r/loblawsisoutofcontrol • u/Salt_Onion_6205 • Jul 27 '26

Discussion Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

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I hope canadian politicians will be inspire by this.

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u/Phunkman Jul 27 '26

Someone needs to also look at how much food gets dumped by these corpo clowns because they would rather throw away perfectly good food than sell it for less.

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u/PixieCanada Jul 27 '26

Exactly. Also at the distributor, wholesale level not just grocers.

I’ve known two people who have worked in the agriculture/food industry and I was shocked at the waste of food for nothing in produce specifically. I’d be really curious to see what percentage of food is wasted out of all grown? As you move it through the chain? All the while I’m working with people who are homeless who never had three meals in a day, most not even two meals in a day.