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Canada's grocery industry concentrated in too few hands, Competition Bureau says (www.cbc.ca)
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Canada's grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada's Competition Bureau says.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly it doesn't matter if we have antitrust laws or not when no one is willing to enforce them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It does matter, we just need to put more public pressure on them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I hope "public pressure" is euphemistic for things a little more, erm, firm than "write angry articles on cbc"

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

There was so much pressure on the Shawgers buyout, the Competition Bureau was overwhelmed. Yet, here we are.