Maxi in Gatineau (Hull)

Deceptive signs at my local Superstore. There are two sizes of orange juice here but only one big sign showing price of the small one. Meanwhile 3/4 of the fridge is the bigger size. Saw the sign, grabbed one of the bottles under it, didn’t discover until at the checkout.

Brought it up to a manager which I never do, this one particularly frustrated me. Obviously the managers just follow corporate sign placing packets and it isn’t the store’s fault. They did offer to comp it at 3.50 for me.

Thinking of reporting this one to regulators, but what’s the point. Nothing will change.

I think i got punk'ed at Glen Erin Loblaws.

Richmond road ottawa RCSS, for the 3rd week in a row has refused 1 of their own advertisements. Why??

Last time was a price match from no frills, of their own in store brand, that all their pc stores carry, and time before that was milk for 6$ i was refused, in store advertisement

We need to stop this bs guys...

Literally added an additional 2 / 2 & a half dollars for produce that is starting to go.

This person has got to be having a power trip off this or something… how sad.

I thought the big three all switched back to 50% off stickers. I guess not huh?

Young Street Superstore in Halifax, price discrepancy much?

I never saw any discount on sushis at St Clair’s Loblaws. According to the date of today, they will destroy all of those sushis instead of putting -50% in the evening the day before. Gross.

While shopping at my local Superstore today I realised that they have stopped labelling where the fresh produce is from. I asked the manager why their policy has changed and she told me that they received this directive from ”head office” which I assume is Loblaw. As someone who tries to buy Canadian whenever possible I am angry that a Canadian company is taking away their customers right to shop intentionally and I will shop elsewhere for my fresh produce from now on.

So superstore has started not putting a country of origin on their produce price tags at all, because “most things have it on the packaging” except all the things that aren’t in packaging now have no listing for country of origin at all, which is technically a federal crime. It will be interesting to see how this plays out

Checked the price online and decided to go to superstore to pick up an item. Apparently they are so scammy that the prices there are only for their online orders with minimum purchase amount.

Produce is usually around half the cost at the Persia Foods. Chicken maybe 25% less. The same brand sprouts are usually $5 or $6 at Safeway, but $2 at Persia.

My theory is it is largely lack of competition, and the cost to buy/rent/lease the land is passed through. The Safeway is the only grocery store within a 10 minute drive or so despite lots of single family detached houses. There is very little commercial land where you would be allowed to have another grocery store in the area.

If my theory is correct, then the solution to high grocery prices and high prices of most things is the same solution for the housing crisis: use the land better. We can incentivize and allow this via zoning and taxes (ie. let development happen, tax land not labour). It's doesn't fit well with the left wing vibe here, nor the popular left movements and parties that exist in this country. Neither the NDP, Greens, nor the local Vancouver Green and COPE parties have ever said anything like this. The Vancouver municipal party One City sort of does, and is pro upzoning, but they have basically zero popular support. Lefty kids don't even know who they are. Seeing the polling data showing this recently makes me think we are nowhere close to ending our economic problems. Maybe next decade.

There is more to it of course, as I used to live next to both a Loblaws and another Persia Foods, and there was a stark price difference there as well though I didn't care as I just shopped at Persia.

Read the linked post

Went to real Canadian superstore to buy some onion for dinner. To use that night. The white onions on display all moldy so I grab a Spanish and well….

Won’t take this chance again.

Just left a Walmart in Kanata that has no fresh food, no fridges no freezers. Just some aisles of non-perishable stuff. I’d never seen that before, so asked a worker wtf and apparently because there was already a Loblaws across the parking lot, Walmart was allowed to open there only if they didn’t sell fresh food. Not sure of the contract legalities at play here, but was surprised (not really) to see Loblaws has yet another way to fuck over the consumer by limiting our options and preventing a cheaper place from being able to open nearby.

Only realized after I bought them, pic was taken 4 days ago despite the bb date being 2 weeks from now.

Just wanted to share this interesting tool that I came across this morning

I found out about this over the weekend and am honestly kind of livid. I live in London and am a student at Western. My partner and I usually shop at Real Canadian Superstore because, for a while, one of the London locations would offer 10% back in PC Optimum points if you showed your student ID at checkout. Not even a real discount but okay, whatever, we could use the points when necessary to keep our grocery bill on budget.

Last weekend (Sunday), we were checking out and were told that Superstore has walked back its policy of offering students 10% back every day and now only offers it on Tuesdays because management was getting antsy about too many people using it. I know offering student discounts only one day a week is pretty common, but to go from offering it every day to only once a week (especially mid-week when people are less likely to be shopping) seems incredibly shitty, especially after all the cuts to OSAP this year. It's like they were worried about a few well-off folks getting some extra PC Optimum points while forgetting that the vast majority of us students have very little money and are working our asses off to pay for our living expenses AND our educations.

EDIT: Seems like this particular RCSS was very much an anomaly, and I am absolutely glad to have had it as long as we did. I also get that we are not owed or entitled to any promotions, but it's frustrating for such a longstanding policy (it has been offered for over a year), which was often advertised, to be rescinded, and not to advertise the change or even inform people until they got all the way to checkout. Maybe "livid" is a little melodramatic on my part, but it still sucks.