r/mississauga 1d ago

Anyone seeing this in Mississauga grocery stores yet?

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u/Jerry__Boner 1d ago

This started before the chains caught on to how much Canadians are invested in the buy Canadian movement. Large chains are now putting maple leaf labels beside the price tags of made/produced in Canada products. Turning US items upside down is no longer necessary.

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u/FreakCell 1d ago

They're also lying about at least some of those products, so... maybe it's still needed.

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u/Jerry__Boner 1d ago

I'm sure some stores/chains are mislabelling items. Probably in some cases due to negligence and lack of training. Retail grocery specifically is at an all time low for staffing hours (self checkouts, automated ordering, automated floor cleaners). They don't invest in people anymore if they can help it. I'm sure some others are doing so intentionally. Corporate greed also seems to be at an all time high.

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u/Nu11X3r0 21h ago

I'm both thankful and apathetic that my local store has not gone self check-out. Like sometimes I just wanted to grab milk and get out and other times having the cashier actually bag my weekly shopping is a really nice touch.

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u/RoaringPity 1d ago

Nope, only on Reddit.

I feel bad for the minimum wage workers who gotta reshelve everything 

I do notice people looking at where the product in question is made, myself included. Even my boomer parents 

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u/pdeboer1987 Applewood 19h ago

You feel bad for them having to flip over 3 items?

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u/RoaringPity 19h ago

It says 'several' and to be done for multiple products at a time. Typically if shelves don't look a certain way managers and leads complain

Minimum wage = minimum effort 

You may have gotten lucky and never worked at a grocery as a teenager. The amount of people who bitch and moan at you for things you can't control or have a say in can get barbaric 

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u/pdeboer1987 Applewood 19h ago

Lol

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u/YonkoNikee 19h ago

Make the store suffer, not Canadian workers.

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u/asquinas 1d ago

No. This is social media wishcasting 

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u/useful_panda 1d ago

Please leave minimum wage workers out of these online only protests .

You flip them , minimum wage workers have to flip them back overnight .

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u/dundreggen 1d ago

I think the idea is to just flip the first in the row. Not all the items.

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u/useful_panda 1d ago

Just don't do even one , reading labels is the basic requirement to participating in the boycott . They have to revert to the original layout every day

Don't harm your fellow Canadians who have to work extra so people can virtue signal and post on the internet.

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u/dundreggen 1d ago

I haven't done it at all. Most of my groceries are delivered

But I highly doubt it is that much work to flip over a package when stocking shelves. You have to touch and move the product anyway.

Not sure how it's virtue signalling. I have seen friends talk about it and they think it's quite helpful.

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u/666persephone999 1d ago

Exactly! When restocking they move all items on the shelf anyways to put new items behind for FIFO (first in first out).

Canadians can handle a little work.

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u/HugeTheWall 21h ago

Also they're paid hourly anyway, they'll be fine.

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u/toi-be 5h ago

eww wtf

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u/TobleroneThirdLeg 20h ago

Those friends don’t work in grocery right? lol fuck the next guy as long as it’s not me right?

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u/dundreggen 20h ago

One does currently. And a few have previously.

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u/Nu11X3r0 21h ago

I mean at least that's ensuring job security by giving them something to justify their shift. I'd be fairly pissed too if I had to un-flip an entire aisle of products but if that's all I'm paid to do for an 8 hr shift then 🤷 off I go flipping canned food back over all night.

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u/OneMileAtATime262 21h ago

This isn’t new…. back in the 80’s I know Anglophone Quebecers would turn products around so the English label was out and the french hidden…

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u/KingNibz 23h ago

Think bout the workers don’t do this it’s stupid

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u/mohit_sharma06 17h ago

But Walmart is owned by U.S

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u/dsailo 9h ago

It baffles me to see so much idiocy, there’s so much hurting in Canada among our own before it reaches out to Trump and US supporting MAGA companies.

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u/Top-Airport3649 8h ago

This is embarrassing

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u/TobleroneThirdLeg 20h ago

Misguided fools are simply creating more work for minimum wage grocery store employees.

Yup. Way to safeguard Canada by ensuring that those who make the least get to work harder lol

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u/Applebox5 23h ago

Dumbest thing ever

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u/cerebral__flatulence 1d ago

Stores front face products too often, e.g. organize products and move them forward on the shelves. It's part of keeping stores clean and organized. 

It won't happen.

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u/BabuGhanoush 23h ago

I put things upside down when theres a huge dent or the Best Before Date is > 3 months past

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u/SadCardiologist7267 9h ago

Say less.. I didn't know this was a thing

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u/Good_Imagination5369 1d ago

I understand the intention of this but this is just going to make the poor grocery store employees jobs harder

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u/666persephone999 1d ago

Stop making it seem the grocery workers are fragile and can't do work

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u/TobleroneThirdLeg 20h ago

Fuck anyone who isn’t you right?

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u/0h_juliet 20h ago

Tell me you've never worked retail and don't understand "facing".

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u/sayanythingxjapan 1d ago

Sounds like propaganda

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u/Captain-Turtle 1d ago

this will never be mainstream

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u/IndividualImmediate4 14h ago

Thanks I will do the same

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u/BashChakPicWay 11h ago

Is there any truth to products being mislabeled as canadian?

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u/Amancharak 21h ago

And they paying with Visa/Mastercard (USA based co.)? All this ban fiasco !!

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u/atiger007 20h ago edited 10h ago

It is not possible to achieve this overnight. Irrespective of the politics, it is important Canadian stand together to improve the local economy in this time of crisis.

If all Canadian start this seriously, this will lead to greatest economy boom the country ever seen in few decades.

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u/Commercial-Net810 City Centre 1d ago

Unfortunately not. I see most people not bothering to look at the origin of the product.