• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    111·
    4 months ago

    1. Galen Weston is an absolute asshat.

    2. There are apparently no consequences for the major chains colluding on prices. Neoliberals (the LPC and CPC) are going to neoliberal.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      It’s unfortunate, but the people most harmed by this will first need aircraft to get to the corporate headquarters so they can use the torches, since a lot of these places have no other easy way in or out. (Burning individual stores just means that there will be nowhere in that community to buy food at all.)

      Isolated northern communities have always gotten the short end of the stick. For everything. Made even worse when the ice roads don’t do well, which I don’t think they did this year.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    In a statement to The Fifth Estate, the North West Company disputed that, and said that during the months of November and December in 2022 cases of various olive oil products were shipped via air freight.

    In addition to being the main grocer for most northern residents, including dozens of communities where it’s the only option, the company is also the primary recipient of a federal subsidy aimed at lowering food prices.

    But a University of Toronto researcher, widely regarded as a leading expert on the controversial program, said it’s failing to improve access to nutritious food and isn’t doing enough to track whether companies like North West are fully passing along the subsidy to consumers.

    Tracey Galloway, who has published a number of papers on northern Indigenous communities, found that for each dollar of subsidy given at specific points in 2016 and 2019, retailers passed on an average of 67 cents.

    In a statement to The Fifth Estate, the North West Company refuted Galloway’s findings, writing that the study “did not accurately take into account all factors which impact pricing” and that a recent government audit found the “funding provided … was spent … for its intended purposes.”

    There’s no threat that a retailer would be removed from the program because ultimately that would have a negative effect on consumers," Galloway said, noting that many remote communities don’t have multiple grocery stores to choose from.

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