Canada’s grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada’s Competition Bureau says.

Sadly it doesn’t matter if we have antitrust laws or not when no one is willing to enforce them.

Storksforlegs
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It does matter, we just need to put more public pressure on them.

@OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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There was so much pressure on the Shawgers buyout, the Competition Bureau was overwhelmed. Yet, here we are.

@Erk@cdda.social
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I hope “public pressure” is euphemistic for things a little more, erm, firm than “write angry articles on cbc”

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