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This is super easy, start a grocery chain as a crown corporation and somehow stop neolibs from selling it to one of their buddy’s and make it private. The other grocers will lower their prices to normal because right now it is a fucking cartel.
JAIL THEK ALREADY
If I commit fraud, I get jailed. Why isn’t anyone jaiked over this?
I afree qith tou vonpletely
Its not fraud, its capitalism.
Despite the increased enforcement, the CFIA has issued only warnings to offenders.
Totally unacceptable. I want heads to roll. No slap on the wrist. We need real, impactful penalties that affect their stock price.
This is pretty much how Canadian regulations and regulators work in general. Weak, ineffective, toothless. Canada won’t do anything if it would inconvenience business and land owners. And Canadians, despite saying how much they care, won’t vote for anything that actually costs money.
Needs more emphasis on again
Were they correctly punished the last time? No? Then it’s business as usual.
Even if they were, a fine is just the cost of doing business.
The feds MUST increase the fines. My personal choice would be $1M per low-weight item.
Maybe that’ll clear up this issue.
Also, put liability on executives and even potentially board members themselves. Treat it like financial fraud. Set up a structure to proactively investigate and pursue personal civil and criminal liability of officers and directors or other management that knowingly or negligently engaged in what is essentially defrauding the public. No reason an executive they overseas a scheme to defraud the public shouldn’t end up sitting in jail.
Treat it like financial fraud.
Because it is.
Or just nationalize these stores and turn them into crown corps.
Sure, once we somehow figure out how not to have corrupt governments.
Let’s not do that. Because either the entire food chain from agriculture to shelf would have to be nationalized, and that… is just not feasible. Maybe 50 years ago, sure but not anymore.
Let’s start with passing some laws to nationalize the price or cap the price of essential food items. Meat, Vegetables and fruit, bread items to start with. And legislated weight would be nice. I still don’t understand why a package of chicken breast comes with only 3 fucking pieces and costs $14-$18. Average families are four people damnit!!! Packaged meat should be in amounts for 2 people and 4 people.
The only reason it’s not feasible is because there’s no political will to do it. There’s no fundamental reason why that can’t change if there was broad public demand for it. A lot of food production has become effectively a natural monopoly, and it’s much better to nationalize these kinds of industries than try to regulate them. We have decades of evidence that we are not able to regulate them effectively.
tHiNk oF tHE ShaREhOLdeRs
It has to do with sheer cost and then tariffs to protect government owned industries. Regulation would definitely be a better starting point.
Also I actually agree with you.
Why?
Cost.
The EU has some mechanism so that it is % of revenue for charges like these. Canada needs to put something like that in.
Global revenue
There were baker’s dozen for a reason … if they faced fines appropriate fines then they would definitely make sure we got at least what we paid for.
Despite the increased enforcement, the CFIA has issued only warnings to offenders. The B.C. Real Canadian Superstore, which sold underweight strip loin, got a warning — no fine — even though the chain has faced CFIA scrutiny before.
They aren’t even being fined.
Replace the underweight meat with Galen Weston’s flesh.
Let’s start fining them:
Despite the increased enforcement, the CFIA has issued only warnings to offenders. The B.C. Real Canadian Superstore, which sold underweight strip loin, got a warning — no fine — even though the chain has faced CFIA scrutiny before.
Another reminder to support your grocery coop and participate in its democracy.
Closest one is an hour away
That’s the spirit!!
Oop.
Not saying you should do it, but some of them offer delivery services (but are horrible at advertising them). Calgary co-op for example offers free delivery in Calgary for orders above 200 dollars. None of their websites offer this information. Only during checkout do you get this info. Why? I dunno.
I can’t remember the last time I spent more than $40 at a grocery store, even above $100 at Costco is rare. If I don’t get what I feel like on the fly it just doesn’t get eaten and goes to waste
Oh, do you do weekly grocery runs instead of monthly?
More like daily, walk or on drive home depending on in office days
shocker to literally NOONE. honestly, throw Galen is prison. literal criminal scum
So does save on foods. My ground chicken just this past Sunday was marked at .429k but were all 3.95kg when I measured to portion.
Edit: .419kg not 4.19KG
it was weighed at the grinder, and moisture dries off.
You are talking about 25g on 4kg, that’s only 0.6%.
Moisture doesn’t dry off in sealed plastic. Regardless, it is advertised as an amount it isn’t, a weight that could be measured at the checkout scale and priced accurately to account for that, and isn’t, by choice.
Anyways, it’s 419g, not 4.19 KG, so this is 6%, not 0.6%. I mistyped in my post and have edited that, apologies.
I should just carry my small kitchen scale to the store and measure things. If its the same weight or less as what’s shown, they’re either including the packaging or its underweight, neither of which is allowed.
They needed to inject it with more salt water, so don’t worry, they only shorted you salt water, not meat. Go back to the store, and demand the missing salt water that you paid meat prices for.
Yank funding from CFIA and let food processors and grocers self-inspect.
Hey why is this happening?
Let’s cut harder. https://www.agrunion.com/jobs-cuts-at-cfia-will-lead-to-a-food-safety-crisis-in-canada/
Costco must be protected at all costs
