Food prices, including a $40 chicken, has stoked fury and calls for big foreign supermarket chains to come to Canada.

Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become.

She fixated on one grocer in particular: Loblaw, the dominant food retailer in Canada, boasting nearly 2,500 stores.

Her Reddit group - named LoblawsIsOutofControl - was filled with photos of grocery items for sale at seemingly egregious prices, like C$40 ($29.36; £23.06) for 1.4 kilograms of chicken.

Soon after, Ms Johnson and others banded together to launch a nation-wide boycott against Loblaw, saying they were fed up with the disparity between rising food prices and record profits.

  • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    I believe the disparity she’s referring to is that food prices should be falling as a result of corporate pricing structure adjustments to reflect their record profits. But of course that would contradict the malignant greed of late stage capitalism.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Indeed, I believe the correct meaning to be the one you stated. It was just a joke in choosing an unintended meaning of the word, don’t take my comment too seriously