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Surging Loblaw boycott shows customer anger with grocery giant, says Mount Pearl organizer (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Can someone chime in? Why aren't there chains of grocery stores run by the government to ensure prices are minimal and people can get food at fair prices? Does any country do that?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Co-ops are better than government run anyways, since the members are the owners, invested members can make the right choices for the store/community/region instead of a blanket provincial/federal policies.

    Go to your local co-op.

    If you don't have one, make one.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Piece of cake, I'll just start a coop.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Still doesn't make it easy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you want easy, just pay loblaws a premium to run grocery for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I dunno, I live in a place run by a co-op and it's really just a group of tyrannical old people with nothing to do, who want to control everyone's life and are every bit as greedy as corporations.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it's run by a group of tyrannical old people that can't be usurped, it's not really a co-op.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    They can be usurped. Just nobody wants to run it, young residents don't want to be involved or don't have time, so you end up with the old busy bodies with nothing to do running it. They run unopposed a lot

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    If they did that here, we'd just be hearing about how the government spent 50b on building and "online grocery ordering system" with Loblaws Food Consulting Inc

    And the system would be down and crash within 5 days of launch

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