The Pepsi and Coke thing goes down a deeper rabbit hole. McDonald’s cups have maple leaves, too. My honest suspicion is it helps ID stock meant for different markets for inventory and import/export reasons.
Safeway is an american grocery store. They are not your friend and they will be on the side of American companies. That they are doing this is unsurprising.
I’m kinda torn on things. The other option in the area is a NoFrills, which is the Loblaws monopoly. They are Canadian, but evil as fuck.
At least Safeway has a functional union for the workers?
Otherwise I can drive 20 minutes (both ways) and go to a Co-Op instead of a 4 minute walk. I’m legit not sure which of the options is worse or best.
In the Buy Canadian era we have to drop the Loblaws rule temporarily but I make sure they are my absolute last choice and that I only buy very specific things there. Luckily I can drive to a Metro, Sobeys, Giant Tiger - Sobeys is arguably as evil (Empire - own Sobeys, Farm Boy, Foodland, IGA etc) but they in my mind are slightly less evil - Metro a bit less, Giant Tiger despite their owner’s politics even less - and then those lucky enough to live near a co-op or a good selection of independent stores - ideal.
Oh and Walmart - I’d have to basically be starving.
It is deeply weird how the local Safeway will mark things as Canadian because manufacturing is here even though the ownership is entirely American.
They have Pepsi and Coke with Canadian flags on them for some weird reason.
The Pepsi and Coke thing goes down a deeper rabbit hole. McDonald’s cups have maple leaves, too. My honest suspicion is it helps ID stock meant for different markets for inventory and import/export reasons.
Safeway is an american grocery store. They are not your friend and they will be on the side of American companies. That they are doing this is unsurprising.
Canada Safeway is owned (since 2013) by Sobeys, which is a fully Canadian owned company.
The only thing it has in common with the US company is the name.
Similar to A&W. Completely separate company in Canada and the US.
Well then, that just makes their misdirection worse.
I’m kinda torn on things. The other option in the area is a NoFrills, which is the Loblaws monopoly. They are Canadian, but evil as fuck. At least Safeway has a functional union for the workers?
Otherwise I can drive 20 minutes (both ways) and go to a Co-Op instead of a 4 minute walk. I’m legit not sure which of the options is worse or best.
In the Buy Canadian era we have to drop the Loblaws rule temporarily but I make sure they are my absolute last choice and that I only buy very specific things there. Luckily I can drive to a Metro, Sobeys, Giant Tiger - Sobeys is arguably as evil (Empire - own Sobeys, Farm Boy, Foodland, IGA etc) but they in my mind are slightly less evil - Metro a bit less, Giant Tiger despite their owner’s politics even less - and then those lucky enough to live near a co-op or a good selection of independent stores - ideal.
Oh and Walmart - I’d have to basically be starving.