Hey Galen! Wake up! We’re gonna fight back!
The Competition Bureau is after you again. Remember that restrictive covenant clause you grocers insert into lease agreements that prevents other food-related businesses from occupying properties that you no longer use? How you can prevent other grocers, independents, family grocers, etc from setting up shop where you once were? Kiss it goodbye, baby. Kiss it goodbye.
Just another underhanded move by Canada’s grocers in cahoots with real estate companies. You close down a store, but make sure no other store can locate there. It creates what’s called a food desert, where neighbourhoods and communities lose their access to nearby grocery stores and must travel further afield, all because you guys can’t stand competition.
What makes it an even tougher day for Weston and his other grocery titan robber barons is the fact that the Competition Bureau is recommending to the government that international grocers be allowed to set up shop to compete with the Big Three, who currently have what’s called a monopoly, another word for protected greed. The idea, Galen, is that more grocers having nothing to do with you or the other Big Two will offer a greater degree of competition in the market, thereby driving down prices so consumers can afford to eat again. It’s almost like, gulp, free enterprise. And free enterprise is the very core of capitalism, is it not?
So suck eggs, buddy. Right now you’re the only guy who can afford them. But when your little monopoly comes to an end, and the rest of us can afford eggs too, don’t be surprised if your limo gets tagged by egg projectiles thrown by the peasantry.
Please, just make sure you drive with the windows down.
NEWSMAGRENFREW 