The voluntary grocery code of conduct for grocers, suppliers, wholesalers and primary producers in Canada is set to fully roll out on Thursday.
The grocery code is intended to promote fair dealings between grocers and their suppliers, including in the application of penalties and fees. It was set up in an effort to bring more transparency, fairness and predictability to the industry as a whole.
The code, governed by the Office of the Grocery Sector Code of Conduct, includes trade rule provisions, a governance model and an adjudication and dispute resolution process.
Canada’s five largest grocers — Empire, Loblaw, Metro, Walmart Canada and Costco Canada — have now formally registered.
Let me know when this makes prices drop.
I’m doing as much shopping as possible at Costco now. Their deals on bulk goods are the only thing that’s affordable now.
So that’s why the groceries were so expensive today.
The code is not intended to address retail food prices as it does not regulate pricing, control shelf placement or limit companies’ ability to negotiate commercial terms. But consumers may notice more innovation and investment in the industry as a result of the agreement, as well as fewer supply chain gaps, Proud said.
Nothing about price fixing bread; interesting.
canada is a corporate playground and resource bank for the worlds elite. keeping the locals broke and powerless has been the winning recipe for capitalists and colonialism since the beginning.
if we cant afford to compete, we cant compete. and the monopoly men keep their hats forever.
everything will continue to get more and more expensive, and then ownership becomes a distant memory. debt slavery, rentals, and subscriptions are the future for all westerners. anyone who doesnt like it wont be able to complain for too long because we are building big brother AI data centers all over the country to “stay competitive” while also passing laws that remove any and all privacy for canadians, while giving free access to that same information to the US.
you will work till you die, and own nothing. piece by piece, law by law, scandal by scandal, crisis by crisis. our fear fuels the machines that enslaves us.
our votes mean nothing except choosing a national aesthetic for the same flavour of modern slavery.
our votes mean nothing except choosing a national aesthetic for the same flavour of modern slavery.
i was with you up until this… this kind of defeatism isn’t helpful.
We arent america (yet). We have more than 2 political parties. Hell, vote marxist-leninist if you cant stomach the NDP. Just stop this red/blue see-saw game we’ve been playing for 70 years. Put your money in a credit union, unionize at work, join a co-op. Do ANYTHING other than give up. That’s exactly what they want. That’s exactly why they own most of the media. To feed us an endless stream of despair and brain rot.
If the largest city in america can vote for a “communist” mayor, surely we in canada can vote for some common sense as well.
If the largest city in america can vote for a “communist” mayor, surely we in canada can vote for some common sense as well.
Like when Canadians voted in the liberal party with a mandate to replace First past the post voting?
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
“i was with you up until this… this kind of defeatism isn’t helpful.”
thats fair, i understand why you would think that, they spent billions if not trillions of dollars over generations to make us all think the same thing to be true.
i think not acknowledging the truth of how our system really works is more detrimental to a future worth living, than pretending that the comforting illusion of modern democracy is sufficient enough to make the lasting changes we need to survive the next century, and beyond. evidently speaking, it is not.
id argue that understanding the patterns of power and influence, especially in the age of technology and spin, isnt “defeatest”, but the first step in enacting the vision of hope that we need to keep living. and that vision varies.
for me, its not left vs right, its up vs down. rich vs the poor. always has been, always will be. love, balance, and understanding, in the absence of greed, fear, and hatred of the unknown.
if we “cut off the head”, the power is consolidated to another individual, or group, they inherit the illusion, and the pattern continues, like a hydra. so, the only real solution is to attack the body of it, the system itself.
but power is consolidated after every revolution, at every level, and the patterns continues again, and again, it happens often enough that it has been deemed a part of human nature. Enacted equality is only a flash in the pan in terms of recent human history. So, we need a readily designed system and decades of influence to bring the global population into agreement over what is truly best for humanity, and the world, without global cooperation there will be no lasting change, especially when it comes to wealth inequality. however we are far too divided, ideologically, culturally, physically, financially, to really make that work efficiently. there is no one answer that works for everyone that isnt part of some dystopian nightmare that erases the idea of individualism, or the self, entirely. however its arguable dependant on your world view that the self is an illusion of the ego, and that the ego is a mask for the divine, of which we are all one, splintered, and made to forget, for the sake of self exploration and the expansion of our combined consience. but thats not based in the material, and so should hold no sway over it, regardless of its truth or fallacy.
we arent the first species to “drop the ball” on this planet, and we will for sure not be the last if history has any merit to make that prediction.
so, we either destroy the system, let it destroy itself, or watch as it consumes everything around it, and splinter off into the stars, devouring everything in its path.
humans are bound by exchanging goods and services, for IOU’s. our entire society, even in its most base, tribal elements, are ruled by this logic.
as long as that is true, no singular person is free from corruption. no system can save itself from eating its own tail. there is no world where our level of consumption can balance itself with the needs of the environment to sustain us.
as our “pot” slowly starts to boil, people, rich and poor, become more and more desperate, more willing to abandon morals for survival. over the next few decades we will see wars, famines, shortages, and shifts in the world order not seen since WW2.
the issue here is, we are not poised to be in a position of control over how that world order shifts, as regular people. our reach is small, and it would not be allowed to gain any traction beyond “controlled opposition” status if it broke out amongst the people. uncontrolled opposition is always crushed and villified.
i say this as someone in the far left camp, theres zero shot that human selfishness and greed, doesnt win over love and compassion, in a world where 1’s and 0’s dictate the outcome of someones quality of life. until we address which game we are really playing, we cannot change the rules in a meaningful way.
i have more doubt than hope, but im willing to be proved wrong a million times over.
if you got this far, and still have hope, make some friends, do your cardio, and practice your aim.
It’ll be like the CRTC. Rubberstamp-ville.
“Competition” in Canada is hilarious.
Wow, look, nothing!
“It’s hard to see as an economist how taking money away from the big grocers will then also lead to lower prices.”
Is it really, though? Finding some way to re-introduce to this market what we used to know as “competition” — which was once much beloved of economists — would do exactly that. But I guess that idea is too far-fetched to even come into the discussion. I only wonder how far this code of conduct goes in the opposite direction. The ruling cartel will continue to have its way.
You gotta get the right economist to say what you want. 😄
A) tax revenues greater than 10% of the market (e.g revenues over 10 billion dollars get taxed in a 100 billion dollar market regardless of income)
B) the government should fund the development of more wholesale markets.
They need more competition. I want Aldi and Lidl to open stores in Canada.
Voluntary… What a waste of tax dollars developing something people won’t pay any attention to.
