Kinda strange to see CBC doing some actual journalism.
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.
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.