I read a paper recently while doing some research in my field. In Québec, a majority of food issues such as bacteria and unwanted contamination comes from the US while it’s a minority of the food that we import.

I’m on my phone and I’m pretty tired to find the source, but I read that about 6 months ago

I was under the impression that the FDA used to be the gold standard for drug approval until Trump.

But yeah, our food standards have always been shit

I assume they live there

Ohio has Skyline Chili and Jungle Jim's.

That’s super cool. I’d absolutely spend extra for Montreal bananas.

My home province of BC has been doing pretty good at growing stuff in hothouses, I’ve even routinely buying local lettuce and peppers and mushrooms from big stores like Costco even before the boycott started.

So we can do this. It will take some time to ramp up and getting imports from allies will help with us this transition period and beyond.

Back in the day, Cott was the #1 pop brand in Canada because they were the private label manufacturer for President's Choice cola. I remember because they also sold their own branded pop in Fields. Cott's Beverage got sold off somewhere, and more private label pop bottlers have taken the crown, but there is no reason why some of these pl bottlers couldn't start a house brand.

We are entering an era when the new Cott's Cola might outsell Coca Cola because it's the Canadian alternative.

I get it. I was just trying to figure out who to tell and was really taken aback by the defensive response. Ive run into a number of rude cashiers at this place as well, so Im venting somewhat.

My main concern is their high prices, poor quality, and general disregard for their customers. As the previous commenter pointed out, theyre setting up barriers everywhere to prevent shoplifting. One Loblaws place I go to has a grand total of two checkout stands left and only one cashier at a time. Theyre pushing self checkout hard which is just an excuse to downsize their staff. Meanwhile if you want to go to the bathroom you have to literally reenter the store because its past the barriers.

No other supermarket around here has these damn things and they arent pushing self checkout. Thats not to say places like Sobeys are ethical either. But at least they dont go out of their way to seem like they hate their own customers.

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but cashiers are pretty low on the totem pole at Loblaws.

Arrrg! What a missed opportunity for low on the food chain

OK I'll see myself out...

That totem pole phrase needs to die as it’s racist and inaccurate. Some chiefs lower on the totem pole are actually higher ranking.

Oh for sure. But if both stores dont care and only one berates me for even asking about it, makes the decision of where to go easy.