Food prices, including a $40 chicken, has stoked fury and calls for big foreign supermarket chains to come to Canada.

Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become.

She fixated on one grocer in particular: Loblaw, the dominant food retailer in Canada, boasting nearly 2,500 stores.

Her Reddit group - named LoblawsIsOutofControl - was filled with photos of grocery items for sale at seemingly egregious prices, like C$40 ($29.36; £23.06) for 1.4 kilograms of chicken.

Soon after, Ms Johnson and others banded together to launch a nation-wide boycott against Loblaw, saying they were fed up with the disparity between rising food prices and record profits.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Canada’s federal innovation minister has since taken several overseas trips to woo an international grocer to set up shop in Canada, in an attempt to increase competition and therefore drive down food prices.

    I get the feeling that Canada’s solution to all the monopolies is to invite foreign companies. Or maybe the Government can start enforcing the Competition Act.