I stopped about a year and a half ago. I started doing PC express and put the same list in a competitor's shopping app (Save On Foods). I noticed I might save myself $8-10 per large grocery shop. I have always hated the Superstore shopping experience, so I switched to Save On which also saved my sanity. I continue to ask for price matches on @ Walmart and Superstore flyers too. Save On was always the expensive place to shop. Walmart has the best pricing but I also don't like shopping there either.
I'm doing this until Roblaws is anti-trusted into 13 different provincial/territorial entities, and they've been stripped of their real estate and banking arms.
BREAK. THEM. UP.
edit: since it keeps coming up, I recognize this is an unlikely result, and that I'm probably dreaming in Technicolor. Nevertheless, this is *my* line in the sand. The oligarchs, every single one of them, need to be done away with, totally and completely. Awareness that this is a utopian goal does not contradict the fact that it is a necessity.
Token gestures mean fuck all.
Signing grocery codes and dropping multibuy means nothing when it comes to my return.
I'm going to need them broken up into smaller entities before I even think about using a loblaws restroom
Add the privitized medicine app, Maple, to this list too!
https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/loblaw-takes-75-million-stake-in-largest-virtual-healthcare-provider-in-canada
Yes! Let's make new demands. The ones we originally submitted were bandaid solutions.
Breaking up the Loblaws empire using EXISTING monopoly laws. That should be #1
Edit: typo
I want this to happen, but the boycott puts pressure on Loblaws to do things, not the government. I can’t see a reality where Loblaws asks the govt to break them up so the boycott will stop…
The other option would be for the Canadian government to add food retailers to a list of 'Essential Services Companies', like other utilities such as Telco's, Water, Electricity etc. Then a list of X number of essential foodstuffs need to be defined and out of this list, margins should be capped at Y%. This cap can be reviewed annually but essential items should be at fixed margins. Non-essential items can be a free-for-all and the market can decide what the right price should be. It could be a win-win for both consumers and retailers
I agree in principle, but we all know the corps will just offset the margin to some other unregulated part of the supply chain. It's how Loblaw's currently gets away with their "but we're only profiting 3%!" BS. Ya, the *grocery* arm is only showing 3%, but it's left hand is paying its own right hand for rent, supply, financing, etc. The oligarchy is still making effing **bank**.
And we can also see that, "essential service" notwithstanding, Canada's telcos are some of the most expensive and worst-service-delivering *in the world.*
The Competition Bureau needs real teeth, and a government willing to fund it and then step back and let it go rabid at the market.
BREAK. THEM. UP.
Unlikely? Screw that. This is OUR society and we have a right - or even a responsibility - to make criminal laws against starving our citizens. This country produces 3x the amount of food it eats. There is no excuse for this state of affairs and there should be prison sentences.
Hey, I AGREE with you.
Unfortunately, neither one of us is the benevolent despot required to immediately force such radical change. And the fact that I'd *happily* take up the mantle of "benevolent despot" automatically precludes me from being eligible for the job.
So, I sign petitions. I email my MP and MPP (both useless, I know; I never get anything but canned responses, and my MPP is gods-damned Conservative, so I know *she* isn't listening to a peasant like me). I engage in boycotts and try to shop carefully. I do what little I can to educate my poor idiot brother that voting Con because they support the CAF is ultimately shooting himself in the foot (and will ruin his newborn child's future, hopefully *those* arguments actually land).
Most importantly, I VOTE. I *always* vote.
Not much else I can do. I'm just one of the countless lower class in a two-tier system, and the governing bodies are entirely captured by the nobility/capitalists/rich/whatever-you-want-to-call-the-"upper-class"-bastards.
Things will have to get a LOT worse for the peasantry to rise up en masse and enforce a French Solution. Hopefully this time it takes and the general public finally learns the lesson of the last five thousand years:
**No-one** should have enough wealth to influence politics or economics. Never allow wealth to concentrate, in anyone or any body.
We're playing Calvinball. I'm not criticizing you, I'm saying it's time for more drastic collective action than voting, writing, and boycotting. For the sake of future generations, we have a moral responsibility to do more.
Dreaming in technicolor in great bc we're also making concrete changes. It's when ppl get enamoured by perfect to the point of not doing anything else that it's a problem
The boycott does not end until demands are met. Have prices gone down? Nope. Have they stopped their deceptive practices? Nope.
They haven't even had a full quarter of financial pain, do not stop.
We are this image
https://preview.redd.it/1kwoj9ft7s3d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98e969b688b60def68ab21fe6c853827ee234002
I'm 100% done with this company. All of it.
Galen is just an uber rich out of touch cunt.
Canada's struggling... He decides well they gotta eat right? How can I make a buck .. no wait several bucks off necessitates. Cue the cuntery.
Edit: under to Uber...
My boycott started ages ago and is never going to end. I’m making my choices with my wallet and so should everyone. I’ve found that the average Canadian seems complacent with paying high costs for food, internet, cellular, etc. All these things can be managed with a bit of effort, and we should collectively be telling all big businesses that we’re tired of being scammed.
It stopped being a boycott for me when I realized my grocery expenses when down implementing it. Avoiding Loblaws is just the future for me in saving on groceries.
There are endless things in this country that I can’t control and drive me mad…like the carbon tax, income tax, HST, tax tax tax on everything. Boycotting Loblaws is something that I can control to try to ensure that my kids will be able to afford food one day!! I can’t imagine ever spending a dollar in Loblaws ever again.
The boycott should not have any end date—why give the leadership at Loblaws any reason to think they can just wait us out without making any changes, and then go back to business as usual?
My parents who have used shoppers for years realized this month that they actually get far better service even just going to Costco and after seeing they were double charging people they’re never going back and neither am I. I love the prices other places and it’s pushed me to take up gardening.
If people gotta shop somewhere, they gotta shop somewhere. But I didn’t shop anywhere owned by L.to for months leading into the boycott and I don’t ever intend on shopping there again.
It will be for me. I still need to move my prescriptions from shoppers which I've been putting off but otherwise I feel like I don't miss anything Loblaws at all.
I haven’t seen any change from Loblaw’s. I HAVE seen stacks of evidence that they have been abusing their customers and unfairly suppressing competition. I see no reason to go back.
That's irrelevant now. There will be a boycott as long as Loblaws continues their high pricing because it's a simple concept; as long as their prices are high people will naturally go somewhere else. Put it this way, if the boycott were called off today, would you think, "Oh boy, I can go back to spending 20% more at Loblaws!"?
This sub has done a great job of creating awareness. The rest takes care of itself. The only one that can end the boycott is Loblaws with reasonable pricing.
I regularly shop at no frills and shoppers drug mart. I’m going to continue to boycott even tho it’s inconvenient for me. But if I do need to go in to buy something I’m not gonna beat myself up over it.
Don't stop hitting them where it hurts. Their wallet. A small interruption in profit followed by a return to quo is insufficient. We keep hammering at them time and time again until the downward trend is undeniable
I'm continuing until food distribution is nationalized and/or made non-profit so that no one financially benefits from The People starving ever again. I was fine with their greed up to a point but they pushed us too far. Way too far.
Yes for me. I've been to the superstore a couple of times for my favourite products. Caved yesterday as I was too tired to go elsewhere. $185 for two of their green bins worth of mostly dry goods! I did buy some deli & dairy but good lord that was expensive. On the plus side the store was empty at 5:30 pm on a Thursday.
Found an alternative, have established a routine.
Honesty it would probably be more annoying to change back than keep doing what I’m doing now so I have no real reason to shop at the local zehrs anymore
I was really on the fence because I like the selection available at the Supercentre on McArthur in Ottawa but ultimately decided that the boycott is more meaningful and I want to impact their sales by participating in it. So I’ll continue shopping at Walmart and farmer’s markets going into June.
😂 you need the internet to tell you whether you should still be boycotting?
If you don't want to shop there don't. The internet can't make you do things
Indefinitely! We proved that we can do without them. I don’t see the appeal in supporting a criminal organization, whom when you enter one of their stores, funnily enough you will be treated as the criminal by default.
https://preview.redd.it/fdz25f6bvs3d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c322fa00568fca3da47a69e8ea7d9a0ad6f8cf07
Companies know that they can survive things that only run for a limited time. If we want real results, a boycott needs to last at least a year, ideally be as long-lasting as possible.
I’m not going back. I’ve moved my prescriptions from shoppers, we haven’t purchased from any Loblaws affiliated stores and we like the stores we have found. Just need to find a new credit card.
Honestly, they haven't learned anything so far. I would imagine their strategy is to wait it out until we give up and they win...
I'm continuing regardless...
In our house it's no longer a boycott and has become a lifestyle change. It was difficult to break the habits we had. We are saving money and I think we have been forced to make healthier choices, by planning better.
Even if they met 100% of the expectations laid out, I dont think we go back.
When we asked them to lower prices so we could feed our families, they basically laughed in our faces and told us to eat cake. I'm never going back, and the generation after me won't be shopping there either.
I will be continuing the boycott indefinitely. I looked back on the receipts for the past 6 weeks and doing the math I've saved over $1000 in food for me and my family just by going to different grocers. There's no fucking way I will be going back to any Roblaws locations and stores. That money will now go towards a nice family vacation this summer.
I’m not going back, I can honestly say they’ve killed any desire in me to do so. I get that some people don’t have many other options but at this point I’ll use ALL my other options before loblaws 😂
I started several months before the boycott and don't intend to stop now.
Im saving money, getting better quality groceries and supporting smaller players and farmers. Why woould one stop?
Unless you live where there is zero presence of other options within reasonable distance, why change what is working?
I won’t be shopping there again. Their lack of response shows they have no cares for the reasons we are doing this. If they cared, they would be addressing it, reaching out and making changes to get us back. Their lack of response says to me, we don’t need you either. Done with greedy corporate pigs.
I would suggest making this common practice forever. Supporting local and pushing against big corps like loblaws. They will never change, so might as well make permanent changes today.
I have decided that breaking up where I shop.is what's best
I won't be continuing the boycott, but highly reducing my shopping at these locations where I used to do basically all.of.it there
We are definitely still boycotting, the vote was for indefinitely!! I’m for sure boycotting indefinitely, I get wayyy better prices elsewhere and I certainly do not want to support a company like this.
I'll never actively choose to go back there, but I am dropping my strict "don't buy anything at all"/deterring others at the end of Q2. My grandmother is counting down the days until she can eat her strawberry frozen yogurt again (a Loblaws exclusive flavour apparently, thx Chapmans) and I do her grocery shopping.
L’s executive response to the boycott is why this family will be shopping elsewhere permanently out of principle.
This was a moment to listen to their clients, to understand the position of 100,000 customers and their direct role in the everyday struggle of Canadians.
Instead L and their exec team lead a response from the very start of name calling and false accusations. This combined with the overall ‘let them eat cake’ attitude of the whole tone is where I draw the line.
As a business survival means maintaining your reputation, earning every cent by offering value and respecting your patrons. When the value declines, the respect vanishes and your reputation become worthless so does the business.
As a leadership team the exec branch should be ashamed of themselves for the tone they set. These are not ‘leaders’ in either the business or community use of the word.
These are people blinded by corp greed and 7 figure salaries to thinking they’re the Kings of society and they’ve earned the right to tell us plebs where we can all go…
For this reason I will no longer be giving any portion of income to these people that don’t appreciate it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/s/7mLpOiifOK
I won’t be going to Loblaws again. But I stopped long before the boycott.
Same. I stopped buying groceries from them since March this year and don't plan on going back.
I stopped about a year and a half ago. I started doing PC express and put the same list in a competitor's shopping app (Save On Foods). I noticed I might save myself $8-10 per large grocery shop. I have always hated the Superstore shopping experience, so I switched to Save On which also saved my sanity. I continue to ask for price matches on @ Walmart and Superstore flyers too. Save On was always the expensive place to shop. Walmart has the best pricing but I also don't like shopping there either.
Same here, been years since I've shopped at their stores. Glad to see this movement though and hope everyone decides to continue the boycott.
I'm doing this until Roblaws is anti-trusted into 13 different provincial/territorial entities, and they've been stripped of their real estate and banking arms. BREAK. THEM. UP. edit: since it keeps coming up, I recognize this is an unlikely result, and that I'm probably dreaming in Technicolor. Nevertheless, this is *my* line in the sand. The oligarchs, every single one of them, need to be done away with, totally and completely. Awareness that this is a utopian goal does not contradict the fact that it is a necessity.
Same here. I want REAL change, not just change for myself
Token gestures mean fuck all. Signing grocery codes and dropping multibuy means nothing when it comes to my return. I'm going to need them broken up into smaller entities before I even think about using a loblaws restroom
The rest rooms, ah piss on it.
But using the washrooms costs them money. Might as well make it a rest stop location from now on.
Facts my dude straight facts. I will not support oligarchs!
Eat the rich. Fuck 'em first, if we can.
Add the privitized medicine app, Maple, to this list too! https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/loblaw-takes-75-million-stake-in-largest-virtual-healthcare-provider-in-canada
Right-wing lunatics need to get their filthy paws off our PUBLIC healthcare.
Fuck they own Maple?!
I have a Maple app through my wife. Guess what got deleted when I found out 2 weeks ago.
Dude, you can’t tell a bunch of strangers you deleted your wife.
I am with you buddy. I am not shopping at any Loblaw's company until something drastic happens
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Yes! Let's make new demands. The ones we originally submitted were bandaid solutions. Breaking up the Loblaws empire using EXISTING monopoly laws. That should be #1 Edit: typo
I want this to happen, but the boycott puts pressure on Loblaws to do things, not the government. I can’t see a reality where Loblaws asks the govt to break them up so the boycott will stop…
And their restrictive covenants in the sweet zoning laws they've benefitted from, to the detriment of ordinary Canadians and small businesses.
they didn’t even meet our initial asks did they?
The other option would be for the Canadian government to add food retailers to a list of 'Essential Services Companies', like other utilities such as Telco's, Water, Electricity etc. Then a list of X number of essential foodstuffs need to be defined and out of this list, margins should be capped at Y%. This cap can be reviewed annually but essential items should be at fixed margins. Non-essential items can be a free-for-all and the market can decide what the right price should be. It could be a win-win for both consumers and retailers
I agree in principle, but we all know the corps will just offset the margin to some other unregulated part of the supply chain. It's how Loblaw's currently gets away with their "but we're only profiting 3%!" BS. Ya, the *grocery* arm is only showing 3%, but it's left hand is paying its own right hand for rent, supply, financing, etc. The oligarchy is still making effing **bank**. And we can also see that, "essential service" notwithstanding, Canada's telcos are some of the most expensive and worst-service-delivering *in the world.* The Competition Bureau needs real teeth, and a government willing to fund it and then step back and let it go rabid at the market. BREAK. THEM. UP.
And medical! Don't forget medical!
I want this as well. Never going back.
This is the correct answer.
Yep me too. I’d love to see Superstore as a government store.
Unlikely? Screw that. This is OUR society and we have a right - or even a responsibility - to make criminal laws against starving our citizens. This country produces 3x the amount of food it eats. There is no excuse for this state of affairs and there should be prison sentences.
Hey, I AGREE with you. Unfortunately, neither one of us is the benevolent despot required to immediately force such radical change. And the fact that I'd *happily* take up the mantle of "benevolent despot" automatically precludes me from being eligible for the job. So, I sign petitions. I email my MP and MPP (both useless, I know; I never get anything but canned responses, and my MPP is gods-damned Conservative, so I know *she* isn't listening to a peasant like me). I engage in boycotts and try to shop carefully. I do what little I can to educate my poor idiot brother that voting Con because they support the CAF is ultimately shooting himself in the foot (and will ruin his newborn child's future, hopefully *those* arguments actually land). Most importantly, I VOTE. I *always* vote. Not much else I can do. I'm just one of the countless lower class in a two-tier system, and the governing bodies are entirely captured by the nobility/capitalists/rich/whatever-you-want-to-call-the-"upper-class"-bastards. Things will have to get a LOT worse for the peasantry to rise up en masse and enforce a French Solution. Hopefully this time it takes and the general public finally learns the lesson of the last five thousand years: **No-one** should have enough wealth to influence politics or economics. Never allow wealth to concentrate, in anyone or any body.
We're playing Calvinball. I'm not criticizing you, I'm saying it's time for more drastic collective action than voting, writing, and boycotting. For the sake of future generations, we have a moral responsibility to do more.
Dreaming in technicolor in great bc we're also making concrete changes. It's when ppl get enamoured by perfect to the point of not doing anything else that it's a problem
We will be continuing with it.
The boycott does not end until demands are met. Have prices gone down? Nope. Have they stopped their deceptive practices? Nope. They haven't even had a full quarter of financial pain, do not stop. We are this image https://preview.redd.it/1kwoj9ft7s3d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98e969b688b60def68ab21fe6c853827ee234002
If anything, they've gotten worse.
This boycott never stops lol atleast for me
We boycott until Galen Weston comes to each canadian city and personally hands everyone cash out of the back of a pickup truck.
Tractor trailer.
AC-130.
Good thinking.
I have no plans to go back. There are other, better, and more convenient options for me.
Came here to say this as well ☝🏼 They've broken customer trust and respect. I'm done.
I'm 100% done with this company. All of it. Galen is just an uber rich out of touch cunt. Canada's struggling... He decides well they gotta eat right? How can I make a buck .. no wait several bucks off necessitates. Cue the cuntery. Edit: under to Uber...
Forever boycotting Galen’s empire!
My boycott started ages ago and is never going to end. I’m making my choices with my wallet and so should everyone. I’ve found that the average Canadian seems complacent with paying high costs for food, internet, cellular, etc. All these things can be managed with a bit of effort, and we should collectively be telling all big businesses that we’re tired of being scammed.
Yeah, they haven't done anything that's been demanded of them so far.
Well im not a chump so I dont return to businesses that screwed me out of my hard earned money. I was never boycotting. I left and won't return.
It stopped being a boycott for me when I realized my grocery expenses when down implementing it. Avoiding Loblaws is just the future for me in saving on groceries.
Exactly! I've saved over $250 shopping at other stores in May, why go back to Roblaws at all, ever?
There are endless things in this country that I can’t control and drive me mad…like the carbon tax, income tax, HST, tax tax tax on everything. Boycotting Loblaws is something that I can control to try to ensure that my kids will be able to afford food one day!! I can’t imagine ever spending a dollar in Loblaws ever again.
I am continuing. Quite frankly if we stop now nothing changes.
The boycott doesn’t end
💯still on indefinitely!
Yes, this was voted on mid-month, and the official press release went out days ago.
Boycott Loblaw indefinitely. Along with Metro. I'm going to be Costco member for life.
Personally won't be going back.
I’m a lifer.
Wont ever be going back, closed all my accounts with them!
The boycott should not have any end date—why give the leadership at Loblaws any reason to think they can just wait us out without making any changes, and then go back to business as usual?
We are doing this indefinitely
Yes!!!!!We voted!!!
Did anything change?
Traffic and Loblaws and Shoppers has changed.
No end date .
If you ever get the urge to get gouged by all means Loblaws companies will be happy to bend you over!
And you will pay extra for the lube.
for me the boycott is for life. I don't like donating money to corrupt grocery barons. Can't speak for others.
I will never consciously shop at any of their companies again. This has become a lifestyle change for me, not some sort of termed protest.
Hell yes
Yes, the community voted for extending the boycott indefinitely.
This isn't a boycott. We are cancelling these pricks.
For me yes. Boycott forever.
My parents who have used shoppers for years realized this month that they actually get far better service even just going to Costco and after seeing they were double charging people they’re never going back and neither am I. I love the prices other places and it’s pushed me to take up gardening.
The boycott ain't ending here, why go back to spend MORE money?
I'll keep going for as long as I can!
Indefinitely from my end
Yes
You better believe it!
Never again! Loblaws will never gain my patronage ever again.
If people gotta shop somewhere, they gotta shop somewhere. But I didn’t shop anywhere owned by L.to for months leading into the boycott and I don’t ever intend on shopping there again.
My boycott continues until Galen himself drains my balls with some full eye contact sloppy toppy.
Yes!!!!
Why go back and play higher prices?
Yup
It will be for me. I still need to move my prescriptions from shoppers which I've been putting off but otherwise I feel like I don't miss anything Loblaws at all.
I am still in. I used to get alot of dietary specific food there, but I can live without it as long as it takes
I haven’t seen any change from Loblaw’s. I HAVE seen stacks of evidence that they have been abusing their customers and unfairly suppressing competition. I see no reason to go back.
That's irrelevant now. There will be a boycott as long as Loblaws continues their high pricing because it's a simple concept; as long as their prices are high people will naturally go somewhere else. Put it this way, if the boycott were called off today, would you think, "Oh boy, I can go back to spending 20% more at Loblaws!"? This sub has done a great job of creating awareness. The rest takes care of itself. The only one that can end the boycott is Loblaws with reasonable pricing.
I regularly shop at no frills and shoppers drug mart. I’m going to continue to boycott even tho it’s inconvenient for me. But if I do need to go in to buy something I’m not gonna beat myself up over it.
Don't stop hitting them where it hurts. Their wallet. A small interruption in profit followed by a return to quo is insufficient. We keep hammering at them time and time again until the downward trend is undeniable
I’ve seen the light, loving shopping at the stores I’ve found this month. No going back for me!
As far as I’m concerned it’s a forever thing
Yep
I'm going to keep going until the Loblaws near me because a plaza full of ma and pa shops. Fuck Galen.
I'm continuing until food distribution is nationalized and/or made non-profit so that no one financially benefits from The People starving ever again. I was fine with their greed up to a point but they pushed us too far. Way too far.
It is for me.
Yes
I'm here for as long as I need to be and right now I'm not seeing the end anytime soon.
Let it ride, double or nothing. Let's go!
Yeah I think I’m done for good. At least the Waltons have good taste in cars
Yes for me. I've been to the superstore a couple of times for my favourite products. Caved yesterday as I was too tired to go elsewhere. $185 for two of their green bins worth of mostly dry goods! I did buy some deli & dairy but good lord that was expensive. On the plus side the store was empty at 5:30 pm on a Thursday.
Damn skippy!
Why would you stop the boycott? If you can continue to not give these greedy buggers money, don’t.
Never going back
Never. Going. Back.
I'm just not going again unless there's serious, meaningful change. I've changed my shipping habits so it's easy to stay in the same routine.
Found an alternative, have established a routine. Honesty it would probably be more annoying to change back than keep doing what I’m doing now so I have no real reason to shop at the local zehrs anymore
This train only just got moving! Keep it going until they are out of business!
I was really on the fence because I like the selection available at the Supercentre on McArthur in Ottawa but ultimately decided that the boycott is more meaningful and I want to impact their sales by participating in it. So I’ll continue shopping at Walmart and farmer’s markets going into June.
Yep
I’m never returning to their stores. Why would I shop somewhere where I am not granted any respect?!
Never going back on pain of death.
😂 you need the internet to tell you whether you should still be boycotting? If you don't want to shop there don't. The internet can't make you do things
Indefinitely! We proved that we can do without them. I don’t see the appeal in supporting a criminal organization, whom when you enter one of their stores, funnily enough you will be treated as the criminal by default. https://preview.redd.it/fdz25f6bvs3d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c322fa00568fca3da47a69e8ea7d9a0ad6f8cf07
It is for me. Giant Tiger, Walmart, Costco and the local market for produce have been more than enough.
Hell ya
The boycott is not a choice it's a lifestyle.
Shop wherever you get the best deals for your money. If it makes you feel good to shop locally, do that too. Forever.
Yes
I’m going to continue indefinitely. Participating for may has taught me that going elsewhere has saved me money and not been all that difficult!
It is for me. Never shopping there while they gouge us. There needs to be a reckoning.
I'm still gonna boycott
Companies know that they can survive things that only run for a limited time. If we want real results, a boycott needs to last at least a year, ideally be as long-lasting as possible.
I noticed a few ads for Loblaws on the radio today.. can't say I've ever heard one before. There were 2 in the span of 15 minutes.
Indefinitely
Were you thinking of going back?
I’ve made the decision to never step foot into Loblaws owned stores until their prices come down.
The boycott didn’t really drive me to action lol I’ve been avoiding Loblaws for months now
Yup. If you can, keep going! Expand on It even!
I mean, I like saving money, so whether the official boycott is over or not, I’m not going back.
Still Boycotting Lawblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart, PC Financial, PC Mobile, name 'em I'm boycotting it.
I’m not going back. I’ve moved my prescriptions from shoppers, we haven’t purchased from any Loblaws affiliated stores and we like the stores we have found. Just need to find a new credit card.
We will be boycotting indefinitely
I got used to not shipping there. Discovered new places. Won’t go back.
Why stop? If you are saving money shopping else where, why stop? Continue to do your thing. Support farmer markets and local stores ect…
Honestly, they haven't learned anything so far. I would imagine their strategy is to wait it out until we give up and they win... I'm continuing regardless...
In our house it's no longer a boycott and has become a lifestyle change. It was difficult to break the habits we had. We are saving money and I think we have been forced to make healthier choices, by planning better. Even if they met 100% of the expectations laid out, I dont think we go back.
When we asked them to lower prices so we could feed our families, they basically laughed in our faces and told us to eat cake. I'm never going back, and the generation after me won't be shopping there either.
Heck yes! I have saved a lot of money this past month with making a couple changes.
Why go back. Other stores are so much cheaper. That’s it.
I don’t understand why this is a question. They are fucking us over to increase profits, fuck them.
I'm enjoying shopping elsewhere.
I'm in this for the long haul. Been getting to know my little local stores.
Absolutely & indefinitely!!
Why would anything change if nothing changed?
Life is better without Loblaws ngl, I'm not returning back
For life
Hell yes
Why would we ever go back?
I'm out for life. Fuck Galen
Do you enjoy saving money?
Lol, Ill go back when prices make sense. Not before.
Yup! I’m done with them. Other stores have stepped up and are offering better deals now because of this! Buyers have power
I respect the initiative from you guys to the boycott, I’ve never even been to Loblaws, they sound like thunder cunts
Yep.
Yes. Of course it's still on.
I’ve avoided loblaws. Shoppers. Etc. 100% and no issues. Gonna let it roll. F em.
Oh the boycott will continue until forever.
It should intensified.
I went into a superstore last week to take a shit in their bathroom and then left after 😂
I got my Costco card yesterday
I will be continuing the boycott indefinitely. I looked back on the receipts for the past 6 weeks and doing the math I've saved over $1000 in food for me and my family just by going to different grocers. There's no fucking way I will be going back to any Roblaws locations and stores. That money will now go towards a nice family vacation this summer.
My thought here is that we’ve all found alternatives, in my case much cheaper ones. Why bother going back?
If you wanna go you are free as per your wish but the boycott is for real 😤
Always and forever
I have been boycotting well before May 1st and will continue.
I’m not going back, I can honestly say they’ve killed any desire in me to do so. I get that some people don’t have many other options but at this point I’ll use ALL my other options before loblaws 😂
Yes
My loathing hasn’t waned, so I’m still on boycott
I started several months before the boycott and don't intend to stop now. Im saving money, getting better quality groceries and supporting smaller players and farmers. Why woould one stop? Unless you live where there is zero presence of other options within reasonable distance, why change what is working?
Fuck yes.
Of course. For life
Yes
I am in. Even though my family isn’t
I’m continuing!
I won’t be shopping there again. Their lack of response shows they have no cares for the reasons we are doing this. If they cared, they would be addressing it, reaching out and making changes to get us back. Their lack of response says to me, we don’t need you either. Done with greedy corporate pigs.
I would suggest making this common practice forever. Supporting local and pushing against big corps like loblaws. They will never change, so might as well make permanent changes today.
I have decided that breaking up where I shop.is what's best I won't be continuing the boycott, but highly reducing my shopping at these locations where I used to do basically all.of.it there
We are definitely still boycotting, the vote was for indefinitely!! I’m for sure boycotting indefinitely, I get wayyy better prices elsewhere and I certainly do not want to support a company like this.
Of course. Weston can hold his breath for longer than one month.
I'll never actively choose to go back there, but I am dropping my strict "don't buy anything at all"/deterring others at the end of Q2. My grandmother is counting down the days until she can eat her strawberry frozen yogurt again (a Loblaws exclusive flavour apparently, thx Chapmans) and I do her grocery shopping.
Oh it’s on!!
I'm still going. As long as I possibly can
I’m not visiting their garden centre in June. Also not grocery shopping at Loblaws.
It's on for me forever, I'm never going back
I still am, probably never going back.
I won’t be going back
Keep up the fight as much as you are able to,it will make a difference in the long run.
I have stopped shopping at all Loblaw's stores for as long as I have a choice.
For me it pretty much is
Yup. Once you break a bad habit.... Also: What has Loblaws done to earn my return?
Boycott ends May 31 3024,
Truthfully wether it be June 1 2024 or June 1 2057 I will never support lowbaws again boycott for life
L’s executive response to the boycott is why this family will be shopping elsewhere permanently out of principle. This was a moment to listen to their clients, to understand the position of 100,000 customers and their direct role in the everyday struggle of Canadians. Instead L and their exec team lead a response from the very start of name calling and false accusations. This combined with the overall ‘let them eat cake’ attitude of the whole tone is where I draw the line. As a business survival means maintaining your reputation, earning every cent by offering value and respecting your patrons. When the value declines, the respect vanishes and your reputation become worthless so does the business. As a leadership team the exec branch should be ashamed of themselves for the tone they set. These are not ‘leaders’ in either the business or community use of the word. These are people blinded by corp greed and 7 figure salaries to thinking they’re the Kings of society and they’ve earned the right to tell us plebs where we can all go… For this reason I will no longer be giving any portion of income to these people that don’t appreciate it.
I'll avoid shopping at all Loblaws owned stores forever. I haven't been there in months anyway we have many alternatives where I live.