"and we continue to do what we can to combat inflation at our stores,” the company added.
Like hiring analytic companies to determine the highest possible price they can charge?
Like instructing pharmacists to perform unnecessary med checks so loblaws can steal tax dollars?
This is the same company that got caught price fixing bread.
We ought to unionize a group to make official responses back to them - here’s mine:
Try again. Provide proof. Please. We look forward to working together with you on this.
I'd apply, I'd even go so far as to educate myself formally if someone organized this union?
Legit, is there anything like that out there? Been struggling to find purpose in life lately but I would totally dedicate my time to this.
[Please be aware that the group ](https://www.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/comments/1cae7ai/community_announcements_apr_2224/)has expressly condemned these posters and the whole "Steal From Loblaws Day" thing. Our Admin keeps getting blamed for it, but she took a firm stance against it from day one, and the mods have been working tirelessly to remove content promoting it.
Definitely stealing isn’t the right path. Though we need more grocery competition and I think that’d solve a lot of problems. As it is now most cities mostly have every grocery location owned by primarily two companies even if they’re under different names. The government on all levels should find ways to promote more real grocery competition.
There is a top post on reddit right now of a Walmart in the states that has socks now behind locked glass and escorting people to the cashier.
Here in my city we now have Superstore with not one but two hardcore steel check things like how big city push stations are.
If this much stealing of basic clothes and food is going on maybe just maybe the system is radically fucking sick.
My god..
Crisis on housing.
Crisis on food.
Crisis on basic clothes.
Maybe this system isn't working anymore?
As someone said on another post:
Capitalism is having a fascist immune response to its own sickness.
The system is working exactly as intended - move money to the elite class as quickly and efficiently as possible.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist and don’t think COVID was some sort of “manufactured crisis”, however I do think it showed the ruling class / corporations that they can be extremely bold in their gouging and price increases and shoppers can’t do shit about it. Notice how prices have only continued to go UP since the supply chain crisis during COVID?
Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head. We see price increases on shit like cheese that has contracts, which give price stability. It's insane.
It's like they saw the oil companies get away with it on gas, increasing prices on products that were already paid for under bullshit excuses and thought "shit, what if we do that"
Fuck them, I have no sympathy if people are suddenly stealing from these companies just to survive, it's the bed they created.
What’s worse is the fact that wage theft from corporations who steal from the employees far, far exceeds the amount of shoplifting.
Loblaws steals more from its employees that people do from Loblaws.
As a corporation, they’re sociopathic.
What do you have against infinite growth? /s
Some people should have the “freedom” to buy a third yacht.
If only you worked harder, you could be just like them /s
I saw that immune response comment and it was like an aha moment regarding everything I am seeing pushed all over every media platform right now.
Also, this steal from loblaws thing is totally a false flag. They’re doing it to control the narrative around the May boycott and /r/loblawsisoutofcontrol
Well, fascism needs a capitalist system to work, so that is going to fail pretty quickly unless everyone is good with reducing the quality of life significantly.
I used to go into grocery stores with a dollar and come out with a dozen eggs, a pound of cheese and three pounds of steak. You can't do that anymore because of all the goddamn security cameras.
This is as cause-and-effect as pouring gasoline on a fire causes a fireball. In fact, this is one of the oldest predictable effects of human civilization back to feudal times. Greed from the powerful creates poverty, resentment, and eventually backlash. That's a mathematical formula essentially. It's natural.
This is most likely an effort by Loblaws’ PR team to paint the boycott Loblaws movement as criminals and lowlifes.
Make the group seem unsavoury so people don’t want to be associated with the boycott.
Look at the media coverage it’s generated, all for the modest cost of *high-quality* printed posters.
Why would anyone advertise when they are going to steal shit? These posters are made by Roblaws to try and discredit the boycott movement.
No one wants to steal from you Galen, we're just avoiding your stores all together.
How did we get here?
looks at the 18 eggs that were 4.99 a year ago that is now 6.99... and the milk that was 3.99 is now 7.18 ... and on, and on, and on.
corporate gouging is how we got here.
Go check the r/loblawsisoutofcontrol sub, somebody there posted proof that this is a campaign pushed by Loblaws itself. It’s their PR team trying to discredit the boycott.
Can’t steal from a store you don’t go to. Really bad PR team, if this is all they can think of. They didn’t think it through.
Shoplifting is notoriously overblown as an issue by large corporations. Stealing electronics, sure, but people stealing food are doing it because they need to *fucking eat*.
I don't condone advertising a day of stealing, all it does is put them on the alert.
Amateur move, if it is indeed a grassroots effort and not an effort to paint the boycotters as extremists.
The problem is that capitalism demands constant growth. There are a lot of markets which cannot sustain the kind of growth that shareholders demand, so corporations come up with "false growth" at the cost of quality, exorbinant prices, or jobs. Need to bump up this Quarter's numbers? Lay off some staff! Did we actually need those people? Who cares, the line is going up and we'll worry about it next quarter. We need another short-term gain, but we've hit market saturation and aren't getting as many new customers as we projected! Raise the prices! Reduce the quality! Run ads on a premium service!
These companies can be making huge profits every year, but our current system says that they are failing if those numbers aren't higher year over year. It's doomed to fail. We either run out of resources, or we run out of markets to sell to. In the interim the market that exists is squeezed until it breaks, and it seems Canadians are too polite (and subservient to capitalists,) to let that breaking point happen any time before (more) kids are starving in the streets.
> He explains that when suppliers, like PepsiCo for instance, want to sell their products to places like Loblaw, these grocery companies charge marketing fees, shelf space fees, flier fees, etc. All these extra costs add up, and suppliers end up raising the cost of their products to pass the buck to consumers.
Grocery stores trying to use that as an excuse to keep raising prices is just disrespectful to customers. The only way that would cause prices to rise over time is by the store charging extra fees, and what new services are they providing to the supplier on top of what they were doing before? Surely there would be a notable change to justify forcing fee increases...
It's actually hilarious that they try to use this as justification. They are literally charging companies increasing fees, then wondering why the companies are raising their prices accordingly.
Loblaws literally shooting themselves in the foot, then blaming the person who sold them the bullet.
Hypernormalization
Our systems are obsolete. What enabled democracy previously has not been updated to keep pace with the rest of the state of the world
It's allowed a new type of entity, a global megacorporation to compete on the same field as nations. These are not beholden to any kind of democratic control
In return, our ancient democratic technologies have been all but completely nullified by corporate power. We are allowed ceremonial participation but real impact is outside of the public's hands
The systems that caused the problem cannot fix the problem but the authorities that we look to for fixing the problem draw their authority from those systems.
There is no out that is not rebuilding in some way. We cruise, essentially rudderless until one day we run aground. Unless we do something different to stop it.
You get to this point when the people setting the price of food have zero sympathy for the people who need it. Why should anyone sympathize about their bottom line as a result?
The alternative to stealing food is people going hungry, and when people go hungry they have a tendency to overthrow governments and revolutionize.
Are we in doublespeak territory now?
> “Nobody went to jail. Nobody paid a fine. The investigation is ongoing,” says Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. “So when I see people protesting, what I see are consumers feeling utterly unprotected.”
It’s wrong to shoplift, but price fixing by Loblaws is kinda okay. I mean, someone caught shoplifting a loaf of bread will be penalized more than the execs who price fixed.
It’s a Loblaws funded psyops to discredit the r/loblawsisoutofcontrol subreddit. it's basically PR espionage to further their corporate agenda.
Don’t forget that the paid shill “The Food Professor” publicly doxed the creator of the subreddit on Twitter. The subreddit specifically states that theft is wrong and should not be acted upon.
Fuck Roblaws. I'll go out if my way not to purchase from them. its corporate greed and price fixing for maximum profit.
NDP pushed for the Dental Care Act and the Pharmacare Act, while Lil PP voted against both and is now spreading lies that the Pharmacare Act will force you to quit your private pharmacare insurance.
And here you come, calling Singh a sellout while pushing Lil PP as the best to Trudeau ...
"and we continue to do what we can to combat inflation at our stores,” the company added. Like hiring analytic companies to determine the highest possible price they can charge? Like instructing pharmacists to perform unnecessary med checks so loblaws can steal tax dollars? This is the same company that got caught price fixing bread.
We ought to unionize a group to make official responses back to them - here’s mine: Try again. Provide proof. Please. We look forward to working together with you on this.
I'd apply, I'd even go so far as to educate myself formally if someone organized this union? Legit, is there anything like that out there? Been struggling to find purpose in life lately but I would totally dedicate my time to this.
You see this is all the federal government’s fault /s Our useless media who rub elbows with the same people price gouging groceries.
[Please be aware that the group ](https://www.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/comments/1cae7ai/community_announcements_apr_2224/)has expressly condemned these posters and the whole "Steal From Loblaws Day" thing. Our Admin keeps getting blamed for it, but she took a firm stance against it from day one, and the mods have been working tirelessly to remove content promoting it.
would love it if the media running the stories on this mysterious poster would share where they were found.
We've had at least one reporter reach out to our admin for comment before publishing their story, I really wish more media would do that, too.
Well that would expose Loblaws printing them off at Staples and posting them at grocery stores and service Ontario locations
I believe boycott Loblaws is the much better and significantly more legal option.
I'd bet it's Loblaws putting up these posters to make the boycott look bad.
If I’m boycotting a place, i won’t go in to steal anything. Problem solved.
Definitely stealing isn’t the right path. Though we need more grocery competition and I think that’d solve a lot of problems. As it is now most cities mostly have every grocery location owned by primarily two companies even if they’re under different names. The government on all levels should find ways to promote more real grocery competition.
There is a top post on reddit right now of a Walmart in the states that has socks now behind locked glass and escorting people to the cashier. Here in my city we now have Superstore with not one but two hardcore steel check things like how big city push stations are. If this much stealing of basic clothes and food is going on maybe just maybe the system is radically fucking sick. My god.. Crisis on housing. Crisis on food. Crisis on basic clothes. Maybe this system isn't working anymore? As someone said on another post: Capitalism is having a fascist immune response to its own sickness.
The system is working exactly as intended - move money to the elite class as quickly and efficiently as possible. I’m not a conspiracy theorist and don’t think COVID was some sort of “manufactured crisis”, however I do think it showed the ruling class / corporations that they can be extremely bold in their gouging and price increases and shoppers can’t do shit about it. Notice how prices have only continued to go UP since the supply chain crisis during COVID?
Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head. We see price increases on shit like cheese that has contracts, which give price stability. It's insane. It's like they saw the oil companies get away with it on gas, increasing prices on products that were already paid for under bullshit excuses and thought "shit, what if we do that" Fuck them, I have no sympathy if people are suddenly stealing from these companies just to survive, it's the bed they created.
Well fucking said.
The greed is astounding, this can’t sustain much longer, people need to revolt
What’s worse is the fact that wage theft from corporations who steal from the employees far, far exceeds the amount of shoplifting. Loblaws steals more from its employees that people do from Loblaws. As a corporation, they’re sociopathic.
What do you have against infinite growth? /s Some people should have the “freedom” to buy a third yacht. If only you worked harder, you could be just like them /s
I saw that immune response comment and it was like an aha moment regarding everything I am seeing pushed all over every media platform right now. Also, this steal from loblaws thing is totally a false flag. They’re doing it to control the narrative around the May boycott and /r/loblawsisoutofcontrol
Well, fascism needs a capitalist system to work, so that is going to fail pretty quickly unless everyone is good with reducing the quality of life significantly.
I used to go into grocery stores with a dollar and come out with a dozen eggs, a pound of cheese and three pounds of steak. You can't do that anymore because of all the goddamn security cameras.
Had me in the first half
This is as cause-and-effect as pouring gasoline on a fire causes a fireball. In fact, this is one of the oldest predictable effects of human civilization back to feudal times. Greed from the powerful creates poverty, resentment, and eventually backlash. That's a mathematical formula essentially. It's natural.
Precisely. Those empires fell, and so will this one. The only question is what material we build the guillotines out of.
3D printed guillotines for a more civilized age.
😂🙌🏻🙌🏻 https://www.popsci.com/technology/worlds-largest-3d-printer/ !!
Wood still probably, that decomposes. We can get metal from all those cars no one can afford.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/worlds-largest-3d-printer/
Why am I not surprised this exist
I just think it's amazing that article came out the same day this idea came into our discussion 😂😂🤘🏻 maybe eating the rich isn't so far off lol
This is most likely an effort by Loblaws’ PR team to paint the boycott Loblaws movement as criminals and lowlifes. Make the group seem unsavoury so people don’t want to be associated with the boycott. Look at the media coverage it’s generated, all for the modest cost of *high-quality* printed posters.
And it also makes it seem like a one day protest.
This is some COINTELPRO shit right here, bruh.
Why would anyone advertise when they are going to steal shit? These posters are made by Roblaws to try and discredit the boycott movement. No one wants to steal from you Galen, we're just avoiding your stores all together.
How did we get here? looks at the 18 eggs that were 4.99 a year ago that is now 6.99... and the milk that was 3.99 is now 7.18 ... and on, and on, and on. corporate gouging is how we got here.
Go check the r/loblawsisoutofcontrol sub, somebody there posted proof that this is a campaign pushed by Loblaws itself. It’s their PR team trying to discredit the boycott. Can’t steal from a store you don’t go to. Really bad PR team, if this is all they can think of. They didn’t think it through.
remember, if you see someone stealing, no you didn’t
Nope, I have no problem pointing out theft.
Shoplifting is notoriously overblown as an issue by large corporations. Stealing electronics, sure, but people stealing food are doing it because they need to *fucking eat*.
Sorry, not buying the notion that everyone who steals food is doing so to eat.
How many people do you see reselling stolen food?
What do you think they are doing with it then? Second question, why do you feel entitled to intervene?
Run of the mill bootlicker. Thinks he’ll get a gold star from daddy Galen.
What else are they doing with food, dumbass?
You know nothing of Javert!
The biggest form of theft is wage theft from corporations. Can we point that out in any form that will cause any really repercussions?
When you see someone stealing food, ***you saw nothing.***
I don't condone advertising a day of stealing, all it does is put them on the alert. Amateur move, if it is indeed a grassroots effort and not an effort to paint the boycotters as extremists. The problem is that capitalism demands constant growth. There are a lot of markets which cannot sustain the kind of growth that shareholders demand, so corporations come up with "false growth" at the cost of quality, exorbinant prices, or jobs. Need to bump up this Quarter's numbers? Lay off some staff! Did we actually need those people? Who cares, the line is going up and we'll worry about it next quarter. We need another short-term gain, but we've hit market saturation and aren't getting as many new customers as we projected! Raise the prices! Reduce the quality! Run ads on a premium service! These companies can be making huge profits every year, but our current system says that they are failing if those numbers aren't higher year over year. It's doomed to fail. We either run out of resources, or we run out of markets to sell to. In the interim the market that exists is squeezed until it breaks, and it seems Canadians are too polite (and subservient to capitalists,) to let that breaking point happen any time before (more) kids are starving in the streets.
This is the kind of thing that precedes bread riots. Push enough people into poverty and hunger, and the system falls apart quickly.
> He explains that when suppliers, like PepsiCo for instance, want to sell their products to places like Loblaw, these grocery companies charge marketing fees, shelf space fees, flier fees, etc. All these extra costs add up, and suppliers end up raising the cost of their products to pass the buck to consumers. Grocery stores trying to use that as an excuse to keep raising prices is just disrespectful to customers. The only way that would cause prices to rise over time is by the store charging extra fees, and what new services are they providing to the supplier on top of what they were doing before? Surely there would be a notable change to justify forcing fee increases...
It's actually hilarious that they try to use this as justification. They are literally charging companies increasing fees, then wondering why the companies are raising their prices accordingly. Loblaws literally shooting themselves in the foot, then blaming the person who sold them the bullet.
Every day is steal from Loblaws day, unless I'm at Sobeys, then it's steal from Sobeys day.
Man the rich really forgot “bread and circuses” didn’t they?
obvious propaganda is obvious
Hypernormalization Our systems are obsolete. What enabled democracy previously has not been updated to keep pace with the rest of the state of the world It's allowed a new type of entity, a global megacorporation to compete on the same field as nations. These are not beholden to any kind of democratic control In return, our ancient democratic technologies have been all but completely nullified by corporate power. We are allowed ceremonial participation but real impact is outside of the public's hands The systems that caused the problem cannot fix the problem but the authorities that we look to for fixing the problem draw their authority from those systems. There is no out that is not rebuilding in some way. We cruise, essentially rudderless until one day we run aground. Unless we do something different to stop it.
You get to this point when the people setting the price of food have zero sympathy for the people who need it. Why should anyone sympathize about their bottom line as a result? The alternative to stealing food is people going hungry, and when people go hungry they have a tendency to overthrow governments and revolutionize.
Are we in doublespeak territory now? > “Nobody went to jail. Nobody paid a fine. The investigation is ongoing,” says Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. “So when I see people protesting, what I see are consumers feeling utterly unprotected.” It’s wrong to shoplift, but price fixing by Loblaws is kinda okay. I mean, someone caught shoplifting a loaf of bread will be penalized more than the execs who price fixed.
simple, they steal from us, we steal from them. Eye for an eye.
It’s a Loblaws funded psyops to discredit the r/loblawsisoutofcontrol subreddit. it's basically PR espionage to further their corporate agenda. Don’t forget that the paid shill “The Food Professor” publicly doxed the creator of the subreddit on Twitter. The subreddit specifically states that theft is wrong and should not be acted upon. Fuck Roblaws. I'll go out if my way not to purchase from them. its corporate greed and price fixing for maximum profit.
How did we get here? People sick of being ripped off!🤷♂️
Time to burn it all to the FUCKING GROUND! Who’s with me boys!?
Don’t worry, Mother Nature is going to help in that department, likely sooner than we expect.
In the 1930s, people treated bank robbers like celebrities for a reason. I don’t think we are that far off from that now.
This is the very beginning of the ‘eat’ part of eat the rich
The government/justice system failed us by not prosecuting Galen Weston when they should have.
How did we get here? Corporate profiteering. That's how. That's how we got here.
Who the fuck schedules crime in advance and then lets everyone know? Did an undercover cop make these?
> Who the fuck schedules crime in advance and then lets everyone know? Ottawa truck convoy protestors
Media did run this story this am in the Maritimes and mentioned that this will have the exact opposite effect . Stealing will drive up prices further.
Greedy people.
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lol what nonsense has Jagmeet said that caused what this post is talking about or anything you are ranting about?
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NDP pushed for the Dental Care Act and the Pharmacare Act, while Lil PP voted against both and is now spreading lies that the Pharmacare Act will force you to quit your private pharmacare insurance. And here you come, calling Singh a sellout while pushing Lil PP as the best to Trudeau ...
If it’s anything he says should be easy to find a single sentence or quote then no?
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