Canadian Orwellian world: Lockdowns, vaccines passports and more

[iamthatis]

Kinda strange to see CBC doing some actual journalism.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocers-customers-meat-underweight-1.7405639

The Loblaw grocery chain overcharged customers by selling underweighted meat across 80 stores for an undisclosed period that ended in December 2023, a CBC News investigation has found.

On top of that, over the past few months, CBC News visited seven major grocery stores in three different provinces and discovered packages of underweighted meat in four of them: two Loblaw stores and one Sobeys-owned location, plus a Walmart. Calculated overcharges per item ranged from four to 11 per cent.

Maybe it's time to start bringing your own weigh scale shopping if you buy meat in a store? This 4 - 11% hidden tax on food could really add up over a 365 day period.

 

[XPan]

Kinda strange to see CBC doing some actual journalism.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocers-customers-meat-underweight-1.7405639

Maybe it's time to start bringing your own weigh scale shopping if you buy meat in a store? This 4 - 11% hidden tax on food could really add up over a 365 day period.

Same thing
has been discovered with meat that was underweight here in Sweden a couple years ago, at the dominating food chain giant ICA.

Another 'favorite" was to change dates on mince meat which was about to pass the original date, by re-marking it with a new/later date. It happens now and then, but in 2007 it turned into a large scandal via mainstream media. It then repeated again in 2008 (possibly even later, no doubt).

The "excuse" was, explained by the Swedish National Food Agency, the staff likely wasn't enough educated how to date-mark meat correctly.

Uhm. Sure.

Another trick is to put a Swedish flag onto imported meat, so that customers think it is Swedish (which usually has a lot higher price tag, albeit also still healthier since we use far less antibiotics compared to meat from the continent).