Not one CEO went to Jail over the famous bread price fixing. So, why are we surprised at this? The fines are for less than the additional profit they make. Solution: Send Galen G. Weston and any other CEO's to spend a month in Jail if they allowed this. Guarantee the problem would be solved within minutes. If they have to suffer the consequences that the rest of us have to when we break the law, the message will be sent loud and clear. Right now they are above the law.
My local market in Sooke adds scraps...meat and poultry are sold packaged in styrofoam trays with an absorbent soaker pad underneath. Our local store uses TWO pads, with meat craps or chicken skin hidden in between. My last package of chicken wings had a 10% addition by weight added, and a boneless/skinless chicken breast bought the week before had the skin hidden in its "surprise" package" again, 10% of the weight. I have the photos. The meat department says it's an accident. I say that it is a deliberate scheme to defraud. Their scheme is earing them pocket change, and by the time I get through with them, the CFIA will be fining them big bucks.
@@grahammcfadyenhill9555 In Victoria the super store takes out of date steaks and other meat and grinds it into hamburger ( I watched the whole process) then puts a new date on it. They also take out of date chicken and Spice it for barbeque packages. I refuse to buy any meat from them.
Canadian made bacon, is 'salt cured', which is a water solution, injected in the meat. It is sold by weight, and nowhere on the package, can I find how much water is present. That is why it sizzles and shrinks so much when cooked. If possible, buy 'dry cured' bacon - a lot better.
@@jonathanbelanger6574 Interesting fact. Servers pay out into the tip pool based on sales. It was 4.5% at the last restaurant I cooked at. If the bill is $100, the server had to pay $4.50 just for you to sit at their table. If you only tip $3, the server actually loses money on that sale.
I just do not tip anymore. Can’t even go to any store anymore where there is not someone outside the door asking for money or the cashier asking for a donation? Tipping is over for me!! DONE!!
We had a butcher that actually did that. He was the only one in our small town, and when we shopped there, we always said "hands up, Nestor!' Sometimes we could actually see the scale jump.
Hup. ! Our ol small town German butcher shop was known for the wife resting her tits on the counter scare when she was selling meat to a customer! Lots of people would say, Lisa get your tits away from the scale platform!
I dont know about the other stores, but loblaws did it right. They calibrated their scales with a tray on top to zero out the weight of the tray. Dont know about the rest of them. And I dont know if they changed this, or if some stores are not doing it. Either way, I think this is a waste of time. The weight of those trays are minimal.
I work for one of the Sobeys stores. Our meat is weighed and automatically deducts the tray weight. For case meats we also weigh the meat alone on the scale before packaging it. I don't know what stores aren't doing this and if they are it has to be an accident
@@keefersmotherland1308 I just bought chicken breasts from a loblaws real canadian superstore in Alberta a couple weeks ago and the price weight included the packaging. Which was 10% of the total, and definitely not "minimal" for the price weight of chicken breasts!
@@alfalfa6945 If that's Walmart meat department .. they don't do their meat themselves. They outsource it. Thats on the supplier, but they arent Walmart, so they have to prove it is Walmart that is responsible.
@@SammysapphiraThere is. For instance, where do people go in Alberta if they want electronics? We used to have bunch of places. Now it's really just best buy. Groceries? Walmart, Safeway or lob laws. All of which work together keep prices up.
Oligopolies, the illusion of competition. They pay off the Government to keep competition out. Telus, Bell, Virgin and Rogers for phones and internet. BMO, CIBC, HSBC, Royal, Scotia, for Banks. Walmart, Sobeys for groceries etc.
When haven't these grocers screwed consumers. They've been doing it for decades. Milk, coffee, cereal, candy, chips, etc. Weigh it out. I buy nescafe and up to a certain date, the coffee was up to the neck of the jar. After covid, the grams was the same but the coffee was nearly an inch down from the top of the jar than normal. Coffee doesn't gain weight lol. They definitely ripped me off by 20 grams
actually they do not set the price on milk maybe chocolate milk but white milk pricing is set by the dairy board so it should be the same at all stores. as for the coffee you buy that is not the grocery store that is nescafe the stores have nothing to do with packaging most of their products like coffee cereal candy chips pasta and so on on most products they can only control how much they raise the price.
Maybe you should check the facts - it's climate change deniers screwing consumers. It's the politicians who are puppets to oil and gas who are screwing consumers. Climate change is wreaking havoc on crops world wide leading to higher food prices. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, have wreaked havoc on rice crops, apple orchards, citrus groves, coffee plantations, cocoa crops, grape and olive vineyards, soybean fields, extreme weather is catastrophic to food supply chains, also catastrophic to food supply is how conservative governments are putting the oil and gas industry ahead of farming and agriculture.
Maybe we should bring back the department of corporate and consumer affairs. The government used to enforce their regulations. Now its just lawyers just making money.
"just lawyers" - As in justice? get it? My butt!!! Seems to be the whole lot of them, not "just lawyers". Appears, they've all joined together and belong to the same club. There are famous quotes by Abraham Lincoln, about what's happening now. Ask yourself; Why is there no longer a Department of Corporate and Consumer Affairs? Why are more laws being generated and less regulations? Why does it seem people are becoming less significant, except for their ability to create a cash flow? Where would they be, without us?
@@chriskitchen4772 For sausages they do. The big problem is that in the USA it is legal up to add water up to 10% of the meat weight. In Canada, up to 15%. Salt is the best binder. The reason they put breadcrumbs and powdered milk (and phosphates) as binder is so it holds water. Big scam.
This is absolutely TRUE Ground beef swimming in the frying pan. Put a chicken in the oven, you pull out a Cornish game hen. I’m shocked at how much water comes out of a steak.
Agreed. I started going to a butcher and found not only the quality was better, but the prices too. Not sure about all butchers, but the one I've started going to has been great.
@@shadowspawn1528 they gotta make a living too - rather see my purchase and know what I’m getting - obviously you’re already paying more because these stores are stealing from you 🤷♂️🙄
Shop at local butchers bakers and markets. They usually have better quality, fresher food anyway. I find in the long run, I save money, by not throwing out the outdated crap the big guys sell. I also do some sprouting for fresh greens and make my own bread! There ARE ways to take back power!
Incorrect weights, bread price fixing, shrinkflation, self-checkouts, security breach of customers data, watered down Scanning.Code of Practice penalties ALL seem to hurt their loyal customers and benefit the stores.
Just don't blame the store employees for this, they get yelled at with this stuff enough. Paid minimum wage to ensure you have groceries and most quit because of customer abuse. The in-store employees don't make the prices, aren't handling customer data (most don't even store credit card information in-store anymore), and they don't have a say whether self checkouts come into their store or not. Be mad at the executives sure but don't bring it into the store
Remember the bread Lawsuit? People were entitled to 25 dollar gift cards... but you had to give up 3 pages of personal information. This won't do anything but take years in court. Lawyers will get richer that's all.
01:00 Isolated incident? 😂 Roman emperor Nero bored holes in the coins of the empire extracting some of the inner coin (gold & silver) and filled them with lead. Those who are unaware of history are doomed to repeat it.
The Jews were forced into 50 years of slavery by Ramses ii for shaving gold and mixing lead with it, along with trying to substitute coloured, cut glass as rubies when the Israelites were the jewelers and goldsmiths of the pharoahs with their subsequent expulsion by Merneptah, son of Ramses at the end of the term. I love how the Bible twisted all that around to make the Jews look like the victims.
Rome also has burned down on purpose in order to "build back better" and buy up the land at a cheap cost , all under sustainability environmental agendas. See what's happening on the west coast? We are still under Roman law most people do not understand that
I stopped buying meat in 2024 at Real Canadian Superstore in the GTA as I have noticed at the butcher counter they weigh after packaging, I have also noticed in the last year they have moved to a heavier packaging. Also, over the last couple of years, the cost of the meat I usually bought there had almost doubled.
Thats the carbon tax. Its basic math. 10% Carbon Tax means everyone pays more at each stage of the process to get that meat to the store. It works out to 1.1 x 1.1 for each area that uses fuel for operations. Grain farmer (1.1) Trucker to get grain to cattle farm (1.1) Cattle farmer (1.1) Trucker to slaughter house (1.1) Slaughter house (1.1) Trucker to Grocery store (1.1) ... thats 6 increases just to get it to the store where you buy it. And an overall cost increase of 75% just for fuel. That doesnt take into account for the workers increased wages, to match cost of living increases, or other costs that are affected by the Carbon Tax. Use your head. Let me guess, you voted for Trudeau? Thats why you dont blame the Carbon Tax?
Also .. before they scale any of the product, do you see them calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top? When they zero out the scale with a tray on top, when they take the tray off, the scale reads a negative value. You don't pay for the cost of the tray's weight, and if the tray gets heavier, and they are still calibrating with the empty tray on top, it doesnt matter how much the tray weighs.
@keefersmotherland1308 Stop lashing out at random you schizo lmao Where did the dude mention Trudeau or the carbon tax? Take the chip off your shoulder.
@ as in the mistake was made in corporate, ergo company wide, and they caught it in one store. now go do your homework and stop trying to gatcha people old enough to be your daddy on the internet
It is deliberate. Over the past thirty years I've reported the weight of the packaging being included in the meat-weight, to supermarkets' management. All have basically told me to take a hike. So they've known but have chosen to not stop doing it. It's only when the news and the government get involved that they might change their ways.
Before they scale any of the product, do you see them calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top? When they calibrate the scale with a tray on top, when they take the tray off, the scale reads a negative value. You don't pay for the cost of the tray's weight, and if the tray gets heavier, and they are still calibrating with the empty tray on top, it doesnt matter how much the tray weighs. Let me guess, did you vote for Trudeau?
@@keefersmotherland1308 What are you yammering on about? You're talking about taring. And they're not taring with the tray on the scale. If you have access to a proper scale, it's easy to tell you're being ripped off. The weight stated on the package is what you see displayed on the scale _when the meat is in the packaging._ Remove the packaging, and then the weight of the meat is less than the stated weight on the label.
@@r.1599 If you cant understand what I said, maybe its best you sit this one out before you make yourself look like a fool. You have to zero the scale with a tray on it to avoid having the weight of the tray calculated in the weight of the meat on the tray. Very simple to understand. That is the ONLY way the packaging is not included in the weight. And for fresh store packaged product, they are instructed on day 1 training, to scale with an empty tray so the weight doesnt get added to the cost. This is what happens with a liberal run education, people dont understand basic common sense.
@@r.1599 And .. if its products like Walmarts ground beef, that is weighed, packaged and labelled before it gets shipped to the store, that's on those suppliers, not on Walmart.
Is it possible to take action against them for including the weight of the water in packaged meats? Take a look at your chicken breast and notice how much water is in the container.
water loss is normal- everything dries out- that moisture is trapped in the packaging- boneless chicken breasts more so, No major chain store packages chicken in the store- it comes in prepacked- and sometimes pre priced.
Working at Sobeys, I can confirm all our items, when punched into the scale, cause the scale to go into the negative. Once all packaging is added to the scale, the weight returns to 0. This is how the scales only charge for the weight of product, not packaging.
@@MrBucky769 You're welcome to join the class action lawsuit - and be proven incorrect at least with regards to Sobeys. The day after this news broke with Loblaws, we had to verify all scale weights at store level to ensure everything was functioning as intended - and it was. You pay for the weight of the product only.
Yeah same at Loblaws. Calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top to negate any added weight from the tray. Then once the meat is added the weight of the tray is already negated.
Just because the store YOU worked at may have followed the rules, doesn't mean they ALL do. Unless you worked at each and every one of them, you CAN'T claim this as being a fact.
Definitely happening at the superstore in Yorkton, weight of plastic was 50 grams, that was included in the oversized tray for 400 grams of ground beef.
I frequently take the meat or poultry out of the package and weigh it on a digital scale and compare the reading to the label weight. When there is a discrepancy, always in the store's favour, of course...I take photos of the package, the product and my scale reading. Makes for interesting conversation on our next store visit. They hate me, which means I am right about them.
And Pierre Poilievre's TOP advisor is a lobbyist for LOBLAWS, while Galen Weston is one of his donors. This is public knowledge. There's NO WAY that PP will bring down the price of groceries. It's beyond delusional to think that he will ever do anything except work FOR the corporations.
You think that's bad? You should look into what Poilievre married into and with their pedigree, I no longer wonder what runs Ottawa. His wife, who came here from Venezuela with her family in the mid 90s is a political staffer in Ottawa. Her father, Luis Galindo, worked as a banker in Venezuela and had to flee to Canada ahead of money laundering charges. Seems he was in tight with FARC, the terrorist group that finances their activities with murder, kidnapping, extortion and cocaine.
@@1topbaron559 A Canadian Trump with Venezuelan terrorist and money laundering affiliates? How's that work out again, or are you attempting subterfuge to throw everyone off from the fact he's really just another Trudeau with a different french catolic last name?
Man food is expensive enough, do they really need to fleece us out of the packaging weight? Ugh. Ill bring a ziploc bag, just toss it in there and slap the code on ffs.
@@billverge7822 I recall packaging meet at a grocery store years ago and seem to recall the tare amount would print out on the label with all the other information.
I doubt that this was intentional. First, todays packaging is very light, so weighing with the package might not increase profits much. Second, it is much easier to increase price by a few cents for the same profit increase. I think this happened because the balance was not tared for the packaging, out of negligence.
So did I and you are full of crap. Before they scale any of the product, they calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top. When they zero out the scale with a tray on top, and they take the tray off, the scale reads a negative value. You don't pay for the cost of the tray's weight, and if the tray gets heavier, and they are still calibrating with the empty tray on top, it doesnt matter how much the tray weighs. So go blow your BS elsewhere. Must be a Trudeau supporter if you are going to lie like that and think you can actually get away with it.
Thank you for admitting to this happening where you worked. Several commenters deny this EVER happening at a specific store chain because they happened to work at ONE that didn't do this.
I hate to say it but most people know nothing about this issue. I worked in a grocery store for years. if you look at all the packages that are priced the same they have different weights. I always pick the heavier one .they should all be priced differently according to the price per kilo or pound . I stopped a man from buying a package that was underweight . this has been going on for quite some time.
Oh come on. of course this is intentional. Is anyone else getting tired of the "get out of jail free card" for people and companies saying "opps, this was an isolated incident, we fixed this as soon as we realized (i.e. you caught us), it was a system error" etc? This is straight up theft and I would image when you combine the incidents it is well over $1000 or $5000. The gov should be freezing the bank accounts of those involved .... since we all know they are capable of doing that...
Yeah, that happened over here in Australia, Australia had a class action lawsuit paid out an enormous settlement of 180 million the problem with it. The consumers got $1.20 to $3.50 each when the Atternies got $58 million real world this actually happened so keep your $1.20. I will not be entertaining myself into this lawsuit for this simple fact.
As a past Safeway/Sobeys meat manager I have to say that just about all the products in our scales have tares in them already programmed in. I will say however if a problem is presented to the company they do not want to fix it. It falls on the individual person who is wrapping the product to ensure that the tare is correct. When busy these things are easily missed.
Loblaws calibrated every time, before packaging and wrapping everything. Because they didn't use the same tray for everything, each time they were working on new product, it was calibrated with an empty tray first. Didnt matter if it was busy or not, it was procedure. If thats changed, then something needs to be fixed. But if thats still the practice today, then this lawsuit wont go anywhere.
One of our two community grocery stores does this as a store policy. It is no secret, and it is one of the reasons the store is quietly failing. Justice.
They calibrate the scales with an empty tray on it, so when they take the tray off its a negative value. This is a horrible lawsuit to try for. And I hope its tossed on day 1. These lawyers should have a written reprimand for trying a frivolous lawsuit like this.
Went to Kroger/Smiths today. No Produce some other isle were empty. Picked up my medications, instead was $30 more then usual!! I know for sone people it is not much but being on Social Security it’s a lot!
Worked for many years in meat departments.Absolutely this happens. Sometimes by accident, sometimes deliberately. There used to be government inspectors that came into the stores and checked for compliance on packaging tares. And also scale calibration. They stopped doing that decades ago.
NOPE ... I worked there too and there is clear instructions from the corporation on how to do everything, for everything that happens in the meat department. If this is happening, its happening because of that specific store managers doing.
It is about time someone made these companies accountable. Since the Covid crisis I have noticed a lot of shenanigans when I am in the local grocery store and was wondering how legal these practices actually are as the amount of food I am getting for the money now has changed dramatically.
Love finding those old lumps of old gray/green meat in the package...proof that they are "regrinding"...grinding yesterday's unsold stock into today's. They must think we are all blind.
Yeah this does happen, ground beef that was packaged yesterday, and not sold, it does get mixed in with the fresh meat and packaged for todays shelves. This is the one statement I have seen in all the comments that is actually true. Soaking in water, doesnt happen. Paying for the weight of the tray, doesnt happen. But yeah, this does.
@@keefersmotherland1308 Adding water to meat has been going on forever. You need to fry up some of the cheapest ground beef from the supermarket (like the chubs from the freezer section), and compare it to the same grade (lean, extra lean, etc) of ground beef bought at the butchers, and the amount of water that comes out of the cheaper stuff is crazy. It's the same with chicken, fish fillets, and just about anything else in the meat and fish section. There is most definitely more water in the cheaper items found at supermarkets! Turkeys and chickens at the supermarket actually have salt water injected into them.
The older I have gotten the more I realize, other than some smaller food stores but most of the grocery stores from Save on foods/Safeway/RCSS/Wallmart are so f'n gross and not fresh it seems. Dont get me going on the workers in these stores, thats a whole 'nother topic
I think many workers are probably good, but at any time when a business gets too big, your gonna lose on quality. It's a reminder, even to myself, to support small businesses.
@@gghf357 I dunno have a look around some of the bigger Save On foods/Safeways/RCSS/Wallmarts if you go to any. Almost for sure will see some workers on their phones/texting/playing doing whatever anyways who knows wont go on about "workers" cuz never know what people are doing--but cuz they have gotten so big also the pay and the majority of "who the workers" are is easily noticeable also---The freshness of the products though /food I just dont feel it in the bakery or the seafood or produce at all...just f'n gross and how everything can be touched by 100s of people etc
They are leaving in excessively large amounts of fat and unnecessary bones and tendons. My son butchers all that off and has weights separately on his weigh scale.... It's disgusting they're doing it on purpose to up the price.
You arent being screwed. This is a frivolous lawsuit with no merit. Anyone who has worked in the meat department will be able to recite clear instructions on how everything is done in the department. And if there is some shady business, its not from the corporation, it comes from the store level management.
I am in ontario when i scale my own meat purchases. the package weight was included also included in the total. On several club packs of steak, it was approx 400 gms. That's just shy of a pound over 4 packs.. When i called the store and asked the meat dept they confirmed package weight should not have been added. And they would check scale. I get the fealing its more common than they let on. I did not pursue any further due to scale not being calibrated however Its extremely accurate digital type. I recommend people check. This can add up fast if you buy in bulk like i do.
So when these corporations pay the settlements out how do I get my money back? Do I need to come with receipts and figure out how much I've been screwed. These settlements never send a message because they keep doing these scams. Send people to jail the same way I would be sent to jail for scamming someone and then you will things change. Or we will just have more Luigi's style situations to look forward to.
There's usually a notice that comes in the mail if one of these very large, nation-wide class action lawsuits wins in court, like a letter sent to every household, as well as all the various news media reporting on the lawsuit and providing an application weblink. And you usually have something like a year in which to apply, so even if you lose or don't get the letter, or miss all the news reports, you can also always google for how to apply if you don't happen to hear about it until quite some time later. And usually anyone can apply although occasionally, depending on the lawsuit and the issue in question, you might need to show proof of purchase (which can also sometimes be a copy of a credit card statement or bank statement, it doesn't always have to be a receipt). But the rebate usually isn't very much (it's usually only something like $10 to $25) and you always DO have to provide all kinds of information about yourself (name, address, phone number, birth date, driver's license number, and anything else they might ask for), so that they can be sure no one applies for the rebate more than once. And frankly I never wanted to give any of these shady greedy corporations that much personal information about myself in exchange for such a piddly sum of money, but that's just me.
Sign up for the class action: You'll get $1.50 in 5 years, while the law firms get $$$$$$$$$$... Under the guise of consumer protectionism. Meanwhile, all we really need is for our officials to enforce regulations, and news stories like these help get attention. But hey, any reason for a law firm to take in money for us. LOL
How cute. You all think this is just grocers that do this. Anything bought by weight, unless you're buying bulk, is overpriced and underweight. For example, 9 of us went on a shopping spree at the government weed store, bought 5 items each, weighed them before we did mass spec tests on the products. Number one, you're all being poisoned with not just herbicides, but pesticides and fungicides that cause COPD like symptoms and heart palpitations. Now, the weight was off on 3.5 gram packs by an average of .67 of a gram. The 7 gram packs were off on average by nearly a full gram and the 1 ounce packs were off on average by 1.13 grams. Ripped off and murdered. What a time to be alive.
what tuype of mass spec, what type of sample prep, and why not publish the results? canadian journal of chemical engineering will accept papers from anyone if they did mass spec on some samples with proper controls.
@alicewright4322 Typical ionization of samples, analysed with Python I think. I'm not the one with the background although I must say it's not rocket science.
Marketplace weight check is flawed as they didn't allow for the weight in the soaker pad that absorbs liquid that the product leaks out which the retailer can't account for...a new check needs to be done with the weight of soaker pad included..50 years retail experience ..Marketplace needs to do a better job researching before they release results...sad
They check it for ever product they wrap. That soak pad is already added in to the calibration before they start wrapping and weighing the product. If its prepacked items, then the weight is on there already and the grocery chain has nothing to do with it. That's on the slaughterhouse, not the grocery chain.
@keefersmotherland1308 ground beef and beef and pork are done in house...pkg,wrap and soaker pad are tare before weighing if checking weight a comparison must be done between a dry pad and wet pad and the difference must be added to the product to get true weight. Marketplace didn't do that so this lawsuit has no merit..😀
Something else to check Why would you have to add water to ground pork as well as bacon , sausages, beef etc Meat is not wet once it’s butchered and hung , moist inside not wet outside
I've seen the $8 extra lean ground beef packs go from ~462gm to ~430gm to now ~410gm in a period of about 6 months. So the actual meat content for a meat pack is also less. (At SaveON)
I tried to have a person in these named stories that could tell me when was the last time their checkout scales were certified as being accurate.4 scale scales in the bulk food section gave the same weight.The checkout one was always higher!
I do not believe that the plastic wrap and packaging con contribute 5/10 % to the weight of the product especially the larger the piece of the meat does not make any sense 5 kilos of meat would = 250/500 grams for the packaging ? maybe after a day of the juices leaving the meat and ending up in the packaging but not at the time of packaging
Not one CEO went to Jail over the famous bread price fixing. So, why are we surprised at this? The fines are for less than the additional profit they make. Solution: Send Galen G. Weston and any other CEO's to spend a month in Jail if they allowed this. Guarantee the problem would be solved within minutes. If they have to suffer the consequences that the rest of us have to when we break the law, the message will be sent loud and clear. Right now they are above the law.
Rich people don’t go to jail for fraud anymore.
A month? Try a few years
The fines are built into the price of the product. The consumer pays the fine.
Galen Weston is a big Trudeau guy and this is why he gets away with everything including the bread prices!
Free Luigi
The greed never stops with these thieves .
Watch Europa the last battle for more information about them
and the turdo liberals hand them all tax dollars to buy loblaws new freezers!
NEVER! The 1% don't ever stop with wanting more money and power. What a wonderful world. 🤦♀🤦♀
Don't like it, don't buy.
@@Lorrdd wow, how about, they don't commit Fraud.
They also add water to the packages.
My local market in Sooke adds scraps...meat and poultry are sold packaged in styrofoam trays with an absorbent soaker pad underneath. Our local store uses TWO pads, with meat craps or chicken skin hidden in between. My last package of chicken wings had a 10% addition by weight added, and a boneless/skinless chicken breast bought the week before had the skin hidden in its "surprise" package" again, 10% of the weight. I have the photos. The meat department says it's an accident. I say that it is a deliberate scheme to defraud. Their scheme is earing them pocket change, and by the time I get through with them, the CFIA will be fining them big bucks.
lmao, you should stop sniffing glue.
Dammm you propagandist even get paid to stop people talking about meat weight scam 😂
@@grahammcfadyenhill9555 In Victoria the super store takes out of date steaks and other meat and grinds it into hamburger ( I watched the whole process) then puts a new date on it. They also take out of date chicken and Spice it for barbeque packages. I refuse to buy any meat from them.
Canadian made bacon, is 'salt cured', which is a water solution, injected in the meat. It is sold by weight, and nowhere on the package, can I find how much water is present. That is why it sizzles and shrinks so much when cooked. If possible, buy 'dry cured' bacon - a lot better.
Can we also sue the restaurant for suggesting tip percentages based on the after-tax amount?
the bullying of tipping culture is out of hand
I give nothing if I have to stand up and order, also if I'm sitting I give no more than 3$
Greedy grocers finally met gredier Jewish lawyers!! lol 🤣
@@jonathanbelanger6574 Interesting fact. Servers pay out into the tip pool based on sales. It was 4.5% at the last restaurant I cooked at. If the bill is $100, the server had to pay $4.50 just for you to sit at their table. If you only tip $3, the server actually loses money on that sale.
I just do not tip anymore. Can’t even go to any store anymore where there is not someone outside the door asking for money or the cashier asking for a donation? Tipping is over for me!! DONE!!
Today's version of putting your thumb on the scale.
We had a butcher that actually did that. He was the only one in our small town, and when we shopped there, we always said "hands up, Nestor!' Sometimes we could actually see the scale jump.
Hup. ! Our ol small town German butcher shop was known for the wife resting her tits on the counter scare when she was selling meat to a customer! Lots of people would say, Lisa get your tits away from the scale platform!
Businesses were ripping off customers back then as well by weighing packaging.
@@drunkndisorderly83 businesses have always ripped people off. There is no changing that without changing people first
all of these grocery claim to be single incident. That's just pure bs.
I dont know about the other stores, but loblaws did it right. They calibrated their scales with a tray on top to zero out the weight of the tray. Dont know about the rest of them.
And I dont know if they changed this, or if some stores are not doing it. Either way, I think this is a waste of time. The weight of those trays are minimal.
I work for one of the Sobeys stores. Our meat is weighed and automatically deducts the tray weight. For case meats we also weigh the meat alone on the scale before packaging it. I don't know what stores aren't doing this and if they are it has to be an accident
@@keefersmotherland1308 I just bought chicken breasts from a loblaws real canadian superstore in Alberta a couple weeks ago and the price weight included the packaging. Which was 10% of the total, and definitely not "minimal" for the price weight of chicken breasts!
Quite serendipitous that grocery stores seem to always get caught on the "first" time they do something shady...
@@alfalfa6945 If that's Walmart meat department .. they don't do their meat themselves. They outsource it. Thats on the supplier, but they arent Walmart, so they have to prove it is Walmart that is responsible.
See what happens when your economy is based on monopolies
There are no monopolies
@@SammysapphiraBell and Rogers
Canada loves a good monopoly, not seen so many since I moved here
@@SammysapphiraThere is. For instance, where do people go in Alberta if they want electronics? We used to have bunch of places. Now it's really just best buy. Groceries? Walmart, Safeway or lob laws. All of which work together keep prices up.
Oligopolies, the illusion of competition. They pay off the Government to keep competition out. Telus, Bell, Virgin and Rogers for phones and internet. BMO, CIBC, HSBC, Royal, Scotia, for Banks. Walmart, Sobeys for groceries etc.
When haven't these grocers screwed consumers. They've been doing it for decades. Milk, coffee, cereal, candy, chips, etc. Weigh it out. I buy nescafe and up to a certain date, the coffee was up to the neck of the jar. After covid, the grams was the same but the coffee was nearly an inch down from the top of the jar than normal. Coffee doesn't gain weight lol. They definitely ripped me off by 20 grams
actually they do not set the price on milk maybe chocolate milk but white milk pricing is set by the dairy board so it should be the same at all stores. as for the coffee you buy that is not the grocery store that is nescafe the stores have nothing to do with packaging most of their products like coffee cereal candy chips pasta and so on on most products they can only control how much they raise the price.
Especially chips lol half air in the bag
Makes me so angry.
That’s not grocers.
Maybe you should check the facts - it's climate change deniers screwing consumers. It's the politicians who are puppets to oil and gas who are screwing consumers. Climate change is wreaking havoc on crops world wide leading to higher food prices. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, have wreaked havoc on rice crops, apple orchards, citrus groves, coffee plantations, cocoa crops, grape and olive vineyards, soybean fields, extreme weather is catastrophic to food supply chains, also catastrophic to food supply is how conservative governments are putting the oil and gas industry ahead of farming and agriculture.
Maybe we should bring back the department of corporate and consumer affairs. The government used to enforce their regulations. Now its just lawyers just making money.
Lmao people wanted to pay less taxes so government was down sized during Harper's reign
"just lawyers" - As in justice? get it? My butt!!! Seems to be the whole lot of them, not "just lawyers". Appears, they've all joined together and belong to the same club. There are famous quotes by Abraham Lincoln, about what's happening now.
Ask yourself; Why is there no longer a Department of Corporate and Consumer Affairs? Why are more laws being generated and less regulations? Why does it seem people are becoming less significant, except for their ability to create a cash flow? Where would they be, without us?
It ALL adds up!! These days we are getting screwed everywhere! I will join for sure!
If you steal a chocolate bar, you will go to jail !!!! until they put CEO's in jail for theft....this type of corporate crime will continue !!!
Lol no jail for a bar.
You're not going to jail if you steal a chocolate bar lmao 🤣🤣🤣
@@jovo55 go try it when a cop is around - I dare you !!!
@@jovo55You missed the point.
@@Yooper2024 If you want to make a point, get your facts straight
Pumping the meat with fluids is a worse issue.
Sick. Everything already so expensive and this is what they do. These companies are disgusting.
They add water to make it heavier too
Bull$hit, not true.
@@chriskitchen4772 For sausages they do. The big problem is that in the USA it is legal up to add water up to 10% of the meat weight. In Canada, up to 15%.
Salt is the best binder. The reason they put breadcrumbs and powdered milk (and phosphates) as binder is so it holds water.
Big scam.
@@chriskitchen4772 Oh it's true and lots of it.
True
This is absolutely TRUE
Ground beef swimming in the frying pan. Put a chicken in the oven, you pull out a Cornish game hen.
I’m shocked at how much water comes out of a steak.
Does this lawsuit include all provinces or just BC? If not a national class action, why not?
At the the end of the video it says that all Canadians can join
also for election "results" in BC?
Bread gate, chip gate and now meat gate. When will, it end? Enough is enough. Start issuing massive personal fines and stiff jail terms.
But wait! There's more...Weedgate! Government monopoly and the weight is off on everything they sell.
All.under Trudeau. His policy says "steal it while you can".
What about chips
And Galen Weston donates to Poiliviere. And somehow, people think PP is going to get grocery prices down? OMG.
@@Maplecook Pierre is just another Justin by a different name.
I see an incoming +25 cent "container charge"
Never buy meat at those stores - Walmart meat is horrible - but local from a deli/butcher - best tasting food and it’s weighed right in front of you
That sounds expensive!
Agreed. I started going to a butcher and found not only the quality was better, but the prices too. Not sure about all butchers, but the one I've started going to has been great.
@ not even remotely - local shops have deals and sales just like major stores 🤷♂️
in Waterloo region (Ontario) they are much more expensive to buy from sadly. I would prefer to shop local but not at 20+% more
@@shadowspawn1528 they gotta make a living too - rather see my purchase and know what I’m getting - obviously you’re already paying more because these stores are stealing from you 🤷♂️🙄
As a senior I’m increasingly becoming afraid to go food shopping. This just infuriates me.
Shop at local butchers bakers and markets. They usually have better quality, fresher food anyway. I find in the long run, I save money, by not throwing out the outdated crap the big guys sell. I also do some sprouting for fresh greens and make my own bread! There ARE ways to take back power!
Incorrect weights, bread price fixing, shrinkflation, self-checkouts, security breach of customers data, watered down Scanning.Code of Practice penalties ALL seem to hurt their loyal customers and benefit the stores.
one thing you mentioned shrinkflation doesn't benefit the store as much as it does the manufacturer.
We should have never turned our backs on mom n paps in the name of convenience, it turns out we’re really bent over…
Don’t forget skimpflation.
Mom-and-pop shops charge significantly higher all the time.
Just don't blame the store employees for this, they get yelled at with this stuff enough. Paid minimum wage to ensure you have groceries and most quit because of customer abuse. The in-store employees don't make the prices, aren't handling customer data (most don't even store credit card information in-store anymore), and they don't have a say whether self checkouts come into their store or not. Be mad at the executives sure but don't bring it into the store
Remember the bread Lawsuit? People were entitled to 25 dollar gift cards... but you had to give up 3 pages of personal information. This won't do anything but take years in court. Lawyers will get richer that's all.
01:00 Isolated incident? 😂
Roman emperor Nero bored holes in the coins of the empire extracting some of the inner coin (gold & silver) and filled them with lead.
Those who are unaware of history are doomed to repeat it.
The Jews were forced into 50 years of slavery by Ramses ii for shaving gold and mixing lead with it, along with trying to substitute coloured, cut glass as rubies when the Israelites were the jewelers and goldsmiths of the pharoahs with their subsequent expulsion by Merneptah, son of Ramses at the end of the term. I love how the Bible twisted all that around to make the Jews look like the victims.
I can’t believe out if all the history classes I took, I never heard that lol
@TheThora17
The history channel has some really good programs. I got this from "Ancients Behaving Badly".
Rome also has burned down on purpose in order to "build back better" and buy up the land at a cheap cost , all under sustainability environmental agendas. See what's happening on the west coast? We are still under Roman law most people do not understand that
I stopped buying meat in 2024 at Real Canadian Superstore in the GTA as I have noticed at the butcher counter they weigh after packaging, I have also noticed in the last year they have moved to a heavier packaging.
Also, over the last couple of years, the cost of the meat I usually bought there had almost doubled.
Thats the carbon tax. Its basic math. 10% Carbon Tax means everyone pays more at each stage of the process to get that meat to the store. It works out to 1.1 x 1.1 for each area that uses fuel for operations. Grain farmer (1.1) Trucker to get grain to cattle farm (1.1) Cattle farmer (1.1) Trucker to slaughter house (1.1) Slaughter house (1.1) Trucker to Grocery store (1.1) ... thats 6 increases just to get it to the store where you buy it. And an overall cost increase of 75% just for fuel. That doesnt take into account for the workers increased wages, to match cost of living increases, or other costs that are affected by the Carbon Tax. Use your head. Let me guess, you voted for Trudeau? Thats why you dont blame the Carbon Tax?
Also .. before they scale any of the product, do you see them calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top? When they zero out the scale with a tray on top, when they take the tray off, the scale reads a negative value. You don't pay for the cost of the tray's weight, and if the tray gets heavier, and they are still calibrating with the empty tray on top, it doesnt matter how much the tray weighs.
@keefersmotherland1308
Stop lashing out at random you schizo lmao
Where did the dude mention Trudeau or the carbon tax? Take the chip off your shoulder.
I'm calling bullshit on the grocery stores who say it was an ooops.
was a corporate oops and they only caught it in one store
@ScobnobulusNorumbo still calling bullshit
@@ScobnobulusNorumbo One store? Then how are multiple chains named? The only corporate anything around here is you... lol.
@ as in the mistake was made in corporate, ergo company wide, and they caught it in one store. now go do your homework and stop trying to gatcha people old enough to be your daddy on the internet
It is deliberate. Over the past thirty years I've reported the weight of the packaging being included in the meat-weight, to supermarkets' management. All have basically told me to take a hike. So they've known but have chosen to not stop doing it. It's only when the news and the government get involved that they might change their ways.
Or get an attractive Italian to deal with them
Before they scale any of the product, do you see them calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top? When they calibrate the scale with a tray on top, when they take the tray off, the scale reads a negative value. You don't pay for the cost of the tray's weight, and if the tray gets heavier, and they are still calibrating with the empty tray on top, it doesnt matter how much the tray weighs. Let me guess, did you vote for Trudeau?
@@keefersmotherland1308 What are you yammering on about?
You're talking about taring. And they're not taring with the tray on the scale. If you have access to a proper scale, it's easy to tell you're being ripped off. The weight stated on the package is what you see displayed on the scale _when the meat is in the packaging._ Remove the packaging, and then the weight of the meat is less than the stated weight on the label.
@@r.1599 If you cant understand what I said, maybe its best you sit this one out before you make yourself look like a fool. You have to zero the scale with a tray on it to avoid having the weight of the tray calculated in the weight of the meat on the tray. Very simple to understand. That is the ONLY way the packaging is not included in the weight. And for fresh store packaged product, they are instructed on day 1 training, to scale with an empty tray so the weight doesnt get added to the cost.
This is what happens with a liberal run education, people dont understand basic common sense.
@@r.1599 And .. if its products like Walmarts ground beef, that is weighed, packaged and labelled before it gets shipped to the store, that's on those suppliers, not on Walmart.
Thankfully, I eat the packaging with the meat, so it doesn't really affect me.
Why aren't they going after Metro & its stores..?!
Is it possible to take action against them for including the weight of the water in packaged meats? Take a look at your chicken breast and notice how much water is in the container.
water loss is normal- everything dries out- that moisture is trapped in the packaging- boneless chicken breasts more so, No major chain store packages chicken in the store- it comes in prepacked- and sometimes pre priced.
Ewww I’ve never seen water in my packages
Power to the people!
Uppermanagement will go to any measure to increase profits and therefore increase their bonuses.
I'm happy that there are people who look into this kind of stuff, and who work to keep major corporations accountable. TY ❤
surprised.Thats our consumer protection not doing their job.
Does it exist
Run by Liberals.
@isay207 we are paying for it sadly.
Including the package sounds fair to me
Also lose the excess sugar, and dangerous ingredients in grocery foods❤
CEO will have no consequence
Working at Sobeys, I can confirm all our items, when punched into the scale, cause the scale to go into the negative. Once all packaging is added to the scale, the weight returns to 0. This is how the scales only charge for the weight of product, not packaging.
Don't believe u
@@MrBucky769 You're welcome to join the class action lawsuit - and be proven incorrect at least with regards to Sobeys. The day after this news broke with Loblaws, we had to verify all scale weights at store level to ensure everything was functioning as intended - and it was. You pay for the weight of the product only.
Yeah same at Loblaws. Calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top to negate any added weight from the tray. Then once the meat is added the weight of the tray is already negated.
@@TheSobeysworker do you include the weight of the employee's thumb on scale!
Just because the store YOU worked at may have followed the rules, doesn't mean they ALL do. Unless you worked at each and every one of them, you CAN'T claim this as being a fact.
Red deer Canada does this too.
Definitely happening at the superstore in Yorkton, weight of plastic was 50 grams, that was included in the oversized tray for 400 grams of ground beef.
thats less than a pound of ground beef. How much was that package.
I frequently take the meat or poultry out of the package and weigh it on a digital scale and compare the reading to the label weight. When there is a discrepancy, always in the store's favour, of course...I take photos of the package, the product and my scale reading. Makes for interesting conversation on our next store visit. They hate me, which means I am right about them.
My left ear loves this
Come on...they need to make billions instead of millions. DON'T begrudge them.
And Pierre Poilievre's TOP advisor is a lobbyist for LOBLAWS, while Galen Weston is one of his donors. This is public knowledge. There's NO WAY that PP will bring down the price of groceries. It's beyond delusional to think that he will ever do anything except work FOR the corporations.
You think that's bad? You should look into what Poilievre married into and with their pedigree, I no longer wonder what runs Ottawa. His wife, who came here from Venezuela with her family in the mid 90s is a political staffer in Ottawa. Her father, Luis Galindo, worked as a banker in Venezuela and had to flee to Canada ahead of money laundering charges. Seems he was in tight with FARC, the terrorist group that finances their activities with murder, kidnapping, extortion and cocaine.
If voting made any difference, they would ban it… it only serves to further divide the populace and make you think you’re empowered
I'm just curious did you like the tax payer funded freezers? How's the wage gap now with this government?
He's nothing more then a Canadian Trump.
@@1topbaron559 A Canadian Trump with Venezuelan terrorist and money laundering affiliates? How's that work out again, or are you attempting subterfuge to throw everyone off from the fact he's really just another Trudeau with a different french catolic last name?
thanks for keeping the comments open for discussion. Big W.
We grow beef, and yet a $12 flank steak is now $120…
True it starts at the farm. Price of fuel has skyrocketed so think of the cost there.
Man food is expensive enough, do they really need to fleece us out of the packaging weight? Ugh. Ill bring a ziploc bag, just toss it in there and slap the code on ffs.
As somebody who has worked at a grocery store, you definitely tare the containers.
i worked @ an IGA in the 80's..yes we tare the packaging as well. Obviously times have changed
@@billverge7822 I recall packaging meet at a grocery store years ago and seem to recall the tare amount would print out on the label with all the other information.
Even if not the container barely weighs that much.
You worked in A (ONE) grocery store. Just because the ONE you worked at followed the rules, it certainly doesn't mean they all do!
“A grocery store”
I doubt that this was intentional. First, todays packaging is very light, so weighing with the package might not increase profits much. Second, it is much easier to increase price by a few cents for the same profit increase. I think this happened because the balance was not tared for the packaging, out of negligence.
Loblaw been doing this for years i know i worked for Loblaw for years
So did I and you are full of crap. Before they scale any of the product, they calibrate the scale with an empty tray on top. When they zero out the scale with a tray on top, and they take the tray off, the scale reads a negative value. You don't pay for the cost of the tray's weight, and if the tray gets heavier, and they are still calibrating with the empty tray on top, it doesnt matter how much the tray weighs. So go blow your BS elsewhere. Must be a Trudeau supporter if you are going to lie like that and think you can actually get away with it.
Thank you for admitting to this happening where you worked. Several commenters deny this EVER happening at a specific store chain because they happened to work at ONE that didn't do this.
@@JMG5522 "I didn't see it at my store so it must be the same everywhere else." ...My forehead is red from facepalming at reading those low IQ takes.
Why are they allowed to pump water into meat to up the weight?
I hate to say it but most people know nothing about this issue. I worked in a grocery store for years. if you look at all the packages that are priced the same they have different weights. I always pick the heavier one .they should all be priced differently according to the price per kilo or pound . I stopped a man from buying a package that was underweight . this has been going on for quite some time.
Regulations in Canada are a f’in joke across the board…
Walmart is believable. At least they responded. Sobeys and loblaw - no… they’ll steal from you at any chance.
So they are saying that the DEI hires screwed up how to weigh and package the meat. Not surprised.
Oh come on. of course this is intentional. Is anyone else getting tired of the "get out of jail free card" for people and companies saying "opps, this was an isolated incident, we fixed this as soon as we realized (i.e. you caught us), it was a system error" etc? This is straight up theft and I would image when you combine the incidents it is well over $1000 or $5000. The gov should be freezing the bank accounts of those involved .... since we all know they are capable of doing that...
Add cloverleaf to the list too.
I just opened 3 cans marked at 120g drained, none over 98g.
I'll be reporting them this afternoon.
The Scales Need To Be Calibrated In A Way That Doesn't Include Packaging.
Tare the fucking first package! They all weigh the exact same!
Yeah, that happened over here in Australia, Australia had a class action lawsuit paid out an enormous settlement of 180 million the problem with it. The consumers got $1.20 to $3.50 each when the Atternies got $58 million real world this actually happened so keep your $1.20. I will not be entertaining myself into this lawsuit for this simple fact.
People here to dumb to figure out the lawyers make all the money. Bunch of DFs think they goona get rich as they welly bums
@@sessions9869I agree if it’s to good to be true! Then it probably is…😂
As a past Safeway/Sobeys meat manager I have to say that just about all the products in our scales have tares in them already programmed in. I will say however if a problem is presented to the company they do not want to fix it. It falls on the individual person who is wrapping the product to ensure that the tare is correct. When busy these things are easily missed.
Loblaws calibrated every time, before packaging and wrapping everything. Because they didn't use the same tray for everything, each time they were working on new product, it was calibrated with an empty tray first. Didnt matter if it was busy or not, it was procedure. If thats changed, then something needs to be fixed. But if thats still the practice today, then this lawsuit wont go anywhere.
I've been wondering for a long time if they added the weight of packaging to the price.
One of our two community grocery stores does this as a store policy. It is no secret, and it is one of the reasons the store is quietly failing. Justice.
The packaging does not weigh that much.
They calibrate the scales with an empty tray on it, so when they take the tray off its a negative value. This is a horrible lawsuit to try for. And I hope its tossed on day 1.
These lawyers should have a written reprimand for trying a frivolous lawsuit like this.
Jagmeet said they all do. Except for Metro.
Because his family works there.
Went to Kroger/Smiths today. No Produce some other isle were empty. Picked up my medications, instead was $30 more then usual!! I know for sone people it is not much but being on Social Security it’s a lot!
Worked for many years in meat departments.Absolutely this happens. Sometimes by accident, sometimes deliberately. There used to be government inspectors that came into the stores and checked for compliance on packaging tares. And also scale calibration. They stopped doing that decades ago.
NOPE ... I worked there too and there is clear instructions from the corporation on how to do everything, for everything that happens in the meat department. If this is happening, its happening because of that specific store managers doing.
What about all the water and inflation?
We should be suing WEF altogther!
Sure, but then you'd find out they don't have anything to do with this or pretty much anything else. Then what will you do?
@@nuxkaminaah that's why Freeland keeps going to Davos each year. Just for kicks and giggles!
It is about time someone made these companies accountable. Since the Covid crisis I have noticed a lot of shenanigans when I am in the local grocery store and was wondering how legal these practices actually are as the amount of food I am getting for the money now has changed dramatically.
They always include the packaging in the weight , Butchers do this in front of customers , Paper goes on the scale then the meat .
My favorite is when they wrap fresh ground meat over old ground meat...
Never seen that before. Where have seen?
Love finding those old lumps of old gray/green meat in the package...proof that they are "regrinding"...grinding yesterday's unsold stock into today's. They must think we are all blind.
Yeah this does happen, ground beef that was packaged yesterday, and not sold, it does get mixed in with the fresh meat and packaged for todays shelves. This is the one statement I have seen in all the comments that is actually true. Soaking in water, doesnt happen. Paying for the weight of the tray, doesnt happen. But yeah, this does.
I had this at costco. Meat on top was fresh and below it the meat was brown and oxidized.
@@keefersmotherland1308 Adding water to meat has been going on forever. You need to fry up some of the cheapest ground beef from the supermarket (like the chubs from the freezer section), and compare it to the same grade (lean, extra lean, etc) of ground beef bought at the butchers, and the amount of water that comes out of the cheaper stuff is crazy. It's the same with chicken, fish fillets, and just about anything else in the meat and fish section. There is most definitely more water in the cheaper items found at supermarkets! Turkeys and chickens at the supermarket actually have salt water injected into them.
Well looks like packed meat is going up 5-10% for customers.
The older I have gotten the more I realize, other than some smaller food stores but most of the grocery stores from Save on foods/Safeway/RCSS/Wallmart are so f'n gross and not fresh it seems. Dont get me going on the workers in these stores, thats a whole 'nother topic
I think many workers are probably good, but at any time when a business gets too big, your gonna lose on quality. It's a reminder, even to myself, to support small businesses.
@@gghf357 I dunno have a look around some of the bigger Save On foods/Safeways/RCSS/Wallmarts if you go to any. Almost for sure will see some workers on their phones/texting/playing doing whatever anyways who knows wont go on about "workers" cuz never know what people are doing--but cuz they have gotten so big also the pay and the majority of "who the workers" are is easily noticeable also---The freshness of the products though /food I just dont feel it in the bakery or the seafood or produce at all...just f'n gross and how everything can be touched by 100s of people etc
In a way it is worse than price fixing....I wonder if any are guilty of that?
They are leaving in excessively large amounts of fat and unnecessary bones and tendons. My son butchers all that off and has weights separately on his weigh scale.... It's disgusting they're doing it on purpose to up the price.
And they flip the piece upside down so you cannot see all those in the packaging. That's intent to deceive
Why is this whole video only playing audio on the left? Thought my headphones broke for a sec 🤣
We can't even buy meat without being screwed
You arent being screwed. This is a frivolous lawsuit with no merit. Anyone who has worked in the meat department will be able to recite clear instructions on how everything is done in the department. And if there is some shady business, its not from the corporation, it comes from the store level management.
I am in ontario when i scale my own meat purchases.
the package weight was included also included in the total.
On several club packs of steak, it was approx 400 gms.
That's just shy of a pound over 4 packs..
When i called the store and asked the meat dept they confirmed package weight should not have been added. And they would check scale. I get the fealing its more common than they let on.
I did not pursue any further due to scale not being calibrated however
Its extremely accurate digital type.
I recommend people check.
This can add up fast if you buy in bulk like i do.
So when these corporations pay the settlements out how do I get my money back? Do I need to come with receipts and figure out how much I've been screwed. These settlements never send a message because they keep doing these scams. Send people to jail the same way I would be sent to jail for scamming someone and then you will things change. Or we will just have more Luigi's style situations to look forward to.
Rewatch the video
There's usually a notice that comes in the mail if one of these very large, nation-wide class action lawsuits wins in court, like a letter sent to every household, as well as all the various news media reporting on the lawsuit and providing an application weblink. And you usually have something like a year in which to apply, so even if you lose or don't get the letter, or miss all the news reports, you can also always google for how to apply if you don't happen to hear about it until quite some time later. And usually anyone can apply although occasionally, depending on the lawsuit and the issue in question, you might need to show proof of purchase (which can also sometimes be a copy of a credit card statement or bank statement, it doesn't always have to be a receipt). But the rebate usually isn't very much (it's usually only something like $10 to $25) and you always DO have to provide all kinds of information about yourself (name, address, phone number, birth date, driver's license number, and anything else they might ask for), so that they can be sure no one applies for the rebate more than once. And frankly I never wanted to give any of these shady greedy corporations that much personal information about myself in exchange for such a piddly sum of money, but that's just me.
Let's also talk about the extra water weight they've been adding to meats
Sign up for the class action: You'll get $1.50 in 5 years, while the law firms get $$$$$$$$$$... Under the guise of consumer protectionism. Meanwhile, all we really need is for our officials to enforce regulations, and news stories like these help get attention.
But hey, any reason for a law firm to take in money for us. LOL
It’s about time 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
My right ear couldn't understand
grocery stores are some of the biggest culprits when it comes to price gouging
There's no such thing as price gouging.
I've literally been saying this for years... I found this out when I got into fitness and started weighing food to track macros
The weed stores do the same thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently “bread price fixing” isn’t enough !?!?
Isolated incident?? No, it's rampant everywhere and with other products.
I remember when there was a scale at Sobeys for weighing candy, seeds and nuts lol
How cute. You all think this is just grocers that do this. Anything bought by weight, unless you're buying bulk, is overpriced and underweight. For example, 9 of us went on a shopping spree at the government weed store, bought 5 items each, weighed them before we did mass spec tests on the products. Number one, you're all being poisoned with not just herbicides, but pesticides and fungicides that cause COPD like symptoms and heart palpitations. Now, the weight was off on 3.5 gram packs by an average of .67 of a gram. The 7 gram packs were off on average by nearly a full gram and the 1 ounce packs were off on average by 1.13 grams. Ripped off and murdered. What a time to be alive.
what tuype of mass spec, what type of sample prep, and why not publish the results? canadian journal of chemical engineering will accept papers from anyone if they did mass spec on some samples with proper controls.
@alicewright4322 Typical ionization of samples, analysed with Python I think. I'm not the one with the background although I must say it's not rocket science.
Yes!
Go to a butcher they use paper to weight your meat and then your meat is rolled up in paper bring back the butchers
It's far less sanitary, and meat has a much shorter refrigeration life
I’m in High River, AB just bought some ground beef at No Frills and weight of packaging was included in product weight.
My old boss at Safeway used to tape quarters to the bottom on the meat scale and dump water in the hamburger to increase profits
bullshit. neither of those things would work- nor would they increase his pay.
Yeah I call BS too. I worked at a grocery chain and worked in the meat department, noone does this.
The lawsuit will just raise prices. Get them to lower
Marketplace weight check is flawed as they didn't allow for the weight in the soaker pad that absorbs liquid that the product leaks out which the retailer can't account for...a new check needs to be done with the weight of soaker pad included..50 years retail experience ..Marketplace needs to do a better job researching before they release results...sad
They check it for ever product they wrap. That soak pad is already added in to the calibration before they start wrapping and weighing the product.
If its prepacked items, then the weight is on there already and the grocery chain has nothing to do with it. That's on the slaughterhouse, not the grocery chain.
@keefersmotherland1308 ground beef and beef and pork are done in house...pkg,wrap and soaker pad are tare before weighing if checking weight a comparison must be done between a dry pad and wet pad and the difference must be added to the product to get true weight. Marketplace didn't do that so this lawsuit has no merit..😀
Can we also sue dentists that charge $450 to pull 1 easy tooth?
Greedy grocers finally met gredier Jewish lawyers!! lol 🤣
Something else to check
Why would you have to add water to ground pork as well as bacon , sausages, beef etc
Meat is not wet once it’s butchered and hung , moist inside not wet outside
Its the bread craze all over again
I've seen the $8 extra lean ground beef packs go from ~462gm to ~430gm to now ~410gm in a period of about 6 months. So the actual meat content for a meat pack is also less. (At SaveON)
I tried to have a person in these named stories that could tell me when was the last time their checkout scales were certified as being accurate.4 scale scales in the bulk food section gave the same weight.The checkout one was always higher!
Let’s talk about the amount of water in the beef. Sobeys is the worst. You boil the ground beef.
No they dont. You are full of BS !
@ then why have they been charged for it numerous times? Go get some and fry it then , see for yourself.
I do not believe that the plastic wrap and packaging con contribute 5/10 % to the weight of the product especially the larger the piece of the meat does not make any sense 5 kilos of meat would = 250/500 grams for the packaging ? maybe after a day of the juices leaving the meat and ending up in the packaging but not at the time of packaging