Will Canadians participate?

 Posters encouraging people to “Steal From Loblaws” popped up last week across Toronto and have been gaining steam online, drawing mixed reactions from Canadians.

The posters for the “first annual Steal From Loblaws Day” invite customers to rob retail grocery chains owned by Loblaw, including the Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Fortinos and T&T, and suggests that 2024 could be just the start of this proposed illegal protest, with the inclusion of “first annual.”

No organizers of the May 12 event have come forward to claim responsibility for the posters.

Justifying the protest, another X user wrote that “grocers are blatantly stealing from consumers in creative new ways without government intervention.”

“You brought all this on yourself,” another post reads.

Others are shocked that Canadians would resort to stealing to send a point to Loblaw.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10449334/steal-from-loblaws-day-posters-food-inflation/

Posters declaring May 12 the first annual “Steal from Loblaws Day” began popping up across Toronto the last week of April. They have since spread, and have been sighted in Atlantic Canada as well.

Canadians are frustrated

The motivation behind both the posters and the boycott stem from growing frustration with rising grocery prices, often attributed to “greedflation” — a term describing how corporations leverage inflation to raise prices and bolster profits.

Loblaws’ record-high profits and recent corporate practices have made it, in particular, a target of consumer outrage. Loblaw chairman and president Galen G. Weston, for his part, has called the accusations of profiteering “misguided” and “untrue.”

https://theconversation.com/controversial-steal-from-loblaws-day-is-not-just-illegal-it-wont-foster-meaningful-change-228586

Good thing I don't shop at Loblaws. Maybe I will steal from Safeway instead. Make a point. Whatchathink? Good idea?




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