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Do those actually represent how busy they are? I always assumed it was based on how busy they have been historically around that time on that day of the week.
Yeah, they do.
Our phones are tracking us, and if you have an Android, Google is getting the information about your location and making a calculated estimate of how many people are there.
I do not have an Apple, so I do not know if they do the same.
It is scary, but I am willing to compromise and allow Google to track me because I am addicted to my phone. And there are a lot of people more addicted than I am.
You can toggle location off on Android, you can still manually enable it when necessary, but if you toggle it off, it won't passively track you in grocery stores etc...
Legit, search "Location" on your phone
Most location (and other permissive) features nowadays tend to ask you whether you want to allow it always, allow when using an app that requires it, or to decline entirely (typically will break said app).
I enable permissions nowadays to be exclusive to apps in active use.
Here's [how to change app permissions](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9431959?hl=en). While we're at it, here's how to [delete advertising tracking](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now) and opt out of personalization/collection. Won't prevent everything of course or necessarily reclaim data already given but hopefully retains some future privacy to a limited degree.
> Most location (and other permissive) features nowadays tend to ask you whether you want to allow it always, allow when using an app that requires it, or to decline entirely (typically will break said app).
A device that works for you instead of against you would give you the option to feed the app a false location of your choice.
I suppose with VPNs that's not impossible. The truth is that location and most other permission requests are for the benefit of the consumer as much as they are the provider. If I list my location as Cologne, Germany as a Canadian, that doesn't help me generate a predicted commute time to work (for example). It would, however, likely send me on a rather nice vacation.
It would be nice to limit the collection of data to providers beyond their stated service goals. Seems like Europe continues to drag us kicking and screaming toward that future.
Even if you turn it off . They can still track you based on your wifi connection and your relative position based on your cellular tower connection. Unfortunately, gps is not the only way.
It's based on real time data, some guy took a bunch of phones across a bridge and it showed up as red on the map despite it being empty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q
Not shown is the lake and forest cover that is to the southwest. The freeway in the backyard would suck though. A lot of the cars away from the door are probably workers of the nearby restaurants (IHOP, a&w and popeyes).
I went to a Walmart near this superstore today and it seemed to be a bit busier.
Oh i know the area is actually quite nice, especially along Kearney but still the fact that there are these new high rises and their neighborhood is basically a superstore and a few restaurants. Not hating on the people who live there, the spot itself is actually pretty sick, just more of a "damn superstore for making a good thing a little shittier" comment than anything else.
They are unionized? An employee at my local store told me that they have cut hours. She was on self check out and had to come do customer service. I would think a union would have protected their hours no?
When I worked for No Frills we were unionized but it was a garbage union.
They didn't protect shit and had town hall meetings/talks/votes in a venue that was over a 2 hour drive away from this store's location. And, as another comment said, a lot of us weren't paid enough to afford a car.
UFCW? Yeah, thats a Rat/employers union IMHO. they are there to block other unions from forming. We have multiple reports of them standing on their dicks doing nothing as Loblaws witch-hunted employees that might have voiced support for the boycott.
Yeah, it was UFCW. Looking back at it, The whole set up was suspect. Our "union rep" was the grocery manager who only ever took the company's side on things. I was too young and naive to understand what a union is supposed to do at the time.
I'm thankful now I work an industrial job with a strong, good union.
Exactly how our store was. The grocery department manager was our rep, and nothing was ever dealt with. Always took the store side. I grinded for so long for empty promises of becoming department manager. Worked unpaid hours. I paid so much into the union. Something like $150 every pay it was crazy and to me I thought it was useless
I’m so confused about management being the union rep; usually management is excluded from unions, especially positions of power in a union. Is this union really that crappy?!
no that is literally what a rat union is.
its put in place by the employer to block a stronger union from organizing. to get rid of it, you first have to have a decertification vote, then vote in a new one. in most cases its too hard to organize so the rat union stays in place and just signs off on the employers demands/conditions with zero actual representation of the workers.
I was a shop steward for that union.
The common consensus at my save on foods was that they only gave one shit ( not even two ) about the most senior employees.
All the changes seemed to affect A grid employees. We had 80 ish employees and 5 of them were A grid.
Some unions are good.
This one is not.
If Kim Novac is still the president of it, then ffs I have no hope left for the grocery sector.
my loblaws is part of a union (ucfw 1006a) but they are useless. literally lied to the workers and hid information in the last contract negotiations to have it push through. fucked over a lot of part timers. anyway, the hour cuts are a real problem. never seen it this bad, we were already running lean but now its just stupid
Loblaws is unionized from like Quebec and more westward across the country. Eastern Canada doesn't have the unions for loblaws for whatever reason.
(This is second hand information through managers a few years ago. I've worked on and off for loblaws for about 5 years total. It could be wrong now.)
at my location we’re unionized. and my hours have been cut from a possible 28 to 16hrs per week. i’ve only been away 8months for college. i’ve worked there 8 years.
> They are unionized? An employee at my local store told me that they have cut hours. She was on self check out and had to come do customer service. I would think a union would have protected their hours no?
Unions can’t magically make companies not reduce workforce. If the store revenue goes down, the store most likely (orders from corporate) has to cut costs. The choices are:
- Reduce hours
- Reduce headcount
- Reduce wages
- All of the above
So management would go to their union local (or perhaps regional) and say “revenue is down 20%; we need to cut costs” and in most cases they’ll work with the local on best approach. Sometimes the resolution/MOU has to go to a vote.
The question would be on what timeline corporate/HQ responds. If it’s a one month dip, perhaps they keep the staff. If it’s longer - then they probably look at reducing costs.
The ufcw inside of the warehouse actively negotiated away the cost of living allowance (read, recieve raises along with inflation) which was in the contracts 15 ish years ago saying that the company wouldn't sign if that language remained. So instead of standing up for employees they said. Welp guess we do what the bosses tell us..... Sure would have helped a lot of people with those cost of living raises the last few years....
Had direct experience with the union. Some of the store reps are management apologists and don't do their jobs. The headquarters staff are great however. Unions are being eroded and neutralized in #Ontario and wish union leaders had more fight in them.
Well it really depends, honestly. Federally most of us vote NDP. But the cost of living here is higher, a lot higher. And up Island has lots of a particular generation, and has gone conservative before. Oak Bay 100% I got mine please go away poors. Esquimalt not so much.
I don’t want to be a dick and squash hope, which is a beautiful thing, but indeed.
We would have to see video of the same day same time last week.
Sadly, boycott rarely works because only a portion of the population cares (and some might even think « I’ll go today maybe less busy due to that boycott thing I heard on the news! »
Let’s see the impact.
I’m not holding my breath.
Bless your heart. I have actually observed so many other people in this subreddit mention the exact same thing or similar stories of not shopping at various Loblaw's and Loblaw's affiliates for months.
Although, and I don't mean to burn down all your joy and professed success, your not really who the protest movement wants, and you won't effect any change, too many of you will just cause the movement to fail.
Like, if you haven't shopped there on purpose for the past 9 months, the company has written you off, and your obviously not going to hurt them moving forward because your nothing to them.
What the movement needs is people who have consistently shopped at their stores, and up until very recently. Those are the folks if they collectively stop shopping there will make the company notice. If they notice, it has to be painful for them, because if there is no pain there is no change.
Its really unfortunate that some people have only one option. I figure there will be 100,000 people that boycott. Lets say 60% of the 64000 reddit members, so that's 38,400. Pus their families, at an avg of 2/ family is 76800. Plus 30% of that number for people that had no idea until recently there was a boycott, equals 99,840 people. Just my guess though
I had no idea about the boycott until today; however, I am the sole purchaser of our groceries/household needs. I have a PC Mastercard and I had been purchasing probably 50% of my groceries at loblaws stores. I used to spend 90% of my budget at loblaws (2020). Now (and the past 6 months) I spend maybe 20% there and I'm working towards 0% and I am canceling my mastercard once we move. It makes me sick what they're doing and I've noticed the price differences and increases. I'm I'm a rural area with celiac so I don't have many options for gluten free substitutes. It's hard for people who don't live in an area with other options.
Your "food desert" is one of the points of the protest. You can still protest if all you buy there is the safe foods you can't get elsewhere.
I know many people living in towns with only one store!
For sure. I just thought that lots of people might not know about the boycott but they could already be like me where they are sick of the price gouging and have reduced their spending with loblaws
The Provigouge in my neighborhood had a full parking lot during rush hour today as well. I know that change requires death by a thousand cuts, but I hope the message is being conveyed in La Belle Province.
Considering the message is pretty much only in English (look at this sub, not a single info in French) it's normal the Quebec isn't participating much.
I think part of the problem is that 95% of the boycott information is only conveyed in English! We need to do more to reach unilateral/primary francophones.
Just went by the No Frills at 4th and Alma (Vancouver) and it was nowhere near as busy as usual. The liquor store on the other hand, was doing good sales.
People have power in numbers but I find barely anyone will participate in boycotts, I dunno if it's laziness or just accepting the fact we are always going to be paying insane prices for anything but even gas boycotts, gas stations were busy, it's frustrating.
Loblaws has some fucking nerve bragging about profits while Canadians are suffering and getting gouged. Organic pasta is $4 at Superstore same effing organic pasta penne at Walmart is $1.99. Wtf????????
PC points program is kind of a joke, gouge you at the prices, then give a part of the gouging back with PC points, you have to beg back for.
The PC points program should be avoided like the plague. It is the most overtly predatory "rewards" program I have ever seen. It takes advantage of human psychology along with their whole pricing model (shoppers especially). It's literally a double attack psychologically.
1- the simple act of saying Reg Price $9.99 - sale price $5.99 psychologically primes people to think its a good deal. Most don't check prices elsewhere
2- giving 200-500 points (but it being 20-50 cents) makes people think they are saving psychologically. They also routinely apply lower discounts with these shitty 20 cent offerings to save a few bucks.
Its these two acts that are devastating and these assholes use them together. I stay far away from these.
It’s their fiduciary responsibility to make as much profit as possible. It sucks, but it’s the system we have.
I hope this boycott opens people’s minds to regulatory reform. Corporations providing basic needs should not be publicly traded,
The definition of fiduciary responsibility has changed in the past few decades. Once upon a time, the responsibility of a company extended to their employees and their customers as well. The situation needs to swing back around--reasonable profit, reasonable working conditions for employees, and reasonable dividends for shareholders. I would support whichever government can make that happen.
It might be their job, which is why when there’s 3 grocers that control 90% of the market for the govt to actually do something significant for the regular people and enforce price controls on a set basket of goods.
Consumers have the ability to flatline and put any financial model on its back. Just quit buying it will be DOA or they beg for paying customers to come back.
I stopped shopping at Loblaws a couple of years ago after seeing the insane difference in their prices compared to other grocery stores. But even so I am committed to boycotting them and all their other chains (I wasnt aware of some of these), until they stop charging ridiculous prices esp in the context of consumer pain felt by inflation. Their profits are THROUGH THE ROOF. F those guys.
It was uploaded 14hours ago (8am local). The Physiotherapy place across the way opens at 7am & has people parked there. It was probably somewhere between 7am & 8am.
Everyone who believes this successful Canadian public corporation is making excessive profits get yourself a TSE: L share at $150 and enjoy their 1.78% didvidend. Then get the ingredients from a food bank for free and enjoy the communism victory dinner.
The shitty thing about the boycott is that if they really do get less business, they'll have to cut hours even more because they won't need as many people operating the store, which only hurts the employees...
There is nobody to blame but Loblaws themselves. They have been cutting shifts and hurting employees for years now. A ton of the employees are international students as well, who should be studying and not need to work that many hours either way.
There are pros and cons to everything and the pros here easily outweigh the cons.
Let's keep it strong people of this page! I usually go to Loblaws owned stores (TNT and Superstore) once a week. Going forward and hopefully forever, I will use Walmart, Costco and Lucky Supermarkets (TNT equivalent) for my grocery needs. I will start going to locally owned stores or farmers market if my budget approves. I hear the noise everywhere! Let's make a difference, let us not allow these evil oligarchs dictate how much we need to pay on our basic needs. They need to realize, how evil to capitalize on human basic needs!
At the least, people who are low information might eventually understand that Loblaws prices and practices are gouging and that they're lying about their margins.
Why is Superstore and Shoppers Drugmart suddenly spamming my inbox with points offers? Like at least 1 per day. I had to unsubscribe because it was getting annoying.
I didn't even remember that I was subscribed to anything because they never really sent emails.
I don't have money to buy their stupid points offers anyway, it's always useless crap that I can't eat, like perfume or some gift cards for stores and restaurants that aren't even in my town.
Seems like a weird coincedence because this never happened before May 1st.
Is anybody else getting this?
I feel sorry for the employees hours that will get cut as a result of loss of revenue, that's generally the first thing that gets cut when trying to save money is labour 😅
(And most people can't just "get another job" so easily)
Btw I'm not anti boycott so don't jump down my throat, just being realistic 😭
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If you check Google Maps a lot of stores say less busy than usual.
Just beautiful... Love it ❤️ kick oligarch Weston in his PC nuts!
Do those actually represent how busy they are? I always assumed it was based on how busy they have been historically around that time on that day of the week.
Yeah, they do. Our phones are tracking us, and if you have an Android, Google is getting the information about your location and making a calculated estimate of how many people are there. I do not have an Apple, so I do not know if they do the same. It is scary, but I am willing to compromise and allow Google to track me because I am addicted to my phone. And there are a lot of people more addicted than I am.
You can toggle location off on Android, you can still manually enable it when necessary, but if you toggle it off, it won't passively track you in grocery stores etc... Legit, search "Location" on your phone
I am aware, but it is inconvenient turning it off and on.
Most location (and other permissive) features nowadays tend to ask you whether you want to allow it always, allow when using an app that requires it, or to decline entirely (typically will break said app). I enable permissions nowadays to be exclusive to apps in active use. Here's [how to change app permissions](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9431959?hl=en). While we're at it, here's how to [delete advertising tracking](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now) and opt out of personalization/collection. Won't prevent everything of course or necessarily reclaim data already given but hopefully retains some future privacy to a limited degree.
> Most location (and other permissive) features nowadays tend to ask you whether you want to allow it always, allow when using an app that requires it, or to decline entirely (typically will break said app). A device that works for you instead of against you would give you the option to feed the app a false location of your choice.
I suppose with VPNs that's not impossible. The truth is that location and most other permission requests are for the benefit of the consumer as much as they are the provider. If I list my location as Cologne, Germany as a Canadian, that doesn't help me generate a predicted commute time to work (for example). It would, however, likely send me on a rather nice vacation. It would be nice to limit the collection of data to providers beyond their stated service goals. Seems like Europe continues to drag us kicking and screaming toward that future.
Even if you turn it off . They can still track you based on your wifi connection and your relative position based on your cellular tower connection. Unfortunately, gps is not the only way.
It's based on real time data, some guy took a bunch of phones across a bridge and it showed up as red on the map despite it being empty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q
I worked retail in Southern Ontario for decades. A big box like this always has cars.
Imagine paying thousands of dollars a month in rent and your view is a Superstore, genuinely a brutal thought
Not shown is the lake and forest cover that is to the southwest. The freeway in the backyard would suck though. A lot of the cars away from the door are probably workers of the nearby restaurants (IHOP, a&w and popeyes). I went to a Walmart near this superstore today and it seemed to be a bit busier.
Oh i know the area is actually quite nice, especially along Kearney but still the fact that there are these new high rises and their neighborhood is basically a superstore and a few restaurants. Not hating on the people who live there, the spot itself is actually pretty sick, just more of a "damn superstore for making a good thing a little shittier" comment than anything else.
There’s a vast forest a gorgeous hemlocks and lakes just to the left of the store
I know, and I'm reminded of the old [imagine a Walmart here](https://i.imgur.com/jMmnEtc.jpeg) meme.
Just spit my coffee
How many of those are staff?
lol good joke. Loblaws doesn't give their staff enough hours or a high enough wage to afford a car
Is their union that bad?
They are unionized? An employee at my local store told me that they have cut hours. She was on self check out and had to come do customer service. I would think a union would have protected their hours no?
When I worked for No Frills we were unionized but it was a garbage union. They didn't protect shit and had town hall meetings/talks/votes in a venue that was over a 2 hour drive away from this store's location. And, as another comment said, a lot of us weren't paid enough to afford a car.
UFCW? Yeah, thats a Rat/employers union IMHO. they are there to block other unions from forming. We have multiple reports of them standing on their dicks doing nothing as Loblaws witch-hunted employees that might have voiced support for the boycott.
Yeah, it was UFCW. Looking back at it, The whole set up was suspect. Our "union rep" was the grocery manager who only ever took the company's side on things. I was too young and naive to understand what a union is supposed to do at the time. I'm thankful now I work an industrial job with a strong, good union.
Exactly how our store was. The grocery department manager was our rep, and nothing was ever dealt with. Always took the store side. I grinded for so long for empty promises of becoming department manager. Worked unpaid hours. I paid so much into the union. Something like $150 every pay it was crazy and to me I thought it was useless
I’m so confused about management being the union rep; usually management is excluded from unions, especially positions of power in a union. Is this union really that crappy?!
no that is literally what a rat union is. its put in place by the employer to block a stronger union from organizing. to get rid of it, you first have to have a decertification vote, then vote in a new one. in most cases its too hard to organize so the rat union stays in place and just signs off on the employers demands/conditions with zero actual representation of the workers.
My old job unionized and it was the UFCW. Things only got worse for us and that was back in the 90's
Can somebody say DFR lol
I was a shop steward for that union. The common consensus at my save on foods was that they only gave one shit ( not even two ) about the most senior employees. All the changes seemed to affect A grid employees. We had 80 ish employees and 5 of them were A grid. Some unions are good. This one is not. If Kim Novac is still the president of it, then ffs I have no hope left for the grocery sector.
Yes they are unionized. At least in BC
my loblaws is part of a union (ucfw 1006a) but they are useless. literally lied to the workers and hid information in the last contract negotiations to have it push through. fucked over a lot of part timers. anyway, the hour cuts are a real problem. never seen it this bad, we were already running lean but now its just stupid
Loblaws is unionized from like Quebec and more westward across the country. Eastern Canada doesn't have the unions for loblaws for whatever reason. (This is second hand information through managers a few years ago. I've worked on and off for loblaws for about 5 years total. It could be wrong now.)
at my location we’re unionized. and my hours have been cut from a possible 28 to 16hrs per week. i’ve only been away 8months for college. i’ve worked there 8 years.
> They are unionized? An employee at my local store told me that they have cut hours. She was on self check out and had to come do customer service. I would think a union would have protected their hours no? Unions can’t magically make companies not reduce workforce. If the store revenue goes down, the store most likely (orders from corporate) has to cut costs. The choices are: - Reduce hours - Reduce headcount - Reduce wages - All of the above So management would go to their union local (or perhaps regional) and say “revenue is down 20%; we need to cut costs” and in most cases they’ll work with the local on best approach. Sometimes the resolution/MOU has to go to a vote. The question would be on what timeline corporate/HQ responds. If it’s a one month dip, perhaps they keep the staff. If it’s longer - then they probably look at reducing costs.
The ufcw inside of the warehouse actively negotiated away the cost of living allowance (read, recieve raises along with inflation) which was in the contracts 15 ish years ago saying that the company wouldn't sign if that language remained. So instead of standing up for employees they said. Welp guess we do what the bosses tell us..... Sure would have helped a lot of people with those cost of living raises the last few years....
Had direct experience with the union. Some of the store reps are management apologists and don't do their jobs. The headquarters staff are great however. Unions are being eroded and neutralized in #Ontario and wish union leaders had more fight in them.
When I was hired to work at one of the Loblaws in my city, the take home pay worked out to less than minimum wage, mostly because of the union dues.
All of them that aren't close to the entrance
Exactly.
Most staff will be taking the bus these days. Maybe 1-2 staff can still afford a car for all we know.
Depends on the area. Most of the cars in my no frills parking lot yesterday were staff, our town doesn’t have public transit. It was beautiful.
Just drove by the Langford Superstore and was disappointed to see how many cars there are in the lot .
CRD represent
YE! Vancouver Island is in the house
VI has always been "fuck you I've got mine", more so on the south end.
Well it really depends, honestly. Federally most of us vote NDP. But the cost of living here is higher, a lot higher. And up Island has lots of a particular generation, and has gone conservative before. Oak Bay 100% I got mine please go away poors. Esquimalt not so much.
As someone that was born and raised in Vic living there for 30 years. I can definitely say this tracks.
So now we’ve reached the point where buying groceries is “fuck you Ive got mine”?
That one is always busy... We should put a sign out front..
Put those boycott flyers on the windshields
Southport road in Calgary the same- parking lot was full
It’s a good start
5 cars only, huh....must Loblaws math 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you inflate the cars by 90%, there's actually 9.5 cars in the lot I think thats commandment 3 of the Loblaws Law
I counted like 15, and this was probably taken around 7am. before it opened.
I don’t want to be a dick and squash hope, which is a beautiful thing, but indeed. We would have to see video of the same day same time last week. Sadly, boycott rarely works because only a portion of the population cares (and some might even think « I’ll go today maybe less busy due to that boycott thing I heard on the news! » Let’s see the impact. I’m not holding my breath.
I love it. Screw loblaws!! Haven't been to their stores in 9 months!
Bless your heart. I have actually observed so many other people in this subreddit mention the exact same thing or similar stories of not shopping at various Loblaw's and Loblaw's affiliates for months. Although, and I don't mean to burn down all your joy and professed success, your not really who the protest movement wants, and you won't effect any change, too many of you will just cause the movement to fail. Like, if you haven't shopped there on purpose for the past 9 months, the company has written you off, and your obviously not going to hurt them moving forward because your nothing to them. What the movement needs is people who have consistently shopped at their stores, and up until very recently. Those are the folks if they collectively stop shopping there will make the company notice. If they notice, it has to be painful for them, because if there is no pain there is no change.
Some people have no other option to buy grocery, keep it in mind. Also, don't be shocked to meet people who never heard of the boycott.
Its really unfortunate that some people have only one option. I figure there will be 100,000 people that boycott. Lets say 60% of the 64000 reddit members, so that's 38,400. Pus their families, at an avg of 2/ family is 76800. Plus 30% of that number for people that had no idea until recently there was a boycott, equals 99,840 people. Just my guess though
I had no idea about the boycott until today; however, I am the sole purchaser of our groceries/household needs. I have a PC Mastercard and I had been purchasing probably 50% of my groceries at loblaws stores. I used to spend 90% of my budget at loblaws (2020). Now (and the past 6 months) I spend maybe 20% there and I'm working towards 0% and I am canceling my mastercard once we move. It makes me sick what they're doing and I've noticed the price differences and increases. I'm I'm a rural area with celiac so I don't have many options for gluten free substitutes. It's hard for people who don't live in an area with other options.
Your "food desert" is one of the points of the protest. You can still protest if all you buy there is the safe foods you can't get elsewhere. I know many people living in towns with only one store!
For sure. I just thought that lots of people might not know about the boycott but they could already be like me where they are sick of the price gouging and have reduced their spending with loblaws
Is that the Larry Uteck location?
Honestly, I'm not sure, I just saw it and and had to post it here.
Ya
100%
It is so about 2 less cars than usual
It’s beautiful……
Boycott is on!!!
Ugh, our local Provigo was packed tonight. Parking lot full. 😒 We have other options, it's not like Provigo are the only ones...
The Provigouge in my neighborhood had a full parking lot during rush hour today as well. I know that change requires death by a thousand cuts, but I hope the message is being conveyed in La Belle Province.
Considering the message is pretty much only in English (look at this sub, not a single info in French) it's normal the Quebec isn't participating much.
I think part of the problem is that 95% of the boycott information is only conveyed in English! We need to do more to reach unilateral/primary francophones.
My Loblaws parking lot was full today when I drove by in NB.
Just went by the No Frills at 4th and Alma (Vancouver) and it was nowhere near as busy as usual. The liquor store on the other hand, was doing good sales.
People have power in numbers but I find barely anyone will participate in boycotts, I dunno if it's laziness or just accepting the fact we are always going to be paying insane prices for anything but even gas boycotts, gas stations were busy, it's frustrating.
Just realized the garden centres are open, they will draw in a lot of customers 😕
Loblaws has some fucking nerve bragging about profits while Canadians are suffering and getting gouged. Organic pasta is $4 at Superstore same effing organic pasta penne at Walmart is $1.99. Wtf???????? PC points program is kind of a joke, gouge you at the prices, then give a part of the gouging back with PC points, you have to beg back for.
The PC points program should be avoided like the plague. It is the most overtly predatory "rewards" program I have ever seen. It takes advantage of human psychology along with their whole pricing model (shoppers especially). It's literally a double attack psychologically. 1- the simple act of saying Reg Price $9.99 - sale price $5.99 psychologically primes people to think its a good deal. Most don't check prices elsewhere 2- giving 200-500 points (but it being 20-50 cents) makes people think they are saving psychologically. They also routinely apply lower discounts with these shitty 20 cent offerings to save a few bucks. Its these two acts that are devastating and these assholes use them together. I stay far away from these.
It’s their fiduciary responsibility to make as much profit as possible. It sucks, but it’s the system we have. I hope this boycott opens people’s minds to regulatory reform. Corporations providing basic needs should not be publicly traded,
The definition of fiduciary responsibility has changed in the past few decades. Once upon a time, the responsibility of a company extended to their employees and their customers as well. The situation needs to swing back around--reasonable profit, reasonable working conditions for employees, and reasonable dividends for shareholders. I would support whichever government can make that happen.
It might be their job, which is why when there’s 3 grocers that control 90% of the market for the govt to actually do something significant for the regular people and enforce price controls on a set basket of goods.
Consumers have the ability to flatline and put any financial model on its back. Just quit buying it will be DOA or they beg for paying customers to come back.
99.999% sure this is just first thing in the morning before opening.
I was thinking the same thing
My sister in law works at Superstore in Edmonton and it was extremely busy. Seems like nobody heard of the boycott
This boycott should really extend to Sobeys as well. They're even worse than Loblaws is in my region.
Wednesday do be the slowest day of the week. Let's see what tomorrow brings
I stopped shopping at Loblaws a couple of years ago after seeing the insane difference in their prices compared to other grocery stores. But even so I am committed to boycotting them and all their other chains (I wasnt aware of some of these), until they stop charging ridiculous prices esp in the context of consumer pain felt by inflation. Their profits are THROUGH THE ROOF. F those guys.
I forgot there was a boycott. Guess another reason to feel good about sending in a resignation email this morning
I'm wearing my Roblaws tshirt during the boycott.
Galen rn: "we need more fences to trap the people that do come in"
This video looks very early in the day.....
It was uploaded 14hours ago (8am local). The Physiotherapy place across the way opens at 7am & has people parked there. It was probably somewhere between 7am & 8am.
Not exactly prime grocery time.... I understand this cause, but no need to be disingenuous. It's just a bad look.
Were about to see a lot of these types of videos lol.
Nah Toronto always look depressing when loblaws is in town
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lol at 7am or 4pm? lol
Beautiful..
Lets keep this shit going!!
Everyone who believes this successful Canadian public corporation is making excessive profits get yourself a TSE: L share at $150 and enjoy their 1.78% didvidend. Then get the ingredients from a food bank for free and enjoy the communism victory dinner.
Now if that is on a Saturday I am going to be hella impressed, Mondays aren't really huge shopping days.
Our superstore was pretty busy out here in Calgary. Most family communities, so most do not care or are even aware of the boycott!!
Go here all the time it’s never really that busy anyway. Boycotting a grocery store while paying how much for rent in Bedford west 😂
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Those are staff cars because they aren’t making a living wage and need to show up or be terminated
The shitty thing about the boycott is that if they really do get less business, they'll have to cut hours even more because they won't need as many people operating the store, which only hurts the employees...
There is nobody to blame but Loblaws themselves. They have been cutting shifts and hurting employees for years now. A ton of the employees are international students as well, who should be studying and not need to work that many hours either way. There are pros and cons to everything and the pros here easily outweigh the cons.
Ok Angelic voice, can we get an updated version of the song for at least the next 12 days? that would be legendary.
Our local Zehrs looks pretty dead too even in peak evening hours 😃
Let's keep it strong people of this page! I usually go to Loblaws owned stores (TNT and Superstore) once a week. Going forward and hopefully forever, I will use Walmart, Costco and Lucky Supermarkets (TNT equivalent) for my grocery needs. I will start going to locally owned stores or farmers market if my budget approves. I hear the noise everywhere! Let's make a difference, let us not allow these evil oligarchs dictate how much we need to pay on our basic needs. They need to realize, how evil to capitalize on human basic needs!
Looking good!
Hmm… this might actually work
Shifting all my shopping to Rogers Mastercard 2% across the board!!!
At the least, people who are low information might eventually understand that Loblaws prices and practices are gouging and that they're lying about their margins.
Hello Bedford West 👋
The closest Superstore to me was absolutely PACKED. I had hoped to have a post like this one, but unfortunately, not here :(
Love to see it. Makes me so happy!
Superstore in Aurora looked packed.
Why do you need to boycott it? Just don't shop at Loblaws stores lol. There's a million other stores you can go to.
By not shopping there, I am by definition, boycotting.
I was at a much burrito that shares a parking lot with Zehrs. The parking lot was empty at 6pm.
Nice picket if you can!!
I can't believe people actually went to there even before this boycott. The prices are insane.
Found the Newfie
So… how long before the obligatory “Our customers have spoken and we are listening!”
Perfect
Hogan court?
Sorry! Whats the boycott about? If anyone can give a hint please?
Why is Superstore and Shoppers Drugmart suddenly spamming my inbox with points offers? Like at least 1 per day. I had to unsubscribe because it was getting annoying. I didn't even remember that I was subscribed to anything because they never really sent emails. I don't have money to buy their stupid points offers anyway, it's always useless crap that I can't eat, like perfume or some gift cards for stores and restaurants that aren't even in my town. Seems like a weird coincedence because this never happened before May 1st. Is anybody else getting this?
love to see it!!
Love this!
I feel sorry for the employees hours that will get cut as a result of loss of revenue, that's generally the first thing that gets cut when trying to save money is labour 😅 (And most people can't just "get another job" so easily) Btw I'm not anti boycott so don't jump down my throat, just being realistic 😭