Knowing Loblaws ... they'll just hike the price of everything and pocket the difference
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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Of course they will.
All the more reason for me not to shop at Loblaws
They will just price-fix something Galen names as his next yacht.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Weston started sourcing fewer Canadian products so they could raise prices.
/cynical
Just at first while people get used to the increase. Then switch to avoid tariff without lowering price
I personally didn't see any price decreases when the carbon tax was removed so I wouldn't be surprised.
Did anyone tell the grocers that?
If the government suspects them of doing this, couldn't they pass a law requiring them to display the tarrif amount?
Not sure we could expect the government to do that either, but seems like an option.
Just to put this in perspective, Loblaws profits are going up.
What are they doing with this profit? Not helping Canadian farmers and producers. that is for sure.
"The company announced a 10% increase in dividends and repurchased $457 million in shares."
They are buying back their own shares. Potential investment money gone to waste.
Buying up their own shares make the share value go up, less shares to buy and the such. This is awesome form investors and shareholders.
Fuck the customers
Loblaw's out of control.
Really!? Rob said that?
Devil's advocate, but this seems logical to me. Loblaws buys products at X price, now plus Y tariff because they now have to import new stock, and logically won't want to eat the difference because they're a business.
I'm assuming they're keeping their margins the same here and just directly passing the cost of tariffs to the end consumer.
This is nothing egregious, though not benevolent. I suggest we keep our Loblaws hate for when they actually do shitty stuff, like colluding over the price of bread.
At least I'll give them points for clearly marking tariffed products with a T in a triangle so we can avoid them.
You assume wrong. Their profit margins have gone up. They are now making huge profits.
Can you show where you're getting the information that margins have gone up? Only references to margins there indicate that they've been stable
The devil is in the details. Read what the report does NOT say. If dividends increase, profit has gone up. The profit goes up, because the margins have gone up. Volume has not increased as much as the profit..
'Absolute sales grew 4%', but 'Adjusted EPS grew by 9.3%'. The earnings per share (profit) grew twice the rate of absolute sales.
Just label so I can avoid it and and I’ll be fine.
As a Canadian living along the border, I’ve seen enough Loblaws transport trucks traveling north bound on the QEW, from the US, to easily assume the vast bulk of their store brands are about to have big price hikes.
Boycott Loblaws. Buy straight from bakeries, farms, local farmer’s markets and non-Loblaw supermarkets. (I prefer metro)
Metro is far worse than Loblaws. I have never found their prices anywhere close to being reasonable.