So 127 cases of maple washing, and $20,000 in fines total.
That’s the fucking problem.
Yeah please multiply the fine by the volume of impacted consumers and we should be on the right track.
My local Safeway tags their broccoli as ‘US or Mexico’, my local ‘wholesale’ (Jim Pattison owned) refuses to list country of origin on its produce, and the local loblaws owned grocery store doesn’t even bother carrying non-US produce.
If i had the energy to fix up my yard, we would 100% be growing our own produce in the summer, and if we had the money for a greenhouse we would probably be growing year round
remember kids if you see someone stealing food from sobeys, loblaws, zhers, longos, shoppers drug mart, any of these places then no the fuck you didn’t.
Well, Loblaws is run by George Weston Limited, chaired by Galen G. Weston—who makes an unsavoury appearance in the Epstein Files—so no surprise that he’s willing to screw over Canadians without consent as well.
What does it say about him? How would I look that up?
Here’s the file: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01249734.pdf. From my reading of it, it is a victim statement which says that the prince—formerly-known-as-Andrew—sexually assaulted the victim and that Galen Weston knew about it. It’s not the most damming thing in the files, but it definitely seems like it should be criminal.
This is so dumb. This could have been a win-win for supermarkets. They could have stocked more, properly labelled, Canadian products, and have people buy more of them, and given themselves tons of positive PR. There must be some hidden profit motive here to keep stocking US products. Capitalists gonna capitalize.
The profit margin isn’t that hidden. Distributors pay groocery stores for shelf placement, and big US brands have deeper pockets and can outbid Canadian alternatives. The winning play, then, is to find any excuse to label US brands as Canadian, and collect from both sides.
