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Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket (www.bbc.com)
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Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become.

She fixated on one grocer in particular: Loblaw, the dominant food retailer in Canada, boasting nearly 2,500 stores.

Her Reddit group - named LoblawsIsOutofControl - was filled with photos of grocery items for sale at seemingly egregious prices, like C$40 ($29.36; Β£23.06) for 1.4 kilograms of chicken.

Soon after, Ms Johnson and others banded together to launch a nation-wide boycott against Loblaw, saying they were fed up with the disparity between rising food prices and record profits.

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[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

unrelated, but does everyone else remember Bob Loblaw's Law Blog?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oh man can he lob law bombs like it's nobodies business

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bob Loblaw lobbed law bomb: logged on Bob's law blog

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thank you. I needed someone to put that all together.