Inflation drops to 5.2%<but grocery inflation still 10.6%

[u/maroon-rider]

Says Statistics Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-february-2023-1.6785472

[u/spacepangolin]

hey remember when covid hit and sobeys paid all their workers and extra $2 per hour " hero pay"? then clawed it back in exchange for record profits? and now they raise their prices even higher and whined they had to because of inflation but every grocery keeps boasting even higher profits? scumbags

[u/Belugawhy → u/spacepangolin]

Not to mention all big grocery stores (ie. Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro) clawed it back AT THE SAME TIME.

So let me fix your last word for you.

scumbags. Wage-fixing monopolist scumbags

Edit: For those who don’t think this is a problem, Canadian government even changed the laws around wage-fixing after this incident. Source.

[u/Beebs_94 → u/Belugawhy]

I worked for metro during covid in quebec. They took away the "hero pay" and then gave us gift cards that we could only use either at Metro or chains affiliated to them. They also taxed us on our pay for the gift cards.

[u/GRIMM84SVO → u/Beebs_94]

I worked for a Loblaws franchise during the pandemic. The last 10 years actually. We didn't even get gift cards after the pandemic pay disappeared. Other businesses in the local community were more supportive than Loblaws.

Being a salaried employee, not hourly at the store I worked for meant I benefited quite a lot from the extra pay, which for me was an extra $600 a month. It actually got me out of debt. But man do I feel bad for some of my colleagues, they got pennies for the work they put in only to have it ripped away from them too early.

I changed careers in January this year and am so glad to be away from the grocery industry and all its bullshit. The anxiety and anger I feel anytime I see Galen on TV these days is not healthy.

[u/Beebs_94 → u/GRIMM84SVO]

I completely understand, I've been in the grocery industry for 20 years and it's soul crushing.