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Assuming the NDP keeps backstopping Trudeau, when would the next election be?
The statutory limit is October 20th, 2025.
Assuming the NDP keeps backstopping Trudeau, when would the next election be?
Are you suggesting prohibiting a franchise model? Sobeys and Loblaws have franchise stores such as SDM, Freshco, No Frills. Are you suggesting that these retailers should be required to operate these franchise locations as wholly owned corporate stores? And to not supply independent retailers?I would also argue for precluding a retailer also acting as a wholesaler to their competitors as is currently the case for both the Weston/Loblaw group and the Sobey/Empire Group.
Assuming the NDP keeps backstopping Trudeau, when would the next election be?
The statutory limit is October 20th, 2025.
Are you suggesting prohibiting a franchise model? Sobeys and Loblaws have franchise stores such as SDM, Freshco, No Frills. Are you suggesting that these retailers should be required to operate these franchise locations as wholly owned corporate stores? And to not supply independent retailers?
The same goes for households. We stopped eating out a restaurants and instead bought more groceries and eat at home. So, while I’m contributing more revenue to the grocers I have more money in my pocket from not eating out.It's pure economic ignorance and political cynicism. Grocer profits are up because there is less dining out.
It's pure economic ignorance and political cynicism. Grocer profits are up because there is less dining out.
I'm all for battling oligopolies. But funny how they start with groceries and not the really oligopolistic telecom sector that the feds actually have substantial control over.
Are you suggesting prohibiting a franchise model? Sobeys and Loblaws have franchise stores such as SDM, Freshco, No Frills. Are you suggesting that these retailers should be required to operate these franchise locations as wholly owned corporate stores? And to not supply independent retailers?
Self checkout may not have been a smart move.3) Shrink is up big time (loss due to theft in this case, as opposed to spoilage), that cost is being passed through, and its a bit of a negative feedback loop.
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/why-justin-trudeau-was-a-quiet-face-in-the-crowd-in-humboldt/
Good of him to not steal the show.
Self checkout may not have been a smart move.
I think what you're asking for would create greater barriers to entry. Sort of akin to saying Rogers can't sell access to their network for other telcos trying to start cellular service in the country.I'm not thinking of that, no.
What I'm thinking of is that when Walmart entered Canada they did have a supply chain for fresh/frozen, and they contracted with Sobeys wholesale for the first 3 years.
They now do have their own supply chain.
But when Target entered Canada, they literally did the exact same thing. (Sobeys again).
Where Target is supposed to be a competitor but is buying its grocery from Sobeys, that strikes me as anti-competitive.
I think what you're asking for would create greater barriers to entry. Sort of akin to saying Rogers can't sell access to their network for other telcos trying to start cellular service in the country.
I use it often, and wonder to myself, "what's stopping people from just pretending to scan items and toss them in a bag and walk out without actually paying for certain things?" - even though there is usually a worker in the area (though often not at all I've noticed), they always look bored and are barely paying attention because they're not paid enough to care if someone is stealing, and even if they catch someone, they're certainly not going to do anything about it. Just last week at the LCBO I saw a guy take a shopping cart that was fully loaded with expensive liquor bottles and casually stroll out the door with it while the staff helplessly looked on in utter humiliation. I've seen this quite a few times. Once I left the store, he was outside putting the bottles into shopping bags he had with him. He nervously looked at me several times because I was watching him, and then he walked down the street, struggling with the weight of his ill-begotten haul.Self checkout may not have been a smart move.
Realistically, I think the Liberals were getting and heeding that advice until polls made them feel like they needed to grandstand. I think at most, squeezing the grocery retailers might lower prices by a couple of percentage points. Their net income margin is pretty low compared to other industries. Perhaps squeezing the entire food supply chain could yield more results (food processors, regulated producers such as dairy etc.) but it seems like a massive lift. Could Canada force Pepsi to divest Frito, etc.?It's pure economic ignorance and political cynicism. Grocer profits are up because there is less dining out. This is a trend that started during COVID. Now they want to penalize grocery stores for being successful?
Unless they are willing to impose price controls (and that would become its own entertainment really quickly), any penalties or windfall taxes they impose on grocers will simply be passed on to consumers eventually. One chat with an economists would have explained this to them.
They have a whole public service full of smart economists and business analysts. I have doubts these politicians ever actually talk to them.
I'm all for battling oligopolies. But funny how they start with groceries and not the really oligopolistic telecom sector that the feds actually have substantial control over. This is what tells me these politicians aren't serious and this is all signalling.