Sobeys, Loblaw under fire for maple washing, as Sobeys ditches maple leaf symbol in stores (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] JTT@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago

Well, Loblaws is run by George Weston Limited, chaired by Galen G. Weston—who makes an unsavoury appearance in the Epstein Files—so no surprise that he's willing to screw over Canadians without consent as well.

[-] glibg@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

What does it say about him? How would I look that up?

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 15 points 15 hours ago

remember kids if you see someone stealing food from sobeys, loblaws, zhers, longos, shoppers drug mart, any of these places then no the fuck you didn't.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 28 points 17 hours ago

So 127 cases of maple washing, and $20,000 in fines total.

That’s the fucking problem.

[-] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 10 points 16 hours ago

Yeah please multiply the fine by the volume of impacted consumers and we should be on the right track.

[-] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

My local Safeway tags their broccoli as 'US or Mexico', my local 'wholesale' (Jim Pattison owned) refuses to list country of origin on its produce, and the local loblaws owned grocery store doesn't even bother carrying non-US produce.

If i had the energy to fix up my yard, we would 100% be growing our own produce in the summer, and if we had the money for a greenhouse we would probably be growing year round

[-] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

This is so dumb. This could have been a win-win for supermarkets. They could have stocked more, properly labelled, Canadian products, and have people buy more of them, and given themselves tons of positive PR. There must be some hidden profit motive here to keep stocking US products. Capitalists gonna capitalize.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago

The profit margin isn't that hidden. Distributors pay groocery stores for shelf placement, and big US brands have deeper pockets and can outbid Canadian alternatives. The winning play, then, is to find any excuse to label US brands as Canadian, and collect from both sides.