Canada's shopping for a foreign grocer. Can an international retailer succeed here? | CBC News
Canada's shopping for a foreign grocer. Can an international retailer succeed here? | CBC News
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We don't need a foreign grocer, we need a publicly owned option
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Canada general co-op assistance: https://canada.coop/en/starting-a-co-op/
USA non-profit, but food co-op specific: https://fci.coop/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Startup_Guide2017.pdf
BC produced, but usable anywhere: https://bcca.coop/app/uploads/2020/06/BCCA-Cultivating-Coops-2018-1.pdf
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I do quite like co-ops, but I was thinking a crown corporation, just because that way they'd have the scale to seriously threaten Loblaws and the like.
Of course, the problem with crown corporations is that as soon as the Conservatives get into power, they'll sell it for pennies (and probably to Loblaws)
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We're going to be reduced to "one more mega corporation will fix everything", aren't we?
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We have at least three generations of civil servants and politicians who grew up under neoliberalism, and the idea of regulation and government intervention isn't just distasteful, or even heretical, it's actually inconceivable.
If you try to float the idea of direct government intervention in the modern era, people look at you like you've grown a second head. They can't even imagine the idea of government directly employing people or owning buildings and equipment to provide a service.
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Always have been.
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If there's enough, they stop being mega, so that's something.
I've yet to hear a convincing alternative to having markets at all explained in detail.
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I'll finally be able to buy Aldi's nuts? I've heard that there's nothing quite like sucking on a mouthful of Aldi's nuts.
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Have you ever tasted Dee's Nuts? Best nuts on the market!
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Nice! That could actually work, unlike a lot of the stuff they've been doing with grocery prices. It's just a matter of swinging it, which could be pricey.
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Target sells groceries.
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It sounds like the feds want a grocery that'll compete directly with Loblaws and co across all their domains. But what if we required divestment? Like, a grocery store shouldn't own a clothing brand, a separate pharmacy, a banking line, a telecom brand, and whatever else they've bought.
Maybe those should be spun into separate businesses.
1000% (insurance as well). Breakup loblaws, break up the telecomms; bring fairer prices to Canadians
Nationalize Telco, Groceries, Insurance, Utilities, Education. For local, by local.
If done correctly (big stretch here, and without the corruption that is already blatantly happening within our borders) it should drive prices hard enough to increase competition especially if someone wants to maintain a company. No more of this bullshit multi named single company operations.