Canadians are applauding this savvy shopper, who also appears to be fed up with the high cost of groceries, for helping others save money where they can.
The retail giant has long been marred with issues on extremely high grocery prices, with Metro Inc. (TSX: MRU) taking a legal action alleging that Loblaws falsely implicated Metro in a bread price-fixing conspiracy, causing damage to its reputation.
With skyrocketing food prices, a housing crisis, and other related pressures, Jennery said the number of new clients entering the food bank system is now at an all-time high.
A customer browses an aisle at a grocery store In Toronto on Feb. 2, 2024. A growing group of Canadians are organizing a Loblaws boycott for May. (Cole Burston/The Canadian Press)
The difference between prices of the same in-house brand snack foods at two Loblaw-owned stores has caused a stir online, with some customers blaming the company for “price gouging” and others pointing out why one store may be more expensive.
Retail used to be a seamless recreational experience. We saw beautiful and useful things and made them ours. But now we’re on a wartime footing. Rationing approaches. You take what you’re given.