I'm also pretty sure Loblaws owns Superstore, of which Galen Weston owns 47%. Superstore most definitely sells Weston (westfair) made bread.
They sell about $45 Billion a year in food and take a "tiny" $623 million profit off of it. Though still, its made Galen Weston somewhere around the 2nd richest person in Canada. Taken from a commodity standpoint, having a pound of bread roughly equivalent in price to a pound of nickel - is preposterous if you look at actual labour needed. You could argue that you can't eat nickels (lets not forget than the Canadian loonie is technically nickel and has been since 1970 to 2012) but I leave that for another day. At $140 per ton wheat (7 cents per pound or so) the wheat to bread ratio is also preposterous if you consider mechanically produced bread.
I get the strongest feeling that Trump actually influenced this. He was already gunning for the Canadian dairy board and its practices, and especially the Softwood Lumber pricing. To bring bread back to "reality" to a more realistic USA type price, might have been politically necessary.
Pharma products are also in the middle of a huge price war. Shrelki, and some drugs instantly costing 100x more could be the norm.
Last edited by ZenOps; 12-20-2017 at 03:38 PM.
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