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Went to a Loblaws run store today. Told the cashier that the bag of chips I bought were Canadian and didnt have the leaf icon on the label. Her response: “so what?”. I explained I was just letting someone at the store know amd I completely understand it isnt her job. She responded sarcastically ‘obviously’. I then asked who I should let know. She said ‘if you really care go to costumer service’.
Needless to say, I will be going to Sobeys from now on. Fuck Loblaws.
Fuck Loblaws, but don’t expect Sobeys to be better at properly labeling Canadian products. The number of Canadian made products, by Canadian owned businesses that don’t have the little maple leaf tag next to them is very questionable in its own right. American brands selling the same product types have been getting the label, though, which is highly suspect.
Just assume those little stickers have been paid for at any big chain.
Oh for sure. But if both stores dont care and only one berates me for even asking about it, makes the decision of where to go easy.
Totally. Sobeys also hasn’t thrown up any plexiglass mazes, at least around here. That was the last time I ever stepped foot in a Lowblaws.
I have to ask - how did you think a cashier can help with your request?
I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but cashiers are pretty low on the totem pole at Loblaws. If you knew it wasn’t their job, what were you looking for and what did you want in response?
I don’t shop at Loblaws. We’ve been shopping locally since the boycott last May.
But one of the things worth considering is what we expect of each other. Was one person’s rudeness reflective of everyone else who works somewhere?
There are so many way we can work together to make our communities and country stronger. Not shopping at Loblaws can be one of them. But for this reason? I’m sorry, it just seems strained and unusual.
“Our most challenging category to mitigate the threat of retaliatory tariffs is produce where in Canada, in the winter, we do not always have viable alternatives,”
I know it won’t happen overnight but let’s get some Mexican produce lined up for next winter. They are being hit by tariffs too.
And it’s also time for more hothouse produce. Stop exporting our energy to the enemy and use it here to feed ourselves.
Yes! Now is the time to make deals with Mexico and other countries south of the border”basement”. Let’s prepare for next winter!
I’ve heard about a neat thing some shoppers are doing; if you check a product and see it’s from the US, turn it upside down, with the label showing point of origin facing out. Do the same for two or three more of that product on the shelf. Helps others see what to avoid.
Earlier this week I walked to three different grocery stores to find some diet cola because the only things the first two had in stock were Coke and Pepsi. Never thought there’s be a shortage of store-brand diet cola.
That’s so funny!
I’m drinking Old Fashioneds with all sorts of Canadian whiskies lately.
Is it as good? Not quite*, but it’s still good and I’ll be drinking them long after this shit show is over. I would love to see some better Canadian options though.
- I’m specifically talking about how I like my Old Fashioned, NOT neat whisky, which I also enjoy and would of course love recommendations on.
What’s been your favourite Canadian whisky for an old fashioned? I normally have my whisky neat but I enjoy the occasional cocktail
Good. Keep boycotting our stuff as we deserve it. Make our economy crash because of our dumbfuck President wants to ruin our lives by being greedy.
:)
Cause and effect!
Keep it up, folks!
As an American, please keep that shit up. I’m rooting for you. We fucking deserve it.
Please consider making Ohio the 11th province by any means necessary. 🙏
Pretty sure Minnesota asked first, you’ll have to settle for something between 12th and 17th
Why would we want Ohio?
Washington and Oregon aren’t bad though
Ohio has Skyline Chili and Jungle Jim’s.
I agree that Jungle Jim’s makes up for the Skyline
I assume they live there
Yet another reason to go for WA
OR is full of hipsters and white supremacists, just stick with the closest one
Fair
Oh no! Anyways.
Their quality of food is trash anyways so good for our health.
good riddance to bad rubbish
Ya I don’t trust the FDA at all.
I was under the impression that the FDA used to be the gold standard for drug approval until Trump.
But yeah, our food standards have always been shit
No I took a few nutrition courses in my undergrad and they always bring up the FDA as the gold standard of how NOT to run things, its frequently laughed at and sometimes downright shocking. I don’t have specifics because I took those courses almost a decade ago now but if you’re curious you can always conpare CFIA (Canadian food inspection agency) with FDA and you’ll quickly see some clear differences.
Oh I’m not contesting our food standards. I just thought the FDA was the gold standards for drug approval. The big issue with American food standards, IMO, is it operates on “prove this is unsuitable for consumption”, instead of the safer method of “prove this is suitable for consumption”
Red food dye is a good example. It was only recently banned in the US after many other countries banned the use of it. https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-revoke-authorization-use-red-no-3-food-and-ingested-drugs
exactly I was commenting on the food end of the spectrum since we only talked about it in a nutrition course, I’m not too sure about drugs but they’re probably a lot more rules
I read a paper recently while doing some research in my field. In Québec, a majority of food issues such as bacteria and unwanted contamination comes from the US while it’s a minority of the food that we import.
I’m on my phone and I’m pretty tired to find the source, but I read that about 6 months ago
It feels like we get so many recalls of US produce in Ontario due to salmonella. Typically, it’s the salad greens like lettuce and whatnot, but it seems very frequent.
IIRC the E. Coli in lettuce is from California and something about the produce farms being downstream from the animal farms, and all the fecal run off into the water.
Yeah my job is translating FDA announements for Japanese clients and I see recalls for US products quite often, so I had to text my family in Canada to make sure they aren’t buying such products. I guess that won’t be necessary though, because my family isn’t buying any US trash anymore.
Thats neat! I have a friend that works for Jamieson regulatory affairs, they read claims on new products and make sure they comply with our standards. I took a course a while back and we were told that in the states the burden of proof of a claim was on the FDA but in canada the regulations are much more strict, thats why a lot of products never make it over the boarder. Its pretty wild actually, thats why I said I don’t trust the FDA at all.
Yeah, you really don’t want to see the insides of places like meat processing plants here.
Ops right, our food really is trash.
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