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It’s infuriating. I have to drive past it to shop elsewhere

Governments around the world answer to the rich. Billionaires are the cancer that is destroying this planet. Not just the US and Canada. Name me one country that panders to billionaires that has a thriving working class. I'll wait.

“Regulatory responsibilities” needs a price mechanism attached: which rule changes the shelf price of groceries, and by how much? Otherwise the benefit is a transfer layered onto the same inflated checkout total.

Reminds me of the lack of regulation of the housing market, while we all stood by and watched prices climb for years that never came back down.

How about addressing market concentration, price fixing, strategically restricted supply, restricted competition?

It's an indirect subsidy for the grocery giants.

Time to squeeze the balls of the CEOs of big chain grocery stores. If the farmers are getting pennies, then big grocery is gouging the public.

Plus the new grocery benefit which replaced the carbon rebate+gst rebate is less. So not only are Canadians receiving less money with the grocery benefit, food costs more due to corporate greed.

Corporate greed is sacred. (Ask a university ayatollah of the Holy Economy.) Here, even the sky is not the limit. Challenging the greedy timeless financial elite is blasphemous!, according to the ‘science’ of believing in it with heart and wallet.

There’s also that whole dynamic pricing thing going on…

this is nonsense. grocery stores makes ~2% margins. prices are primarily going up due to currency debasement (too high gov't spending/too low taxation) and in the short-term oil/war

Maybe the moon is made of cheese! and THATS actually why billionaires need more tax loopholes! Sheer genius.

Yeah, no, b’y. Don’t be a corporate apologist.

Profit margins at major Canadian grocery stores have increased since before Covid. Landlords also increased rents significantly since before Covid. It’s GREED — and our politicians are enabling it.