Every time the Loblaws self-checkout machine asks me if I want to donate $2 to the PC Children's Charity my blood pressure climbs a few points and my upper lip twitches. No, Galen. YOU donate to the charity. YOU fight food insecurity among children, and don't offload your moral responsibility onto me while you're charging me 14 bucks for a bag of frozen fruit.
Corporations do this so that they can submit the donations in their name and thus claim them against their corporate income taxes. That's what that is whenever you see it in stores (and always the large corporations isn't it?). Ghouls, absolute ghouls. Donate to your favourite charities directly (they need it!), but not through these societal parasites.
I use to work for Loblaws until a few months ago, I must tell you it is beyond awful. Not only were we forced to ask each customer if they want to donate but we were forced to give them surveys to do at the end of the transaction and if you throw the survey away you get written up and they also track how much donations you got.
Corporations asking me to pay them extra so they can get a tax break for "donating" *my* money to their own branded charities without having to cut into their bottom line at all makes my blood boil.
I always press "no thank you" I'm literally buying necessities and it's costing so much more and I'm well aware how they raise the prices on their own brands.
I was a production assistant on that PC Coffee commercial. I will never forget Galen trying to be relatable, telling me that he hasn't traveled in a while because "flights are too expensive".
Says the guy who lived the majority of the yr on the Windsor estate in the fort Belvedere(the house that the prince of wales- king Edward 8 lived in until 1936) for about 20 yrs, right up until about 2020.
At my husband's job his colleagues were complaining about the cost of meat and blaming the farmers. He informed them ( we raise lambs) that we recieve .50 a lb. less this year. In fact we are lucky to break even after our costs. In fact we have considered getting out of sheep as a large number of producers have done this year.
Yeah, why I was going along with a sing song "bullshit" every time I heard it was because of the suppliers, I know the contracts the supermarkets make directly with farmers (several hydroponic farms in my area are completely trapped for years if not permanently). Even in the case of livestock (we raised beef for sale to supplement the horse stud income when I was a kid) I know how heavily they dictate price per unit to the abattoirs, even when it's a larger multinational like Cargills (though they're nearly 2x more profitable than pre-COVID as well).
Let me guess, there's a monopoly on slaughterhouses in Canada? It's so ironic how all the "return to tradition" types were funded by psychos that really just wanted to bring back the gilded age. Shoulda seen that coming!
Ever walk into a grocery store and witness staff making the rounds with shopping carts, collecting spoiled and expired food? I see that every time I shop for groceries. Because people deciding NOT to buy those overpriced items and leaving them instead to spoil in NO WAY translates to, "OH, maybe people would buy those if the prices were in any way reasonable." I feel like I live in the twilight zone, where nothing makes sense anymore.
As a grocery worker this is not the case. Shrink happens for a ton of reasons, but just translating the action of collecting shrink to the fact that those groceries are too expensive is NOT how grocery stores operate, even worker owned co-ops like the one I work at. Shrink is a REQUIREMENT to run a grocery store efficiently. People's shopping habits change over time, workers don't rotate all products at all times when stocking, and sometimes products are overordered for sales, or we simply receive extra cases from our supplier, all of which can lead to an overabundance of certain products. The issue with greedflation isn't a meager 2% of product going bad (also they donate near expired food to food banks for credit), it's that companies are incentivized to charge the absolute max amount they can to make money. Basically, we agree about almost everything, I just wanted to point out the nuance that even competitively are fairly priced groceries still experience shrink, and for example you shouldnt shame a grocery store just for collecting expired foods to donate lol, you dont know how they ended up with them.
Ya but it only happens when you take Canadians home equity away. Last year I was at a party, everyone was bragging about how their home values doubled during the pandemic. This year everyone was whining about maple syrup doubling. Can't have your maple syrup and eat it too. What did people expect, their houses would go up and everything else would stay the same? Where was the outrage last year? Inflation is like getting drunk, fun at first. Now it's the hangover and everyone is in tears lol. Canadians won't do anything about it, they are weak, they don't stand up for rights. They willingly hand their rights away in the name of "safety". Besides people are too busy watching episodes of Tiger King. The country is much too divided to stand together. You have the young generations that hate the boomers.
@@Casey-qm1nd Canadian culture has been slow to develop because of Trudeau's idiotic father claiming there is only multi-culturalism in Canada. Majority of Canadians do not have patriotism because most identify with their family ethnic's roots and are heavily influenced by American media. The melting pot does exist in Canada, in time, Canadian influencers will take the spot light and develop the culture. Thought Slime is what more Canadians should be doing to develop their culture.
Too bad that more and more Canadians think Polievre's conservatives will be the solution. His support is rising even among the young, so he's definitely going to win in 2025, making everything worse.
@@KratomFlavoredAdidas Yeah! How the natives voluntarily moved into the hills and gave us all the good land, and how we defended ourselves by going to war, and how we brought civilization to Africa and South America by building strip mines! It was great.
Shoutout to when I worked at a Loblaws-owned store and they tried to have me cover up best-before dates with "reduced" stickers so that they could sap even more money out of people.
1989 I use to re-package best before chicken in a diluted bleach and water bath at a SuperValu in BC. Best before steaks and roasts became fresh ground burger. I could go on....
depending on the product and expiration date closeness that could be kinda scummy or thoroughly heinous. spam lite, can in perfect condition? dick move, but probably not much of a safety hazard. normal ham? may they be immediately teleported to hell for a double eternity of the worst of tortures
My friend works for Shopper’s Drug Mart, which is owned by Loblaws. Despite her location being the most profitable it has ever been (and it is consistently profitable) they have been severely cutting back on people’s work ours to the point that she’s concerned about paying her rent. She tried to pick up extra hours at other locations, but they all said that they have to cut back on hours as well. The theory is that Galen wants to sell and is jacking up prices and slashing work hours to make Loblaws and Shoppers seem more profitable.
I like where you're going with this, but I think it's more like when one or two kids are being disruptive or mean and instead of just those kids being reprimanded, the entire class gets punished.
This is more common than people think. If you cause visible harm to the bully, you're the one who gets punished. Bullies tend to come from privileged backgrounds, and are often the popular kids in school, so if you do anything to them, the school takes their side. It's a microcosm of how society works.
I've noticed that for... decades? Heaven forbid you defend yourself against transphobes or capitalists or racists because you should have known "better". Just look at all the defenses of JK Rowling in the media because, darnit, she's just one woman! One woman with a platform and are you trying to CENSOR her??? [Ignoring that she's at the head of a corporate IP etc etc etc]
@@NexLegacyAccount only instead of everyone being reprimanded, not only does nothing happen to the disruptive students at all, but the disruptive students actually have a record breaking school year and are given hundreds of millions of A's, and everyone else starves to death. Otherwise spot on analogy.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 Not always the case. I'm not aware of any studies on the material conditions of bullies so all I have to go on is anecdotal evidence. I was bullied by privileged and poor kids alike, but when I first hit back, it was against a poor kid. My parents got called into the school and the principal told them the school had been aware of the bullying for a long time but "since the bully has a difficult home life, we try to make his school experience as comfortable as possible, which is why we will only be punishing your son".
Thanks for reminding us about the bread price-fixing scandal. It's been out of the news for years, no consequences for the perps, and we are on to the next racket. My blood pressure needed a good spike. I appreciate it.
I think there is no competition in canadian grocery market but a cartel of price fixers, just like the bread producers scandal. Zehrs is the worst. They removed other labels of food stuffs, offer their rebranded version for at least twice the price. I have helped some seniors see that the reduced vegetables, being 50% off are still more expensive than the fresh vegetables. The old stuff is priced so high that 50% off makes the final price still higher. What a scam. Even Zehrs employees complain about the price gouging. GREED.
My favorite thing is that when they donate money to charities, its not loblaws donating the money, its the customers that donate that loblaws uses to get tax credits. Also if they give you a survey, the store manager's bonus is directly tied to the store's review numbers, so do with that what you will
They don't actually use it to get tax credits iirc - that's a very obvious, easily caught, form of tax fraud. But it is extremely obvious and nearly free reputation laundering, which isn't a whole lot better.
At first I thought the term was "greenflation" like charging more for products that are supposed to be better for the environment. Which is an issue too, but green is kind of what companies are based on. I took SAP classes and undergrad management courses, and that's kind of what it is. How to maximize profits without getting everyone upset with you, or at least keeping enough people supporting that it balances out. We talked about how a lot of big US companies are horrible and unethical, but that's their business model (Amazon and Walmart were the examples, as well as a few Canadian industries with mining/refining).
Canadian grocers being a duopoly have massive buying power. They could push back on their suppliers and say they will only carry items who's cost has gone up at the rate of inflation or less. If Sobeys and Loblaws pushed back on their suppliers, food cost inflation would be reduced. Got a Costco or Walmart in your area? Their goods are going up too, but not as fast as Sobeys and Loblaws. Because Walmart and Costco told their suppliers to do better or be removed from their shelves.
It's interesting (sarcastically) that our system doesn't have anything in place to prevent people in power (Governement or Corporate) from abusing said power. Loblaws investigates themselves, Trudeau investigates himself, Ford investigates himself... The hypocrisy and abuse is sickening by all parties and people. Great job on the video! Change can only happen when we all work together! Good luck everyone
This is part of the socialist (fascist) trick into always giving the system more. "They are so bad at governing themselves we should make more government to government them better". What people don't understand is they have rigged the system USING the government to make sure small businesses can't economically grow food and sell it locally. The government IS the problem. The corporations are picking the low hanging fruit placed before their face. We get out of this by saying NO to government NO to taxes and NO to stupid regulations. Westin should be owning a chain of empty stores full of over-priced low quality imported foods nobody wants. Who can ever forget the picture of 20 RCMP horses shutting down a small family run BBQ in Ontario for violating government edicts of some kind, while across the street people are buying food and $1.50 hotdogs out of an American COSTCO all day long without hiccup.
so important to remember too that profit is what's left after all costs are accounted for. after vendors are paid and workers get their check. no one loses their job if profits are decreased slightly (except maybe the board fires the CEO). truly wack to me that a company wouldn't just... take a little bit of an L so people can eat? sometimes everything feels like that one book title on American conservatives: The Cruelty Is The Point
well, you see, the thing about that is, "people" do not matter if you can't eat that's your problem! just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, peasant! sure we're destroying the planet but we're creating a whole lot of beautiful value for shareholders soooooo
Those profits are for the shareholders, who can and will sue the corporation for any failure to maximize profits. (LOL, right after I typed this I coincidentally got to the point in the video where TS said exactly the same thing. And I agree, f*** your profits, you capitalist ghouls).
It's because THEY can eat. This type of near sociopathic behaviour is entirely possible because people with money like that never struggle. For them, food is plentiful and taken for granted. They rarely even handle their own finances, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc. Why? Because they pay us to do it for them.
Yes. I’m studying nutrition at graduate level. My professor can’t access any consumer data without paying the monopolies for their datasets or literally buying products herself. It’s super hard to get grant funding. Plus, Canada is unique among OECD countries in that we hardly track any food-related data with national censuses. Basically, yeah, we can’t verify.
You got to remember that even if You owned an honest grocery store yourself, how will you not raise your prices when all of your operating costs go up every year ? Please tell me ! Everytime something goes up in price it causes a chain reaction, we need a universal agreement for every business, industry, and utility to STOP INCREASING PRICES NO MATTER WHAT THE EXCUSE !
Remember the bread scandal the Supermarkets had been colluding on price fixing for years and they offer us a poxy $25 credit. Laughable and yet as Canadians we did nothing and again we are not protesting loudly...myself in included but I guess many of us feel powerless as government do nothing.
No large grocery store in North America yields a profit. They are all loss leaders. The profit is made in the freight and warehousing. Which means that when fuel taxes or carbon taxes are jacked up, the prices go up. The Trudeau government is raising these taxes, but in Alberta they're lowering the provincial fuel taxes to offset these federal increases, and that's why there's been very little food inflation in Alberta for the last 10 years.
-- you can verify.... they are a public company with stocks... their financials are posted online. their markup is one percent. if you want lower food prices un elect justin. he put a twelve percent tax on fertilizer to farmers, an ever increasing carbon tax - which is ineffective in reducing greenhouse gasses.... we have state run dairy industry artificially inflating prices on anything with dairy in it. if galen were to cut margins in half to half a percent... that would save ppl fifty cents on a twenty five dollar grocery bill. the problem isn't galen.... who runs a for profit company - the problem is government. and particularly THIS govt.
a little fun fact on Weston, in Quebec his ads are not voice over . He speak one of the most broken, hard french I ever heard on TV. So much, when I was a child, me and my friends would imitate him for fun.
I'm actually happy her chose to speak French in his ads. I find him pretty likable. Just wish he was actually a good guy. But yeah... These profits speak for themselves.
I met Galen Weston in the checkout line at the Yonge/St. Clair Loblaws, where he often pops in after work. So if you’d like to meet him and tell him what a wonderful job he is doing and not at all confront him about his greed, you know where and when. 😊
We need to amalgamate all of these ideas to a guide on how to get back at loblaws. I also saw a thing saying that all managers pay is related to the reviews given at checkout, so we could collect those surveys and en mass fill them poorly to make managers quit and have them have a crisis in management. Also you could move perishable items around the store and have them suffer higher loss from throwing them out. Then there is the creative self checkout methods....
@@elleblur5 Yes. But, also, in job in which you are paid hourly, you are also making sure they get paid more, since they have to stay longer to fix shit. The company loses money, as the worker is inconvenienced. Not saying its a good thing to do, since a few minutes of pay arent shit compared to just going home for a min wage employee like me. I work at a Dominos, whenever someone orders a pizza right before closing, I get pissed and purposefully make it shitty. They cant call back to complain because we're closed :) fuck that guy, i wanna go home. So youre right, but also whenever that happens, I -do- make another dollar or two that day so i mean.... Meh. But stills hurts me more than the company. Min wage employees tend to just want to fuckin go home, not deal with more bullshit. A better thing to do is to break shit. You dont have to spend a long time figuring out where the item goes, you just sweep shit up and throw it tf away, write it off as a loss.
Thoughts and prayers to grocery store clerks. They are on the first line of customer unsatisfation, are gonna get yelled at and have to deal with people who are more stressed out and hostile. Meanwhile they have shit work conditions and wages and probably can't afford to shop where they work at. I'm so happy I got out of the food industry.
I will fight alongside our brothers and sisters that work in grocery stores. I only worked briefly in a grocery store, but I worked in restaurants for 15 years where you tend to have similar experiences as a worker
My experience is that customers understand that staff are victims of the same greed as them, they have been friendly. Maybe cashiers have a different experience.
I'm glad that Galen Weston Jr and the LowBlow corporation pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and worked real hard to arbitrarily raise prices of essential goods
prices in ALL stores went up Westons does not own all of them ..look at the carbon tax created by Turdeau ....it creates fuel costs to go up which causes all farming , operation costs and distribution costs to go up ....put the TURD under the microscope......
@@aman888 Mmm, yes, these profits, which is the amount gained after all expenses and costs, including purchase and shipping of goods, are totally in line with the inflation amounts. We can verify that by... ... ...and that's how we know they aren't gouging for things essential to human life.
@@HiSodiumContent you're sounding a bit like a commie with your profit control. But even if I were to grant you that, Loblaws consistent 4% profit margin before, during, and after Covid years, should tell you they're not gouging.
blame your socialism prime minister for massive money printing. if they don't raise prices the company will go buss. where are you gonna get your food? o wait your far left so just go in the bush and eat grass because you wanna save the environment 🤣
Let's not forget how Loblaw gave employees pandemic pay for like a week then got rid of it only so they could make a commercial saying how "well we treat our employees"
I call Weston an anticapitalist and swindler that reduces competitive advantage . Remember when his company admitted to a 14 year price fixing scheme on bread? Then he has the gall to o brag about reinvesting 2 billion back into the company knowing there are means to get y pseudo and real failures and losses socialized by a corrupt tax regime and get to offshore financial gains through legal tax avoidance schemes. Same old same old; doesn't have to use any of the money in offshore accounts to maintain his wealth at home or to invest it back into the company.
Another thing with loblaws, they throw out and lock the dumpster with lots of stuff that could be donated, I also suspect best before dates have shortened as well.
I've seen some stuff be donated, but my local Costco is one of the only ones that donates stuff, and it's so confusing that Superstore has ads everywhere for donating to food banks, when it's just performative. I have volunteered at a food bank that would get stuff from Superstore, but once they had to shut down (lack of volunteers and not enough donations), they just toss it. Perfectly good bread too.
Locking dumpsters is just that extra layer of insult after throwing out perfectly good food. One could argue tossing food vs donating it is "laziness" but locking it up is deliberate cruelty.
Shoutout to when I worked at a Loblaws-owned store and they tried to have me cover up best-before dates with "reduced" stickers so that they could sap even more money out of people.
Laws exist to protect the wealth of the rich. They are supposedly also meant to protect the rest of us, but really only when they don't hinder the rich from maintaining or increasing their wealth.
I live in Alberta and yes it's hitting us hard. I graduated high school during covid and I was not ready for the adulthood that i've been given. I'm not asking for everything handed on a silver platter but the adult world I see so far seems so impossibly hard and corrupt to even live in. It seems like moving out is way too big of a risk and I've had more days hungry just to save money. As for the price freeze, there was no difference. It makes me pissed how inflation is hitting the people hard and yet the big CEO's reached the highest profits. Inflation itself is stupid to me. Mainly onesided inflation where peoples wages aren't rising to balance with the rising prices all because it's going into the CEO's pockets instead. All I wish to know is how we the people can somehow fix this.
Agitate and organize for Proportional Representation when we go to the polls, then, elect anyone on the left; the far left, the horizontally far left. Demand any serious candidate will negotiate food prices directly through the government (like for prescription drugs). Since the 'private market' cannot be held accountable make food prices a matter in the public realm. Food is a necessary public resource.
@@drunkvegangal8089that's cute but would most likely met with state violence. Trudeau is pretty dumb tho so maybe y'all will luck out and pull off what France did
Every time I go to No Frills, a Loblaw company, they have run out of the No-name products because restaurant's come buy that shit when the doors open. Good video.
Let's look on the positive side of things maybe some of the shareholders will be able to afford a second yacht this year while a third of the Canadian population starve.
@@aman888 wow. This is a half hour video explaining how a handful of rich monsters are making more and more profit on the Canadian working class’ back and all you have to say is blaming the little guy. Were you dropped on your head as an infant or were you just born stupid?
Loblaws grocery also hides their profits in a Loblaws subsidiary. They split off a real estate division who they pay "market" rent. Without knowing those rents they can hide near unlimited profits. Loblaws Inc has a 30% annual profit margin.
A lot of large companies are the same. IKEA is particularly adept at this, and the INGKA foundation is one of the largest charities in the world (yes, IKEA is a registered charity). The various organizations shift money about internally to avoid paying taxes and IKEA has many spinoff organizations (IKANO Group) that have been spun off and reincorporated over the years to further avoid paying taxes including inheritance taxes.
I despise shopping at GCSS, a Galen Weston store. Not only because of what he's doing now, but because shopping there is a stressful nightmare. The place is filthy, with large dirty hair bunches caught up in the wheels of carts which are never cleaned, the smelly, dirty aisles, the staff are rude and obviously demoralized, and the whole experience was nothing short of traumatic. Last week I went there for the last time to redeem $50 in points I had accumulated over a long period, and now I am done. Thank God. That place is a hell hole of evil. I'm a senior on a small pension, but I refuse to abuse myself any longer by shopping there.
People With Disabilities in Canada are receiving on average less than half the income assessed to be the poverty line. It's rent OR food OR prescriptions. AND is something that most don't experience 😣 That's people disabled by covid too😢 Absolutely fantastic video 😂😹🤣👍
this are the fundamental lies of socialism. (1) workers want the government to take care of the needy (2) workers pay huge income taxes (3) government helps itself first and the needy second (3) the quality of the help is awful (4) everyone agrees it's "better than nothing" and "at least we get something" and "we are lucky to be here not some place that's worse" Wouldn't it make more sense to support each other directly and take care of the needy personally? Or stated another way, why can't we have the best country in the world rather than "at least it's not the worst"?
As an American, I feel a twinge of pride for having exported our trademark "freedom of choice" to our northerly neighbors. Let me be the first to say "you're welcome!"
@@navidamlani1616 seems á propos since we also inspired apartheid and eugenics. The American Flu of 1918 was absolutely your most distinctive export. Fortunately for the US, it was blamed on Spain instead.
It's just as bad in the US... Worse in many ways... We don't have access to MAiD... I hate to even bring that up... But at least it's a meriful way out...
@@ASDeckardfirst: farmers have shotguns, second: farmers don’t deal with the finished product, its much easier to steal a meal from a grocery store than to steal the components of a meal from a farm
@@ASDeckard There are "farming collective subscriptions" that require sizable committment to cut out retail Getting a box of vegitables trough the town centre bakery might cost less (per pound or nutrition), waiting a week or more to acces that (after payment) wouldn't keep people in good health. My local farms have relatively little loss trough theft of their crops but hikers regularly get handfuls of whatever is in season (I happen to drop additional money to the Farmstands it was supposed to go trough, because I can afford that).
As a cashier I really do what I can to cut costs without "asset protection" (formerly known as Security but they changed it at my chain because they needed to be accurate) letting my bosses know and get me fired. But it's frustrating to hear CEOs say "ho hum nothing we can do about these high prices". Like I'm not getting paid commission per the usually 175-200 dollar minimum grocery bills so I *get* to feel bad and helpless and say "I'm sorry" to customers. The CEO of the grocery chain has no right to say "thems the breaks"
@@shmupshmuppewpew5260 underhand slow pitch for the RW stans; they don't understand economics, history, politics, religion, ethics ... so, sometimes I ease in all casual like ... so you can drop the flying elbow. ;-P
I switched from shopping at Loblaws to Walmart and my grocery bill dropped by about 35%. What is this bizarro upside-down world I now live in where freaking Walmart is the good guy?
When asked why he’s being so greedy he doesn’t defend his greed but instead just advertises his products so he can make more money. It’s like he’s a poorly programmed robot that is non responsive to the question.
because it is completely false from start to finish.... the printing of money for CERB is the responsible for this staggering inflation. It aint that complicated with CERB and the money printing machine, you have mortgage your next 10 years of living for 2 years of pandemic. This is basic economic 101, increase the money supply = increase inflation.
@@gloomyeyes1527 But reality sure show that this is the case. Goods and services produced locally are the one that got hit with the most aggressive inflation. Food, home, home renovation supplies, etc... The only good news is that eventually income will raise also. However the speed at which your income will raise is not the same for everyone
I used to work at a non Galen Grocery Store, which was run by his peers who did the same godamn thing. Once you see a bag of grapes be 10 dollars after tax, you will want to embrace the forefathers of our French side and start lob(law)bing off some heads
No frills and only sale items is what I try to stick to. It's kinda the only way you can somewhat afford to eat. I'll buy meat when it's almost being thrown out and super discounted. Since I shop daily this method works. Funny enough this guy's markets actually do 50% off all items when they are trying to move em. So I target those items.
I love how Canadian you are with your rage, like it still sounds pretty nice. Love the addition of the shirt as well, something my slavic spouse calls the Canadian print
I've been watching the food prices skyrocket for two years now and while I'm glad people are finally starting to actually talk about it, it's really disheartening that it's taken so long. Things were already out of control when they started jacking up the prices using the excuses of the pandemic and inflation and oh boo hoo the supply chain difficulties, but we're now two years removed from that and prices are still consistently rising while supermarkets (not just Loblaws of course, but pretty much all the major ones) post record profits every single quarter. I don't doubt that suppliers are asking for higher prices as well, it turns out pretty much everyone along the line discovered they could exploit the global situation to crank up costs because what are people going to do, not eat? But I really want people to stop saying it's "just inflation", because it's not, and even if it were, it's still not acceptable to price the people in your country out of being able to eat.
It partly the result of the « Shock Doctrine » economics of Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago. He’s dead now but he left behind all these great😡 business ideas like; the time to make the best $$$ is when people are distracted by some other catastrophe. Another slimy human being!
Welcome to the new normal. Give it a few years of getting progressively worse and you'll get used to it. They gotta squeeze the last drips of blood from the cattle before they stampede out of the burning barn.
Amazing how they keep focusing on margins; a number hard to fact check, (as it varies from item to item) hard to understand, (as we're not all econ or business majors) and meaningless for actual customers. (we care about how much we get and how much we pay for it) Oh, and it ignores several factors in which the grocery store comes out ahead. Turns out when there's a public health emergency, stores limit the hours they're open, and thus limit staffing and thus staffing costs - giving their employees less in their paychecks at the same time food prices are going up.
Just thank you. Thank you for this. I knew this stuff but I can't overestimate how important the catharsis of listening to you epically rant about it is for my psychological wellbeing.
Thanks for this educational video every high school student should see your fun, critical, and creative analysis! Much respect to your artful commentary!
I have always shopped Loblaws but stopped about 6 months ago when I noticed some prices jumping $1 in the space of a week or so. I thought I was imaginging it so started to really pay attention and compare them to the other monopoly, Sobeys, who raised prices a bit, but nothing near Loblaws. In less than a year, Loblaws had raised the price on some items by $3.00 or more!
Regarding appearance, villains like this guy never dress in cloaks and cackle from the terraces of their imposing lairs. It's ALWAYS generic suits and unremarkable accessories and attempts to be relatable for the diabolical masterminds of today.
Just to throw this out there regarding the no-name price freeze - if Canadian grocery stores work anything like American ones, it's not just "less than nothing", it's an active price push. I worked retail in a grocery store in college and corporate is always stressing how crazy "low profit margins" are to try to impress on employees to avoid loss at all costs (whether it be you dropping a jar of pickles while shopping, customers shoplifting, or you shoplifting). The typical number they will throw out is something like "we only make 1% profit on most things we sell!" which is technically true, on paper, if you squint. A lot of that has to do with trying to remain competitive with brand names given that something like Kraft singles has easily comparable prices with other stores that might be in the area so they try to thread that needle as low as they can get it most of the time. The part they leave out is that "no-name" or "store" brands are way different. These items are usually built on larger factories subcontracted directly by the store at way cheaper rates than what they would put up brand names. It's obviously true that a portion of that savings gets passed on to the consumer just because of how much cheaper store-brands can be. The part that they leave out is that these items make radically more per item than brand names. I may be *way* off and can't find sources but the last numbers I kinda recall is that they might make 1-3% profit on those Kraft singles, but their store brand cheese will be pulling in between 10-30% profit. It's of a lesser total, but they get a bigger chunk. This is also why a lot of grocery stores will offer seemingly weird promotional deals like "Buy 10 items of store brand save 5 bucks" or "Buy 5 for 20" - If you're already buying that much store brand, they've already made more than if you made other choices. All that is a long explanation to get to the point - them "price freezing" store brand after raising prices isn't just doing nothing, it's actively pushing more customers to the product that gives them to the better margins because they aren't promising to freeze the brand names you might prefer, thus throwing shade on in store competition. The full line of thought here is "Sorry we raised prices, we'll stop that if you give us *specifically* more money and eat whatever crap we ordered from the local distributor in the area on the cheap."
I had my suspicions. Thank you. I've been a temp in quite a few factories making various foods. The packaging literally gets switched to a different brand when they reach the production count - with no change in product. Conveyors/slicers are stopped. New packages/labels get swapped in, machines restart, and suddenly that same piece of meat is no name brand.
24:12 this right here is the whole game. Assuming that grocery stores are able to cleanly pass the price increase from suppliers onto customers (which seems like a resounding yes) they want suppliers to raise prices. They are making more profitable margins as the fixed costs don't rise at the same time. They want inflation and it literally means higher profitability in real dollars or loonies, all things being equal.
I'm sure capitalism can come up with a solution that can benefit everyone, like a slightly modifed form of wage slavery. Oh sorry, did I say "benefit everyone"? I definitely meant to say "benefit the owning class".
@@falconeshield So far nobody has figured out how to entirely eliminate the working class without the profits of the owning class suffering. You could replace all workers with robots, but then you still need someone to keep buying whatever it is you're producing, so you need consumers that have to earn money somehow, which they can't because all the work is done by robots. Once we have robots that can both manufacture and consume all the goods, and pay their owners for that privilege, we can indeed eliminate the working class entirely! Preferably using ethical methods such as lethal injections, of course.
I have misattributed this quote to Princess Jasmine that I wrote on the fridge, "The food is there, the kids are hungry, so why should we call it stealing when they eat?" If anyone knows the real source lmk thanks
"Gotta steal to eat, gotta eat to live. Tell you all about it when i got the time" is something from one of the most sus Disney movie from the big 90s moment everyone loves aside from the one we all think of when we think of sus Disney movies from that era and even that movie knew that if you need to steal to not die. IT'S GENERALLY OKAY TO STEAL AND ANYONE RATTING YOU OUT IS A PIECE OF SHIT.
@@falconeshield I more meant in the it's portrayal of Arabian and other cultures, as the movie kind of hap-hazardly mixes a lot different predoninently Islam following cultures in ways that don't per se work or much less make sense, which is most seen in the various names. And even though I feel like it's an accident but given the fact that so many of the characters in Agrabah are so cartoony when our two leads are a bit pale compared to the rest of the cast is a bit of a not good look, even if it was more done so cause cartoony is fun and lets you get across the basic idea of more minor part characters a lot easier. This is most commonly mentioned with Jafar and the Sultan. Even though they are designed the way they are to get across the roles they have in the story it can still look a bit rough. Not to mention a lot of other things that i think only ended up that way cause accuracy was anything but their main goal got in and it's a way where it would never happen now not just cause of the public backlash but also how a lot of those stereotypes and inaccuracies are just more commonly know as not being the case. One example I hear is how a lot of cultures in the middle east as we call it today have extremely long traditions of gardening and also had stuff like, actual ways for people to get water and they would often settle near rivers. Neither of which we really see in the movie, and there is also stuff like the casting and the way Disney went beyond Robin Williams back by using him being a part of it in the promotional materials. Heck a few examples of the weird kind of sus character designs you could say are more trying to be critical of the police and royalty than anything else like how the guards who hunt Aladdin down and Jafar and even the Sultan are portrayed. Plus I am giving the movie a far, far, far more genorious read than a lot of people from the middle east and of descent from there have, which closest i can claim to that is being Jewish and i don't think i need to tell you why that's a loaded comparison (Israel has no excuses at this point, just leave already) so do know there is a lot more to look into. Sorry this reply got so long i kind of just starting typing and kept going til i felt finished.
My partner works at Walmart - on the floor, not in an office. The most common thing people steal is icecream - NOT a necessity, and usually stolen by tweakers because it's a high calorie/low chewing thing to eat. The biggest problem they have, however, is the tweakers filling up one or two whole carts with shit they can pawn and walking out with it - again, NOT necessities. We have been going to a food bank to afford to eat while actual criminals are the ones stealing. Their loss prevention officers have been told not to risk themselves getting between thieves and their exit so again, it's the people who are truly in a bind - the good people - who get nailed for stealing because they're the ones who will stop when told to. In my experience the tweaker thieves are the true pieces of shit. They drive up the prices for everyone through their actions and I sure AF will do anything I can to stop them.
Aladdin is from the thousand and one nights stories, and those stories were shared and changed by indian and Persian merchants. Mixing Persian mughal middle Eastern south Asian elements is not only ok, it's accurate really
@@burnyizlandthey work at walmart and the tweakers are the POS ? Wow I always thought walmart treats theyre employees like garbage. I dont shop there because of their lack of respect for human rights. I really think places like walmart are the real problem.
Often one of the key demands of the labour movement was for these companies to open the books. It’s amazing that even a basic level of transparency is not required for a company that supplies a thing you need to live, a company that has admitted it criminally transpired to gouge people on bread for profit in the past. Really can’t recommend more highly that people read Value, Price and Profit by Marx. It honestly was like a pair of glasses from They Live in understanding the current Greedflation crisis we’re currently in. At least it was for me.
28:28 I'm from Saskatchewan, and we have our own buffoon for a Premiere, but good grief did you ever have me doubled over laughing at that one. Well done sir, that was a good one. You have earned a new subscriber.
This situation is happening in Australia as well. We have a duopoly that controls, not only the two biggest grocery stores, but the majority of the petrol stations. Corporate price gouging is, internationally, reaching truely sickening levels and the contempt for their own customers appalling.
Oh, for those curious: if you made 1 dollar every minute of every day, you would reach 463,000,000 dollars in approximately 881 years. *881 years.* For reference, 881 years ago was 1142 CE, the middle of the medieval period. It's also well over 5 times as long as the country of Canada has been considered a country.
Are planet is so fucked . Peak possible middle class ended 70 years ago. bigger wealth disperity only grows from hereb. There's no going back because these systems that got us here are pretty well iron clad. Being a realistic blows. What does being a pessimist feel like
I'm disabled and on a fixed income. I can't afford to rent because rent in my area is over 1,000 for a bachelor's not including utilities. (Note that I live in a relatively small shitty city) My partner is schizophrenic and can't afford his meds. The government will take away my support if I have 10,000 in my bank account. I live with my parents and my siblings as well as my sibling's partner adding up to 9 people in a single house. We survive off of my step dads trucking job and my mom's student loans. I will never be able to afford to live independently in this current system. I had a job before but they fired me for no reason I know of and I have applied to everything in my area but can't even get an interview. All of my friends and other young people I know are in similar situations. I'm so sick of older people who have been able to establish themselves in a time when things were more livable minimizing and ignoring everything going to shit around us. We need to organize and take action, this isn't going to fix itself and most importantly let's not except anything less than what we deserve. Everyone deserves to fucking live.
We need food co-ops and housing co-ops. I am also on ODSP and I will lose my home. I want to sell it to a co-op and rent half of it back from them. Under the ODSP regulations I get next to nothing from my roommate, they claw it back. If I sold it to a co-op and rented it back, I would get the full amount I collected from my roommate. It's insane, it's designed to ruin people.
@@burnyizland I'm really sorry about your situation. I'm a survivor of abuse as a child so I understand to some extent. If you set up a gofundme I will share it to my circle and try and do outreach for you. I used to have support through a women's shelter called three Oaks in my area maybe there is something similar near you that you could reach out to? At least to keep you and your child safe for a while even if it's not a long term solution. All we can do is support eachother as a community since the government doesn't give a shit about us
I'm American, and don't know Canadian companies well. Hearing the name "Loblaw's" for a grocery store have me the exact same indescribable feeling as when I first heard of the grocery store "Piggley-Wigglie's". Something about the silly way it sounds combines with the knowledge that the store is (or was) a big enough store to be seen as professional and commonplace does something very strange to my brain.
I work in one of their retail stores, it's not just the increased prices. Over the last ten years they have reduced wage caps, cut benefits, and staff hours. You are expected to do more work, with less people, for less pay.
Thank you for getting the word out to non-Canadians regarding the shitbags in your territories. I've been to Canada and have seen this fabled No Name product, but had no idea just how exceptionally evil the CEO of the company is. Good to know to avoid it for if I ever make my way back up there again (or their shit is distributed to us).
I work in a small business Canadian butcher shop and we shake our heads at the prices big grocery stores are posting. Not only is their meat some of the lowest quality stuff you can buy (legally) but as you pointed out in your video they post ridiculously high prices. It would be one thing if they were offering individual butchering services for those prices but they are charging more than we do for some things and it's self-serve from a bunker!!!
This video is full of a very specifically Canadian-feeling fury that I greatly appreciate. Fury is absolutely the correct response to all things Loblaws and Galen Weston.
I work for Loblaw (unfortunately) and this week they cut our hours to subsidize installing gated fencing INSIDE THE STORE in a hairbrained scheme to thwart theft. HAlf my coworkers get their meals from the food bank or just don't eat
Loved the video. I do hope you continue to do videos about other Canadian Scumbags, like the Ivring Brothers. I feel people in Canada don't talk nearly enough about how they run pretty much all of the Maritimes , especially my home province of New Brunswick.
Excellent video. Canada has a duopoly. Sobeys and Loblaws control the vast majority of the grocery scene in Canada. They have been raising margins in lock-step with each other for the past 5 years. Because they can. They got caught price fixing bread, because they can. If anyone reading this thinks they only price fix bread, and nothing else, give your head a shake. Canada experienced 11% inflation last year. But that is a top down image. If food, energy and housing make up more than 50% of your annual expenses, you personally experienced way, way more inflation than 11%. If you use oil to heat your home, 100% inflation (2020 heating oil 70 cents/liter, this winter, $2/liter). Rent? 31%. Food, supposedly 10%.. but if that is the case, how come last year a bag of frozen vegetables was 5 bucks and now it is 9 bucks? And fruit went from 10 bucks to 14 bucks.. so lets call an honest food inflation rate of 40% and not the make believe numbers out of Ottawa. Ottawa's job is to placate the voter, that means telling lies when it suits them.
Nope. Theft helps increase prices. I am not allowing somebody else’s actions to ruin the sake of my survival. Like them I need to eat too and like everyone else they need to pay. This is another reason why many store chains in America are starting to shut down because of that.
@@magau3698 ...did you watch the video?? save that righteous energy for the real thieves who are exploiting us all and leave people who steal food for their survival alone. your mentality doesn't make you much better than these inhumane profit mongers.
Store chains are shutting down because they want to keep up the appearance of high profits and growth, and use the excuse of in store theft as both a justification and to make them look like an underdog in the public eye. It's a tactic being used in a town near where I live in IL concerning a Walmart. If they shut down this location, that town will become a good desert as the closest grocery is a good distance away. Renegade Cut deep dives into this on their video concerning Shoplifting, too.
Fun fact, stealing from grocery stores is, hypothetically, comically easy as long as you don't literally do it in front of an employee, and even then, I'd bet most people working at grocery stores wouldn't give enough of a fuck to stop you
I worked in food retail. I quite often didn't see a thing. They didn't pay me enough to care, and even if they did I probably still wouldn't have seen anything. Sometimes the computer also rang things like diapers and baby food up wrong, and if the computer has the wrong price, well, that's not my fault. I didn't accidentally push any buttons, scouts honor... 😏
I got snitched on in a safeway (food and deodorant) and goddamn if that security guard wasn't reacting with the same level of emotion as if I'd taken his wallet. In my mind I was like "Dude... you're not supposed to deepthroat the boot"
In Winnipeg, they have uniformed off-duty police officers to intimidate and harass people into not stealing. They spend most of the time on their phones, but if you call them out, they'll follow you to your car and bully you. And the worst part is that they can count it as pensionable hours, so we're all effectively subsidizing a private corporation to rent cops to protect their profit margin.
The Alberta government de-indexed AISH from inflation so many people are considering ending their lives bc they can't afford to live. I'm sure similar things are going on in other provinces too.
My mom is on disability, and gets less than half of CERB. It's difficult. I can't get a diagnosis therefore am not able to be on disability, yet am too disabled to convince anyone in my field to hire me (and definitely not physically able to work at minimum wage jobs), so I'm just glad my dad is able to help with me paying for my appointments and food, and I'm sharing bills with some friends who needed a temporary place to stay. I do wish that insurance covered more. Like $40 pairs of socks I need to not feel dizzy, and the vitamins and supplements that are the only things keeping me at a somewhat abled state since I got horrible side effects from all the meds that have been proven to help (I literally tried everything and my doctor said to go to a naturopath or osteopath because she can't find anything to help, so yay, more expenses because healthcare sucks, and supplements are also considered food not drugs).
How does inflation, carbon taxes and the overall verifiable increased cost of production factor into this? Don’t get me wrong, these people are greedy, but they’re always greedy. Bottom line would be that if these companies are spending more, they would seek to increase profit as much or, supposedly, more than when times are “good.” If their costs go up and they kept their profit margins the same, wouldn’t that increase their “profits” without them even so much as getting to their greedy part? I.e. 1% of $5 is more than 1% of $4. If they start spending $5 to produce something that used to cost them $4, couldn’t that naturally affect their profits before they even got greedy? Not to mention, if they reinvested their profits in the company, it would buy less than before inflation etc. For instance, there are now thousands of dollars in extra costs just in transporting food alone. Along with thousands of dollars of scheduled increases that companies are anticipating. That’s before you get to the price hikes from shipping companies, this would be just the gas in the tanks of trains and trucks. On top of that, people are more broke so they’re going to opt more for essential items over luxury items. A grocery store will have to naturally increase the cost of essentials to cover their increased overhead because the “profits” from certain items won’t exist until the inflation and economy stabilizes because people aren’t buying them. My point is, greed has a cost, and you have to pay that cost before you get to the greed part. So if their costs are going up, wouldn’t their profits go up in accordance? So much of this seemingly comes down to basic economics of supply/demand, fewer goods purchased by more dollars and other very basic market concepts that have existed for hundreds if not thousands of years. I guess the summation of my question is, why would you blame anyone but the government first? Corporations will always seek top dollar, but it would be nice if there wasn’t artificial increased costs they have to pay before that. The idea that people can’t conceive we will always have to pay more when they pay more is starting to disturb me. There might be a multitude of factors influencing increased costs, but the solution seems pretty clearly based in the lessons one could learn from 8th grade social studies. I get nobody has sympathy for rich corporations, but that doesn’t validate ignoring common logic that companies aren’t gonna spend more so they can make less.
Here's an update: Galen Weston has given himself a 3 mil $ raise because his "board members" said that he's actually significantly underpaid.... Also, the very next article is about the food banks running out from seeing 4 x the amount of recipients over the last few years....
I'm really glad someone is shining light on this. I work in the Bakery for the only grocerie store in my small town, which is under loblaws :| The owner of the store is a greedy prick that is also jacking up the price. it is fucking infuriating that I don't even live paycheck to paycheck I Iive 2 paychecks behind what I should be. I get to slave away making Galen money, while I can't eat. The only thing keeping consistent food in my mouth is the GM of my store keeps offering me expired stuff when it's pulled off the shelves. Life is just so fun in Canada right now!
I worked at NoFrills for 4 years throughout highschool not too long ago... What I can tell you is that corporation is evil, even the franchise owners are scared of upper management.
Check your receipts when shopping at Superstore. Sale prices on the shelves don't always show up on your receipt. 2 out of 3 times I do this, I find I was charged the regular price, not the sale price on at least one item. Then I show customer service and get the item for free. I think they literally bank on most people not checking so it's still worth it for them.
We're in Canada and during the pandemic we've stopped eating meat since we were already struggling. Figured we could just eat eggs, tofu or nuts if we wanted protein, with some fish occasionally. Our weekly groceries dropped by a bit and we got used to it little by little. We took advantage of the No Name freeze to be able to afford eggs that were still priced at 2.99$ a dozen large eggs instead of 5.99$ for the next available egg brand. Now the cheapest eggs are 3.49$ for medium sized eggs. It has been difficult since we're survivng on one stable salary only (mine). I'm currently on a diet not just to get a bit healthier and lose weight, but honestly, because I don't really have a choice neither. I feel hungry during the day and also right before bed, but nothing that water or sleep can't fix. My partner continues to eat as normal for the time being, since they can't concentrate if they're hungry, and I don't want them to feel hunger like I have.
Hey, I'm just popping in to say please be careful with your health. I'm a low income person from the US who has experienced hunger and inability to afford nourishing food. It can seem like it's not a big deal to be hungry before bed or at certain times of the day. But I know from personal experience that this can have permanent effects on your ability to function. I know that this comment means functionally nothing when people (me included) can't afford to eat. But the dangers of caloric restriction and going hungry are way greater than they seem. Please take care.
In my original country, we traditionally eat a lot of pork and lard and generally speaking care more about flavour than health considerations (which are not an issue since over there we tend to be more physically active). When I moved to Canada, I found weird the obsession for "lean" meats and how they treat pork as somehow "lesser" food, and since I missed that good stuff, I keep looking until we found an Asian market selling pig skin which is the main ingredient for "chicharrones" and lard as byproduct. They sell it as a discard product, so a 10 lb bag costs about $3 even now and I use the lard for my regular cooking. Not only is tastier than vegetable oil (IMHO), but it gives you a better feeling of satiation so you don't need to eat as much. And well.. chicharrones are divine. Another thing, once I came to Canada, I worked as a contractor for a few years in a frigid, boring place with literally nothing to do during the winters, so out of boredom I taught myself random stuff. So I learned to make bread, pizza, pickles, beer, wine and a long etc. just for fun. And once you learn to prepare what you like how you like it, the store bough equivalents seem tasteless and not up to standards. So even after moving back to the civilization, I still use the stuff I learnt and even saved a lot of money in the process, so if you are struggling I strongly recommend you to consider doing the same.
I noticed that when I bought Complements brand eggs. I'm vegetarian and can't eat gluten, dairy, or fish, so I eat eggs, beans, lentils, rice, etc as staples. I'm on my dad's Costco membership since he doesn't have a spouse to give the second card to, and I can share Costco sized things with him, and my housemates, which really helps. I'm glad I grew a lot of my own veggies this past year, as I've been able to keep a lot of them longer (pickles, salsa, or just in the cold room), and scene points for groceries helps, but there are some things I don't buy anymore unless it's a really good sale.
So this is probably me being stupid, but as a vegetarian person, why did you specifically point out meat? Does it have any deeper significance or was that just the first thing that came to mind? (Sry, am autistic and may just be reading too much into shit. Also, fuck I am barely being able to leave without disability benefits by working and shoveling painkillers into me so all of this shit hits way too close to me. Because at some point the amount of painkillers I take is gonna catch up to me)
@@michimatsch5862 normally it's one of the cheapest, tastiest, quickest ways to fulfill your dietary needs if you're on a budget. And meat is just at insane prices here.
I used to work at a NoFrills and they also (unsurprisingly) treat their employees like literal human feces! At least we might get lunch vouchers if we solicit donations from enough tired customers!
I use to work for Loblaws and it was the exact same was. My old manager told people they should quit if they aren’t happy at his store after finding out employees satisfaction dropped from 50% to 13% after he was hired
Even the big box furniture stores have increased prices by 40%. I was saving and planning to buy a genuine Leather Reclining Sofa set and it's price rose by over 40% in nearly one year !
It's the first of your videos that I watch, and I automatically pressed "Subscribe". Thanks for being outspoken about the frustrations we all feel. I follow economics and investing, and I feel the capitalist enslavement system we work under is losing it's balance with corporate greed. We (the 99%) have to do something to level off this pyramid scheme.
My friends are not eating regularly due to this. Real fucked up. I am trying to help everyone I can but even as a full time professional am struggling. This fucking country...
Every time the Loblaws self-checkout machine asks me if I want to donate $2 to the PC Children's Charity my blood pressure climbs a few points and my upper lip twitches. No, Galen. YOU donate to the charity. YOU fight food insecurity among children, and don't offload your moral responsibility onto me while you're charging me 14 bucks for a bag of frozen fruit.
Corporations do this so that they can submit the donations in their name and thus claim them against their corporate income taxes. That's what that is whenever you see it in stores (and always the large corporations isn't it?).
Ghouls, absolute ghouls.
Donate to your favourite charities directly (they need it!), but not through these societal parasites.
I use to work for Loblaws until a few months ago, I must tell you it is beyond awful. Not only were we forced to ask each customer if they want to donate but we were forced to give them surveys to do at the end of the transaction and if you throw the survey away you get written up and they also track how much donations you got.
Corporations asking me to pay them extra so they can get a tax break for "donating" *my* money to their own branded charities without having to cut into their bottom line at all makes my blood boil.
I always press "no thank you" I'm literally buying necessities and it's costing so much more and I'm well aware how they raise the prices on their own brands.
not sure how in Canadia but here in US of Ay those mothereffers then turn around and claim those donations as tax deduction.
"he's about as likeable as the feeling of wearing socks in the shower" is perhaps the most Canadian insult I've ever heard
i think he is as likeable as the feeling of wearing a condom filled with louisianna red hot sauce.
Or as likeable as the feeling of putting on wet cold boots in the middle of winter…
@@johnfarling1537 the equivalent of ordering cheese pizza without the cheese
@@johnfarling1537 or wet gloves. Just dried mine after two trips to the dryer
While wearing the plaid shirt too 😂
I was a production assistant on that PC Coffee commercial. I will never forget Galen trying to be relatable, telling me that he hasn't traveled in a while because "flights are too expensive".
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Says the guy who lived the majority of the yr on the Windsor estate in the fort Belvedere(the house that the prince of wales- king Edward 8 lived in until 1936) for about 20 yrs, right up until about 2020.
Thanks, there is alot of information wrapped up in this little statement!
Seriously... the price of chartering your own plane to the Mediterranean doesn't come cheap!
Lol sounds like some bs too me.
At my husband's job his colleagues were complaining about the cost of meat and blaming the farmers. He informed them ( we raise lambs) that we recieve .50 a lb. less this year. In fact we are lucky to break even after our costs. In fact we have considered getting out of sheep as a large number of producers have done this year.
we should blame each other. for playing along with the game
@@amicusaxiom we should blame the billionaires actually
Yeah, why I was going along with a sing song "bullshit" every time I heard it was because of the suppliers, I know the contracts the supermarkets make directly with farmers (several hydroponic farms in my area are completely trapped for years if not permanently). Even in the case of livestock (we raised beef for sale to supplement the horse stud income when I was a kid) I know how heavily they dictate price per unit to the abattoirs, even when it's a larger multinational like Cargills (though they're nearly 2x more profitable than pre-COVID as well).
Let's just stop eating meat :]
Let me guess, there's a monopoly on slaughterhouses in Canada? It's so ironic how all the "return to tradition" types were funded by psychos that really just wanted to bring back the gilded age. Shoulda seen that coming!
Ever walk into a grocery store and witness staff making the rounds with shopping carts, collecting spoiled and expired food? I see that every time I shop for groceries. Because people deciding NOT to buy those overpriced items and leaving them instead to spoil in NO WAY translates to, "OH, maybe people would buy those if the prices were in any way reasonable." I feel like I live in the twilight zone, where nothing makes sense anymore.
As a grocery worker this is not the case. Shrink happens for a ton of reasons, but just translating the action of collecting shrink to the fact that those groceries are too expensive is NOT how grocery stores operate, even worker owned co-ops like the one I work at. Shrink is a REQUIREMENT to run a grocery store efficiently. People's shopping habits change over time, workers don't rotate all products at all times when stocking, and sometimes products are overordered for sales, or we simply receive extra cases from our supplier, all of which can lead to an overabundance of certain products. The issue with greedflation isn't a meager 2% of product going bad (also they donate near expired food to food banks for credit), it's that companies are incentivized to charge the absolute max amount they can to make money. Basically, we agree about almost everything, I just wanted to point out the nuance that even competitively are fairly priced groceries still experience shrink, and for example you shouldnt shame a grocery store just for collecting expired foods to donate lol, you dont know how they ended up with them.
So glad to see my fellow Canadians getting pissed about how disgusting these oligarchs are. They can only push us so far.
Ya but it only happens when you take Canadians home equity away. Last year I was at a party, everyone was bragging about how their home values doubled during the pandemic. This year everyone was whining about maple syrup doubling. Can't have your maple syrup and eat it too. What did people expect, their houses would go up and everything else would stay the same?
Where was the outrage last year? Inflation is like getting drunk, fun at first. Now it's the hangover and everyone is in tears lol. Canadians won't do anything about it, they are weak, they don't stand up for rights. They willingly hand their rights away in the name of "safety". Besides people are too busy watching episodes of Tiger King. The country is much too divided to stand together. You have the young generations that hate the boomers.
@@Casey-qm1nd Canadian culture has been slow to develop because of Trudeau's idiotic father claiming there is only multi-culturalism in Canada. Majority of Canadians do not have patriotism because most identify with their family ethnic's roots and are heavily influenced by American media. The melting pot does exist in Canada, in time, Canadian influencers will take the spot light and develop the culture. Thought Slime is what more Canadians should be doing to develop their culture.
Even worst, they can’t be stopped. We‘re screwed.
Yup, then we say sorry and move out of the way.
Too bad that more and more Canadians think Polievre's conservatives will be the solution. His support is rising even among the young, so he's definitely going to win in 2025, making everything worse.
Yeah... messing with people's food supply has never once gone well for people in history.
What do you mean? The history pamphlets I got in school didn't mention anything about this.
@@toppersundquist They taught you about history in school?
@@KratomFlavoredAdidas Yeah! How the natives voluntarily moved into the hills and gave us all the good land, and how we defended ourselves by going to war, and how we brought civilization to Africa and South America by building strip mines! It was great.
What are we going to do about it, year over year police budgets will shut down anything more than a small peaceful protest
@@iterativeimprovements1713 Gun up.
"The extortion you do happens to not only be legal, but the basis of our entire economy. " is a hell of a line.
Shoutout to when I worked at a Loblaws-owned store and they tried to have me cover up best-before dates with "reduced" stickers so that they could sap even more money out of people.
1989 I use to re-package best before chicken in a diluted bleach and water bath at a SuperValu in BC. Best before steaks and roasts became fresh ground burger. I could go on....
depending on the product and expiration date closeness that could be kinda scummy or thoroughly heinous. spam lite, can in perfect condition? dick move, but probably not much of a safety hazard. normal ham? may they be immediately teleported to hell for a double eternity of the worst of tortures
My friend works for Shopper’s Drug Mart, which is owned by Loblaws. Despite her location being the most profitable it has ever been (and it is consistently profitable) they have been severely cutting back on people’s work ours to the point that she’s concerned about paying her rent. She tried to pick up extra hours at other locations, but they all said that they have to cut back on hours as well. The theory is that Galen wants to sell and is jacking up prices and slashing work hours to make Loblaws and Shoppers seem more profitable.
Nope they do this the first quarter of every year at least for the 15 years I have worked there. 😢
Fascinating
Ever been bullied, and when you finally fight back the teacher makes it all your fault? This is like that, but... Macro.
I like where you're going with this, but I think it's more like when one or two kids are being disruptive or mean and instead of just those kids being reprimanded, the entire class gets punished.
This is more common than people think. If you cause visible harm to the bully, you're the one who gets punished. Bullies tend to come from privileged backgrounds, and are often the popular kids in school, so if you do anything to them, the school takes their side. It's a microcosm of how society works.
I've noticed that for... decades? Heaven forbid you defend yourself against transphobes or capitalists or racists because you should have known "better". Just look at all the defenses of JK Rowling in the media because, darnit, she's just one woman! One woman with a platform and are you trying to CENSOR her??? [Ignoring that she's at the head of a corporate IP etc etc etc]
@@NexLegacyAccount only instead of everyone being reprimanded, not only does nothing happen to the disruptive students at all, but the disruptive students actually have a record breaking school year and are given hundreds of millions of A's, and everyone else starves to death. Otherwise spot on analogy.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 Not always the case. I'm not aware of any studies on the material conditions of bullies so all I have to go on is anecdotal evidence. I was bullied by privileged and poor kids alike, but when I first hit back, it was against a poor kid. My parents got called into the school and the principal told them the school had been aware of the bullying for a long time but "since the bully has a difficult home life, we try to make his school experience as comfortable as possible, which is why we will only be punishing your son".
Galen means crazy in Swedish so I find that picture of Galen wearing a shirt that says "galen" kind of hilarious.
😂 😂😂😂
In Greek it means calm, healer, or peaceful. And your point is?
Du var bara tvungen va? 🤣🤣🤔😏
@@stevesmodelbuilds5473 My point was that I found his shirt funny, but that it means more less the opposite in Greek was a neat fact I didn't know!
@@jonatanbergkvist9796 Or a 24th Century Federation archaeologist. Or a Second-century CE Roman surgeon. 😏
Thanks for reminding us about the bread price-fixing scandal. It's been out of the news for years, no consequences for the perps, and we are on to the next racket. My blood pressure needed a good spike. I appreciate it.
I think there is no competition in canadian grocery market but a cartel of price fixers, just like the bread producers scandal. Zehrs is the worst. They removed other labels of food stuffs, offer their rebranded version for at least twice the price. I have helped some seniors see that the reduced vegetables, being 50% off are still more expensive than the fresh vegetables. The old stuff is priced so high that 50% off makes the final price still higher. What a scam. Even Zehrs employees complain about the price gouging. GREED.
Well done. I am not Canadian, but I am glad to see anyone calling out the rich and greedy in any country.
Privatized basic needs is one of the worst atrocities of Capitalism.
My favorite thing is that when they donate money to charities, its not loblaws donating the money, its the customers that donate that loblaws uses to get tax credits. Also if they give you a survey, the store manager's bonus is directly tied to the store's review numbers, so do with that what you will
They don't actually use it to get tax credits iirc - that's a very obvious, easily caught, form of tax fraud. But it is extremely obvious and nearly free reputation laundering, which isn't a whole lot better.
Greedflation is literally the standard operating practice of every single corporation in the world right now
you mean capitalism
Yeah, and how's it going? They keep pushing us and they're going to wish they didn't...
At first I thought the term was "greenflation" like charging more for products that are supposed to be better for the environment. Which is an issue too, but green is kind of what companies are based on. I took SAP classes and undergrad management courses, and that's kind of what it is. How to maximize profits without getting everyone upset with you, or at least keeping enough people supporting that it balances out. We talked about how a lot of big US companies are horrible and unethical, but that's their business model (Amazon and Walmart were the examples, as well as a few Canadian industries with mining/refining).
So capatalism? Lol
@@iciajay6891 Broken unregulated Capitalism...
Galen Weston looks like Wish brand Bill Gates
Watching on a phone and at first I thought it was Gates.
No Name brand, mate
@@melisaunoi so he’s like the regular Bill Gates with more water and corn syrup? Yeah that checks out.
@@spacecat7864 also less violently marketed
That would be "noname" Bill Gates
Canadian grocers being a duopoly have massive buying power. They could push back on their suppliers and say they will only carry items who's cost has gone up at the rate of inflation or less. If Sobeys and Loblaws pushed back on their suppliers, food cost inflation would be reduced.
Got a Costco or Walmart in your area? Their goods are going up too, but not as fast as Sobeys and Loblaws. Because Walmart and Costco told their suppliers to do better or be removed from their shelves.
Also they're US companies and have more buying power
It's interesting (sarcastically) that our system doesn't have anything in place to prevent people in power (Governement or Corporate) from abusing said power. Loblaws investigates themselves, Trudeau investigates himself, Ford investigates himself... The hypocrisy and abuse is sickening by all parties and people. Great job on the video! Change can only happen when we all work together! Good luck everyone
This is part of the socialist (fascist) trick into always giving the system more. "They are so bad at governing themselves we should make more government to government them better". What people don't understand is they have rigged the system USING the government to make sure small businesses can't economically grow food and sell it locally. The government IS the problem. The corporations are picking the low hanging fruit placed before their face.
We get out of this by saying NO to government NO to taxes and NO to stupid regulations. Westin should be owning a chain of empty stores full of over-priced low quality imported foods nobody wants. Who can ever forget the picture of 20 RCMP horses shutting down a small family run BBQ in Ontario for violating government edicts of some kind, while across the street people are buying food and $1.50 hotdogs out of an American COSTCO all day long without hiccup.
that's what the pitchforks are for
so important to remember too that profit is what's left after all costs are accounted for. after vendors are paid and workers get their check. no one loses their job if profits are decreased slightly (except maybe the board fires the CEO). truly wack to me that a company wouldn't just... take a little bit of an L so people can eat? sometimes everything feels like that one book title on American conservatives: The Cruelty Is The Point
"Efficiency"
well, you see, the thing about that is, "people" do not matter
if you can't eat that's your problem! just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, peasant!
sure we're destroying the planet but we're creating a whole lot of beautiful value for shareholders soooooo
It's not enough to win. Everyone else must lose.
Those profits are for the shareholders, who can and will sue the corporation for any failure to maximize profits. (LOL, right after I typed this I coincidentally got to the point in the video where TS said exactly the same thing. And I agree, f*** your profits, you capitalist ghouls).
It's because THEY can eat.
This type of near sociopathic behaviour is entirely possible because people with money like that never struggle. For them, food is plentiful and taken for granted. They rarely even handle their own finances, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc. Why? Because they pay us to do it for them.
It’s absolutely insane that we don’t have the ability to verify that they’re price gouging on something as important as FOOD.
Yes. I’m studying nutrition at graduate level. My professor can’t access any consumer data without paying the monopolies for their datasets or literally buying products herself. It’s super hard to get grant funding. Plus, Canada is unique among OECD countries in that we hardly track any food-related data with national censuses. Basically, yeah, we can’t verify.
You got to remember that even if You owned an honest grocery store yourself, how will you not raise your prices when all of your operating costs go up every year ? Please tell me ! Everytime something goes up in price it causes a chain reaction, we need a universal agreement for every business, industry, and utility to STOP INCREASING PRICES NO MATTER WHAT THE EXCUSE !
Remember the bread scandal the Supermarkets had been colluding on price fixing for years and they offer us a poxy $25 credit. Laughable and yet as Canadians we did nothing and again we are not protesting loudly...myself in included but I guess many of us feel powerless as government do nothing.
No large grocery store in North America yields a profit. They are all loss leaders. The profit is made in the freight and warehousing. Which means that when fuel taxes or carbon taxes are jacked up, the prices go up. The Trudeau government is raising these taxes, but in Alberta they're lowering the provincial fuel taxes to offset these federal increases, and that's why there's been very little food inflation in Alberta for the last 10 years.
-- you can verify.... they are a public company with stocks... their financials are posted online. their markup is one percent. if you want lower food prices un elect justin. he put a twelve percent tax on fertilizer to farmers, an ever increasing carbon tax - which is ineffective in reducing greenhouse gasses.... we have state run dairy industry artificially inflating prices on anything with dairy in it. if galen were to cut margins in half to half a percent... that would save ppl fifty cents on a twenty five dollar grocery bill. the problem isn't galen.... who runs a for profit company - the problem is government. and particularly THIS govt.
a little fun fact on Weston, in Quebec his ads are not voice over . He speak one of the most broken, hard french I ever heard on TV. So much, when I was a child, me and my friends would imitate him for fun.
I was searching for someone to exactly say this, it gave me chill as a child
Lowkey part of childhood💀💀
Come on. I know Quebecers that think that Montrealers don't speak French.
I'm actually happy her chose to speak French in his ads. I find him pretty likable. Just wish he was actually a good guy. But yeah... These profits speak for themselves.
Speed skater Gaetano Bouche ......budder and udder dairy products ....cuts both ways lol
What gets me is Trudy gave him 12million of our tax dollars to buy new fridges for his stores.
I met Galen Weston in the checkout line at the Yonge/St. Clair Loblaws, where he often pops in after work. So if you’d like to meet him and tell him what a wonderful job he is doing and not at all confront him about his greed, you know where and when. 😊
We need to amalgamate all of these ideas to a guide on how to get back at loblaws. I also saw a thing saying that all managers pay is related to the reviews given at checkout, so we could collect those surveys and en mass fill them poorly to make managers quit and have them have a crisis in management. Also you could move perishable items around the store and have them suffer higher loss from throwing them out. Then there is the creative self checkout methods....
@@bongmuon moving items like that just hurts the employees. What the hell is wrong with you?
thats cus his main office... is actually on that corner.. not sure the exact # but its there. we should all plan massive protests!!
@@elleblur5 Yes. But, also, in job in which you are paid hourly, you are also making sure they get paid more, since they have to stay longer to fix shit. The company loses money, as the worker is inconvenienced. Not saying its a good thing to do, since a few minutes of pay arent shit compared to just going home for a min wage employee like me. I work at a Dominos, whenever someone orders a pizza right before closing, I get pissed and purposefully make it shitty. They cant call back to complain because we're closed :) fuck that guy, i wanna go home.
So youre right, but also whenever that happens, I -do- make another dollar or two that day so i mean.... Meh. But stills hurts me more than the company. Min wage employees tend to just want to fuckin go home, not deal with more bullshit. A better thing to do is to break shit. You dont have to spend a long time figuring out where the item goes, you just sweep shit up and throw it tf away, write it off as a loss.
Thoughts and prayers to grocery store clerks. They are on the first line of customer unsatisfation, are gonna get yelled at and have to deal with people who are more stressed out and hostile. Meanwhile they have shit work conditions and wages and probably can't afford to shop where they work at. I'm so happy I got out of the food industry.
Grocery store workers are based AF
Absolutely standing at the front line with nothing to defend themselves with but a fixed smile and dead eyes. Nightmare job.
I will fight alongside our brothers and sisters that work in grocery stores. I only worked briefly in a grocery store, but I worked in restaurants for 15 years where you tend to have similar experiences as a worker
My experience is that customers understand that staff are victims of the same greed as them, they have been friendly. Maybe cashiers have a different experience.
@@furryhoof647 They do not.
I'm glad that Galen Weston Jr and the LowBlow corporation pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and worked real hard to arbitrarily raise prices of essential goods
By 'arbitrarily', you mean 'with cause due to rising cost of commodities and freight'
prices in ALL stores went up Westons does not own all of them ..look at the carbon tax created by Turdeau ....it creates fuel costs to go up which causes all farming , operation costs and distribution costs to go up ....put the TURD under the microscope......
@@aman888 Mmm, yes, these profits, which is the amount gained after all expenses and costs, including purchase and shipping of goods, are totally in line with the inflation amounts. We can verify that by... ... ...and that's how we know they aren't gouging for things essential to human life.
@@HiSodiumContent you're sounding a bit like a commie with your profit control. But even if I were to grant you that, Loblaws consistent 4% profit margin before, during, and after Covid years, should tell you they're not gouging.
I have boundless rage for Loblaws and for Ford and his development buddies so thank you for feeding my fury
Ontario politics in general is a toxic mess. Cons, libs, ndp, all irresponsible, corrupt bafoons
blame your socialism prime minister for massive money printing. if they don't raise prices the company will go buss. where are you gonna get your food? o wait your far left so just go in the bush and eat grass because you wanna save the environment 🤣
Let's not forget how Loblaw gave employees pandemic pay for like a week then got rid of it only so they could make a commercial saying how "well we treat our employees"
With the news of Weston's raise today, I'm really hoping you do the part 2.
I call Weston an anticapitalist and swindler that reduces competitive advantage . Remember when his company admitted to a 14 year price fixing scheme on bread? Then he has the gall to o brag about reinvesting 2 billion back into the company knowing there are means to get y pseudo and real failures and losses socialized by a corrupt tax regime and get to offshore financial gains through legal tax avoidance schemes. Same old same old; doesn't have to use any of the money in offshore accounts to maintain his wealth at home or to invest it back into the company.
Another thing with loblaws, they throw out and lock the dumpster with lots of stuff that could be donated, I also suspect best before dates have shortened as well.
I've seen some stuff be donated, but my local Costco is one of the only ones that donates stuff, and it's so confusing that Superstore has ads everywhere for donating to food banks, when it's just performative. I have volunteered at a food bank that would get stuff from Superstore, but once they had to shut down (lack of volunteers and not enough donations), they just toss it. Perfectly good bread too.
Locking dumpsters is just that extra layer of insult after throwing out perfectly good food. One could argue tossing food vs donating it is "laziness" but locking it up is deliberate cruelty.
They call is "loss prevention," as if anyone who is looking for food in a dumpster and can't find any will just go in the store to buy some.
They also lock the dumpster at my local dolorama which is usually full of cardboard and only cardboard
Shoutout to when I worked at a Loblaws-owned store and they tried to have me cover up best-before dates with "reduced" stickers so that they could sap even more money out of people.
Galen can’t stop price gouging because it would be illegal, but he can price fix bread even though that’s illegal.
Laws exist to protect the wealth of the rich. They are supposedly also meant to protect the rest of us, but really only when they don't hinder the rich from maintaining or increasing their wealth.
Bingo
He looks EXACTLY like putting water on cereal instead of milk
I live in Alberta and yes it's hitting us hard. I graduated high school during covid and I was not ready for the adulthood that i've been given. I'm not asking for everything handed on a silver platter but the adult world I see so far seems so impossibly hard and corrupt to even live in. It seems like moving out is way too big of a risk and I've had more days hungry just to save money.
As for the price freeze, there was no difference. It makes me pissed how inflation is hitting the people hard and yet the big CEO's reached the highest profits. Inflation itself is stupid to me. Mainly onesided inflation where peoples wages aren't rising to balance with the rising prices all because it's going into the CEO's pockets instead.
All I wish to know is how we the people can somehow fix this.
Revolt like the French did
we could pull from robin Hoods book
Agitate and organize for Proportional Representation when we go to the polls, then, elect anyone on the left; the far left, the horizontally far left. Demand any serious candidate will negotiate food prices directly through the government (like for prescription drugs). Since the 'private market' cannot be held accountable make food prices a matter in the public realm. Food is a necessary public resource.
This is how capitalism is supposed to work, kid. My son graduated in 2021 so I feel you. It's been such a sht show.
@@drunkvegangal8089that's cute but would most likely met with state violence. Trudeau is pretty dumb tho so maybe y'all will luck out and pull off what France did
Every time I go to No Frills, a Loblaw company, they have run out of the No-name products because restaurant's come buy that shit when the doors open. Good video.
Let's look on the positive side of things maybe some of the shareholders will be able to afford a second yacht this year while a third of the Canadian population starve.
Finally, things are looking up for shareholders!
The shareholders being more Westons...
Or maybe those third of Canadians shouldn't live behind their means, 2 cars, renovations for their million dollar homes.
@@aman888 wow. This is a half hour video explaining how a handful of rich monsters are making more and more profit on the Canadian working class’ back and all you have to say is blaming the little guy. Were you dropped on your head as an infant or were you just born stupid?
@@aman888 Middle and low class Canadians all own 2 cars and million dollar homes that they renovate? Did that come with covid relief and I missed it?
Loblaws grocery also hides their profits in a Loblaws subsidiary. They split off a real estate division who they pay "market" rent. Without knowing those rents they can hide near unlimited profits. Loblaws Inc has a 30% annual profit margin.
A lot of large companies are the same. IKEA is particularly adept at this, and the INGKA foundation is one of the largest charities in the world (yes, IKEA is a registered charity). The various organizations shift money about internally to avoid paying taxes and IKEA has many spinoff organizations (IKANO Group) that have been spun off and reincorporated over the years to further avoid paying taxes including inheritance taxes.
Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust?
Thank you for shouting out us Ogopogo believers. I went to his lake as a kid and became his friend and he’s gay and loves socialism
Ogopogo sounds unbelievably cool.
I'm ashamed to admit I had to look him up. Apparently there's a statue of him. It's amazing.
there's an ogopogo yugioh card hahaha
NO WAY HE SAID THAT TO ME TOO 😮
"Champ is a picture of a log. Nessie is a toy submarine with a head made out of plastic wood. Ogopogo... is a plesiosaur. A f*cking plesiosaur!"
I despise shopping at GCSS, a Galen Weston store. Not only because of what he's doing now, but because shopping there is a stressful nightmare. The place is filthy, with large dirty hair bunches caught up in the wheels of carts which are never cleaned, the smelly, dirty aisles, the staff are rude and obviously demoralized, and the whole experience was nothing short of traumatic. Last week I went there for the last time to redeem $50 in points I had accumulated over a long period, and now I am done. Thank God. That place is a hell hole of evil. I'm a senior on a small pension, but I refuse to abuse myself any longer by shopping there.
People With Disabilities in Canada are receiving on average less than half the income assessed to be the poverty line.
It's rent OR food OR prescriptions.
AND is something that most don't experience 😣
That's people disabled by covid too😢
Absolutely fantastic video 😂😹🤣👍
this are the fundamental lies of socialism. (1) workers want the government to take care of the needy (2) workers pay huge income taxes (3) government helps itself first and the needy second (3) the quality of the help is awful (4) everyone agrees it's "better than nothing" and "at least we get something" and "we are lucky to be here not some place that's worse"
Wouldn't it make more sense to support each other directly and take care of the needy personally? Or stated another way, why can't we have the best country in the world rather than "at least it's not the worst"?
As an American, I feel a twinge of pride for having exported our trademark "freedom of choice" to our northerly neighbors. Let me be the first to say "you're welcome!"
@@navidamlani1616 seems á propos since we also inspired apartheid and eugenics.
The American Flu of 1918 was absolutely your most distinctive export.
Fortunately for the US, it was blamed on Spain instead.
And folks on social assistance get almost half of What disability is and many of those folks should be receiving disability
It's just as bad in the US... Worse in many ways... We don't have access to MAiD... I hate to even bring that up... But at least it's a meriful way out...
Hey Mildred, really appreciate the shout out on my private prison vid. Hope anyone who checks it out enjoys it.
It's almost like our ability to be alive shouldn't be tied to how much money we have.
What I don't understand is why people don't just rob the farmers directly.
@@ASDeckardfirst: farmers have shotguns, second: farmers don’t deal with the finished product, its much easier to steal a meal from a grocery store than to steal the components of a meal from a farm
@@ASDeckard
There are "farming collective subscriptions" that require sizable committment to cut out retail
Getting a box of vegitables trough the town centre bakery might cost less (per pound or nutrition), waiting a week or more to acces that (after payment) wouldn't keep people in good health.
My local farms have relatively little loss trough theft of their crops but hikers regularly get handfuls of whatever is in season (I happen to drop additional money to the Farmstands it was supposed to go trough, because I can afford that).
If it was possible. It would be so
@@jarroddiffley981 sounds like hard coping.
Move to Spain?
As a cashier I really do what I can to cut costs without "asset protection" (formerly known as Security but they changed it at my chain because they needed to be accurate) letting my bosses know and get me fired. But it's frustrating to hear CEOs say "ho hum nothing we can do about these high prices". Like I'm not getting paid commission per the usually 175-200 dollar minimum grocery bills so I *get* to feel bad and helpless and say "I'm sorry" to customers. The CEO of the grocery chain has no right to say "thems the breaks"
Daily Hive: "It's not greedflation, it's *definition of greedflation*
One of my favourite sslogans is, "If you see someone stealing food for their baby; no you didn't."
Good one
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Fuck yeah
You can go ahead and drop "for their baby" from that statement and it works even better
@@shmupshmuppewpew5260 underhand slow pitch for the RW stans; they don't understand economics, history, politics, religion, ethics ... so, sometimes I ease in all casual like ... so you can drop the flying elbow. ;-P
Ahhh hearing my music in a thought slime video is a huge treat. Thank you Mildred.
Now THATS a crossover I didn’t see coming. Nice!
Don't mind me, I only just discovered you could donate on videos and not just streams. Great vid, looking forward to part 2!
I switched from shopping at Loblaws to Walmart and my grocery bill dropped by about 35%. What is this bizarro upside-down world I now live in where freaking Walmart is the good guy?
When asked why he’s being so greedy he doesn’t defend his greed but instead just advertises his products so he can make more money. It’s like he’s a poorly programmed robot that is non responsive to the question.
Thank you for sharing what's going on in this country. There's not enough coverage of this, and the media is way too focused on America.
because it is completely false from start to finish.... the printing of money for CERB is the responsible for this staggering inflation. It aint that complicated with CERB and the money printing machine, you have mortgage your next 10 years of living for 2 years of pandemic. This is basic economic 101, increase the money supply = increase inflation.
@@fortescuegr7573 economics 101 is not the end-all be-all of economics
@@gloomyeyes1527 But reality sure show that this is the case. Goods and services produced locally are the one that got hit with the most aggressive inflation. Food, home, home renovation supplies, etc... The only good news is that eventually income will raise also. However the speed at which your income will raise is not the same for everyone
@@fortescuegr7573People don’t like hearing rational thought.😮
@@fortescuegr7573 it's depressing to me that people like you will continue to assert laughable, provably untrue nonsense that defends the mega rich
I used to work at a non Galen Grocery Store, which was run by his peers who did the same godamn thing. Once you see a bag of grapes be 10 dollars after tax, you will want to embrace the forefathers of our French side and start lob(law)bing off some heads
I'd be down to loblawbe some heads around.
Tax on food? Hmmm
the rage in this one is so strong and so relatable as a fellow canadian I am SO GOD DAMN TIRED. and also hungry.
No frills and only sale items is what I try to stick to. It's kinda the only way you can somewhat afford to eat. I'll buy meat when it's almost being thrown out and super discounted. Since I shop daily this method works. Funny enough this guy's markets actually do 50% off all items when they are trying to move em. So I target those items.
I love how Canadian you are with your rage, like it still sounds pretty nice. Love the addition of the shirt as well, something my slavic spouse calls the Canadian print
Oligopoly is such a fun word for such a grim concept.
Never considered that 😂
I've been watching the food prices skyrocket for two years now and while I'm glad people are finally starting to actually talk about it, it's really disheartening that it's taken so long. Things were already out of control when they started jacking up the prices using the excuses of the pandemic and inflation and oh boo hoo the supply chain difficulties, but we're now two years removed from that and prices are still consistently rising while supermarkets (not just Loblaws of course, but pretty much all the major ones) post record profits every single quarter.
I don't doubt that suppliers are asking for higher prices as well, it turns out pretty much everyone along the line discovered they could exploit the global situation to crank up costs because what are people going to do, not eat? But I really want people to stop saying it's "just inflation", because it's not, and even if it were, it's still not acceptable to price the people in your country out of being able to eat.
It's called the Shock Doctrine. Also known as capitalists being capitalists. Parasites.
And the ranchers are going broke!
It partly the result of the « Shock Doctrine » economics of Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago. He’s dead now but he left behind all these great😡 business ideas like; the time to make the best $$$ is when people are distracted by some other catastrophe. Another slimy human being!
Welcome to the new normal. Give it a few years of getting progressively worse and you'll get used to it. They gotta squeeze the last drips of blood from the cattle before they stampede out of the burning barn.
Amazing how they keep focusing on margins; a number hard to fact check, (as it varies from item to item) hard to understand, (as we're not all econ or business majors) and meaningless for actual customers. (we care about how much we get and how much we pay for it) Oh, and it ignores several factors in which the grocery store comes out ahead. Turns out when there's a public health emergency, stores limit the hours they're open, and thus limit staffing and thus staffing costs - giving their employees less in their paychecks at the same time food prices are going up.
Just thank you. Thank you for this. I knew this stuff but I can't overestimate how important the catharsis of listening to you epically rant about it is for my psychological wellbeing.
Thanks for this educational video every high school student should see your fun, critical, and creative analysis! Much respect to your artful commentary!
I have always shopped Loblaws but stopped about 6 months ago when I noticed some prices jumping $1 in the space of a week or so. I thought I was imaginging it so started to really pay attention and compare them to the other monopoly, Sobeys, who raised prices a bit, but nothing near Loblaws. In less than a year, Loblaws had raised the price on some items by $3.00 or more!
Regarding appearance, villains like this guy never dress in cloaks and cackle from the terraces of their imposing lairs. It's ALWAYS generic suits and unremarkable accessories and attempts to be relatable for the diabolical masterminds of today.
It's like Zuckberg and his grey t shirts, dude looks like an alien trying to look as human as possible
It must be hard for him to hide the mosquito's proboscis sticking out of his face.
Just to throw this out there regarding the no-name price freeze - if Canadian grocery stores work anything like American ones, it's not just "less than nothing", it's an active price push. I worked retail in a grocery store in college and corporate is always stressing how crazy "low profit margins" are to try to impress on employees to avoid loss at all costs (whether it be you dropping a jar of pickles while shopping, customers shoplifting, or you shoplifting). The typical number they will throw out is something like "we only make 1% profit on most things we sell!" which is technically true, on paper, if you squint. A lot of that has to do with trying to remain competitive with brand names given that something like Kraft singles has easily comparable prices with other stores that might be in the area so they try to thread that needle as low as they can get it most of the time.
The part they leave out is that "no-name" or "store" brands are way different. These items are usually built on larger factories subcontracted directly by the store at way cheaper rates than what they would put up brand names. It's obviously true that a portion of that savings gets passed on to the consumer just because of how much cheaper store-brands can be. The part that they leave out is that these items make radically more per item than brand names. I may be *way* off and can't find sources but the last numbers I kinda recall is that they might make 1-3% profit on those Kraft singles, but their store brand cheese will be pulling in between 10-30% profit. It's of a lesser total, but they get a bigger chunk. This is also why a lot of grocery stores will offer seemingly weird promotional deals like "Buy 10 items of store brand save 5 bucks" or "Buy 5 for 20" - If you're already buying that much store brand, they've already made more than if you made other choices.
All that is a long explanation to get to the point - them "price freezing" store brand after raising prices isn't just doing nothing, it's actively pushing more customers to the product that gives them to the better margins because they aren't promising to freeze the brand names you might prefer, thus throwing shade on in store competition. The full line of thought here is "Sorry we raised prices, we'll stop that if you give us *specifically* more money and eat whatever crap we ordered from the local distributor in the area on the cheap."
I had my suspicions. Thank you. I've been a temp in quite a few factories making various foods.
The packaging literally gets switched to a different brand when they reach the production count - with no change in product.
Conveyors/slicers are stopped. New packages/labels get swapped in, machines restart, and suddenly that same piece of meat is no name brand.
Spot on!
Galen could also help maximize profits by reducing the salaries of himself and other executives, so surely he's doing that as well, right?
24:12 this right here is the whole game. Assuming that grocery stores are able to cleanly pass the price increase from suppliers onto customers (which seems like a resounding yes) they want suppliers to raise prices. They are making more profitable margins as the fixed costs don't rise at the same time. They want inflation and it literally means higher profitability in real dollars or loonies, all things being equal.
The most canadian thing that ever happened to me was learning that weed was legalized via my friend texting me a picture of No Name branded cannabis
Until something is done about this, we're on Aladdin rules: Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat.
I'm sure capitalism can come up with a solution that can benefit everyone, like a slightly modifed form of wage slavery. Oh sorry, did I say "benefit everyone"? I definitely meant to say "benefit the owning class".
@@ObakeOnna I thought the whole point of capitalisim is to remove the pesky class system
@@falconeshield So far nobody has figured out how to entirely eliminate the working class without the profits of the owning class suffering. You could replace all workers with robots, but then you still need someone to keep buying whatever it is you're producing, so you need consumers that have to earn money somehow, which they can't because all the work is done by robots. Once we have robots that can both manufacture and consume all the goods, and pay their owners for that privilege, we can indeed eliminate the working class entirely! Preferably using ethical methods such as lethal injections, of course.
I have misattributed this quote to Princess Jasmine that I wrote on the fridge, "The food is there, the kids are hungry, so why should we call it stealing when they eat?" If anyone knows the real source lmk thanks
I will listen to that next time I rob for groceries thank you!
"Gotta steal to eat, gotta eat to live. Tell you all about it when i got the time" is something from one of the most sus Disney movie from the big 90s moment everyone loves aside from the one we all think of when we think of sus Disney movies from that era and even that movie knew that if you need to steal to not die. IT'S GENERALLY OKAY TO STEAL AND ANYONE RATTING YOU OUT IS A PIECE OF SHIT.
Sus? Aladdin said facts
@@falconeshield I more meant in the it's portrayal of Arabian and other cultures, as the movie kind of hap-hazardly mixes a lot different predoninently Islam following cultures in ways that don't per se work or much less make sense, which is most seen in the various names. And even though I feel like it's an accident but given the fact that so many of the characters in Agrabah are so cartoony when our two leads are a bit pale compared to the rest of the cast is a bit of a not good look, even if it was more done so cause cartoony is fun and lets you get across the basic idea of more minor part characters a lot easier. This is most commonly mentioned with Jafar and the Sultan. Even though they are designed the way they are to get across the roles they have in the story it can still look a bit rough. Not to mention a lot of other things that i think only ended up that way cause accuracy was anything but their main goal got in and it's a way where it would never happen now not just cause of the public backlash but also how a lot of those stereotypes and inaccuracies are just more commonly know as not being the case. One example I hear is how a lot of cultures in the middle east as we call it today have extremely long traditions of gardening and also had stuff like, actual ways for people to get water and they would often settle near rivers. Neither of which we really see in the movie, and there is also stuff like the casting and the way Disney went beyond Robin Williams back by using him being a part of it in the promotional materials. Heck a few examples of the weird kind of sus character designs you could say are more trying to be critical of the police and royalty than anything else like how the guards who hunt Aladdin down and Jafar and even the Sultan are portrayed. Plus I am giving the movie a far, far, far more genorious read than a lot of people from the middle east and of descent from there have, which closest i can claim to that is being Jewish and i don't think i need to tell you why that's a loaded comparison (Israel has no excuses at this point, just leave already) so do know there is a lot more to look into. Sorry this reply got so long i kind of just starting typing and kept going til i felt finished.
My partner works at Walmart - on the floor, not in an office. The most common thing people steal is icecream - NOT a necessity, and usually stolen by tweakers because it's a high calorie/low chewing thing to eat. The biggest problem they have, however, is the tweakers filling up one or two whole carts with shit they can pawn and walking out with it - again, NOT necessities. We have been going to a food bank to afford to eat while actual criminals are the ones stealing. Their loss prevention officers have been told not to risk themselves getting between thieves and their exit so again, it's the people who are truly in a bind - the good people - who get nailed for stealing because they're the ones who will stop when told to. In my experience the tweaker thieves are the true pieces of shit. They drive up the prices for everyone through their actions and I sure AF will do anything I can to stop them.
Aladdin is from the thousand and one nights stories, and those stories were shared and changed by indian and Persian merchants. Mixing Persian mughal middle Eastern south Asian elements is not only ok, it's accurate really
@@burnyizlandthey work at walmart and the tweakers are the POS ? Wow I always thought walmart treats theyre employees like garbage. I dont shop there because of their lack of respect for human rights. I really think places like walmart are the real problem.
Often one of the key demands of the labour movement was for these companies to open the books. It’s amazing that even a basic level of transparency is not required for a company that supplies a thing you need to live, a company that has admitted it criminally transpired to gouge people on bread for profit in the past. Really can’t recommend more highly that people read Value, Price and Profit by Marx. It honestly was like a pair of glasses from They Live in understanding the current Greedflation crisis we’re currently in. At least it was for me.
Me too !
I won’t read Marx, but I will send an email to my local MP.
Realistically only a couple big executives/ceos have to be sent to the guillotine for the rest to smarten up... just thinking out loud
28:28 I'm from Saskatchewan, and we have our own buffoon for a Premiere, but good grief did you ever have me doubled over laughing at that one. Well done sir, that was a good one. You have earned a new subscriber.
This situation is happening in Australia as well. We have a duopoly that controls, not only the two biggest grocery stores, but the majority of the petrol stations. Corporate price gouging is, internationally, reaching truely sickening levels and the contempt for their own customers appalling.
Same here in Aotearoa
And it will never change under capitalism.
@@thomass2451 And under socialism and communism everyone would be dead because no one would have the basic necessities to live.
Australia is next China and North Korea
Oh, for those curious: if you made 1 dollar every minute of every day, you would reach 463,000,000 dollars in approximately 881 years.
*881 years.*
For reference, 881 years ago was 1142 CE, the middle of the medieval period. It's also well over 5 times as long as the country of Canada has been considered a country.
Numbers add up, but some add up really slowly. Most of us would consider $60/hr. to be fantastically rich.
@@jessebrook1688 Indeed. So just imagine what insane amount someone needs to be earning per hour to get to 463m within less than a human lifetime
@@juniperrodley9843 Because I'm a pedant, $587.27 should do it in 90 years. Obscene.
Are planet is so fucked . Peak possible middle class ended 70 years ago. bigger wealth disperity only grows from hereb. There's no going back because these systems that got us here are pretty well iron clad. Being a realistic blows. What does being a pessimist feel like
@@jarroddiffley981 Exactly how you feel right now. Realism is recognizing that the fight is hard. Pessimism is calling it impossible.
I'm disabled and on a fixed income. I can't afford to rent because rent in my area is over 1,000 for a bachelor's not including utilities. (Note that I live in a relatively small shitty city) My partner is schizophrenic and can't afford his meds. The government will take away my support if I have 10,000 in my bank account. I live with my parents and my siblings as well as my sibling's partner adding up to 9 people in a single house. We survive off of my step dads trucking job and my mom's student loans. I will never be able to afford to live independently in this current system. I had a job before but they fired me for no reason I know of and I have applied to everything in my area but can't even get an interview. All of my friends and other young people I know are in similar situations. I'm so sick of older people who have been able to establish themselves in a time when things were more livable minimizing and ignoring everything going to shit around us. We need to organize and take action, this isn't going to fix itself and most importantly let's not except anything less than what we deserve. Everyone deserves to fucking live.
We need food co-ops and housing co-ops. I am also on ODSP and I will lose my home. I want to sell it to a co-op and rent half of it back from them. Under the ODSP regulations I get next to nothing from my roommate, they claw it back. If I sold it to a co-op and rented it back, I would get the full amount I collected from my roommate. It's insane, it's designed to ruin people.
@@burnyizland I'm really sorry about your situation. I'm a survivor of abuse as a child so I understand to some extent. If you set up a gofundme I will share it to my circle and try and do outreach for you. I used to have support through a women's shelter called three Oaks in my area maybe there is something similar near you that you could reach out to? At least to keep you and your child safe for a while even if it's not a long term solution. All we can do is support eachother as a community since the government doesn't give a shit about us
I'm American, and don't know Canadian companies well. Hearing the name "Loblaw's" for a grocery store have me the exact same indescribable feeling as when I first heard of the grocery store "Piggley-Wigglie's".
Something about the silly way it sounds combines with the knowledge that the store is (or was) a big enough store to be seen as professional and commonplace does something very strange to my brain.
I work in one of their retail stores, it's not just the increased prices. Over the last ten years they have reduced wage caps, cut benefits, and staff hours. You are expected to do more work, with less people, for less pay.
Thank you for getting the word out to non-Canadians regarding the shitbags in your territories. I've been to Canada and have seen this fabled No Name product, but had no idea just how exceptionally evil the CEO of the company is. Good to know to avoid it for if I ever make my way back up there again (or their shit is distributed to us).
I work in a small business Canadian butcher shop and we shake our heads at the prices big grocery stores are posting. Not only is their meat some of the lowest quality stuff you can buy (legally) but as you pointed out in your video they post ridiculously high prices. It would be one thing if they were offering individual butchering services for those prices but they are charging more than we do for some things and it's self-serve from a bunker!!!
First time viewer here. Brilliant piece. A condensed version should be on national news.
This video is full of a very specifically Canadian-feeling fury that I greatly appreciate. Fury is absolutely the correct response to all things Loblaws and Galen Weston.
I work for Loblaw (unfortunately) and this week they cut our hours to subsidize installing gated fencing INSIDE THE STORE in a hairbrained scheme to thwart theft. HAlf my coworkers get their meals from the food bank or just don't eat
Loved the video. I do hope you continue to do videos about other Canadian Scumbags, like the Ivring Brothers. I feel people in Canada don't talk nearly enough about how they run pretty much all of the Maritimes , especially my home province of New Brunswick.
Cuz nobody can understand each other! 😅🤣😂
I didn't know about them, but I'll be doing ym research now. Solidarity my fellow hoser ✊️ may we eat our rich together someday
@@tyrthesemiwise304didn’t know about em either
Well done! Canadian oligarchs get an easy ride in obscurity
Excellent video.
Canada has a duopoly. Sobeys and Loblaws control the vast majority of the grocery scene in Canada. They have been raising margins in lock-step with each other for the past 5 years. Because they can. They got caught price fixing bread, because they can. If anyone reading this thinks they only price fix bread, and nothing else, give your head a shake.
Canada experienced 11% inflation last year. But that is a top down image. If food, energy and housing make up more than 50% of your annual expenses, you personally experienced way, way more inflation than 11%.
If you use oil to heat your home, 100% inflation (2020 heating oil 70 cents/liter, this winter, $2/liter). Rent? 31%. Food, supposedly 10%.. but if that is the case, how come last year a bag of frozen vegetables was 5 bucks and now it is 9 bucks? And fruit went from 10 bucks to 14 bucks.. so lets call an honest food inflation rate of 40% and not the make believe numbers out of Ottawa. Ottawa's job is to placate the voter, that means telling lies when it suits them.
friendly reminder that if you see someone stealing food or essential goods from a grocery chain no you didn't 🖤
Nope. Theft helps increase prices. I am not allowing somebody else’s actions to ruin the sake of my survival. Like them I need to eat too and like everyone else they need to pay. This is another reason why many store chains in America are starting to shut down because of that.
@@magau3698 ...did you watch the video?? save that righteous energy for the real thieves who are exploiting us all and leave people who steal food for their survival alone. your mentality doesn't make you much better than these inhumane profit mongers.
@@magau3698 You're actually wrong about that, theft is actually built-in to companies' budgets. It's called "shrinkage" and they anticipate it
Store chains are shutting down because they want to keep up the appearance of high profits and growth, and use the excuse of in store theft as both a justification and to make them look like an underdog in the public eye. It's a tactic being used in a town near where I live in IL concerning a Walmart. If they shut down this location, that town will become a good desert as the closest grocery is a good distance away.
Renegade Cut deep dives into this on their video concerning Shoplifting, too.
Eh sounds a bit risky im not familiar with the law but if they realize you let them steal something could you get in trouble?
Fun fact, stealing from grocery stores is, hypothetically, comically easy as long as you don't literally do it in front of an employee, and even then, I'd bet most people working at grocery stores wouldn't give enough of a fuck to stop you
I worked in retail.
They fire heroes, actually.
I worked in food retail. I quite often didn't see a thing. They didn't pay me enough to care, and even if they did I probably still wouldn't have seen anything. Sometimes the computer also rang things like diapers and baby food up wrong, and if the computer has the wrong price, well, that's not my fault. I didn't accidentally push any buttons, scouts honor... 😏
I got snitched on in a safeway (food and deodorant) and goddamn if that security guard wasn't reacting with the same level of emotion as if I'd taken his wallet. In my mind I was like "Dude... you're not supposed to deepthroat the boot"
In Winnipeg, they have uniformed off-duty police officers to intimidate and harass people into not stealing. They spend most of the time on their phones, but if you call them out, they'll follow you to your car and bully you. And the worst part is that they can count it as pensionable hours, so we're all effectively subsidizing a private corporation to rent cops to protect their profit margin.
As an employee at Costco, I literally do not care if you steal. I will look the other way
Eagerly waiting the second part
being on disability with these price hikes have been scary.
The Alberta government de-indexed AISH from inflation so many people are considering ending their lives bc they can't afford to live. I'm sure similar things are going on in other provinces too.
My mom is on disability, and gets less than half of CERB. It's difficult. I can't get a diagnosis therefore am not able to be on disability, yet am too disabled to convince anyone in my field to hire me (and definitely not physically able to work at minimum wage jobs), so I'm just glad my dad is able to help with me paying for my appointments and food, and I'm sharing bills with some friends who needed a temporary place to stay. I do wish that insurance covered more. Like $40 pairs of socks I need to not feel dizzy, and the vitamins and supplements that are the only things keeping me at a somewhat abled state since I got horrible side effects from all the meds that have been proven to help (I literally tried everything and my doctor said to go to a naturopath or osteopath because she can't find anything to help, so yay, more expenses because healthcare sucks, and supplements are also considered food not drugs).
How does inflation, carbon taxes and the overall verifiable increased cost of production factor into this? Don’t get me wrong, these people are greedy, but they’re always greedy. Bottom line would be that if these companies are spending more, they would seek to increase profit as much or, supposedly, more than when times are “good.”
If their costs go up and they kept their profit margins the same, wouldn’t that increase their “profits” without them even so much as getting to their greedy part? I.e. 1% of $5 is more than 1% of $4. If they start spending $5 to produce something that used to cost them $4, couldn’t that naturally affect their profits before they even got greedy? Not to mention, if they reinvested their profits in the company, it would buy less than before inflation etc.
For instance, there are now thousands of dollars in extra costs just in transporting food alone. Along with thousands of dollars of scheduled increases that companies are anticipating. That’s before you get to the price hikes from shipping companies, this would be just the gas in the tanks of trains and trucks. On top of that, people are more broke so they’re going to opt more for essential items over luxury items. A grocery store will have to naturally increase the cost of essentials to cover their increased overhead because the “profits” from certain items won’t exist until the inflation and economy stabilizes because people aren’t buying them.
My point is, greed has a cost, and you have to pay that cost before you get to the greed part. So if their costs are going up, wouldn’t their profits go up in accordance?
So much of this seemingly comes down to basic economics of supply/demand, fewer goods purchased by more dollars and other very basic market concepts that have existed for hundreds if not thousands of years.
I guess the summation of my question is, why would you blame anyone but the government first? Corporations will always seek top dollar, but it would be nice if there wasn’t artificial increased costs they have to pay before that. The idea that people can’t conceive we will always have to pay more when they pay more is starting to disturb me.
There might be a multitude of factors influencing increased costs, but the solution seems pretty clearly based in the lessons one could learn from 8th grade social studies.
I get nobody has sympathy for rich corporations, but that doesn’t validate ignoring common logic that companies aren’t gonna spend more so they can make less.
Here's an update: Galen Weston has given himself a 3 mil $ raise because his "board members" said that he's actually significantly underpaid.... Also, the very next article is about the food banks running out from seeing 4 x the amount of recipients over the last few years....
I'm really glad someone is shining light on this. I work in the Bakery for the only grocerie store in my small town, which is under loblaws :| The owner of the store is a greedy prick that is also jacking up the price. it is fucking infuriating that I don't even live paycheck to paycheck I Iive 2 paychecks behind what I should be. I get to slave away making Galen money, while I can't eat. The only thing keeping consistent food in my mouth is the GM of my store keeps offering me expired stuff when it's pulled off the shelves. Life is just so fun in Canada right now!
Ooh, always a struggle to watch it immediately, or later when I can pay full attention.
Will probably just watch it twice.
My groceries are dollar store, giant tiger, farmers markets and foodbanks, farmers markets are now cheaper than the chains now.
Same also I like Grocery Outlet but I'm not sure if they're only in Ontario.
This is exactly what Kroger has done in America, especially at my effing Ralphs market where they're selling rotten and expired food at full price.
I worked at NoFrills for 4 years throughout highschool not too long ago... What I can tell you is that corporation is evil, even the franchise owners are scared of upper management.
Check your receipts when shopping at Superstore. Sale prices on the shelves don't always show up on your receipt. 2 out of 3 times I do this, I find I was charged the regular price, not the sale price on at least one item. Then I show customer service and get the item for free. I think they literally bank on most people not checking so it's still worth it for them.
We're in Canada and during the pandemic we've stopped eating meat since we were already struggling. Figured we could just eat eggs, tofu or nuts if we wanted protein, with some fish occasionally. Our weekly groceries dropped by a bit and we got used to it little by little. We took advantage of the No Name freeze to be able to afford eggs that were still priced at 2.99$ a dozen large eggs instead of 5.99$ for the next available egg brand. Now the cheapest eggs are 3.49$ for medium sized eggs.
It has been difficult since we're survivng on one stable salary only (mine). I'm currently on a diet not just to get a bit healthier and lose weight, but honestly, because I don't really have a choice neither. I feel hungry during the day and also right before bed, but nothing that water or sleep can't fix. My partner continues to eat as normal for the time being, since they can't concentrate if they're hungry, and I don't want them to feel hunger like I have.
Hey, I'm just popping in to say please be careful with your health. I'm a low income person from the US who has experienced hunger and inability to afford nourishing food. It can seem like it's not a big deal to be hungry before bed or at certain times of the day. But I know from personal experience that this can have permanent effects on your ability to function. I know that this comment means functionally nothing when people (me included) can't afford to eat. But the dangers of caloric restriction and going hungry are way greater than they seem. Please take care.
Can you cut your partner loose to save money?
Big mood, only meat I can afford is hot dogs. Eating lots of beans these days
In my original country, we traditionally eat a lot of pork and lard and generally speaking care more about flavour than health considerations (which are not an issue since over there we tend to be more physically active). When I moved to Canada, I found weird the obsession for "lean" meats and how they treat pork as somehow "lesser" food, and since I missed that good stuff, I keep looking until we found an Asian market selling pig skin which is the main ingredient for "chicharrones" and lard as byproduct.
They sell it as a discard product, so a 10 lb bag costs about $3 even now and I use the lard for my regular cooking. Not only is tastier than vegetable oil (IMHO), but it gives you a better feeling of satiation so you don't need to eat as much. And well.. chicharrones are divine.
Another thing, once I came to Canada, I worked as a contractor for a few years in a frigid, boring place with literally nothing to do during the winters, so out of boredom I taught myself random stuff. So I learned to make bread, pizza, pickles, beer, wine and a long etc. just for fun. And once you learn to prepare what you like how you like it, the store bough equivalents seem tasteless and not up to standards. So even after moving back to the civilization, I still use the stuff I learnt and even saved a lot of money in the process, so if you are struggling I strongly recommend you to consider doing the same.
I noticed that when I bought Complements brand eggs. I'm vegetarian and can't eat gluten, dairy, or fish, so I eat eggs, beans, lentils, rice, etc as staples. I'm on my dad's Costco membership since he doesn't have a spouse to give the second card to, and I can share Costco sized things with him, and my housemates, which really helps. I'm glad I grew a lot of my own veggies this past year, as I've been able to keep a lot of them longer (pickles, salsa, or just in the cold room), and scene points for groceries helps, but there are some things I don't buy anymore unless it's a really good sale.
I’m literally struggling on disability in Canada, I was unable to buy any meat this year because of this…
I've switched to eggs for protein but even they're going up now. This country is essentially run by oligopolistic business interests.
@@RobbyRaccoon yeah, I ordered a bunch of eggs but they are definitely over double the original price
So this is probably me being stupid, but as a vegetarian person, why did you specifically point out meat?
Does it have any deeper significance or was that just the first thing that came to mind?
(Sry, am autistic and may just be reading too much into shit. Also, fuck I am barely being able to leave without disability benefits by working and shoveling painkillers into me so all of this shit hits way too close to me. Because at some point the amount of painkillers I take is gonna catch up to me)
@@michimatsch5862 for most people meat is the most straightforward protein base for the cast majority of meals they can cook
@@michimatsch5862 normally it's one of the cheapest, tastiest, quickest ways to fulfill your dietary needs if you're on a budget. And meat is just at insane prices here.
I used to work at a NoFrills and they also (unsurprisingly) treat their employees like literal human feces! At least we might get lunch vouchers if we solicit donations from enough tired customers!
I use to work for Loblaws and it was the exact same was. My old manager told people they should quit if they aren’t happy at his store after finding out employees satisfaction dropped from 50% to 13% after he was hired
Even the big box furniture stores have increased prices by 40%. I was saving and planning to buy a genuine Leather Reclining Sofa set and it's price rose by over 40% in nearly one year !
It's the first of your videos that I watch, and I automatically pressed "Subscribe". Thanks for being outspoken about the frustrations we all feel. I follow economics and investing, and I feel the capitalist enslavement system we work under is losing it's balance with corporate greed. We (the 99%) have to do something to level off this pyramid scheme.
My friends are not eating regularly due to this. Real fucked up. I am trying to help everyone I can but even as a full time professional am struggling. This fucking country...
Thank you. This situation is quickly reaching a boiling point.
One can how, anyway. That seems to be the only way anything would change, is if this stuff truly reach a point of cataclysm.