A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.

A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.

  • TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago
    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.

      • TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        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.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          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.