Canada’s grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada’s Competition Bureau says.

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    The Weston’s own most of the pharmacy, the grocery, food supply chain, and are moving into healthcare at breakneck pace. No shit it’s too concentrated. We need actual antitrust laws.

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      Sadly it doesn’t matter if we have antitrust laws or not when no one is willing to enforce them.

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          I hope “public pressure” is euphemistic for things a little more, erm, firm than “write angry articles on cbc”

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          There was so much pressure on the Shawgers buyout, the Competition Bureau was overwhelmed. Yet, here we are.