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- progressivepolitics
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.
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.
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