Is the Loblaw boycott working? (Eric Wickham, The Hoser)

Continue the pressure...keep boycoting...I am...

"From our family to yours". Such gall.

I am offering to take neighbors without transportation to Costco. If everyone does things like this for a month you will see things change.

Same phenomenon is ongoing in Nigeria. Ours is due to Fuel Subsidy removal. Government can proactively checkmate the phenomenon.

I hope not. Grocery prices aside, this is disturbing. You tell companies what to do or not by buying or not buying something not by complaining.

One of the greatest ironies (or ignorances depending on your perspective) of this boycott is the narrative of "Canadians standing up for the Mom&Pop stores," which is fascinating because most Loblaws, No Frills, and their other various grocery store brands are *independently owned* while Shoppers Drug Mart locations are run by *independent associate-owners* (who must be licensed pharmacists and undergo an extensive vetting process for obvious liability reasons). For the record, both Metro and Sobeys and their affiliate brands also offer franchise opportunities. ' However, it's stores such as Walmart and Costco, which are owned by shareholders and independent investors, who in turn retain all the profits. The independently owned Canadian brand grocers are actually providing an opportunity for "Mom&Pop" ownership of the grocer brands. I do not even need to cite a source for this because the independent owner or associate-owner of each location is printed on the receipt from each store respectively. And if anyone really wanted to protest the attack on Mom&Pop stores by "Big Corporations" they should be boycotting Amazon, whose entire business strategy to achieve success was based upon knocking out any competition from the bottom up. They branded this philosophy as the "sick gazelle" strategy because it paralleled how a pride of lions tends to prey upon the sick or weak gazelles for food rather than the healthiest strongest ones. Unfortunately, very few are interested in common sense perspectives or applying their own critical thinking, especially if it challenges "their truth."

Loblaws wouldn't agree to the grocer code of conduct before the boycott and the CEO has called the organizer... You can say that isn't much change .. but in context think about what's happened. Canadians have spoke up and forced some change in their largest national grocery chain... Ya think this stops here? I don't.