Why should they when they have created enough unfair laws to enslave the population. Besides their tummies are well tucked with Michelin meals around the world and this is the trend among these new elite bourgeoise Marcoses to have either the chef or food flown directly to them.
Bro, this is a situation where the government is the culprit, and they are asking the grocers to solve the problem. Tell them to take off the carbon taxes that are raising the pricing of transportation and manufacturing and reduce the inflation from printing money.
@@theoilisburning7444Take a break off smoking the reefer budy because your comment makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. You're reading subjects that aren't even there 😅😅😅
@@LoveWeed3000 I’m just saying, North Americans tend to take what they have for granted and over complain even though they have the best lives, they just don’t realize it. But I bet you guys haven’t gone and seen how people in third world countries live yet.
I feel sad that so many Canadians still support the Liberals and their NDP puppets, that have created the mess we’re in now with food, housing and cost of living prices. Sure some stores are profiteering and they need to be punished but the reality is that food prices have almost doubled because of Justin Trudeau and his puppet Jagmeet Singh, not because of price gouging.
You are exactly where you should be with that attitude. As if they didn't work for it. You and the average person just doesn't know what success feels like and you hate on everything
IKEA in Singapore charges one small frozen roasted chicken leg with some veggies and a small dab of mashed potato for S9.50/- and the drinks shot up by 0.30 just within this month alone. The server even tried to save on the lingonberry jam that comes with the meal
I think this is an easy fix. If even one store lowered their prices, they’d still do well, since more people would shop there, and then it’s a win-win.
Exactly !! I’ve been saying this I’d one store lowered their price they’d still make money , they’d gain business and get appreciation from their customers Sure. It’s a gimmick but Wed All win. Even lowering every item buy 10 cents will make a huge difference to us.
@@Violett_Ginn how on earth could lowering the price of an item by 10 cents make any difference? Why don’t you ask the Canadian government to lower your taxes? April 1 the price of an average tank of fuel is going up $2 thanks to Trudeau’s tax.
@@Trythis837 ok. That’s an idea too. If you decrease each item by even 10 cents and buy 20 items that’s 2$. 2$ saves is 2$ saved At times $2 is the difference between buying meat or milk or Not buying it. You’re also right too. Something needs to go down and quickly.
Loblaws has this one product, PC sparkling water. It's a case of 12 cans, with a tiny taste of different flavours (ie. lemon, lime, orange, etc). Last year it was around $3 to $4. This year it's $6 or $7. HOW?! is something that's basically water (carbonated) double the price? What ingredient in the supply chain caused the price to double?!
Lack of transport. Lack of transport service. Lack of transport companies. And carbonated water is t as simple as you think. I’ve had a career in brewing, and I have three science degrees. All the skilled trades that make up this industry, aren’t available. Aluminum vanished during COVID. How do you ship product with no containers? And lastly, the concept of general inflation. What’s amazing is that people are still buying it. What does that do to a country?
@@BeeRich33 Y'now, I generally tend to look at the slightly big(ger) picture, wow, transport (and rail?), THANK you. I actually can understand that. I just didn't hear much in the news about the transport industry, or lacking thereof? So basically, EVERYthing that is transported gets affected. Huh. Cary thing is... last week, walking down the aisle of that Loblaws... those very same 12-pack of slightly flavoured sparkling sodas were... 94CENTS! For the whole case or 12, 94cents! They didn't even put it in the flyer or have a big sign in the aisle. I never buy the stuff and there I am just staring at this shelf of 94cent cartons.
They make $4 off $100 worth of groceries.. the government takes 50% of what I earn by the end of the year. It’s not the private sector that’s the enemy.
@@conwaysmith9167 I paid 53% income tax, between federal and Provincial, my salary is just over 900,000, take home less then half of what I make, so Trudeau can have $6000 a night hotel rooms.
@@helloitsme4139 The median income is between 36-40k and most of those people struggle with rent and food. Only 11% of Canadians earn over 100k, and only 1% earn over 500k. Honestly, I am not sure if you are a millionaire parody account or legit. I am having a hard time accepting you really think as long as 1% of people live in luxury while the majority of full-time workers struggle with basic necessities, capitalism works. It is “working”, just not for most Canadians.
True it would be good to do that. All the family owned small grocery stores in my community have closed. These corporations are driving family owned small grocery stores, farms, restaurants out of business. If this keeps up there will be nothing but big chain restaurants and fast food chains to eat at. Only Big corporate farms . Only Big corporate owned grocery stores to shop.
Everyone that sold anything made record profits. The average middle class home owner increased their net worth by $300,000 during the pandemic. The number of teachers on the sunshine list more than doubled to 65,000. It’s not out of line that a business that feeds 30 million people gets paid $20 a person to do it.
@@Trythis837 galen says "reasonable profitability is necessary to run a business" ok so keep reasonable profits, not record profits. And let's not forget the bread price fixing they're being investigated for. I'm not sure why you're making excuses for exploiting people during a pandemic, especially when they've proven that they'll engage in illegal practices to do so.
@@inund8 the grocery stores never exploited me. The gasoline tax I spend in a month alone is higher than my whole grocery bill. It’s government that is exploiting Canadians.
@@Trythis837 they are exploiting you, you just don't feel it directly. Big retailers chronically underpay their employees, forcing them to rely on government support which increases your tax bill. And the fact that you spend so much on gas says to me that you're being exploited by the auto industry, whose lobbying efforts have made it almost impossible to be successful without a car. But here you are telling me about teachers on the sunshine list, as if that's what causes poverty in Canada.
Those politicians are hypocrites. If they cared about the inflation impact on Canadians, they wouldn’t have let it increase dramatically like this. These politicians only want to find some scapegoats for their policy failures.
Govt can't see Weston and Loblaws books, best they can do is this little spectacle, that should tell you all you need to know about who actually runs this country
It's dumb to ask anyone to volunteer to make less money. It's up to the government to create taxes and incentives to address these economic issues. These hearings are pointless.
i don't think people realize that high profits are from high inflation. Is every company supposed to lose money during high inflation times? Everyone would go out of business enjoy your stone age.
I'm celiac, and I now spend about $1700 a month on food for 2 people. I'm scared because food prices are still going up and soon I won't be able to afford it
@@steveatlas3492 Celiac disease, sometimes called celiac sprue or gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is an immune reaction to eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. If you have celiac disease, eating gluten triggers an immune response in your small intestine.
@@brianseeley6319 diesel went from about 206 (nov/22) to 187 (Feb/23).... Yea it absolutely has gone down in price yet the grocery prices keep going up. Face it, the billionaire making record profits is lying to you bud
@@mathias8627 And what was it before that bud?? Go and get it and you will see it ranged around $1 to 85 cents per litre and lower in 2020. I am in the industry.
@@Rob9345 you're missing the point and you're coming in out of context. We're talking about Galen Weston's excuse for price increases is dependent upon fuel prices, yet when fuel prices did go down the grocery prices didn't go down at all, actually they continued to go up. So once again, the billionaire parasite is lying to you and us all. Stop letting these guys off the hook, hold their feet to the fire and make em be accountable, otherwise they'll continue to exploit us
The government has never run a retail business. Jagmeet is a lawyer with no relevant knowledge to be asking questions that aren't insulting to everyone's intelligence.
How can he say they are losing profits on core commodities and at the same time have billions in profits? Either he is really bad at math or he is just a gluttonous devil.
Take the losses on core commodities and increase the price on other to cover the loss. Still that is a ordering supply issue of theirs not ours. People are growing more of their perishables (which I am assuming is the loss they are talking about) so expect more j/s
@@johndicksonkaraoke2554 Yeah and if your making minimum wage maybe you made bad choices. Some people I give a bit of slack but for the most part I know who skipped class and screwing around and where they are today.
People are starving. So food & shelter isn't a luxury it's a nacesity. If you can't eat you can't concentrate & your body will take it from your organs.😔
That mentality is why the top 1% has over 60% of all the countries wealth. Where do we draw the line? Should they have 99% of everything? When there isn't enough breadcrumbs to go around, you have civil unrest. It's caused collapses of empires. Guess you didn't think it that far through and you claim to be the smart one. Yeah sure.
Clearly Jagmeet is so full of BS and doesn’t know ABCs of how a business works, he is doing this charade foe his vote bank, the real issue here is of the supply side shortage and cost of fuel.
These politicians are quick in blaming others. But they don't think about what they do in this country by spending money on nonsense objectives. Can't trust them.
@@JoshuaMcTackett Oh damn I was thinking about moving to Australia, is it that bad over there too? ( Aside from the wildfires, floods, and deadly animals )
No one is mentioning broken FARMING practices in Canada. Influence of Dutch farmers and their farming practices in Canada has very negative impact on our environment and even worse impact on prices of commodities and food.
They answer like politician. They should all be forced to answer under oath. Laws need to be put in place to turn this grocery circus show around. Problem is that the government profits from ballooning grocery profits too, they get a piece of the pie through the higher tax on high grocery prices. Does anyone here not realize this? We as the people are screwed and there is nothing we can do to change that. Governments and Big Corporations benefit hand in hand. Wake up everybody
I am not aware of that many that shut down but the baby formula plant in US was shut down due to contamination. I supposed some others were for same reasons. My point is that the greedy people on top took money that should have been used for upgrades. That should be mandatory IMO
These grocery store CEO's are super corrupt and Jagmeet now has my full support over this, I didn't like his position on oil lobbyists, vaguely put, opposing that we need to extract more oil than ever is like opposing its need for use in transportation transitional projects infrastructure, and so the argument should therefore be, what ARE the oil lobbyists lobbying for further oil extraction for? Are they invested in educating for the wisest consumption of this rare earth resource called crude oil, likewise for the lithium rare earth metal batteries
For the same reason we pay the highest cell phone prices in the world,$800 for 1 hour flight and i won't even go to insurance rates.Why don't we have real competition in this county?
The problem is inflation caused by central banks increasing the money supply. They do this so politicians can spend that money on things that aren't in the general citizen's interest. Profits in every industry almost always hit nee "record profits" because the money constantly loses value, thats what inflation is.
That’s BS package are smaller and way more expensive , after they blame the high price on theft . The way I see it we are the ones who get robbed by those rich CEO .
How does the CBC pick and choose when and when not to allow comments? If the story is in any way Trudeau or the Liberal govt the comments are turned off. The CBC exists because of taxpayer dollars - I’ve always believed in the CBC btw (or I did until Trudeau came into office) - the public should always have the right of reply regardless of the subject.
Politicians are only taking a free ride off of these greedy businesses. Basic point is people are greedy now more than ever and they need to dial down little bit to modesty.
