Oh, so the plan is to jack up prices and then treat us like we’re the thieves? If a receipt check isn’t stipulated as a condition of membership a la Costco, I’m not cooperating.
Gee, I wonder why people have started stealing from our grocery stores? Could it be the price gouging?
No, it’s our customers who are wrong.
Really going for the Les Miserables Javert strategy of criminalizing desperate, starving people.
It all feels like a joke. When do we sous vid Galen Weston?
Why do people keep shopping at Loblaws? Ethnic grocers are so much cheaper. If you’re in Vancouver, go to some of the Asian grocery stores in Richmond and save literally half your grocery bill.
I wish that were the case everywhere. Unfortunately, I’ve found it to be the other way around here in Winnipeg. Superstore and No Frills are among the cheapest places to shop here, and the ethnic grocers tend to be among the most expensive.
Same here in AB. We shop at Walmart, the big spenders we are
I miss Vancouver for this. I’ve yet to find anything that compares to Superstore/ big box pricing in Calgary. There are smaller stores, but they’re few and far between with higher pricing.
Because that’s only an option if you live in a City. I’m barely outside of Toronto and once you get into the country roads, you’re looking at Foodland or bust for the most part.
On the bright side they also double as a LCBO!
I literally only shop there when the in app deals are better than the advertised sales at Shoppers Drug Mart, which tend to equal or best sales elsewhere like Food Basics, plus I get points at shoppers for every penny spent but not at Loblaws. It’s not a hard decision where and when to shop. No Frills used to be good but their sales tend to be on par with Loblaws these days
In Montréal I find it depends what you’re shopping for. I’ve found its cheaper to go to the Asian market for fruits and veggies, for anything else it’s best to go to the franchise supermarkets.
They can check my receipt once.
And, once everyone else has descended to that slimeball level, they will see me again.
I’m confused. Wasn’t this a policy pretty much everywhere where theft is high? Walmart checked receipts for years…
A lot of places receipt check for self check out. I thought this was normal?
It shouldn’t be, nor is there anything they can do to stop you if you choose to ignore them.
The only place this is normal is at Costco as it’s part of the membership. Any other store it’s not normal.
If they are checking receipts because an increase in theft I am ok with it. Any financial loss to my local store will have to be collected in prices of their goods to keep the business open. I wish they didn’t have to.
Because hand over fist profits isn’t enough. Fuck loblaws.
If someone steals food, they needed it. No one is stealing bread to sell off the back of the truck.
Access to food is a basic human right.
Despite the rise in theft, Loblaws saw 6% revenue growth last quarter compared to 3% in Q1 2022.
Loblaws is price gouging. They deliver essential product at luxury prices on a monopolistic scale in many neighbourhoods. They do this by design; they know that people have no other reasonable choices, and they know that people will need to buy food eventually.
In October it was reported that 20% of Canadians are skipping meals to cut down on food costs. Meanwhile Galen Weston has received 136% increase in direct wages over the last two years.
Meanwhile, I don’t know about other warehouses, but next year Loblaws will be shutting down their Cambridge, ON Warehouse to open a new, fully automated one closer to Toronto. All those warehouse workers are going to lose their jobs for the sake of automation.In summary: Loblaws is making more. Their executive staff is making more. Yet they’re raising their prices along with it. People need to eat, and if you cannot afford to eat, you should steal. Food is not optional and I will die before telling someone else to die because they’re too poor to eat. Loblaws is celebrating their victory over our wallets as we merely try to survive.
I agree they are price gauging. That has nothing to do with my argument.
If they are checking receipts because an increase in theft I am ok with it
Theft is a product of their price gouging
Any financial loss to my local store will have to be collected in prices of their goods to keep the business open
I wish they didn’t have to.
So then be clear and say you are angry at them for price gauging and not just get angry at them for everything they do for their business.
Everything they do “for their business” is detriment to human beings. It’s relevant, and thus why I bring it up.
I’m not just mad at them for price gouging. I’m mad at them for everything they do “for their business”.
Increased theft is the cost of price gouging. It should have been built into their calculations.
What you say is true but the decision to check receipts may have come from a store manager just trying to solve a problem in their store. That manager can’t really force the giant corporation to make less money no matter that they are being jerks.
They dgaf about corporate social responsibility. You know, the bullshit universities were going on and on about while telling us we would be the next generation of CEOs, all the while selling us useless degrees that couldn’t even get us a fucking supervisor position at a dollar store.
Honestly bruh, there’s being an “armchair expert” and then there’s being in touch with reality. Your choice
You really don’t like it when someone has a different opinion huh?
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It kind of does when you say they “have to” raise either prices. Why can’t they take the loss and let it eat into their excessive executive compensation packages? They could take a huuuge hit without going into the red.
I take it you subscribe to the belief that the only way to successfully run a business is to have ever increasing years of historically high record profits, year after year, at any and all costs?
Lol what? Did you miss the whole record profits during the pandemic combined with layoffs and stagnant wages? Sheesh bruh
