A boycott targeting Loblaw is gaining momentum online, with what could be thousands of shoppers taking their money elsewhere in May.
It's the latest sign of Canadians' mounting frustration with the major grocers, which have been under political and public scrutiny for rising food prices and profits.
Consumers increasingly feel powerless about the lack of choice they have, especially in smaller communities, said Monica LaBarge, an assistant professor at Queen's University studying food access and consumer well-being. The grocer is responding to these shifting behaviours through new promotions and expanding its discount footprint, he said in an interview.
“That's where the financial impact is,” she said. “It's that consistent loss of consumers over time, because they're very hard to get back once they're gone.” De Sequeira, a Torontonian who posts about food on TikTok, said she's doing a “soft” boycott of the other two big Canadian grocers but has pretty much entirely cut Loblaw out of her life, cancelling her PC Financial Mastercard and moving her prescriptions from Shoppers Drug Mart.
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