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A boycott targeting Loblaw is gaining momentum online, with what could be thousands of shoppers taking their money elsewhere in May.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's an App for that:

https://www.altgrocery.ca/

I have not used it myself, YMMV.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Added my local independent grocer.

[โ€“] Grass 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there a loblaw store literally called that?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is called โ€œYour Independent Grocerโ€. So, pretty much.

[โ€“] Grass 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's so deceitful. Loblaw is also one of those cashiers must stand up or die places. When I worked there they banned water bottles at the tills because they looked unprofessional or so they claimed. At the time I attempted malicious compliance by bringing like 6 of the excepted store brand bottles but in hindsight I was just filling myself with micro plastics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can't think of any grocers in Canada that provides stools/chairs for their cashiers, have you seen one?

[โ€“] Grass 1 points 7 months ago

I've never actually verified it myself, but I recall some of the cashiers I worked with before talking about a competitor that had adjustable height tills with what was described as a horizontal fat metal tube bolted on one side of the worker compartment as a seat. I'm not sure how many things in that area that are still the same as back then, apart from the loblaws superstore which I know is still there.