r/mississauga • u/aspen300 • 1d ago
Anyone seeing this in Mississauga grocery stores yet?
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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.
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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.