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FYI
Galen Weston, the asshole Canadian billionaire mentioned, lives in a fucking castle that was built for the British royal family. https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/21072968/forgotten-royal-castle-windsor/
Weston is also involved in real estate, (PCREIT) like many other billionaires.
This is also why you can't afford rent, or buy a house.
Galen Weston made 500 million in profit (in ONE quarter) as he gouged Canadians during the pandemic. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-revenue-q4-2022-1.6757480
Their shitty in house brand coffee went from 7.99 to 19.99 per tin.
A box of 400g cereal at one of their shoppers drug mart brand stores will cost you $8 now.
A tub of 454g(1lb) margarine $8.
They've previously been found guilty of price fixing bread. (Weston co. makes breads) https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bread-price-fixing-loblaw-1.6719884
The Weston family is a cancer on this land.
Edit: the other cancer is the Irving family. They own Cavendish, Irving oil, owned ALL the media in the maritimes - all, and love destroying forest and farmland. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies
I switched to the locally owned grocery Polish grocery store. At least I'm not putting money in Galen's pocket.
Since Kim phat was bought by metro, I verify because sometimes they're stealthily owned by the big 3
Starsky is locally owned.
Hutch however is a bought man
Never again.
Repeat after me, all billionaires are evil because the reason they're billionaires is because you're getting overcharged for whatever they're selling you, you're just so used to it that you assume you're getting your money's worth but that's subjective and based on your purchasing experiences, if you're always overcharged then you have no way to evaluate what your money is truly worth!
I agree 100%. It gave me an idea - a website showing the true cost of common items. For example, what does it cost for an industrial bakery to bake, package, and ship a loaf of bread?
Even if people knew how much they were getting ripped off, what are they supposed to do about it? What is the alternative?
If every brand of bread in the store is sold at a insane markup, and you need bread, what do you? Make your own? That's a hit or miss process that can take a while if you don't have a fancy bread maker. They either need to save to get a bread maker or find time between their maybe 2 or 3 jobs to make the bread.
Using the bread as an example is one of the worst examples considering how easy it is to make basic bread but I digress.
What are people supposed to do about it? Not electing people that work for billionaires would be a nice first step! Heck, just making others realize that they're fighting other poor people while the real enemy is the person at the top of the food chain is progress in itself! Get involved, unionize, buy from smaller stores, boycott major chains, produce as much of your own food as you can, learn to repair your clothes instead of buying new ones, learn to cook, buy from a farmer's market, habitation co-ops... There are alternatives but in the end a revolution might be necessary.
Add the Desmarais to your list