When it comes to grocery shopping, I'll try anything to save a few bucks given how expensive just about everything costs in Toronto. I generally try and check out the grocery flyers every week to see which of the big stores has the best savings on whatever the main protein is I'll be cooking for the upcoming week, but a recent Reddit thread where users suggested what independent grocery stores people in the city should check out caught my eye.I decided to give one of them a try (after all,...
One of the organizers of a month-long boycott of Loblaw-owned stores says she met with the grocer's president and CEO Per Bank on Thursday afternoon. Emily Johnson, who started the Reddit page that led to the boycott, said she shared shoppers' concerns and questions with Bank, a European retail executive who took on the top role about months ago. “Obviously, the boycott is still on,” said Johnson. But she said she's “confident in the fact that we got an audience, we have their attention,...
Loblaw chairman Galen Weston, as well as the company's new chief executive, pushed back on what they called “misguided criticism” of the grocer as a boycott againstthe company gains steam online. “As a well-known company and Canada's largest grocer, it is natural that Loblaw would be singled out as a focal point for media and government and of course consumer frustrations,” said Weston at the grocer's annual meeting on Thursday. He said though shareholders “may be troubled by these...
Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is slamming the federal Liberals for giving nearly $26 million to Costco and Loblaw for energy-efficient appliances. The money came from the Liberal government's low-carbon economy fund, which is meant to support projects that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In 2019, the Liberals faced heat from Conservatives after the government announced it was giving up to $12 million to Loblaw for energy-efficient refrigerators and freezers at 370 of its stores. ...