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Four companies control two-thirds of Canada’s grocery market. In the US, the top four account for about a third. (opendatacanada.ca)
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Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro and Costco sell about 67 cents of every dollar Canadians spend on groceries, by a USDA estimate. The four biggest US food retailers sell about 35 cents.

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[–] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Those are all reasonable and necessary restrictions though, not sure why you think they're burdensome. Things like accessibility, traffic, public safety, etc are part of operating a business.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Part of operating a brick and mortar business yes, but digital is largely unregulated.

    Brick and mortar then largely gets captured by large corporations and main Street gets hollowed out.

    Public safety is important! But municipalities should be approving permits same day and making processes as simple as possible, and use standardized non bespoke rules.

    Accessibility... also important! But there should be more carve outs for small operators. It's one of those things that sounds nice but has actually caused things to be less accessible. Having an empty closed store front is the opposite of accessible.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago*

    100% this. A lot of local town regulation is implemented under a guise of community protection and wellbeing. Then in practise it displaces local businesses and replaces them with big corporate setups that can navigate the new rules more easily. They'll fine someone for not installing a ramp, but not provide that same ramp to the local park.

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