Loblaw boycott: CEO responds to plans from ‘deeply unhappy’ customers

> Loblaw president and CEO Per Bank says the company is paying attention to customers and sees them trying to mitigate inflation by seeking out sales, buying more private-label products and shopping at discount stores.

And in response, we see private label products vanishing from store shelves and being replaced with expensive name brands, and on sale shrinkflation versions of name brands (looking at you Cavendish). No-name fries, Walmart brand beans, Giant Tiger brand beans, being just a few of the generic brand items to disappear from store shelves.

I’m just going to hijack this a bit to comment on the ridiculous new plexi-glass barriers that are being installed at Loblaws locations through-out Canada.

IF these are installed at your local store I recommend people contact their local Fire Station/Building Inspection bylaw officers and see if they are to code. I’ve seen pictures of these, they are a significant alteration to the layout, and I could see these being a hazard in a fire/other emergency situation where you need to evacuate the building quickly. At times, in these situations, the biggest hazard isn’t even the fire/event itself but bottlenecks causing people to get trampled.

Any building with these kind of modifications should require a new inspection, with capacity limits and an evacuation plan re-done for the new layout.

I’m already used to not shopping at Loblaws. Started tapering off a month or two ago.

My consumer habits have changed for the better and going to a Loblaws store would actually be an inconvenience at this point.

This has been a net positive for the gf and I overall. I probably would have just bent over and taken it without a bit of motivation to change. So the boycott is certainly working for us!

This is more narrative building by liberals and NDP to focus on easy scapegoats and not the REAL reasons of inflation. Spend too much and create too much debt? Tax the rich. Grocery prices get too high? Greedy Galen. Housing too high? Goddam greedy developers and provinces.

These are the same folks that tried to gaslight the public into thinking inflation was “transitory” and that the massive waves of immigrants was only to replace old folks. They lie about everything. Then the media supports their claims by narrative building. It’s all a LIE

I’m on week two of boycotting them, at this point, I see no reason to go back.

Nationalize the grocery store. Food is a human right.

This is a great idea except it won’t change anything and Loblaws knows that.

56k people on Reddit is nothing compared to the hundreds of thousands who shop there regularly that do not use Reddit.

The only thing they are slightly wary about is the negative PR and maybe the slim chance of governments issuing a statement. We will forget about this just a few days into the boycott once the media hype dies down. Like a fart in the wind we won’t even remember this event.

Hello Galen Weston!

I’ve been shopping elsewhere since FreshCo opened up close to me.

Get fucked.

Friendly reminder to use up all of your points before the boycott, switch out cell plans, banking, and everything else they have been up to you might be connected to.