Including their brandname chains:
- Atlantic Cash & Carry
- Atlantic Superstore
- Axep
- Bloor Street Market
- Dominion
- Les Entrepôts Presto
- Extra Foods
- Fortinos
- Freshmart
- L’Intermarché
- Loblaws / Loblaw GreatFood / Loblaws CityMarket
- Lucky Dollar Foods
- Maxi / Maxi & Cie
- NG Cash & Carry
- No Frills
- Provigo
- Real Canadian Superstore
- Shop Easy Foods
- Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix
- SuperValu
- T & T Supermarket
- Valu-mart
- Wholesale Club / Club Entrepôt
- Your Independent Grocer / Independent CityMarket
- Zehrs Markets
Yes there are other big oligopoly chains like metro, Sobeys/Safeway, Pattison, but I think it’s best to start with one major chain to see how much coordinated action can affect them.
Started switching away from all of their stores last month in anticipation. I try to get everything I can from Costco, and use FreshCo for everything else.
Saying farewell to Zehrs will be easy but I could never give up my beloved Costco!
Costco are known for treating their staff unusually well compared to other retailers, so I think that’s fine.
worked at costco for a year. It was great. full of old timers, and lots of respect for the staff.
100%. They’re the only ones making a decent rotisserie chicken these days, and it’s only $8!?
My mom bought a 50% off rotisserie chicken from Zehrs yesterday that looked shrivelled and disgusting…7 dollars after the half off 😳. Managed to convince her to join the boycott at least!
I’d wager it is, or was, a loss leader. Its position at the very end of the store has to be strategic to make you look at everything else on the way.
Boycotts work if you isolate one company or one brand … then they would either be forced to change … or go out of business.
Once one company or brand is severely affected or goes under, then everyone moves on to a new target.
Literally every wholesaler is owned by one of the big companies, so it’s still coming from there even at an independent grocer. No, I will not be expending effort on this, personally. Downvote me if you need.
I agree that avoiding any of the big companies is nearly impossible, and if we switch for a month from one big company to another it seems pointless, but my hope is that if Loblaws sees a real impact from this boycott it will put a bit of fear into any of them that they could be next. I could be naive, but it seems worth trying (if you can, I understand some cannot).
My mental health can’t even take walking into the store that considered us all thieves. I get so pissed off and irrationally angry seeing a Loblaws store let alone walking in…I’ll never go back even if they ‘fix the prices’ (sadly this pun isn’t intended…)
Loblaws has stolen plenty from Canadian farmers, suppliers, store owners, grocery workers and consumers over the years. It’s time to treat the Weston family as the thieves they are.
The unpleasant experience is one of the main reasons I haven’t shopped there in many years.
I don’t drive, I’m too poor to live anywhere well connected, and I’m disabled. So I rely on delivery and need my groceries to be as cheap as possible. That means No Frills. I buy from there or starve, I’m afraid. I’d be more inclined towards a guillotine based solution for Loblaws and Pattison anyway.
The only one I visit at all is Shoppers Drug Mart, and that one’s not going to be an issue to cut out. Kinda tweaked that my local post office is operating out of it, though, and directly funneling public dollars into Galen Weston’s pockets.
Grocery Alternatives:
- Costco
Walmart- Save On Foods
Walmart
The human rights violation company.
totally fair, not sure why that escaped me
I’ve edited the original comment👍
There’s a lot of options, including big and small chains and local independents depending on your needs. It may be worth boycotting other chains in some order to keep everyone on their toes, but none have been as blatantly greedy as Loblaws for sure.
100% on board. First stop is to local grocers, then Costco, and if those fail, then I’ll resort to Sobeys.
I will join!
I already don’t shop at any of those, and will continue not to.
The only alternatives in my town are Walmart (the human rights violation company) or Sobeys (the wallet rapists). Maybe I can eat Shin-cup noodles for a month.
In my part of QC, the only “Loblaws” around me is a Maxi, it’s pretty cheap certainly one of the most affordable groceries here. But I can go to a nearby SuperC just to boycott Galen.
Every bit helps. Even a 3% drop at the Q2 report in a few months will be noteworthy for shareholders.
My wife and I are joining the boycott. Who knows what will come of it, but this might be a good reminder for the big grocery retailers that they don’t have a right to our patronage.
My wife and I agreed not to. We live in a small community, but have the following:
A small, independent market Your Independent Grocer (owned by loblaws) IGA (mostly independent)
Definitly options even in a community of only 10k people.
100% committed to the boycott. Haven’t shopped there since it was first suggested. We scan everything to avoid supporting genocide in Gaza as well. I’m old and cranky and just not having it.
Great list. In my area, I only need to avoid Maxi and Provigo.
There are so many small “dépanneurs” and specialty grocery stores.
They all have amaizing deals on their niche products:
- rice, lentils, dehydrated beans, spices, chili, bitter gourd >>>> indian store
- rice, sauces, noodles, mushroom, fish/seafood, daikon >>>> asian store
- beans, spices, coconut, plantain, okra, eddo leaf >>>> jamaican store
- arabic, latin american, senegalese, etc. grocery stores in addition to bakeries, fish mongers, butcher shops, etc.
Every speciaty store has their own fresh produces from typical fruits and vegetables we see everywhere to uniques ones found nowhere else.
