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Canada's grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada's Competition Bureau says.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Weston’s own most of the pharmacy, the grocery, food supply chain, and are moving into healthcare at breakneck pace. No shit it’s too concentrated. We need actual antitrust laws.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sadly it doesn't matter if we have antitrust laws or not when no one is willing to enforce them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It does matter, we just need to put more public pressure on them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I hope "public pressure" is euphemistic for things a little more, erm, firm than "write angry articles on cbc"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

There was so much pressure on the Shawgers buyout, the Competition Bureau was overwhelmed. Yet, here we are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

They also own real estate under Choice Properties.