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Luckily there's a lot more than the grocery rebate.

That said I hope these investments don't go to the existing monopolies:

To help bring down the cost of groceries, which have been rising faster than inflation, Carney said he will direct $500 million from the government's Strategic Response Fund to help food suppliers "expand capacity and increase productivity."

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Also heard the heard the words "unit label pricing" as well as more funding for Competition Bureau to do its job in the grocery sector.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, indeed.

This strategy will include measures to implement unit price labelling so Canada can compare easily in this era of 'shrinkflation,' as well as support for the work of the Competition Bureau in monitoring and enforcing competition in our market," he said.

This would be a welcome requirement in my books.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's one of those examples of a thing that you see every time you shop and you know the only reason it's the way it is, is so the store relieves you from more of your money. Pure unambiguous adversarial action. They know it, you know it, the gov't knows it, and you see right there how the gov't sides with Galen over you even though he cast a single vote over many of ours. It's infuriating.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Unit label pricing should also apply to advertisements.