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[-] a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

So what are people supposed to do if they can’t afford food? Starve? This is getting ridiculous. All the big grocery corps need to be broken up to create more competition

[-] Teppa@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

The problem with grocery stores in Canada is their margins on food are tiny, less than 4%. So a government run entity cant be appreciably cheaper.

Where Loblaws makes its margin is real estate, which is a monopoly our government fosters and calls peoples nest egg. So you're calling on the entity that makes things unaffordable to make it affordable, which we just voted back in the same people who made things far more unaffordable the last decade.

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