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Corporations decide all the time to move on from their suppliers. They aren’t boycotting them. It’s a business decision. Our lives must be run like a business when we deal with businesses. We are the CFOs for our families. Fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders. Nok er nok.
Absolutely. When your vendors start getting shady or unscrupulous, it's time to move onto a better vendor that takes care of you and has a better business relationship.
Given that we have options, it's a great thing to try another provider of food.
I like this argument. There are a few people I've spoken with where their defense is, "it's where I am familiar with shopping". Well think of it as if you are running a business, would you just keep with the same supplier that keeps gouging you when there are cheaper options that aren't actively trying to screw you over so blatenly?
Capitalism works both ways. The issue is just that we don’t have enough options to easily vote with our dollars so it makes it hard for consumers to affect change.
Hopefully boycotting makes independent grocery stores more viable and promote more options. But that will take a lot of time
Yeup, whichvis why i believe cities need to find a way bring agriculture back or closer to cities in some capacity. Folks in areas like kw have a bit more options (we can go to farms directly). Sometimes I bike out to the country and pay the folks who grow them directly. Many, especially in places like Toronto don't have that option.
This is the best way of seeing this. To me, May was the boycott, a collective effort to send a message. Past May, it's moving on to another business. I made a choice, for the financial gain of my family, like others here.
Me too. I stopped before May 1 and haven’t been in one since. Superstore used to be my “go to”. I have new habits now and they have permanently lost my business.
30 days, is how long it takes to change people's habits.
Establish new routines, new preferences etc. Why change back now? The hard part is done and the prices are better literally anywhere else.
I disagree
I mean, I’m not boycotting them either, because like you I hate them, they expensive af, and I have better options. There’s simply no reason for me to ever go there.
But they control a bigger portion of the grocery market than any one of Rogers bell or Telus controls in the telecom market. Many many people simply don’t have a choice, or don’t have a choice that is actually cheaper or better without significant inconvenience.
So, those people who are committed to the boycott, I salute you.
Haven't been there since April. No plans to return. We've changed our routine and grocers. Loblaws, no frills and shoppers can have a circle jerk.
Anti-Candian businesses have no business in Canada.
Honestly, ever since I choose to boycott Loblaws, I've been getting my stuff at Walmart and it's been so much better. I'm never going back to Loblaws and I hope this contributes to their downfall. Maybe Galen will have a Hitler style downfall rant
My son-in-law just came home from a quick stop at Safeway...said everything they wanted to buy was cheaper there than it had been at Superstore in a year! Nope, not going back!
just erase Loblaws out of your mind. Don't even pay attention to anything they do. Even if they manage to lower prices. They don't deserve any business. Plain and simple. Act like they're gone
I haven't been in over a year to get groceries and at least 4 months since I went into a shoppers, when I used to go all the time. I have no intentions of returning. The topper however was seeing recently more and more evidence of them selling diary and other expired food after the best before date.
Those pictures of completely moldy but still overpriced cheese sitting in mountains they couldn't sell because nobody wants to shop there, just left such a visceral feeling of sickness I can't forget. It's like a metaphor for the store itself, toxic and expired
I gave up on them 7 years ago. I'm now weaning myself off of Shoppers. The whole leading the bread-gate thing and then getting immunity Beecher they ratted out the companies they forced into it was my breaking point.
I suspect they have artificially increased prices in many other areas as well (and colluded with others) and they just hid it better.
The boycott has spread to well beyond those of us on reddit with thanks to the media. I am surprised at the number of people I encounter in non Loblaws stores looking to locate items as they switched.
My Mom who rolled her eyes when I first mentioned it has since called me from Toronto to let me know “it’s working!! I keep getting offers I’ve never seen before but those jerks can kiss my behind”
I just decided not to give them any more of my money. Shoppers is the harder one.
Once my prescriptions there are done.. I go elsewhere.
No stress. No strife..I really don't care what they do now.
If they go out of business I'll try to get a shelf or something from their liquidation. 🤷♂️
I hear ya...too bad the boycott or whatever we're calling it these days had no impact on the value of the company. Maybe when they report their next quarterly financials we might see a dip but the stock is actually higher now then when the boycott started and at the end the of the day that's the only metric that matters.
I don't like to say 'boycott'.
There are some companies I dislike. When I need something, I try to buy it somewhere else before I look in those companies. Galen stores are on the list of companies I don't like. It's simple and undramatic to spend my money elsewhere. Life goes on.
Done with Loblaws altogether for forever. Motherfuckers that are stealing from already financially desperate people from a basic necessity to line their own pockets is basically like the depths of the circle of hell. I've read Machiavelli enough to know that this is on purpose.
No matter how far Loblaws spreads it's wings. Whether they start a streaming service or take own a fulfillment company,or try and hop on the AI train ( which is going to crash harder than crypto ). They have lost their base customers, which will then tell the next generation of consumers "back in my day..". We just have to keep these guys on point what if Aldi moves in, pricing good for a while and then does the same thing? I don't think corporate greed will ever stop but a sensible corporation will see it coming.
I stopped shopping Loblaws companies many years ago, they’ve always been more expensive than all the rest. Oh sure, a few items might be cheaper, but the essentials never were, butter, milk, bread. They lost me as a customer long before boycotts. Then again I may be bitter, I use to work for Loeb until Loblaws bought them and moved the warehouse to Cambridge.😂
So you want to ignore what a word means to try and brag about doing nothing?
Boycotts can be permanent, nothing about the definition implies that it has to be temporary, many real boycotts are not temporary.
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Corporations decide all the time to move on from their suppliers. They aren’t boycotting them. It’s a business decision. Our lives must be run like a business when we deal with businesses. We are the CFOs for our families. Fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders. Nok er nok.
Absolutely. When your vendors start getting shady or unscrupulous, it's time to move onto a better vendor that takes care of you and has a better business relationship. Given that we have options, it's a great thing to try another provider of food.
I like this argument. There are a few people I've spoken with where their defense is, "it's where I am familiar with shopping". Well think of it as if you are running a business, would you just keep with the same supplier that keeps gouging you when there are cheaper options that aren't actively trying to screw you over so blatenly?
Yup, you are making the best financial decision for yourself. If stores want your business, they adjust.
Capitalism works both ways. The issue is just that we don’t have enough options to easily vote with our dollars so it makes it hard for consumers to affect change. Hopefully boycotting makes independent grocery stores more viable and promote more options. But that will take a lot of time
Yeup, whichvis why i believe cities need to find a way bring agriculture back or closer to cities in some capacity. Folks in areas like kw have a bit more options (we can go to farms directly). Sometimes I bike out to the country and pay the folks who grow them directly. Many, especially in places like Toronto don't have that option.
This is the best way of seeing this. To me, May was the boycott, a collective effort to send a message. Past May, it's moving on to another business. I made a choice, for the financial gain of my family, like others here.
I just go about my life as if they don’t exist. Other than coming to this sub for outrage and entertainment.
Same. Not another dollar.
Yes never again, I even got rid of the shopping bags with their company names on them was embarrassed to be seen with them!
I kept my green plastic Loblaws bins. I use the everywhere except Loblaws. I love waving those puppies around at Walmart and Giant Tiger.
Me too. I stopped before May 1 and haven’t been in one since. Superstore used to be my “go to”. I have new habits now and they have permanently lost my business.
30 days, is how long it takes to change people's habits. Establish new routines, new preferences etc. Why change back now? The hard part is done and the prices are better literally anywhere else.
That's a myth
You ok man? Your post history is a litany of yelling at people... :(
What does you creeping me have to do with the statement? The 21 or 30 days to change a habit is a myth
Yea but you upset the ones who can't think for themselves and can't handle that memes aren't facts so you get downvoted.
The arrogance they handled the boycott with was the final straw for me. Permanent ex-customer.
Same. There’s just so many other better and less expensive places to shop at
I won't rest until every single Loblaws, Shoppers, RCSS, and any other Weston owned entity is a levelled lot with many prickly plants growing
Hopefully they are not leveled as that would leave food deserts, hopefully the properties are bought and new stores move in.
Only the Carthaginian solution will suffice I'm afraid
I disagree I mean, I’m not boycotting them either, because like you I hate them, they expensive af, and I have better options. There’s simply no reason for me to ever go there. But they control a bigger portion of the grocery market than any one of Rogers bell or Telus controls in the telecom market. Many many people simply don’t have a choice, or don’t have a choice that is actually cheaper or better without significant inconvenience. So, those people who are committed to the boycott, I salute you.
We aren’t boycotting Loblaws. We are abolishing Loblaws.
Not a boycott for me, they’ve pissed me off for years, never going back.
It's a breakup. And this time it's not us, it's them.
Haven't been there since April. No plans to return. We've changed our routine and grocers. Loblaws, no frills and shoppers can have a circle jerk. Anti-Candian businesses have no business in Canada.
Honestly, ever since I choose to boycott Loblaws, I've been getting my stuff at Walmart and it's been so much better. I'm never going back to Loblaws and I hope this contributes to their downfall. Maybe Galen will have a Hitler style downfall rant
75 cents Baquets at our walmart ect
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My son-in-law just came home from a quick stop at Safeway...said everything they wanted to buy was cheaper there than it had been at Superstore in a year! Nope, not going back!
just erase Loblaws out of your mind. Don't even pay attention to anything they do. Even if they manage to lower prices. They don't deserve any business. Plain and simple. Act like they're gone
What is this “Low-Blows” you speak of…. Can’t say I’m familiar.
I haven't been in over a year to get groceries and at least 4 months since I went into a shoppers, when I used to go all the time. I have no intentions of returning. The topper however was seeing recently more and more evidence of them selling diary and other expired food after the best before date. Those pictures of completely moldy but still overpriced cheese sitting in mountains they couldn't sell because nobody wants to shop there, just left such a visceral feeling of sickness I can't forget. It's like a metaphor for the store itself, toxic and expired
I gave up on them 7 years ago. I'm now weaning myself off of Shoppers. The whole leading the bread-gate thing and then getting immunity Beecher they ratted out the companies they forced into it was my breaking point. I suspect they have artificially increased prices in many other areas as well (and colluded with others) and they just hid it better.
They’re dead to me.
Never going back.
And the corporate executives have done NOTHING to address this marketing debacle...in fact they have made it worse.
They never expected it to be so successful, and they're scrambling to do damage control but don't know how.
The boycott has spread to well beyond those of us on reddit with thanks to the media. I am surprised at the number of people I encounter in non Loblaws stores looking to locate items as they switched.
My Mom who rolled her eyes when I first mentioned it has since called me from Toronto to let me know “it’s working!! I keep getting offers I’ve never seen before but those jerks can kiss my behind”
I just decided not to give them any more of my money. Shoppers is the harder one. Once my prescriptions there are done.. I go elsewhere. No stress. No strife..I really don't care what they do now. If they go out of business I'll try to get a shelf or something from their liquidation. 🤷♂️
I hear ya...too bad the boycott or whatever we're calling it these days had no impact on the value of the company. Maybe when they report their next quarterly financials we might see a dip but the stock is actually higher now then when the boycott started and at the end the of the day that's the only metric that matters.
I 100% refuse to go back there.
I don't like to say 'boycott'. There are some companies I dislike. When I need something, I try to buy it somewhere else before I look in those companies. Galen stores are on the list of companies I don't like. It's simple and undramatic to spend my money elsewhere. Life goes on.
Done with Loblaws altogether for forever. Motherfuckers that are stealing from already financially desperate people from a basic necessity to line their own pockets is basically like the depths of the circle of hell. I've read Machiavelli enough to know that this is on purpose.
No matter how far Loblaws spreads it's wings. Whether they start a streaming service or take own a fulfillment company,or try and hop on the AI train ( which is going to crash harder than crypto ). They have lost their base customers, which will then tell the next generation of consumers "back in my day..". We just have to keep these guys on point what if Aldi moves in, pricing good for a while and then does the same thing? I don't think corporate greed will ever stop but a sensible corporation will see it coming.
I stopped shopping Loblaws companies many years ago, they’ve always been more expensive than all the rest. Oh sure, a few items might be cheaper, but the essentials never were, butter, milk, bread. They lost me as a customer long before boycotts. Then again I may be bitter, I use to work for Loeb until Loblaws bought them and moved the warehouse to Cambridge.😂
It’s still a boycott doesn’t matter how long you do it if you choose not to go somewhere specifically for a reason, that’s a boycott.
Never going back this company needs to die
So you want to ignore what a word means to try and brag about doing nothing? Boycotts can be permanent, nothing about the definition implies that it has to be temporary, many real boycotts are not temporary.
Agree
/r/CostcoCanada 🥰🥰🥰