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Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives (cultmtl.com)
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A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.

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[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
  1. Walmart as a better alternative to buy anything is just fucking sad
  2. Any business that was around during Walmarts rise learned from it and perfected competition-crushing aspects that it missed
  3. People have been screaming that this business model will destroy quality of life for everyone given a long enough timeline, and it is now here

Lots of people saw this coming and the vast majority of people didn't want to acknowledge it. I don't know what else to say.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The vast majority of people couldn't do anything about it. Those who could do something about it profited from it, and therefore did nothing.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Nobody had to shop at the place offering "the cheapest shit" while all the smaller businesses were forced out of the market. People literally had a choice to spend one extra dollar, or end up here.

If you fall for the rhetoric that money is everything then yeah alright... Nobody could do anything about it I guess.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did they though? When wages have stagnated for decades? It's really easy as a middle or upper class person to say "what's a dollar here and there?", but as a poor person it's the difference between running out of money before payday or not. The long term cost of shopping at Walmart is greater than the short term savings, but poor people generally do not have the luxury of thinking about the long term.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Poor all my life prior till about three years ago. Like highschool dropout street addict poor. And still made it out to protests and food-not-bombs cookouts and other actions across the country. By the mid nineties when I was a late teen I could see what the Walmart and Starbucks were doing to my culture and I tried to do something about it.

Yeah. If spending my last dollar on ramen from the local corner store instead of 50 cents at the big box has ever been an option, I've taken it. Happily. I understand the economics of raising a family in suburbia is different than what I've experienced as a person but I also understand that if everyone swallows the capitalism pill without coughing on it we're all fuckin doomed. And you don't need to be a punk or a radical to have access to that information in this era. At all.