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Read More »Farmers’ markets, business groups feuding with Loblaws over disparaging text ad
Recent ads from Loblaw Co. urging shoppers to skip the line at their local farmers market and visit its budget subsidiary NoFrills instead are an attack on groups that already struggle to sell their products, organizations in two provinces said as they expressed their disappointment in the grocery giant’s ad campaign. Farmers’ …
Read More »Posters promoting ‘Steal From Loblaws Day’ are circulating. How did we get here?
Posters encouraging people to “Steal From Loblaws” popped up last week across Toronto and have been gaining steam online, drawing mixed reactions from Canadians. The posters for the “first annual Steal From Loblaws Day” invite customers to rob retail grocery chains owned by Loblaw, including the Real Canadian Superstore, No …
Read More »Leftover, rescued produce helping food banks reduce waste
Half-price strawberries in stacked pallets and freshly gleaned spinach from a farm sit in a food bank’s walk-in fridge waiting to be redistributed. “There might be a few blemishes but you can just cut that off. It’s still good,” says Sieg Bressmer, holding a pack of deep red strawberries at …
Read More »‘Profits are profits’: As food prices soar, Liberal MP says Canada needs more competition
As an “unlikely alliance” between Canada’s independent grocers and the country’s three largest chains is forming, a Liberal MP is arguing that shoppers need more competition amid soaring food prices and accusations that grocery stores are at fault for higher food inflation. Read more: Grocery CEOs defend ‘reasonable profitability’ in grilling over soaring …
Read More »Loblaws partners with self-driving company Gatik in Canadian first: driverless grocery trucks
Loblaws is partnering with an American autonomous vehicle company in what’s believed to be a Canadian first: taking grocery delivery orders between various Loblaws facilities via self-driving trucks. There is no human sitting in the driver’s seat of a half-dozen trucks adorned with PC Express branding, currently making their way around …
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