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Folks who work as buyers for grocery store chains (Empire, Loblaw, etc.), can you tell us how buying works for FreshCo vs. Sobeys, or No Frills vs. Loblaws?

Just curious how it works, are the goods at lower cost grocers rejected goods from their more "premium" cousins or are the goods sourced differently?

Thanks in advance, I'm just curious.

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u/Hot_Mathematician627 — 11 hours ago
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Is it normal to have bones in my boneless chicken breasts? At least they're Halal.

They're ribs... Definitely not halal or boneless...

u/Filentrain3 — 3 days ago
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Tired of the deception.

They think we're idiots with this bs packaging. Clearly you would think there were two rows behind the labeling, but this is purposefully deceptive.

Fyi I ate one of the pieces before 📷

u/figure85 — 2 days ago
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Reduced Salad More Than Sale Price

Went to buy a salad kit at Superstore today. All the Chipotle Ranch Dressing salads in the fridge had the reduced sticker. The price at check out was $3.49. Once the sticker was removed, it rang up for $2.50.

u/BacklineUnlimited — 3 days ago
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Packing the bags at checkout

They used to do this.

I just got home. Spent $263 in the store.

Watched several cashiers NOT even try to lend a hand to customers AT ALL to pack their groceries.

Seniors, packing their own bags.

Parents with infants and toddlers, packing their own bags.

One woman with an arm in a sling, packing her own bags.

She was in front of me. But I just had surgery on my arm earlier this week, and I was worried about the stitches.

Cashiers were just standing back and watching.

What are we even paying for???

EDIT:
- this store has always had cashiers bag groceries - my last visit a month ago for example
- I avoid self service checkouts because I like to see humans employed
- I am physically able to do this myself, I actually care that other people cannot while able bodied paid staff stand a foot away watching
- I am aware I am paying for groceries … yup
- It is costing Loblaws to make customers wait in line while waiting for customers in front of them to bag their own groceries
- there are WAY too many people here comfortable with shitty customer service

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u/Zoloft_Queen-50 — 4 days ago
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Safeway incorrect electronic prices

Hi, this is a question about what happenes in these cases.

I went to my local Safeway and when paying I noticed it marked my cookies as almost $6 when the tag showed a discounted price of $2.99. I buy these cookies often at a price between $3-4.

When I told the attendant, she said that all prices were having issues because of a power outage, but she would respect the price on the tag. She said that it was lasts' week discount. I asked about the scanner code and she said it didn't apply.

So my question, if i see a price on the shelf, and it marks a different price when scanning, can they just blame the price tags malfunctioning?

They had a small sign on the entrance door that I'm sharing too.

u/lost_nondoctor — 3 days ago
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[Avi Lewis]: PM Carney seems ready to suspend environmental regulation in Canada under the illusion that he can buy political peace with Danielle Smith (ie the oil industry).

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u/NiceDot4794 — 4 days ago
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Had the worst experience with pc express pickup. They lost one of the orders.

My roommate and I used pc express to pickup from superstore. Waited over an hour and a half. They were bringing out everyones orders except ours. I kept asking the workers why they were getting peoples stuff who've been there a short time. They end up bringing out my order but they said they lost my roommates order. They couldn't find it. Before that my roommate went to speak to a supervisor who said both of our orders were loaded and about to go out. Everyone just lies these days. Customer service is gone.

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u/sksksk1989 — 3 days ago
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Ripoff Ribs at Maxi

Bought some ribs last week at Maxi. Looked like a good deal so I picked up three packages. When I prepared them tonight I couldn’t believe how much sauce was in the package. Three packages of ribs gave me over three cups of sauce. In the first package I opened there was 406 grams of sauce out of what was supposed to be 680 total grams. I like sauce as much as the next guy but I think this is just a way to inflate the weight so that the consumer thinks they’re getting more meat when really it’s just sauce.

u/SuggestionCrafty9541 — 3 days ago
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Enshittification of what used to be a good sandwich.

They switched the bread to some weird thing they dare to call “Italian style bread”. Tried it to confirm my suspicion. It is, in fact, a $9 shitty sandwich.

u/soccermind — 4 days ago
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Freezer-burnt Blueberries

More quality premium organic produce

Edit: for all the folks convinced that this is how it should be, y’all enjoy your freezer burnt berries. I’m going back to my independent grocery store and buying actual individually, frozen wild blueberries. Because unlike Loblaws, they actually know how to properly control their frozen supply chain.

u/1beautifulhuman — 5 days ago