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After more than a week, the Loblaw boycott doesn’t appear to have made a dent in the grocery chain’s sales, according to a group of suppliers. Executives at four major food companies, representing a wide selection of goods, said they haven’t seen an impact from the boycott so far this month. The four executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity...
As of last week, the Canadian grocery code of conduct — a document that some food executives and politicians believe could fix many of the problems plaguing the grocery business and lower prices in the process — looked like it was going to die. Loblaw and Walmart, two of the largest retailers in the country, were refusing to sign it...
Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne is in talks with grocery executives around the world in hopes of attracting a foreign competitor to expand into Canada and challenge the big five retail chains that dominate the market, he said in an interview this week. Champagne said bringing in a new, international grocery chain to Canada will be a "net benefit" to Canadian...