Hideous-Mart is without a doubt one of the biggest thieves in the world: Cheap, low quality stuff, anti-union and staff, you name it. That's what Hideous-Mart is actually about. I have to go to a branch from time to time for a very limited number of items. Vegetables, Fruits, Meat, Poultry, Seafood, Cheese all are out of question! You get the worst from this retailer. There are a few items that I get from them rarely. One of them was, as no longer, this big piece of Chocolate Bar called Waterbridge. It used to be CAN $5.95 for different flavours. A few months back the thieves increased the price to CAN $6.97 or something in that range. I went just for that item to a store nearby and I saw the price had been jacked up to CAN $8.98 and I didn't buy and I will never buy it!
Situations like this is very easy to control if people are together: Simply boycott the product. Either the retailer or the manufacturer has to adjust the price! The solution for the retailer might be to stop carrying them and replacing them with something cheaper. That would work because people go there for cheap stuff. The manufacturers use different approaches: Some like McDonald's decrease the size of the product for the same price and it mostly works. Some use lower quality ingredients. That might work too. It's difficult to call people to boycott a product here in Canada but I know the new Buy Canadian trend is on. Unfortunately it does not work for many products. I'm not sure about Chocolate Bars and Candies!
(Photo: The 400 g Waterbridge Chocolate Bar on the shelf in a store. This one is black chocolate with fruits and nuts but I doubt it is even dark. Dark chocolate means less sugar and more Cocoa. Some manufacturers use food colouring to make it darker. I'm not certain about this one)
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