Walmart\u0027s plan to charge suppliers extra fees reinvigorates long\u002Dsimmering battle between supermarkets and manufacturers
Walmart to invest $3.5 billion in Canadian operations to stay on top of COVID-shifted shopping habits
Brisebois noted that Statistics Canada data has shown growth in the food manufacturing sector. StatsCan data does show steady rises in yearly revenue from 2015 to 2018, the last year the annual data is available. “It is a sector that has done very well,” she said.
In Ontario, Premier Doug Ford’s office called the Walmart changes “disappointing” but declined to intervene, suggesting suppliers and retailers work together. Federal Agriculture Minister Mary-Claude Bibeau’s office noted in a statement on Friday that the terms of sale are “the exclusive domain” of supermarkets and their suppliers.
“All of the power is consolidated, fundamentally, in four operators,” Graydon said, referring to Loblaw Companies Ltd., Sobeys owner Empire Co. Ltd., Metro Inc., and Walmart. “You cannot take a chance in regards to alienating any of them, because the implications on your business could be dramatic.”Article content continued
“I disagree with that,” he said. “We think this is really fair and reasonable to share in the benefits in the growth of our investments to share some of the costs of that.”
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