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Canada's grocery industry concentrated in too few hands, Competition Bureau says (www.cbc.ca)
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Canada's grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada's Competition Bureau says.

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[โ€“] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Westonโ€™s own most of the pharmacy, the grocery, food supply chain, and are moving into healthcare at breakneck pace. No shit itโ€™s too concentrated. We need actual antitrust laws.

[โ€“] enragedchowder@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly it doesn't matter if we have antitrust laws or not when no one is willing to enforce them.

[โ€“] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It does matter, we just need to put more public pressure on them.

[โ€“] Erk@cdda.social 8 points 1 year ago

I hope "public pressure" is euphemistic for things a little more, erm, firm than "write angry articles on cbc"

[โ€“] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

There was so much pressure on the Shawgers buyout, the Competition Bureau was overwhelmed. Yet, here we are.

[โ€“] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

They also own real estate under Choice Properties.