Loblaws Inc. one of many a human-killing machines amongst many in Capitalist North America was accused of price fixing earlier this year or late last year, in Canada. Now price fixing was a term that I heard it for the first time when this issue was revealed. The term basically means maintaining the price of a good at a certain level by agreement between competitive sellers! As vague and funny this term is, I don't understand why this could be a problem! Companies do that all the time in North America!
Look at the price of gasoline everywhere in town. You reach at an intersection and there are three gas stations from three different companies and they all have the same price with one or two cents difference. Take the intersection of 37 St. and Richmond Road in SW quadrant part of the City of Calgary. There's Shell, Husky and Esso, three major providers of gasoline in the world, I could say, probably. Check the prices of the three the next time you're at that intersection and tell me if that's not price fixing.
The problem was revealed or discovered(!) by some organization and I guess a class action suit was about to start. Then the bastards of Loblaws Inc., who were about to receive a low blow (or perhaps received that!) panicked and decided to give everyone a $25 gift card to be used in any Loblaws Inc. store, mainly the Real Canadian Superasshole! The only thing that this store is not is Canadian. The food is not mostly Canadian(!), the employees are not Canadians and the customers are not mostly Canadians!
I do not shop at Superasshole frequently due to distance and its long disgusting checkout lines but when I heard that I said why not? There's a saying in Persian which goes: It'd be a privilege, if you could even take a hair from a bear! It literally means that if you can get a little from a big one, even that is worthwhile. So I gathered the documents they wanted and mailed them to Vancouver, where they had assembled an office to handle this business. I received it after a few weeks, I guess and then spent the most of it in bags of Quinoa and a few pieces of fruit.
So now who the winner is in this game? For sure it's not the customers, the poor refugees, immigrants and Canadians who go there for their daily grocery shopping. The real winner is the assholes of Loblaws Inc. or they wouldn't send the card to whoever applied!
(Photo: Riddick Bowe, a former professional American boxer, is seen in this photo in his bout against the disgusting and dishonor Polish boxer, Andezej Golota. He is on the floor and in pain as a result of a low blow he received form Golota. Golota, the asshole, was disqualified and lost. Loblaw Inc., however, did not suffer as much as neither rivals! The consumers are the real losers in any fight against Capitalist companies)
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