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A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.

Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.

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1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services

2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

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4. Only content in French and English is permitted

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1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens

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When you start seeing American companies producing ads like this, you know we've made headway and they're taking it seriously. This is damage control. Keep it up and don't fall for this crap. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Safeway is an american grocery store. They are not your friend and they will be on the side of American companies. That they are doing this is unsurprising.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Canada Safeway is owned (since 2013) by Sobeys, which is a fully Canadian owned company.

The only thing it has in common with the US company is the name.

Similar to A&W. Completely separate company in Canada and the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well then, that just makes their misdirection worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm kinda torn on things. The other option in the area is a NoFrills, which is the Loblaws monopoly. They are Canadian, but evil as fuck. At least Safeway has a functional union for the workers?

Otherwise I can drive 20 minutes (both ways) and go to a Co-Op instead of a 4 minute walk. I'm legit not sure which of the options is worse or best.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

In the Buy Canadian era we have to drop the Loblaws rule temporarily but I make sure they are my absolute last choice and that I only buy very specific things there. Luckily I can drive to a Metro, Sobeys, Giant Tiger - Sobeys is arguably as evil (Empire - own Sobeys, Farm Boy, Foodland, IGA etc) but they in my mind are slightly less evil - Metro a bit less, Giant Tiger despite their owner's politics even less - and then those lucky enough to live near a co-op or a good selection of independent stores - ideal.

Oh and Walmart - I'd have to basically be starving.