I like stinky tofu a lot. I’m Canadian. I’m excited to see my country grow. I’m new to lemmy. I prefer local communities over public ones, until I’m convinced otherwise. I’m bad at writing bios.

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Cake day: January 31st, 2026
  • stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Ottawa is giving greenhouses a tax break. Will it help lower food prices?
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    3 days ago

    I am in support of helping Canadian businesses, especially in the current political climate. What I am not so confident in is the willingness of food suppliers to pass savings along all the way to the customer. Grocery stores have used inflation and price fixing tactics here for far too long for them to have earned my trust. Grocery stores must be seriously audited and regulated accordingly. By all means, make a profit - no brainer. But your profits now are bolstered by hurting 99% of Canadians who need food to survive.

  • stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•Anyone else feel like Shoppers pharmacies are aggressively trying to charge extra fees?
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    3 days ago

    Try a locally operated pharmacy or another option in your area if possible. Shoppers is hit and miss in my experience (majority misses).

    Costco has a $5 prescribing fee and doesn’t require a membership for pharmacy. If you have a pharmacy close to a Costco you can try asking them to price match the Costco dispensing fee. It usually works, and then you can support a local pharmacy instead of Costco. If you like the pharmacy and have the funds in the future, you’re always free to pay the original dispensing fee as a show of support - I just mention this as an option, not suggesting anyone must.

  • stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.catoShrinkflation@lemmy.ca•These used to cost less than half as much as they do now and they used to be twice as big.
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    3 days ago

    Shrinkflation by greedy companies combined with our de-facto oligopoly of grocery stores trying to convince us that prices must go up because they’re barely scraping by.

    I want to see how the new tax credit for groceries pans out. But it feels like a bit of a (maybe necessary?) Band-aid.

    I would absolutely LOVE to see the government finally tackle the oligopoly issue with grocery chains and telecoms.

    A bit of a tangent. I had a Bell rep knock at my door today, nice guy. But I told him that their deals are predatory, the way they lock in discounts but not the rate. Then they up the price while you’re locked in, effectively nullifying your discount. He told me, at least in my area that they are supposedly offering real rate lock ins. But it doesn’t fix the root of the problem spurred by blocking competition and blatantly predatory and misleading “deals”. I despise telecom companies in Canada.

    Edit: I wanna add, it doesn’t have to be like this! I lived abroad for a while and any time essential groceries went up in price, people got mad and the government curbed it realllll quickly. And telecoms offered true unlimited for reasonable rates. It can be done. We have good infrastructure in much of the country (sorry to those in mega rural areas), now let’s get some legislation to manage and/or break up these oligopolies. I’m no politician so I don’t know what exactly is the best solution, I only know that it needs to happen.

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