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Galen Weston is Satan. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

George Weston Limited is one of North America’s largest processors and distributors of food. The company operates three subsidiaries: Loblaw Companies Limited, a grocery, drugstore and general retailer; Weston Foods, a baking company; and Choice Properties, a real estate investment trust. George Weston Ltd. owns a variety of brands and retail banners. Loblaw brands include No Name, President’s Choice, Life Brand and Joe Fresh. Loblaw stores include Loblaws, Zehrs, Your Independent Grocer, Provigo, Atlantic Superstore, Fortinos, Dominion, Independent City Market, Valu-mart, ARZ Bakery, Wholesale Club, T&T Supermarket, Real Canadian Liquorstore, Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Maxi, Extra Foods and Shoppers Drug Mart. In 2023, George Weston Ltd. registered over $60 billion in revenue. George Weston Ltd. Is the country’s largest private-sector employer, with over 200,000 full- and part-time employees. It is a public company headquartered in Toronto and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol WN.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Your Independent Grocer

Bullshit branding on point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My father thinks it’s because minimum wage was raised from 11 to 16.55 since 2015

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It's always the workers' faults to conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

But then it would make the food even more exp- oh wait that also happened

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I've read a times article the other day that claimed it is important for food prices to stay high even though inflation stoped, because otherwise people would stop buying stuff because it might get even cheaper. Yea let me just stop buying groceries for a month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I’ll just starve myself. That’ll show ‘em!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It sounds like bullshit to you because it is. Just another anti-consumer lie like trickle-down economy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Must have been written by a right wing douche.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The entire edifice of Free Market Economics as a Political ideology is exactly that use of recognized and measured effects to justify self-serving measures in different areas were none of that applies.

Just like the observed effects of people delaying the purchasing of big ticket items, luxuries and things which are not immediate needs when prices are going down does not apply to basic needs, so do the quality improvements and price falls in markets with no barriers to entry which are naturally competitive (say teddy bears or soap) do not apply is the majority of markets out there (including some for basic needs such as housing).

Yet the Political Propaganda anchored in Economics is invariably done by using truthful things outside the context were they apply - i.e. lying using what elsewhere would be true. It's like somebody justifying reducing the maximum speed in a stretch of road by using the Theory Of Relativity to claim that the time dilation at higher speeds would cause all sorts of problems with clocks and aging - true near the speed of light, not true at 50 Mph.

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