The bigger problem is the NATIONAL DISGRACE that is the LOW CAD that pushes up the cost of imported goods which include a lot of groceries
For that reason we need higher interest rates and to improve our productivity to produce more of what the world wants
Switzerland has lower inflation and interest rates because they have a strong franc
We need to be like them and cut regulations and taxes and spending
ThreeBlurryDecades on
This post is a perfect example of Betteridge’s law of headlines. So the answer is obviously “No”.
mightyboink on
They may have an effect, it’s worth testing anyway.
What would really make a difference would be breaking up our grocery oligopoly
bugabooandtwo on
Yes. By cutting the their workforce.
They’ll say a lot of things, but at the end of the day, that’s what they’ll do.
TissTheWay on
Given the record profits and price gouging of the Canadian grocery stores, I have to say yes.
Outside-Storage-1523 on
Build a national grocery chain focused on a selected of basic items, so that we might be able to lower the prices of those basic items while avoid “competing” with the other chains for the more exotic items.
GMAK24 on
I hope this could work but a law that restrain the food market to higher the price would have been better.
stanxv on
I shop at a bunch of local Asian grocers here that source straight from the Ontario Food Terminal, and their prices on produce and meats are already way cheaper than the big chains. Fresh veggies, fruits, and cuts of meat that beat No Frills or Walmart on cost, often with better quality too.
These small independent stores compete hard every day without any government involvement. They just hustle to bring in good deals from the terminal and pass the savings on. If regular people can find cheap, fresh food right now through normal private businesses, why mess with that by throwing tax dollars at some public experiment? The market’s already doing the job.
eoan_an on
Or you could fine the groceries stores for patent price fixing.
The article talks about razor thin margin. Razor thin margin don’t buy share buybacks, yet our grocery chains have whipped out record share buybacks. The margins are far, not thin.
Next, the American military model exists in Canada. I mean what kind of journalistic incompetence do you have to imbue yourself with not to walk on a base and ask at the gate where the grocery store is.
But that’s it isn’t it? We can talk about those articles and their contents all day, without realizing we’re all wasting our time as the story is nonsense.
Fine the price fixing. Don’t waste my tax dollar subsidizing an industry that will pocket the subsidies and never pass them on.
rsdominguez on
Only if not done by any government looking for propaganda in their favor.
LeGrandLucifer on
I look forward to my government mandated grocery portion of insects.
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There is plenty of competition in the food market
The bigger problem is the NATIONAL DISGRACE that is the LOW CAD that pushes up the cost of imported goods which include a lot of groceries
For that reason we need higher interest rates and to improve our productivity to produce more of what the world wants
Switzerland has lower inflation and interest rates because they have a strong franc
We need to be like them and cut regulations and taxes and spending
This post is a perfect example of Betteridge’s law of headlines. So the answer is obviously “No”.
They may have an effect, it’s worth testing anyway.
What would really make a difference would be breaking up our grocery oligopoly
Yes. By cutting the their workforce.
They’ll say a lot of things, but at the end of the day, that’s what they’ll do.
Given the record profits and price gouging of the Canadian grocery stores, I have to say yes.
Build a national grocery chain focused on a selected of basic items, so that we might be able to lower the prices of those basic items while avoid “competing” with the other chains for the more exotic items.
I hope this could work but a law that restrain the food market to higher the price would have been better.
I shop at a bunch of local Asian grocers here that source straight from the Ontario Food Terminal, and their prices on produce and meats are already way cheaper than the big chains. Fresh veggies, fruits, and cuts of meat that beat No Frills or Walmart on cost, often with better quality too.
These small independent stores compete hard every day without any government involvement. They just hustle to bring in good deals from the terminal and pass the savings on. If regular people can find cheap, fresh food right now through normal private businesses, why mess with that by throwing tax dollars at some public experiment? The market’s already doing the job.
Or you could fine the groceries stores for patent price fixing.
The article talks about razor thin margin. Razor thin margin don’t buy share buybacks, yet our grocery chains have whipped out record share buybacks. The margins are far, not thin.
Next, the American military model exists in Canada. I mean what kind of journalistic incompetence do you have to imbue yourself with not to walk on a base and ask at the gate where the grocery store is.
But that’s it isn’t it? We can talk about those articles and their contents all day, without realizing we’re all wasting our time as the story is nonsense.
Fine the price fixing. Don’t waste my tax dollar subsidizing an industry that will pocket the subsidies and never pass them on.
Only if not done by any government looking for propaganda in their favor.
I look forward to my government mandated grocery portion of insects.