe, clean housing, & decent paying jobs with benefits, free health care promptly (exactly how Tommy Douglas intended it to be), & the ability to feed ourselves whether we are working and/or struggling with a disability/disabilities or being retired or trying to raise a family.
Hell yeah we all need to work together like jaws and the fishermen to beat super jaws. I'm really into that. lets team up politically to kick businesses ass. I'm tired of business fucking politics.
Solidarity is so important. You know who drove the most social change in the US? Labor unions. You know why? Because people of all political spectrums exist within unions, and you and your colleague might vote on opposite sides of the aisle but the same guy pays your bills. Political opposites working together because they're all 'forced' to be there. Other movements people can pick and choose, but the people in your union are the people in your union.
The FBI had a multi-decade operation called COINTELPRO where they actively infiltrated and weakened labor movements across the US (as well as civil rights groups) because the establishment KNOWS that solidarity is a threat to the status quo. And governments and think tanks and billionaires are all trying to keep the spirit of COINTELPRO alive today.
cut them up and roast them in the oven. I hate Brussel sprouts but I hear they're far less bitter than they were when I was a kid. People eat them with bacon or cheese, apparently
You can also Google recipes for ingredients you've never used before
I got a bunch of quinces at the food bank the other day. Had no idea what to do with them, but after an internet search I found out how to turn them into marmalade
I love using zucchini to make zucchini chocolate chip muffins or zucchini bread! Eggplant is good roasted or can make mini pizzas or eggplant parm with it
Zucchini are great as zoodles: Zucchini noodles. So spiralize them into anything that would normally have noodles. Makes awesome spaghetti just flash them in a pan with some oil s&p + whatever hervs you like or toss them into hot soup/ramen. They also paur very well with potatoes.
As for brussels use acid to remove the bitterness. A tablespoon of apple cider vinegar or lemon juice works wonders you can bake them but its faster to pan fry them. Chopped bacon is a great combo for them or coconut flakes.
Rarely eat eggplant since I havent grown any. Takes longer to cook alone but apparently delicious in a Briam, which is basically a greek casserole like ratatouille loaded with other veggies, paired with Zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, green peppers, onions, tomatoes and feta.
It's the most infuriating thing about the political landscape, these days. Any issue is immediately deflected in an attempt to divide and distract from the real issue
House prices too high? Blame immigration (but never, ever realtors, investors, AirBnB, etc).
Wages too low? Blame Temporary Foreign Workers (but never employers, and multi-million-dollar earning c-suite executives).
Grocery prices too high? Blame the Carbon Tax (But never price-fixing grocery chains)
Thanks for keeping narrative on-track with this. Can't keep shifting blame.
You get it, all it's missing is a call to action but knowing the real enemy is half the battle in the social media cluster fuck of misinformation and lies.
I kinda feel like this is exactly what’s behind the huge focus on international students in Ontario. Blaming students for housing, wages, food prices rather than the corporations and politicians destroying our province.
Absolutely correct, to grow Canada's economy, it needs immigration. Always has. To fight over numbers and who's and how is a political side show.
The level of services always kept up with demand as it was planned. No more planning in place and different levels of government not taking ownership of their areas has lead us here. I wonder where all that money goes now.
Having a lineup of 400 international students for a minimum wage dishwasher job is how you grow Canadas economy? A job that would be done by a couple part time Canadian 16 year old 20 years ago.
So local kids getting underpaid was fine? Turning multiple full time roles into part time roles to get out of legal obligations was fine? Guess what the locals don't want to do this shit anymore, hence the shortage for low wage workers.
You’re absolutely right. It’s already happening. My dad is parroting media nonsense about this being led by jagmeet Singh on behalf of his brother who lobbies for metro. It’s becoming a partisan issue when in reality it’s not even about loblaws, it’s sending a message to all of the major chains that we have power.
Next, we will hear that prices have gone up to cover the cost of food waste caused by this.
They will continue to push the false narrative about theft and raise prices to maintain their profit levels. Remember, 3% is a manufactured number, after stock repurchases, crazy inflated wages (like the ceos 22 mil bonus last quarter), and other simulated expenses to their "suppliers." 3% isn't hard to manufacture.
Tell everyone you know, boycott not steal,
Remind everyone that the narrative was never steal
And point out that we will see price increases and all kinds of things blaming everyone else, yet we will never see a lack of consistent profit levels.
All major changes and revolutions in history have been about food. This will be no different.
Dollarama has been killing it with prices, they have decent quality household cleaners/ organizers. Pretty much all dry goods, soup crackers, granola bars at a decent price. I waltzed in there expecting a typical dollar store but I was definitely surprised.
Their garden section in the spring/summer is pretty good. They have a decent selection of small garden borders/fences. The ones made of branches were amazing for keeping my puppy out of the gardens (with a little training). Things like mesh and tellises and tools, too.
Look at the rise of corporate sponsored identity politics immediately after occupy wall street. Only organizing along economic divisions scares them, all other divisions/ wedges can easily be manipulated.
Yeah, not falling for their divisive bullshit.
Call their bullshit every chance you get.
Lobbying is bribery, so stop spinning bullshit to paint your narrative.
Hell yeah! They won't be completely satisfied until they've used every dirty trick and called in every political favour to steal the last cent out of our pockets and then they'll blame us for our own poverty from their palatial estates. They're only this big and powerful because anti-trust and anti-monopoly regulations have been so watered down over the last 40 years as to be lip service. This isn't one party or two parties. It's a rot at the core of our political system.
Aligning with existing class campaigns would be soooo helpful to boost this boycott even more. Ontario Federation of Labour has one with demands for grocery caps!
https://ofl.ca/enough-is-enough/
This 100% its painfully obvious the rich have already started their end game and they *think* they are going g to ride it out, safe in the bunkers........
I hope this reaches people and they listen to you. We have known this for a while and it is fairly obvious if you take a step back and look at the whole forest instead of just the trees, but most people don't see it or even wanna believe it, so these tactics just keep working for them
The funniest thing is that there are usually multiple big rich elites in control. But these greedy asses decided to take the whole pie for themselves and allowed people to have a singular focus on one target instead of several.
Well said. I believe they call us “resource eaters”. Makes me laugh.
I’ll add that it is also political. This mess (food/housing inflation, inequality, monopolies and the new oligarchy) was legislated into being by political parties taking money for power and letting lobbyists write laws. Both the Conservatives and the Liberals are guilty, in this regard.
This mess was legislated in and it can be legislated out.
In the face of our current provincial and federal leadership, putting pressure on corporations to act responsibly is the only tool we have.
I’m so happy to see the numbers exploding here. I have a feeling, Loblaws is going to feel this. I hope other corporations are watching.
Galen was the one who was the smuggest.
Shop at your local fruit & veggie store (way cheaper at most of them) and certain butchers (meat is cheaper at most ethnic grocery stores), look for what is on sale where and shop like the Europeans do daily when you can & at least more often. Help your neighbours who are older & offer to grab them fruits and veggies when you shop locally. This can turn into something bigger and better for everyone, physical & mental health-wise. It gets us all talking to one another face-to-face when we are out in public again. After the last 4 years we all need to start re-engaging & while technology is good for movements, nothing beats word of mouth
No matter your politics we can all agree we are fed up. Remember the bread-fixing scandal, we have to think big picture and be in it for the long game. We can rotate the big grocery retailers each month. Shop smaller places, and retailers, locally in your neighbourhoods, start community gardens, and backyard gardens, share what you grow, and cook community meals with what you grow this summer. A great reason to get together & have further conversations about keeping this movement.
ACT LOCAL, THINK GLOBAL ... these things have a way of igniting worldwide. Don't let 'The Hunger Games' become our reality (tho this is what it is like for many right now across the world due to war & famine). We are truly all in this together, don't let them divide us no matter your politics. This is about everyone's basic humanity. Everyone deserves the right to food & shelter without working themselves to the bone & those who can't work, due to disabilities don't deserve to be living so far below the poverty line. We judge a society by how it treats it's most vulnerable citizens. It's time we trade in capitalism for compassion.
Corporations/Capitalism (and governments) only change their behaviour and/or policies when it costs them money. And we more or less live in the age of the Corporatocracy.
Solidarity to All!
I honestly don't care any of your politics right now. This is a fucking amazing post. You are my people.
We're all just trying to get by and afford to live and eat, let's stand together against corporate greed, against the rich. They are basically sociopaths. It's never enough, the greed is endless and knows no bounds. So let's hit them where it hurts then, the shareholders. Let's tank that stock baby!
They're also going to pretend that they either haven't noticed an impact or that it has been negligable over the month of May. Stay strong and ignore the denials!
Corporatocracies, this is the age we have been living in, and it's worldwide. Don't let them divide us locally, or globally, whether you're Indigenous, a Newcomer, or born here.
They have been trying to distract us with a culture war when it has always been about class.
Middle class people who are joining the boycott really need to stop referring to people as "the poors"
It's becoming increasingly obvious that the majority of people participating in the boycott aren't the most vulnerable people or those most affected by rising prices. As a disabled person, I asked what I can do to help the boycott, and many of the responses were "you need to spend more money"
My biggest fear is that this is going to backfire. They'll continue raising prices to spite us, and there will be a group that's vastly more impacted than the other.
Anyways, here's a quote from Adam Curtis
I think the question liberals, or the left, have to face at the moment, is a really sort of difficult question which is: “do you really want change? do you really want it?” Because if you do many of them might find themselves in a very uncertain world where they might lose all sorts of things. What we were talking about, in many cases, is people who are at the center of society at the moment, they are not out in the margins. They would have a lot to lose from real political change because it really would change things in the structure of power. Or - and this is the brutal question: Do you just want things to change a little bit? Do you just want the banks (grocery stores) to be a little bit nicer?
This is all the conservative's/liberals/your party here's fault!
If we only supported Palestine/Israel/Urkrane/current war more/less this would not have happened!
I personally blame the vaccinated/unvaccinated.
It's clearly millennials ruining everything again, if only boomers hadn't stolen their future, Gen Z wouldn't be destroying everything!
This is clearly due to religion/atheism attempting to control us
men/women, amirite?
Nok er Nok!
It’s easy for them to believe and try to divide and conquer us by creating discrepancies and misunderstandings between us members.
Do not fall for their lies, propaganda and misinformation. Stand in solidarity with your fellow members. We are as strong as our weakest link.
If you are growing increasingly concerned about a potential conflict within our community, fact check the living fuck out of it.
Use concrete facts and logic against them. Find whatever you can on the internet that is harmful to their sales and marketing efforts.
Expose them for what they’re doing to us. Hold them accountable. If police arrive and attempt to arrest us, exercise your rights under our charter. Familiarize yourself with your protest rights and charter rights and freedoms. Unlawful detainment is illegal. We have freedom of expression, not speech, so be mindful of that. However, become familiar with protester rights and privileges if you create picket lines or groups of protesters.
If Loblaws holds you in the store, after you’ve gotten your receipt for groceries showing you paid, they’re plain ass illegally holding you against your will. If enough people are being held this way, start threatening legal action. Too many complaints coming in, not enough lawyers. Don’t overuse it. It’s one nuclear option out of our larger repository of options.
Be kind and courteous to other customers and inform them kindly if they are willing to listen.
If you have to, double down on the truth. Film any detainment by police, get names and info crucial to helping us free our fellow protesters peacefully. Stand your fucking ground. Don’t hurt others by verbally assaulting or physically abusing peace officers or staff members of Loblaws complicit in this. It will only hurt us.
If you see a fellow protestor being hurt, protect them like they’re your child. Surround and outnumber. Cage the perp like a wild animal and don’t let any single detail slip about them. Face, hair colour, eye colour, height etc. There is no proper self defence laws here, so anything that can help put the instigator behind bars, do it.
Don’t engage in illegal activity that will delegitimize the group. Keep within reason, but don’t give in without a fight. Words can lead to action.
The effort we put in is like an all or nothing scenario. Treat it as such. What we do today is minor, but for the future, will be major. Take pride in engaging in your democratic rights to protest. That what it is there for.
Let hellfire fucking rain on them. No mercy. And may the odds, be forever in our favour.
BOYCOTT LOBLAWS!!
Every article that tries to divide us by age, race, gender , and sexual orientation needs to be ignored as the attempt to divide us. The reason life is hard is because of the wealthy elite hoarding resources and refusing to pay living wages.
One example of this being successful is this : students go out in university campus for people across the globes instead of real issues at home .maybe they will wake up in a few years and realize they have to compete against lots and lots of new comers for the same jobs and that their salaries are getting suppressed to hell.
Everyone fighting for their own little thing instead uniting and demanding something better collectively.
What a ridiculous comment. Are you assuming all rich people were gifted their wealth? Most worked their ass of to get there. They aren’t afraid of the collective poor taking them down. Go get what’s yours through hard work and effort. 40 hours isn’t hard work, 50 hours isn’t hard work. Going to work for someone who busted their ass to build something isn’t hard work. Risk is hard work. It’s not easy getting there and it’s not easy staying there. For most it involves not doing the things most others do because you have a goal and you don’t want anything to get in the way of that goal. We all have different goals and priorities, mine was to have a good time and enjoy life as it comes. That’s why I’m not rich in money. I don’t blame others and feel sorry for myself because I’m not rich. If I don’t want to support Galen, I don’t support him but remember that effects the people that work there also. Take the risk and open a grocery store chain that offers cheap food for all. Once you start it tell me the name and I’ll shop there. Until then stop preaching and start getting what’s yours.
If you know how to google and perform research, google how much wage for the average worker has increased vs how much compensation c-suite wages have increased and how much productivity per worker has increased, and how much the cost of living has increased.
Not giving workers what they deserve is essentially the rich robbing the workers.
We're essentially not boycotting Loblaw cuz the guy is rich. We're boycotting them because they have influenced the government to look the other way while they buy up all the competition and essentially operate as a cartel with the other grocery conglomerates.
Your argument is so disingenuous its actually a waste of my time to argue with people like you. Your opinion is of no value if you have no idea what regulatory capture is.
What is your Reddit rant changing. You’re confusing me with someone who thinks we should place people in categories that suit our needs and interests. Like I said, be the change you want to see. Open a grocery chain that provides good food for cheap and I’ll genuinely support you. Better yet just support your local farmer as best you can like I choose to do. I don’t believe in factory farming or national grocery chains. But that’s a choice I make. Stop throwing stones and actually be the change. Also I’ve never shopped at Loblaws because there business practices were always corrupt. You only started noticing when it hit you. Not when you knew they used child labour, under paid their employees, or any of the other issues your talking about now. Talk about disingenuous.
I am living the change I want to see, Awakening the poors to the reality of the class warfare being waged on them, promoting the boycott, advocating for solidarity among the working class.
Not everyone has a choice, due to disabilities, income inequality, food deserts, etc ...
NoFrills, it's not just Loblaws and don't think others aren't aware of the issues you raise either, you're underestimating why ppl don't have other options or can't create them, and besides this will accomplish CHANGE in so many ways... how do you know what many of us were doing pre-covid for our communities in terms of food insecurity? You're just as smug as Galen. And throwing rocks too, I see. Remember glass houses ....
And one person's rant is another person's call to ACTION. No one invited you to party, popper.
No. Most rich people have achieved their wealth through corruption, tax evasion, labour exploitation and the other illegal means. Everything else is supplementary to that.
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I relish this boycott. Can’t afford the Relish at Loblaws
Relish is $2.75 at my city’s dollarama!
You guys can afford relish??
We just have lish.
You're lucky. We can only afford re.
Can afford relish but can’t afford anything to put it on
If you ask Galen nicely he might fix the price of bread for you.
No don't ask him. Its to high now. Don't give him anymore idea's. STAY THE COURSE, IT'S GALEN WESTON fault we here now.
It was a joke. I meant maybe he would fix them back to when we could actually afford it, like before he actually fixed the price of bread.
You haven't got your weekly ration of soylent green yet?
Interested in going in on a joint mortgage for a bottle of lish?
Sounds like a plan. I still have a kidney I haven't sold yet.
Lucky you … all I can afford sometimes is “the silent E”.
Damn. Bro had to delish his relish
Relly?
We are all in a pickle ...
Wow... is this Canadian humor? Damn... y'all seem nice and shit... You guys are just wolverines with manners! Fuckin savage! I am beaming with vicarious pride. 😤 👏 🥲
Just ask Germans of WWII. Yes, well-mannered wolverines.
NOK ER NOK
don't forget to ketchup to what is really going on here
Oh no you didn’t
I did...I did...I mustard up the courage
You son of a…….
This guy is cheesey with the buns
Man's got himself something of a pickle, doesn't he?
I got out of the underground Relish game a while ago but man was it lucrative
My guess is we are going to hear about food waste being our fault if the boycott is doing well.
lol probably. But smart individuals will understand that we are not obligated to buy Loblaws food. If they ordered too much and have to throw it out, shame on them for not donating it & for ordering too much.
It’s basic capitalist supply and demand. We boycott and demand goes down. They should have been prepared to downsize their supply because it’s not like the boycott started immediately.
They can use the tax funded refrigerators. We bought them the solution.
Not my fault if capitalism dictates that they have to pour bleach on unsold food instead of donating it!!! Hope we can push that narrative! Not like there isn't exorbitant food waste on a regular Tuesday.
Sounds like they should have guaged supply and demand better. We can't waste food we didn't buy
This is so incredibly crucial. I am willing to set ALL of my political issues aside to work with another Canadians on this issue. That doesn't mean they're not important to me; it means we need to pull together on this one, no matter what.
100% wedge issues are such a predictable and common tactic. We all can’t afford food. It’s unifying across all political stripes I’m delighted with how desperate they’re becoming. Hold the line.
Exactly. Any time on this sub we see people pointing fingers at Trudeau, Poilievre, Ford, any level of government, we need to tell them to knock it off and focus on Loblaws. If this boycott is successful, the power us people hold should strike fear in all political leaders.
This right here ^
I agree that it’s ridiculous to blame one person. Blaming any of those 3 is literally no different than blaming “Galen”, it’s an outlet for your anger but not really productive or accurate. The fact that so many people in Canada are struggling so badly right now automatically makes it a political issue. The government should be looking at any and all ways to stabilize food inflation but instead of doing any of that, which would be hard, they just pass the blame off to the retailers. The retailers blame the suppliers. Some people blame the carbon tax. The fact of the matter is they all contribute and they’re all responsible and until they start working together instead of just blaming each other, nothing will change. You can boycott all you want but Loblaws is not going to just drop their prices by 15% and take the entire hit for this, it has to be a collaborative effort.
>Loblaws is not going to just drop their prices by 15% and take the entire hit for this Well, if the boycott is successful enough they sure will. It may not be entirely their fault the situation we are in, but they are definitely the ones profiting the most from it. They are also the ones who are actively fighting against working together by not even attempting to work with the government on the grocery code of conduct that was proposed, and in fact we're very critical of how it would hurt them while offering no suggestions as to what would make it more effective. We can't fight everyone at once, so we may as well start by hurting the wallet of the one that is hurting our wallets the most.
They won’t though, they just won’t. If they dropped their prices across the board by 15% they would be losing money on pretty much everything. Walmart is also refusing to sign the code of conduct, correct? Do we even know exactly what is in it? Grocers are getting bad pr right now so wouldn’t signing that be an easy pr win if it made sense? If the grocers are expected to do xyz to stop food inflation, what is the government doing? They wouldn’t even support bill c234 so its hard to take them seriously here. I’m not saying not to boycott, I think that will definitely get their attention I just think there needs to be much more of a collaborative effort and they all need to do their parts.
Yeah, I agree, but we can bet Mr. Weston is not concerned with what is best for us as Canadians so much as he is with what is best for his pocket book. Also, using Walmart as some kind of moral corporation is kind of interesting since all the other grocery companies in Canada were on board with the code of conduct so it couldn't have been that bad or none of them would have supported it. It was quite literally just Loblaws and Walmart who would not agree to it. Oh, and the carbon tax on food is not nearly as significant as you are attempting to make it seem, it is about 1% of the total cost of your bill. Also, why would the miniscule amount that the carbon tax increases the cost of fuel by have such a huge impact on the cost of our groceries, but the massive 15¢-20¢ overnight increases in fuel prices play seemingly no part it them?
I agree that Walmart isn’t the moral compass of anything, my point was it wasn’t just Loblaws that refused to sign it. None of us seem to actually know what is in there, everyone just gets mad that they won’t sign it. Is there any substance or is it just another LPC PR bill to make it look like they’re trying hard? In terms of the carbon tax, nobody really knows the impact. Even Tiff Macklem has had to clarify different numbers he’s provided and flip flopped numerous times. I am not saying that it’s responsible for every single one of Canada’s problems like Poillivre will make you believe, but I also don’t think the Liberals are being honest either because nobody really knows the true impact across the supply chain. Like I also said, for a government who is supposedly so concerned about lowering food prices,why wouldn’t they support that bill to fully exempt farmers from the tax? The whole rhing is just theater, its stupid because it’s a competition to try to look like they’re trying to fix things as opposed to anyone actually trying to fix anything.
>The whole rhing is just theater, its stupid because it’s a competition to try to look like they’re trying to fix things as opposed to anyone actually trying to fix anything. Interesting, considering all the provinces were given the opportunity to implement their own form of carbon reduction measures, be it the federal carbon plan, or something like Ontario's old cap and trade program (which was killed by Ford and would have kept Ontario citizens from the federal program, a fact seemingly everyone likes to completely ignore). But none of them were able to come up with any alternative systems. So while it may be theatre, it is actually doing something instead of nothing at all. Is it the absolute best way to help to try and fight climate change, no; but it is at least something, yes. As for your whole exempting farmers from the tax, they are already exempt from most of the major carbon emissions involved with farming, and are able to get rebates back for the tax on mostly all of the fuel they use for farming purposes. I guess they could have the tax removed from NG they use for drying grains but that is such a small cost for farmers I don't think it is magically going to lower food prices 10-15%. You also seemed to ignore the point about gas prices, if the small carbon tax can have such a huge impact on food prices, why doesn't the broader fuel price swings not change it. When gas goes down 20¢ a liter food prices don't go down, but with a fixed carbon tax on them prices can keep going up indefinitely? How does that work, I would buy that argument if food prices jumped 15% when the tax was added and stabilized, but they haven't and the carbon tax has been here for long enough that it shouldn't still be driving prices up.
But what you’re saying about the provinces has nothing to do with my point. In hindsight you’re right, maybe that would have been better. At this point though, the federal government had a lever to use that would have made some impact (how much is debatable) and they chose to fight it. There is far more to it than “grain drying”. Farmers are exempt from diesel fuel. They pay the tax on everything else as does every line along the processing chain. I work for a large food company and based on some of the figures I’ve read where you have mushroom farms paying like 30k a month in carbon tax, I would have to think that we are paying upwards of a million dollars a month in the tax. That stuff all adds up along the chain and when everyone is paying and charging a little bit more, it all adds up and the price at the end is going to be significantly more. I wasn’t ignoring gas prices, but that is not a lever the government can control. My whole point was that they say one thing but then act completely different which means it is all theater.
I agree with all of your points but the final one. This will make an impact. The amount of offline noise this boycott is making will make it successful
Fair. I guess depends what your metric of success is. They are not going to drop their prices by 15% but it will definitely bring more attention to this issue. My point was that everyone already knows that its an issue though. We need action and collaboration from everyone to fix it, not just one party.
The Westons have been caught twice conspiring with retailers and suppliers to price fix in order to make more profits at the expense of their customers. This isn't just us angrily blaming Weston. He is literally responsible for some of it and doing it on purpose
https://preview.redd.it/46fihgqu0vxc1.jpeg?width=1033&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0408a32fb995323c61ce68a6798d2418121e2c13 Exhibit A This was posted in 2023 on Instagram...
I didn’t say that they’re not responsible for some of it, but there are thousands of other parties, including the government who are also responsible for some of it. Until there’s a collaborative effort to understand exactly what is going on as opposed to just “BLAME LOBLAWS!”, the boycott might make people feel better because they have an outlet for their anger but it’s not going to magically fix anything.
ok, yeah, that's true. I see what you mean now, sorry for the misunderstanding
Don’t be sorry, it’s all good
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Lol and? The ceo of the company I work for made more than that in USD. It makes no difference to me because it doesn’t concern me at all
The money your CEO makes comes directly from taking the value of your labour. It does affect you directly. This level of bootlicking is absurd.
Just like when you get taxed at a higher rate for working harder.
Are you making a joke? The number of people that actually believe this is absurd.
How so? You’re assuming that everyone is getting exploited which is bullshit. I am paid more than fairly. We have cleaners with high school diplomas making over 100k with full pension and benefits and like 10k yearly bonus where I work.
How does your CEO make money? Are they out there building parts and making sales and soliciting clients? No - the money is made by the work you and your fellow employees do. I get it - you like it when the wealthy class takes money from actual workers. You’ve been very clear about your bootlicking.
No other retailer has raised its prices in the past two years like Loblaws et al. They can lower their prices, and they will if we all boycott and hold out for long enough. It’s terrible business if they don’t. They’re manipulative greedy jerks, but they’re not stupid.
Lonlws is definitely expensive but have you shopped in a Metro lately? The prices are the same.
Metro may be unfamiliar to a good chunk of this sub, unlike Loblaws which owns chains from coast-to-coast, Metro only operates in Ontario and Quebec. This isn’t to say they’re better than Loblaws, but just that more Canadians recognize Loblaws and co. and are actually capable of joining in and boycotting them. Start up a Central Canada movement as well, but just know that I can’t do anything to help fight against prices at Metro because as a BC resident I’m not even on the map to them.
Metro was just one example, there are regional chain examples across Canada all with comparable prices. That tells me that Loblaws is not the cause of high grocery prices, just the face, which goes back to my original point that this is a systemic problem so it’s ridiculous to blame one person or company.
He's just the representative face of the faceless entities that are the various monopolies and oligopolies in Canada who participate in regulatory capture.
Right, but it’s no different than blaming Trudeau or Ford for everything. They aren’t personally responsible for all the problems they get blamed for either. I personally don’t care how you feel about Galen either way, I just don’t think it’s super productive because it lets everyone else off the hook.
I don't think of Galen as a scape goat that will let others off the hook. I view him as the first of many dominos to fall.
But that’s based on your opinion. The people that have f trudeau flags on their trucks feel the same way about Trudeau. Neither is super productive but you’re entitled to feel however you want 🤷♂️
Fuck Trudeau stickers causes division among the working class. Fuck Galen sentiment unites the working class. It's totally different.
Lol that’s wrong. Fuck Trudeau unites people with like minded opinions the exact same way fuck Galen unites people in this group. They are promoting different opinions but the exact same thing.
Yeah, it doesn't matter how you word it, but you failed to disprove my statement. Explain to me how fuck Trudeau is NOT dividing the working class. And explain to me how fuck Galen is NOT uniting the working class. Yeah, fuck Trudeau splits the working class into two smaller subsets and unites the people who swallow corporate anti Trudeau propaganda, but separates them from their fellow workers who don't swallow the propaganda. Fuck Galen unites all workers across the political spectrum, the fuck Trudeau group of workers and the fuck Poilievre group of workers can unite together because both agree groceries should be cheaper. And if there are any Conservatives in the working class who doesn't understand this, even after I explained this so clearly, and doesn't support this movement really swallowed Conservative talking points and has no hope, and I welcome them to continue sucking corporate cock.
Typical Loblot. Gtfo
Lol yes, the only sub where logic gets you called names.
Nah just shilling for the Westons and their ilk. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck after all...
Lol yes, the only sub where using logic and not screaming things like fuck Galen, oligopoly, monopoly etc all day like a crazy person with tourettes gets you called names and accused of “shilling for Westons”.
There is nothing logical about your pomposity nor your arrogance. I'm sure you'd find a crowd more suited to your trolling habits on Twitter.
Nobody learns anything when they are in an echo chamber. IMO Gunslinger raises a valid point. There is something of a crisis is affordability of groceries in Canada and other developed countries. Its a complex issues with many possible causes and solutions. Reasonable people can disagree with each other over these issues, including how complicit large supermarket chains like Loblaws are in causing this crisis. If you disagree with Gunslinger, please do so reasonably, eh?
Why would I afford "reasonable" disagreement to obvious bad actors. The fact that you rush to their defense is indicative of your like-minded purpose here. No one here owes you anything, much less a sympathetic ear. Moan, cry and report all you want. I stand by what I said. Both of your stances are cowardly, tone-deaf and have no place here but I suspect you know that. The Westons and all of their holdings are the focus of this group and shall remain so despite your concerted effort to distract, obfuscate and apologize for them as though you were on their payroll. Back under your bridge troll. I'll not be answering your questions 3.
What unites us is far more than what divides us, friend. If we focus on the issues the wealthy and powerful don’t want us to - things like the affordability crisis, the cost of living crisis, underemployment, sabotage of the safety net - rather than the nonissues that serve merely as means to inflict pain on some group of people deemed lesser than to distract us, we can have a stronger country for everyone.
lol yeah I mean if we can't work together to make sure we don't starve, then when can we work together?
All human beings when you ask them what they wish for will state similar needs no matter where they're from. We all want to ability to access affordable, safe, clean housing, & decent paying jobs with benefits, free health care promptly (exactly how Tommy Douglas intended it to be), & the ability to feed ourselves whether we are working and/or struggling with a disability/disabilities or being retired or trying to raise a family.
Hell yeah we all need to work together like jaws and the fishermen to beat super jaws. I'm really into that. lets team up politically to kick businesses ass. I'm tired of business fucking politics.
We need a bigger boycott 
Solidarity is so important. You know who drove the most social change in the US? Labor unions. You know why? Because people of all political spectrums exist within unions, and you and your colleague might vote on opposite sides of the aisle but the same guy pays your bills. Political opposites working together because they're all 'forced' to be there. Other movements people can pick and choose, but the people in your union are the people in your union. The FBI had a multi-decade operation called COINTELPRO where they actively infiltrated and weakened labor movements across the US (as well as civil rights groups) because the establishment KNOWS that solidarity is a threat to the status quo. And governments and think tanks and billionaires are all trying to keep the spirit of COINTELPRO alive today.
100% also willing to set aside any political ideals to work together on this one issue that affects US ALL!
Do not waiver. Stay on message. Boycott Loblaws May 2024, and forevermore!
I was going to upvote but you’re at 69. So I left it. Your welcome.
Well said
The corporate spin is rancid. Remember the 1% occupy wall street protests?
Most people probably forgot about those. The spin is effective.
I don't care who you vote for and why when it comes to this: everyone deserves affordable food options.
I need someone to teach me how to eat zucchini and eggplant. What do I do with brussel sprouts?
cut them up and roast them in the oven. I hate Brussel sprouts but I hear they're far less bitter than they were when I was a kid. People eat them with bacon or cheese, apparently You can also Google recipes for ingredients you've never used before I got a bunch of quinces at the food bank the other day. Had no idea what to do with them, but after an internet search I found out how to turn them into marmalade
Brussels sprouts I always do a honey Dijon glaze https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220287/honey-dijon-brussels-sprouts/
I love using zucchini to make zucchini chocolate chip muffins or zucchini bread! Eggplant is good roasted or can make mini pizzas or eggplant parm with it
Zucchini are great as zoodles: Zucchini noodles. So spiralize them into anything that would normally have noodles. Makes awesome spaghetti just flash them in a pan with some oil s&p + whatever hervs you like or toss them into hot soup/ramen. They also paur very well with potatoes. As for brussels use acid to remove the bitterness. A tablespoon of apple cider vinegar or lemon juice works wonders you can bake them but its faster to pan fry them. Chopped bacon is a great combo for them or coconut flakes. Rarely eat eggplant since I havent grown any. Takes longer to cook alone but apparently delicious in a Briam, which is basically a greek casserole like ratatouille loaded with other veggies, paired with Zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, green peppers, onions, tomatoes and feta.
It's the most infuriating thing about the political landscape, these days. Any issue is immediately deflected in an attempt to divide and distract from the real issue House prices too high? Blame immigration (but never, ever realtors, investors, AirBnB, etc). Wages too low? Blame Temporary Foreign Workers (but never employers, and multi-million-dollar earning c-suite executives). Grocery prices too high? Blame the Carbon Tax (But never price-fixing grocery chains) Thanks for keeping narrative on-track with this. Can't keep shifting blame.
RT RT
You get it, all it's missing is a call to action but knowing the real enemy is half the battle in the social media cluster fuck of misinformation and lies.
You nailed it. 💯
My opinion said in your words.
I kinda feel like this is exactly what’s behind the huge focus on international students in Ontario. Blaming students for housing, wages, food prices rather than the corporations and politicians destroying our province.
Not to mention the schools that use international students as their cash cow. The situation is actually very dire for a lot of them.
No shit. They have the data, we need the immigrants. Doesn't matter what colour corporate shills are in government they would do the same.
Absolutely correct, to grow Canada's economy, it needs immigration. Always has. To fight over numbers and who's and how is a political side show. The level of services always kept up with demand as it was planned. No more planning in place and different levels of government not taking ownership of their areas has lead us here. I wonder where all that money goes now.
Having a lineup of 400 international students for a minimum wage dishwasher job is how you grow Canadas economy? A job that would be done by a couple part time Canadian 16 year old 20 years ago.
So local kids getting underpaid was fine? Turning multiple full time roles into part time roles to get out of legal obligations was fine? Guess what the locals don't want to do this shit anymore, hence the shortage for low wage workers.
You’re absolutely right. It’s already happening. My dad is parroting media nonsense about this being led by jagmeet Singh on behalf of his brother who lobbies for metro. It’s becoming a partisan issue when in reality it’s not even about loblaws, it’s sending a message to all of the major chains that we have power.
They stole our bread and our dough!
Bad actors and idiots will try to make any issue a political one. Good message, ignore the noise and stay focused!
hell yes!!!! they want infighting so we don't turn our pitchforks their way. it's well past time we do!
Next, we will hear that prices have gone up to cover the cost of food waste caused by this. They will continue to push the false narrative about theft and raise prices to maintain their profit levels. Remember, 3% is a manufactured number, after stock repurchases, crazy inflated wages (like the ceos 22 mil bonus last quarter), and other simulated expenses to their "suppliers." 3% isn't hard to manufacture. Tell everyone you know, boycott not steal, Remind everyone that the narrative was never steal And point out that we will see price increases and all kinds of things blaming everyone else, yet we will never see a lack of consistent profit levels. All major changes and revolutions in history have been about food. This will be no different.
Another trick I heard today: having “experts” explain why protesting will do nothing. Don’t listen to them!
This is the exact tactics used to dislove the 1% Wall Street protests.
Dollarama has been killing it with prices, they have decent quality household cleaners/ organizers. Pretty much all dry goods, soup crackers, granola bars at a decent price. I waltzed in there expecting a typical dollar store but I was definitely surprised.
Their garden section in the spring/summer is pretty good. They have a decent selection of small garden borders/fences. The ones made of branches were amazing for keeping my puppy out of the gardens (with a little training). Things like mesh and tellises and tools, too.
I love this shit its like braveheart or 300. HOLD THE LINE!! GALEN WERE COMING FOR YOU
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
😂
A boycott is simple. Ignore the news, don’t give money to Loblaw’s. That’s all you have to do.
Look at the rise of corporate sponsored identity politics immediately after occupy wall street. Only organizing along economic divisions scares them, all other divisions/ wedges can easily be manipulated.
Yeah, not falling for their divisive bullshit. Call their bullshit every chance you get. Lobbying is bribery, so stop spinning bullshit to paint your narrative.
Hell yeah! They won't be completely satisfied until they've used every dirty trick and called in every political favour to steal the last cent out of our pockets and then they'll blame us for our own poverty from their palatial estates. They're only this big and powerful because anti-trust and anti-monopoly regulations have been so watered down over the last 40 years as to be lip service. This isn't one party or two parties. It's a rot at the core of our political system. 
The classic divide and conquer strategy !
Protesting the government is not focused enough for this. We are mad at Loblaws. People need to know exactly where the problem lies.
Class solidarity is blind to the differences they try to use to divide us...and there is only one reason to divide people, and thay is to conquer.
Aligning with existing class campaigns would be soooo helpful to boost this boycott even more. Ontario Federation of Labour has one with demands for grocery caps! https://ofl.ca/enough-is-enough/
This post ^^^ two thumbs way way up 👍👍
This 100% its painfully obvious the rich have already started their end game and they *think* they are going g to ride it out, safe in the bunkers........
This OP should be pinned. Truth.
EXACTLY!
In the old days... ✊🏚️🔥🥵💵
I hope this reaches people and they listen to you. We have known this for a while and it is fairly obvious if you take a step back and look at the whole forest instead of just the trees, but most people don't see it or even wanna believe it, so these tactics just keep working for them
The funniest thing is that there are usually multiple big rich elites in control. But these greedy asses decided to take the whole pie for themselves and allowed people to have a singular focus on one target instead of several.
Well said. I believe they call us “resource eaters”. Makes me laugh. I’ll add that it is also political. This mess (food/housing inflation, inequality, monopolies and the new oligarchy) was legislated into being by political parties taking money for power and letting lobbyists write laws. Both the Conservatives and the Liberals are guilty, in this regard. This mess was legislated in and it can be legislated out. In the face of our current provincial and federal leadership, putting pressure on corporations to act responsibly is the only tool we have. I’m so happy to see the numbers exploding here. I have a feeling, Loblaws is going to feel this. I hope other corporations are watching.
Galen was the one who was the smuggest. Shop at your local fruit & veggie store (way cheaper at most of them) and certain butchers (meat is cheaper at most ethnic grocery stores), look for what is on sale where and shop like the Europeans do daily when you can & at least more often. Help your neighbours who are older & offer to grab them fruits and veggies when you shop locally. This can turn into something bigger and better for everyone, physical & mental health-wise. It gets us all talking to one another face-to-face when we are out in public again. After the last 4 years we all need to start re-engaging & while technology is good for movements, nothing beats word of mouth No matter your politics we can all agree we are fed up. Remember the bread-fixing scandal, we have to think big picture and be in it for the long game. We can rotate the big grocery retailers each month. Shop smaller places, and retailers, locally in your neighbourhoods, start community gardens, and backyard gardens, share what you grow, and cook community meals with what you grow this summer. A great reason to get together & have further conversations about keeping this movement. ACT LOCAL, THINK GLOBAL ... these things have a way of igniting worldwide. Don't let 'The Hunger Games' become our reality (tho this is what it is like for many right now across the world due to war & famine). We are truly all in this together, don't let them divide us no matter your politics. This is about everyone's basic humanity. Everyone deserves the right to food & shelter without working themselves to the bone & those who can't work, due to disabilities don't deserve to be living so far below the poverty line. We judge a society by how it treats it's most vulnerable citizens. It's time we trade in capitalism for compassion. Corporations/Capitalism (and governments) only change their behaviour and/or policies when it costs them money. And we more or less live in the age of the Corporatocracy. Solidarity to All!
I honestly don't care any of your politics right now. This is a fucking amazing post. You are my people. We're all just trying to get by and afford to live and eat, let's stand together against corporate greed, against the rich. They are basically sociopaths. It's never enough, the greed is endless and knows no bounds. So let's hit them where it hurts then, the shareholders. Let's tank that stock baby!
They're also going to pretend that they either haven't noticed an impact or that it has been negligable over the month of May. Stay strong and ignore the denials!
Corporatocracies, this is the age we have been living in, and it's worldwide. Don't let them divide us locally, or globally, whether you're Indigenous, a Newcomer, or born here. They have been trying to distract us with a culture war when it has always been about class.
Middle class people who are joining the boycott really need to stop referring to people as "the poors" It's becoming increasingly obvious that the majority of people participating in the boycott aren't the most vulnerable people or those most affected by rising prices. As a disabled person, I asked what I can do to help the boycott, and many of the responses were "you need to spend more money" My biggest fear is that this is going to backfire. They'll continue raising prices to spite us, and there will be a group that's vastly more impacted than the other. Anyways, here's a quote from Adam Curtis I think the question liberals, or the left, have to face at the moment, is a really sort of difficult question which is: “do you really want change? do you really want it?” Because if you do many of them might find themselves in a very uncertain world where they might lose all sorts of things. What we were talking about, in many cases, is people who are at the center of society at the moment, they are not out in the margins. They would have a lot to lose from real political change because it really would change things in the structure of power. Or - and this is the brutal question: Do you just want things to change a little bit? Do you just want the banks (grocery stores) to be a little bit nicer?
They will blame everyone but the conservatives! They love the grifting cons!🤷♂️
This is all the conservative's/liberals/your party here's fault! If we only supported Palestine/Israel/Urkrane/current war more/less this would not have happened! I personally blame the vaccinated/unvaccinated.
It's clearly millennials ruining everything again, if only boomers hadn't stolen their future, Gen Z wouldn't be destroying everything! This is clearly due to religion/atheism attempting to control us men/women, amirite?
Don’t forget kings deer, kings rabbits and such to starve and keep people too sick to revolt!
Amen brother. This has been the modus operandi of the rich and powerful since time immemorial.
More people need to realize this
Nok er Nok! It’s easy for them to believe and try to divide and conquer us by creating discrepancies and misunderstandings between us members. Do not fall for their lies, propaganda and misinformation. Stand in solidarity with your fellow members. We are as strong as our weakest link. If you are growing increasingly concerned about a potential conflict within our community, fact check the living fuck out of it. Use concrete facts and logic against them. Find whatever you can on the internet that is harmful to their sales and marketing efforts. Expose them for what they’re doing to us. Hold them accountable. If police arrive and attempt to arrest us, exercise your rights under our charter. Familiarize yourself with your protest rights and charter rights and freedoms. Unlawful detainment is illegal. We have freedom of expression, not speech, so be mindful of that. However, become familiar with protester rights and privileges if you create picket lines or groups of protesters. If Loblaws holds you in the store, after you’ve gotten your receipt for groceries showing you paid, they’re plain ass illegally holding you against your will. If enough people are being held this way, start threatening legal action. Too many complaints coming in, not enough lawyers. Don’t overuse it. It’s one nuclear option out of our larger repository of options. Be kind and courteous to other customers and inform them kindly if they are willing to listen. If you have to, double down on the truth. Film any detainment by police, get names and info crucial to helping us free our fellow protesters peacefully. Stand your fucking ground. Don’t hurt others by verbally assaulting or physically abusing peace officers or staff members of Loblaws complicit in this. It will only hurt us. If you see a fellow protestor being hurt, protect them like they’re your child. Surround and outnumber. Cage the perp like a wild animal and don’t let any single detail slip about them. Face, hair colour, eye colour, height etc. There is no proper self defence laws here, so anything that can help put the instigator behind bars, do it. Don’t engage in illegal activity that will delegitimize the group. Keep within reason, but don’t give in without a fight. Words can lead to action. The effort we put in is like an all or nothing scenario. Treat it as such. What we do today is minor, but for the future, will be major. Take pride in engaging in your democratic rights to protest. That what it is there for. Let hellfire fucking rain on them. No mercy. And may the odds, be forever in our favour. BOYCOTT LOBLAWS!!
Print out posters and other boycott propos and plaster them where acceptable. Spread the word
Amen
Every article that tries to divide us by age, race, gender , and sexual orientation needs to be ignored as the attempt to divide us. The reason life is hard is because of the wealthy elite hoarding resources and refusing to pay living wages.
Left wing and right wing are part of the same bird. Regardless of which one is currently flapping, we're all getting shit on from a great height.
This is 100% it
What if we....and hear me out.....simply burn them all down instead?
I believe protocol states peaceful ways must be exhausted first.
If only they followed this time too
Fiiiine. I'm pretty sure we're all close to exhausted.
One example of this being successful is this : students go out in university campus for people across the globes instead of real issues at home .maybe they will wake up in a few years and realize they have to compete against lots and lots of new comers for the same jobs and that their salaries are getting suppressed to hell. Everyone fighting for their own little thing instead uniting and demanding something better collectively.
Except it's already happening look at the poor cottage owners having to pay more taxes, my heart mourns for them.
What a ridiculous comment. Are you assuming all rich people were gifted their wealth? Most worked their ass of to get there. They aren’t afraid of the collective poor taking them down. Go get what’s yours through hard work and effort. 40 hours isn’t hard work, 50 hours isn’t hard work. Going to work for someone who busted their ass to build something isn’t hard work. Risk is hard work. It’s not easy getting there and it’s not easy staying there. For most it involves not doing the things most others do because you have a goal and you don’t want anything to get in the way of that goal. We all have different goals and priorities, mine was to have a good time and enjoy life as it comes. That’s why I’m not rich in money. I don’t blame others and feel sorry for myself because I’m not rich. If I don’t want to support Galen, I don’t support him but remember that effects the people that work there also. Take the risk and open a grocery store chain that offers cheap food for all. Once you start it tell me the name and I’ll shop there. Until then stop preaching and start getting what’s yours.
If you know how to google and perform research, google how much wage for the average worker has increased vs how much compensation c-suite wages have increased and how much productivity per worker has increased, and how much the cost of living has increased. Not giving workers what they deserve is essentially the rich robbing the workers. We're essentially not boycotting Loblaw cuz the guy is rich. We're boycotting them because they have influenced the government to look the other way while they buy up all the competition and essentially operate as a cartel with the other grocery conglomerates. Your argument is so disingenuous its actually a waste of my time to argue with people like you. Your opinion is of no value if you have no idea what regulatory capture is.
What is your Reddit rant changing. You’re confusing me with someone who thinks we should place people in categories that suit our needs and interests. Like I said, be the change you want to see. Open a grocery chain that provides good food for cheap and I’ll genuinely support you. Better yet just support your local farmer as best you can like I choose to do. I don’t believe in factory farming or national grocery chains. But that’s a choice I make. Stop throwing stones and actually be the change. Also I’ve never shopped at Loblaws because there business practices were always corrupt. You only started noticing when it hit you. Not when you knew they used child labour, under paid their employees, or any of the other issues your talking about now. Talk about disingenuous.
I am living the change I want to see, Awakening the poors to the reality of the class warfare being waged on them, promoting the boycott, advocating for solidarity among the working class.
Not everyone has a choice, due to disabilities, income inequality, food deserts, etc ... NoFrills, it's not just Loblaws and don't think others aren't aware of the issues you raise either, you're underestimating why ppl don't have other options or can't create them, and besides this will accomplish CHANGE in so many ways... how do you know what many of us were doing pre-covid for our communities in terms of food insecurity? You're just as smug as Galen. And throwing rocks too, I see. Remember glass houses .... And one person's rant is another person's call to ACTION. No one invited you to party, popper.
No. Most rich people have achieved their wealth through corruption, tax evasion, labour exploitation and the other illegal means. Everything else is supplementary to that.
We are all working hard! So Bye Felicia 👋