Is anyone else boycotting Loblaws? I don’t have many alternatives, but I’m doing my best to take my business elsewhere.
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.
People need to start voting with money a lot more, these “companies” lost their fucking minds since covid
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.
Careful that it’s not “Your Independent Grocer” which is just another Loblaw shit.
Edit: or L’Intermarche, which is the Québecois equivalent.
Yep. Bastards aren’t getting my dollars for the forseeable future. Fuck em
LET’S GOOOOOOO!
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.
https://lemmy.ca/post/20399097
There are similar posts on other subs, but this is from 3 days ago on the same sub.
Hell yeah, thanks for linking my Loblaws boycott post!
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
We don’t have a local option, but I’m happy to shift my purchasing.
Is there a good source to learn about this (scope, list of stores, etc)
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
Huh, for some reason I thought t&t were their own thing
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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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.
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).
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
I’m doing my part
stocked up a bit more at Costco last month so I didn’t have to buy for this week and maybe nextI’ve been boycotting Loblaws since the Amex card gives 4% cashback on groceries
Doing my best— they just raised the price of pc ground turkey by 20%
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So far so good… For me, Shoppers is harder to avoid than Loblaws or No Frills, but we’ll see how it goes.
Haven’t been buying from the local super store for a while now, however I have stopped buying from Shoppers.
I tend to avoid the large corps where I can (Amazon, Walmart) recently moved to buying what I can from farmers markets and honestly having someone remember you and be proud of their product is a game changer, and tastes better too.
So yeah absolutely boycotting em