Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer.

The company said that its retail segment sales rose 4.4 per cent to $13.29 billion. Food retail sales were up by 3.4 per cent, while its drug retail sales under the Shoppers Drug Mart banner increased by four per cent.

A group of shoppers who say they are fed up with the company’s grocery prices said that as of Wednesday they would start boycotting the retailer’s flagship Loblaws stores and its offshoot brands, including No Frills, Provigo and City Market.

  • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    7 months ago

    Revenue was up 4.5% and profit was up 10%… so they cranked up their margin, nice. Greedflation indeed.

    Would love to see the same figures for Sobeys/Safeway and others, cause I swear their veg has doubled in price in 3 years.

    • Poutinetown
      8·
      7 months ago

      Yeah this is the real news. Doesn’t matter how much revenue they are making, but artificially inflating the margin is literally greed and should be used as a proof of oligopolistic move by antitrust orgs to break them up.

    • applepie@kbin.social
      6·
      7 months ago

      why are you counting another man’s hard earn money?

      do you hate freedom and the divine right to fuck poors?