“We’ve listened to the feedback from our customers and colleagues and are reverting [where it existed before] to the 50 per cent off discounts,” the company, whose stores include Atlantic Superstore, No Frills, Dominion and Freshmart to name a few, told CBC News in an email on Friday.
“In the Atlantic, we had not implemented the change and will not. In the rest of the country, customers can expect to see 50 per cent stickers returning in the next few weeks.”
They’re all crooks
I went to the store a week ago when this was implemented. There were 30% off items everywhere. Presumably people were not buying them and Loblaws had to throw stuff out. They are backing down not because they “listened to feedback” but probably because they are losing money. The greed wins again…
Isn’t the point of these discounts to allow the store to unload goods that customers otherwise would avoid due to low remaining shelf life, and recoup some of the purchase costs? If they don’t discount it will end up costing them money.
“I think that’s just wonderful news and isn’t it good news to think that a large company like Loblaws is able to listen to the customers and react and do the right thing. I can’t be more complimentary to them in terms of being able to see the light on this issue,” VanGorder said.
This guy has lost his fucking mind
Good on Loblaws for… not going through something really scummy? Am I supposed to be happy about this?
At least it shows we (as in Canadians) have some say in it, but hopefully people will catch on to how brazen Loblaw’s ideas are that are designed to screw us over.
I bet this was their plan all along.
- Make a small but obvious change that the public will grab onto as an icon of grocery store greed.
- Wait for public outrage
- roll back the change
Now the public has “a win” and feel like they’ve accomplished something, even though we’re exactly where we were a week ago
